Abdominal breathing plays an important role in yoga and is the main way of yoga pranayama. Proper abdominal breathing in yoga allows us to absorb more beneficial components in the air. In addition, practicing abdominal breathing when you are upset can calm your irritability, and you can integrate abdominal breathing into yoga meditation, but you can't practice it for a long time.

The complete yoga breathing method combines abdominal breathing, chest breathing and shoulder breathing to achieve the best breathing effect. When you keep practicing for a long time, you will find that you will use this way to breathe in your daily yoga practice and life, and you will get used to it. The whole breathing should be smooth and gentle, and each stage should not be done separately, as if the waves were gently undulating from bottom to top and then from top to bottom.

First, sit or stand in a relaxed posture, with your spine and head perpendicular to the ground, and your arms naturally droop or rest on your legs. Breathe out slowly at first, and drive the gas out of the abdominal cavity by contracting the abdominal muscles. When the abdominal cavity is completely recessed into the body, the ribs begin to contract slowly. When the ribs contract, the residual gas in the body can be driven out of the chest until the gas is exhausted.

Now enter the rest stage, stop breathing when the abdominal cavity and chest cavity are completely depressed, and keep it for about 2-3 seconds;

Then enter the inhalation phase, as opposed to exhalation. Relax your ribs first, let the gas fill your chest slowly, inhale as much as possible to expand your chest to the maximum extent, continue to inhale gently, slowly relax your abdomen, and your abdomen gradually bulges. By this time, we have completed the whole process of yoga breathing.

At the beginning of the exercise, exhale and inhale for 5 seconds each, and hold your breath for only 2 seconds, and then after a gradual period of time (about one month), begin to extend the time of exhale, inhale and hold your breath. Observe your physical changes at any time during practice. If you have difficulty breathing in a short time, it means that the time you take it is not suitable for you. You need to adjust the time of exhaling, inhaling and holding your breath by yourself. When you practice correctly, you will sweat a little, especially on your head. Don't worry, it means that your body is entering a good circulation, and the toxins in your body are slowly excreted with yoga pranayama, and your body has been purified.