How to Prep for Pranayama: Breathwork Steps Before You Start

"Without the breath there is no yoga!" This saying emphasizes the importance of working with the breath in entering the deeper aspects of our being. Breath work has two stages-breath training and pranayama. Rolf describes the three steps within breath training that prepare us for pranayama: awareness of the breath, a relaxed sense of the mechanics of breathing, and the mind relaxing and becoming the observer of our own relaxed nervous system. He concludes by mentioning some of the types and benefits of pranayama.
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great explanation... awosome ... been learning Pranayama for a couple of month but never corrected my breathing exercise .

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how long did it take you to achieve this?

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Took a while, months maybe, was making things with my hands, drawings, origami, the feeling was like having a controlable energy rushing gently to my hands, the energy came from by the solar plexus, stomach area, since then i stopped, dont know why, but interesting to know i can control my feelings more than my thoughts, unless it was my thoughts sinking into my body and through my hands, i can still do it again and again, and with my legs to, could be energy distrabution, sorry my spelling is not that good in words, how are you youself, have you tryed it yourself?

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Also i want to add, breathing contols body temperature when anxiety peaks, so breathing fast or slow depends on what you feel is warmer or cooler to you and the experiance

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Its difficult to say, music and my back garden has helped more recently in how i feel inside myself, but i have to say its calmer energy, and being anxious like before is only when i meet new people face to face, but in slowly getting better socializing with my family around them in our own home, i stopped drawing and do gardening instead, also seeing alot more sun and breathing outside air, slowly becomming less agoraphobic, but anxiety still there when it wants to warn me, but im rewarded with better emotions at times when i see clearly for what people are, im getting better by the experiance when they are more of a learning cerve, garden helps greatly, and always learning new ways to grow in all ways inside and out, thank you for your time reading this, its great to share good things along the way.

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