Bee Breath For Anxiety I Bhramari Pranayam I Bee Breath

Tell your anxiety to buzz off with the awesome bee breath known as bhramari pranayam in the ancient language of Sunskrit (NOT SAN-skrit). Anxiety occurs as a result of shallow breaths. This basically means taking short breaths, which reside in the upper chest as opposed to breathing deeply into the belly. The bee breath is named due to the sound and, of course, it is very soothing for a mind that is bouncing all over the place. The best part is that this breath allows us to lengthen the exhalation

Transcript

Namaste.

My name is Priyanka and I'm going to lead you through six rounds of Brahmari Pranayama which is also known as the B breath.

The best way to stave off anxiety and this happens because we lengthen the exhalation in relation to the inhalation which basically allows us to switch gears from the fight or the flight response.

To begin with all you need to do is make sure that you're sitting absolutely comfortably or you can do this lying down.

If you're sitting make sure that your back is straight,

Feet are flat on the ground and if you're lying just make sure that your palms are facing up and that you're absolutely relaxed with your head on the ground and if you need to cover your self in the event that you might feel a little cold please do so.

Once you've made any final adjustments what we're going to do is breathe in through the nostrils and on the exhalation hum.

So just to demonstrate you're going to breathe in and then each subsequent inhalation will be followed by a humming noise.

What you want to make sure is that your jaw is relaxed and your collarbones do not tighten up.

So be mindful of this aspect and if you have any questions do please feel free to make a note of them on the comment section below and I'll be more than happy to respond to you.

So we're gonna do six of these and I'm gonna do them with you.

Now my exhalation might be a little longer or even shorter than yours so that's absolutely fine.

Please do not compete.

Make sure that you're absolutely relaxed with your outgoing breath and your incoming breath and if you want to have a little bit of fun you can just visualize that your incoming breath is a healing white light or a healing golden light and that each exhalation is a gray mist which is releasing tension,

Tightness or anxiety.

So to begin with inhale deeply.

Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Allow yourself to breathe absolutely naturally and normally observing any sensations,

Any emotions that might arise to the surface.

Namaste.

Reviews

I really enjoyed this even though I usually favor much longer practices. Thank you 🙏🏻 💖

Such a friendly, helpful meditation. It felt like we were in the same room, as you guided me through this exercise

I love this short meditation and now I want to find more humming meditations, very relaxing and like the massage for the brain!

Grand, felt calm, my palms warned. Thank you!

Very interesting and effective practice. Had not run across this before.

This was really helpful! 💕 Nameste

Wow! Another breath work by you that I absolutely love and helped me relax . Thank you!

That was wonderful. I really enjoyed it. I will continue to work on this meditation to perfect it. Thank you very much 🙏