What is Pranayama?
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| Type and Benefits of Pranayama Yoga |
The word comes from the Sanskrit word pranayama, pranayama consists of two syllables, namely prana and yama. Prana (Sanskrit) or Chi (Chinese) or Ki (Japanese) meaning of life / energy / breath. while Yama / Ayama (Sanskrit) means to control, develop, elongate. Pranayama means to prolong life or energy control techniques / breathing.
In practice hatha yoga, we learn to do a full respiration (breathing in) is commonly referred to Dhirga Swasam. Dhirga Swasam is a combination of the three steps in breathing, as follows:
Clavicular breath: breath-shoulder-short
Intercostal breath: breath-are-chest
Abdominal breath: breath-in-diaphragm
Dhirga Swasam can help improve lung capacity, calm the mind and cause mental clarity, peace of mind, merelekkan muscles of the body, refresh the cells and organs in the body, cleanse the toxins in the body and increase vitality.
In everyday life (normal breathing) is breathing short, fast and used a more muscular chest, lungs using only the upper and middle course. While the lungs off the bottom of the lungs resulting in lower air will terisisi by the "stagnant and foul" and the resulting decline in the vitality of the lungs due to lack of oxygen supply to the lungs. Lung sections below will be breeding places of disease and infection sources.
How do we breathe on Yoga?
When we breathe (inhale). Oxygen through the trachea going into air sacs (alveoli) are present in the lungs. Alvioli covered by a network of blood vessels. Oxygen entering the alveoli will go into the blood vessels and binds to red blood cells, red blood cells are rich in oxygen flow throughout the body and brain. Toxins in the bloodstream in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2) will move the opposite direction and released during exhalation.
Lungs and diaphragm expands when we inhale and press down, when we exhale the diaphragm will deflate and push upwards. With this move there was a rise and fall of the diaphragm massages the organs in the body, it gives a detoxifying effect on internal organs.
Benefits of breathing / pranayama in yoga
Add vitality, by doing deep breathing, the lungs will get plenty of oxygen, the oxygen will flow into every cell of the body. Without sufficient oxygen the tissues and organs of the body will lack vitality energy (prana) and would quickly die.
Massaging the heart, breathing regularly while performing cardiac massage would receive favorable, opening blockages, improving blood flow to the heart and will lighten the work of the heart. Will gradually be able to improve or even cure many heart diseases.
Clean out toxins in the body, as you inhale, the diaphragm presses downward which will provide stimulus to peristalsis of the intestines to clean food debris, preventing constipation, clearing fat, excess fluids and gases.
Calm the mind, while practicing deep breathing regularly and consciously (concentrate), then the amplitude of the wave frequency "Bio-Energy Field eclectic" in the body will slowly and steadily, it is supporting the activity of cells and organs into synchronous and stimulate anti body that works spending to fight various diseases as well as stimulating the hormone melatonin, endorphins, epinephrine and other useful to calm the nerves and the mind.
Various breathing techniques in hatha yoga, among others:
Ujjayi: Breathing throat / breath rustling.
Brahmari: Breathing bee / humming breath.
Shimbasana: Breathing lion / throat.
Sitali: Breathing tongue / guns are cool.
Sitkari: Breathing teeth / breath cools.
Anuloma Viloma: alternate nostril breathing.
Kapalabhati: Breathing sparkling / strong blow.
Ujjayi breath
Partially closed throat, so when you pull and exhale through the nose with the mouth closed, air will enter through the narrow windpipe and the air will vibrate the vocal cords back, when you exhale it will create a murmur.
Breathing is applied in doing yoga and useful to increase the lung capacity to accommodate the oxygen absorbed by the blood vessels, increase vitality, helps calm the mind, control your emotions and give you mental peace.
Breath Brahmari
With a closed mouth inhale through your nose, then exhale while bergumamlah long as possible. Use your abdominal muscles to help control the stability of breath when exhaling. Breathing helps cleanse and strengthen the respiratory system and mind, boost morale, provide a calming effect on the body.
Breath Shimbasana
Sitting with sustained ankle, back straight, palms on thighs. Inhale deeply and then exhale with your mouth wide open and tongue stretched out, eyes directed to a point between the two eyebrows and stretch your fingers above the knee. This technique is stretching on the face and arms, which is useful for sore throat and other respiratory diseases.
Sitali breath
As you inhale, stick out your tongue and fold both sides of the tongue to form tubes (incoming air will feel cold through the tongue), chin down while exhaling, Close your mouth, place the tip of the tongue behind the teeth and exhale through the nose. This respiratory effect cools the body, very good dilakukuan in hot weather, calm the nerves.
Breath sitkari
As you inhale second stretch lips like he was smiling, take a breath through gap teeth, exhale through the nose. This breathing technique as an alternative if it can not perform Sitali furl tongue.
Anuloma breath Viloma
Raise your right arm, bend your index finger and middle finger, Close the right nostril with the thumb, inhale through the left nostril, hold the breath closing both nostrils for a moment, then opened the second nostril and exhale. Do alternately. This helps balance the respiratory function of the left and right brain, nervous system and calm the mind.
Breath Kapalabhati
Inhale to the stomach and then quickly exhale strongly. In this breath that works only abdominal muscles (diaphragm). This breathing to relieve stress, clear the mind of negative emotions.
