Ujjayi Breathing For Stress Relief

Welcome! This guided 5-minute track will help you perform better because it promotes stress relief. Take time to come in, get grounded, calm your mind, regulate your body temperature, and breathe deeply. This track is for all levels, including beginners who are entering into pranayama and yoga practice.

Give ujjayi breathing or ocean breathing a try the next time you feel stressed. I invite you to experience a new way to ride your breath wave. Listen to your breathing, just like it's an ocean breath wave!

Transcript

Welcome!

My name is Brenna Ricci and today I'll be your guide.

I'm gonna take five minutes to work on ujjayi breathing.

So taking a seat,

Whether that may be in a chair,

At a desk,

Or sitting on the floor,

Allow the spine to lengthen up.

Inhale the shoulders up by the ears and then squeeze the shoulders and exhale.

Soften them back down.

And again,

Smile and inhale.

Lift the shoulders up.

Squeeze the shoulder blades together and exhale them down.

This time,

Inhale as you smile.

Lengthen up through the spine.

Squeeze the shoulder blades at the top and take another sip of air and then open your mouth wide and drop your shoulders.

Say,

Allow the hands to rest gently on towards the tops of the lap,

The knees or thighs.

Sitting up nice and tall.

Continuing to allow yourself to settle in.

Very slowly exhaling out your air.

Take an inhale in and then open your mouth wide and exhale out.

Another inhale in through the nose.

Listen to your breath as you open your mouth and release heat and say,

Allow for one more inhale in through the nose.

Find your facial expression and soften into it.

Open your mouth.

Say,

Inhale in through the nose.

Lengthen up through the spine and then gently close the lips and say,

Inhale in through the nose.

Close the lips gently and exhale back out through the nose.

Inhale in through the nose.

Gentle pause with the lips.

Gentle breath with the lips closed.

Exhale out.

Slowing it down even further.

Take an inhale in through the nose.

Lengthen up through the spine.

Take another sip of breath in.

Close the lips.

Exhale out through the nose.

Soften the face.

Releasing tension.

Inhale the breath in through the nose.

Softening the breath back out through the nose.

Relaxing into it.

We'll take three more together.

Inhale in.

Gentle pause with the lips closed and gentle exhale releasing stress and tension out.

Big inhale in.

And at the top,

Thinking as you exhale with the lips closed,

Releasing tension out.

One more.

Inhale in.

At the top,

Thinking to yourself,

Exhaling,

Releasing stress out.

Following with your own natural inhale in and your own natural exhale out.

Just like that,

Noticing the breath flowing in and then listening to it again as it flows and exhales out.

Naturally moving in.

Naturally exhaling,

Releasing stress out.

Inhaling in and exhaling tension and stress out.

Staying here for as long as you'd like.

And whenever you're ready,

You'll slowly begin to blink open your eyes.

I hope you have a great rest of your day.

Reviews

Such a beautiful way to focus on your breathing. Thank you!