Summary of Abdominal Breathing

(waves rolling) Okay, so these were the four abdominal breathings. So just to summarize this whole thing, we have purna tha jathara bhedana, which is the full passive abdominal breathing. So basically what you do is you don't do anything. You just observe breathing and you breathe naturally and this before the, like, savasana, and the balasana and then we have ardha tha jathara bhedana, which is the half passive abdominal breathing and that was also passive, the breathing itself was passive but control was on the dome of the diaphragm and this is very nice breathing for the inversions. Headstand, shoulderstand, handstand and pincha.

And then we have... ardha ha jathara bhedana which is the half active abdominal breathing and now we have this triangle breathing, inhale to the armpits, exhale from the armpits back to the perineum and control was here on the dome of the diaphragm, so there is not so much movement on the dome of the diaphragm and this is very suitable for the seating sequence, when you do the sitting postures. And then we had purna ha jathara bhedana which is the full, active abdominal breathing and that was more intense. That was for the standing sequence and the technique was just to make a short inhale, perineum, armpits, exhale, armpits, perineum and dome of the diaphragm, inhale up, and exhale down. So this is, if you can see that this is now moving from the more active, like generally, if you have yoga sequence, you do the standing sequence poses first and then you do the poses on the mat, then inversions and then comes savasana so now it's calming, this breathing...

System, why this is tied to asana practice is calming down the mind to our stand of the asana practice sequence. So thank you. (speaks Hindi)