Breathwork For Relaxed Focus
7 Min
Meditation
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Lauren Ziegler
Sleep Coach and Yoga Therapist
This is the step-by-step guide to the Ujjayi Pranayama technique (part 1). This has a powerful effect on the body, mind, and nervous system, and thus your whole experience. It decreases insomnia, anxiety, while increasing metabolism, energy, vitality and stamina, oxygenation of cells, mental focus, and clarity, it balances the nervous system, supports the immune system, relaxes muscular tension, and can relieve acute and chronic pain of all kinds, settles the mind, and it increases and distributes supply of life force, or prana. Don't practice it if you’re taking an immunosuppressant drug, if you’re in a very hot climate season and you have excessive heat in your body, if you have a current neck injury, or if you have a cold.