Breath Control Exercises

1.

The Yogi Complete Breath

-- Sit or stand erect and relaxed, mouth open and lips slightly puckered
-- First fill lower part of lungs abdomen should move forward
-- Next fill the middle part lower ribs and chest move out
-- Then fill the top of the lungs protruding upper chest
-- Fill completely, taking in even more air, even more!
-- Retain the breath while staying relaxed glottis open
-- Exhale slowly, smoothly, staying relaxed
-- The air movement should never stop: inhalation leads continuously to exhalation,
and so on.

2.

Muscle and Lung Stretching

-- Breathe in a complete breath, hold for 5 seconds, breathe out completely.
-- Breathe in a complete breath and hold for 10 seconds, breathe out.
-- Increase to 60 seconds at 5-second increments.
-- Breathe a complete breath in and a complete breath out over a period of 4 seconds
in and 4 seconds out.
-- Decrease to 3 seconds in and 3 seconds out.
-- Then decrease 2 in and 2 out, 1 in and 1 out.
-- Try to breathe a complete breath in and out within 1 second.
REMEMBERINHALE AND EXHALE COMPLETELY AND EVENLY

3.

Power
How far away from a sheer curtain can you blow against it and make it move?
Try blowing against a sheet of paper on the wall and hold it there with your breath
power.