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8 Breaths For Inner Peace

by Catherine Carrigan

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This routine of 8 yoga breathing exercises (known to yoga practitioners as pranayama), helps you to release stress from your body and restore it to a place of calm, centered energy. In this routine, each of these 8 breathing exercise is performed for one minute. The specific sequence restores your body to a place of clear energy whether you need a boost or to relax. This routine helps replenish energy, eliminate anxiety, get rid of panic attacks, frees breathing caused by asthma, and assists with sleep apnea. These yoga breathing exercises also help with weight loss, getting rid of depression, and stopping smoking. This sequence is a perfect introduction to yoga breath techniques. It is ideal to perform first thing in the morning to begin your day with a feeling of ease or before going to bed at night to destress.

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Transcript

Come to a comfortable seated or lying position.

The first three breaths you can be lying down or sitting up.

I'm sitting in my yoga studio surrounded by orchids.

It's a peaceful time,

A quiet time.

So find that place inside yourself.

Lengthen your spine.

Lift and spread your chest.

Reach tall through the crown of your head and begin.

Bring the thumb and the first two fingers together.

Focus on your inhale.

Inhaling completely.

And as you exhale,

Allow the exhale to relax.

Inhale,

Peace.

Exhale,

Relax more.

If it feels comfortable for you,

You can shut your eyes.

Lengthen your inhale.

And just allow the exhale to do whatever it's going to do.

Inhaling completely.

Exhaling,

Relax more.

Inhale,

Peace.

Exhale and relax.

Now begin to focus on your exhale.

Allow your inhale and then lengthen your exhale.

Inhale and then exhale.

Let everything go.

Inhale,

Peace.

Exhale,

Relax deeper.

Inhale.

Exhale,

Stress and tension.

Inhaling.

Exhaling,

Relax even more deeply.

Inhale and lengthen your exhale.

Now begin to notice that there's a natural balance between the inhale and the exhale.

Inhale.

Notice the pause at the top of your breath.

Exhale completely.

Notice the pause at the bottom of the exhale.

Circular breathing.

Notice the equal length of the inhale and the exhale.

Circular breathing makes you happy.

Inhaling completely.

And exhale.

Now begin to focus on your solar plexus area.

Bellows breath.

Inhale and exhale out of your solar plexus.

Slowly.

And breathe.

And relax.

Breath of fire a little bit faster out of the solar plexus.

Whenever you need to take a breath,

Take a breath.

And continue breath of fire,

Solar plexus,

Rapid breathing.

And breathe.

Now bring your right hand,

Fold the pointer finger and the middle finger down.

Bring your right hand in front of your face.

As you inhale,

Inhale completely.

Thumb closes the right nostril.

Exhale,

Left.

Inhale,

Left.

Ring finger closes the left.

Exhale,

Right.

Open the nostril.

Inhale,

Right.

Thumb closes the right nostril.

Open.

Exhale through the left.

Inhale completely.

Ring finger closes the left.

Open the nostril.

Exhale,

Right.

And continue.

Alternate nostril breathing.

And finish by exhaling out of the right nostril.

Now bring the first two fingers together.

Frame your third eye in a V.

Take your thumbs,

Close your ear flaps.

If you're wearing glasses,

Remove your glasses.

The ring finger rests gently on your closed eyelids.

Inhale.

Exhale,

Make the sound of a bee.

Bumblebee breath.

Inhale.

Exhale,

Bumblebee breath.

Inhale.

Exhale,

Bumblebee breath.

Rest your hands in your lap.

Shut your eyes.

Open your mouth.

Relax your jaw.

Make the sound of an ocean.

Inhale in the back of your throat.

Close your mouth.

Continue making the sound of your breath.

Listen to the sound of the ocean in the back of your throat.

Continue breathing.

Continue relaxing.

Enjoying the inner peace.

Meet your Teacher

Catherine CarriganAtlanta, GA, USA

4.0 (131)

Recent Reviews

Abigail

September 19, 2018

This set of exercises has become an indispensable part of my morning, because it opens my energy up.

Miguel

September 11, 2018

Very interesting, different from the breathing meditation I had before. Thanks!

Brain

August 18, 2018

I throughly enjoyed this. Unexpectedly it perked up my mood to a happy silly side of myself.

Cj

August 12, 2018

Complete focus. 🙏🏼

Renée

August 12, 2018

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.

L

August 12, 2018

Bookmarking this.

Lynda

August 11, 2018

Interesting breaths. It definitely takes practice. Thank you. ☮️💟🕉

Melissa

August 11, 2018

Beautiful words !

Suzanne

August 11, 2018

This is an accompaniment to the 8 Breaths for Inner Peace course.

Tiffiny

August 11, 2018

This was something different for me. I enjoyed it. Thank you.

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