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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k70_BKQr69c

Namaste everyone. In the today's pranayama practice, we will see the sectional
breathing. This is ending up with full yogic breathing.

This practice is very useful to improve the breath capacity. And it is also very useful
to understand the different sections of the breathing, which helps you in your asana
practice. So if you're quite new to the pranayamas, this is a very good start.

The first one to start pranayamas and the more you understand, and the better you
have in the sectional breathing, and turns out to be like a complete yogic breathing,
then this will be used in Ojai in Nadi Shanti pranayama. In all those practices, this full
yogic breathing is used.

So let's begin face by face, the complete beginner practice will start with the first one.
We sit straight, it's not necessary that you have to have Lotus, any cross leg is fine.
Keep the straight spine, if you observe the way we breathe, the very big one that you
can see as an expression of our breath is the belly comes front and back.

When you inhale, the belly comes front. When you exhale, the belly goes mad, think
like, like the belly is like a balloon. So if you are bringing the air in, it bulges out and
when you take the air out, it goes back, okay, sometimes because of the wrong
habits, it could be the opposite, but it should be the belly coming front with the
inhalation. So keeping that in the mind, we are not looking at any other layers of the
practice. Just bring your attention to the belly. Keep the pumps on the knees. Keep
the straight spine, keep your eyes closed. And as you start inhaling your belly comes
all the way front good, very long and slow. But as we exhale the Billy on the way
goes back.

Inhale in the Billy goes sprint, Dixie in the belly goes back.
One more time, inhale, the belly comes. See, the belly goes back.
We'll do this. One more time. After a small pause.
You can blink your eyes and open.

So in this practice in sectional breathing, we're also changing the mudras. So for the
first one for the abdominal breathing, the first one that we're doing right now, we're
placing the pumps on the knees into chin mudra the thumb and forefingers they're
touching the tip of the other three fingers. They're just placed relaxed on the knees.

Okay, so keeping this in the position, the belly comes all the way forward three more
times, and exhale, the belly goes all the way back. Okay, so pray not to move the
chest much, only the belly. Keep the straight spine.

Keep your eyes closed. We go for long, three breaths. Even after you finish the
inhalation, try to inhale again. Hello, one more breath. I instantly look down, blink
your eyes and slowly open. The second part of the practice is chin Maja mudra.
To my mother is your placing all that the tip of all the remaining fingers to the base of
the thumb. And the thumb and the forefinger is the remains same like chin mudra. So
when you're placing in changing the poem, finger positions that is chin, Maya mudra
and again placing on the knees.

Now we are focusing on the thoracic breathing. So when you are inhaling, you can
see the difference in the way we breathe. Now when you are inhaling, we try not to
move the belly, almost no movement, we want to expand the chest onto the side and
it goes up. With inhalation. It comes down and towards the center with exhalation. So
we try not to move the belly, but only the thoracic breathing.

So we go for three rounds chinmaya modra. Give the straights plain. Inhale,
expansion of the just, it goes all the way up. As we see logistical lapses comes all the
way down. As we inhale, again, no movement in the belly hexie collapses all the way
down.

One last road. Wonderful. gently bring your head down, blink your eyes a bit and
slowly open your eyes.

And then we change for the last section of the breath, the clavicle bones breathing.
So during this time, of course the chest is still involved in the breath, but very lesser
want to bring the clavicular bones upwards and then bring it downwards with
exhalation. Inhale, it moves up. Exhale, it moves down. So for the practice with the
fingers, we make our the mudra the thumb base inside all the four fingers on the top
like a fist and you place them on the knees.

Okay, we go for again, three rounds. The straights point, softly Close your eyes.
Inhale.
Last week, see the clavicles go down. The bill is hardly moving. Almost no
movement. Inhale. One more breath, gently bring your head down, blink your eyes
slowly.

The monkeys get the last one, we want to bring all the three into the same practice.
So this is where it becomes a full yogic breathing. So we want to start in the same
inhale. We want to inhale starting with the belly. And afterwards in the same
installation we want to use the thoracic, the chest breathing.

And then again finally the clavicle bones. So all these three in the same inhalation in
when we come for exhalation. It goes opposite the clavicle bones first go down the
thoracic contracts and the belly goes back. So you want to accommodate all the
three sections in the same breath.

Okay, let's see in terms of the mudras instead of placing the palms on the knees in
our the mudra. We placed them on both the sides of the pelvis. This is called Brahm
Hamada.

Give the straight spine. Keep your eyes closed. Exhale completely as when he or the
belly comes front. The chest is expanded, lifted up the clavicle bone screw up. As we
exhale the chest comes sent to the center. In the belly goes all the way back to more
rounds, inhale, the belly, the chest the clavicles as we see the clavicles going down
the bed. Finally comes all the way back. One last round. Inhale. Exhale the clavicles
that just and finally the belly. Keep your eyes still closed plus the palms on the knees
into chin mudra watch the breath gently with dropping the head down with couple of
blinks gently open your eyes. So this is called full yogic breathing the last part where
you are using where you are using the belly, the chest and the clavicular bones are
the three sections. So that's why when you are focusing on a particular section, that
is called sectional breathing, when it is all together with what is called yogic
breathing, full yogic breathing and this is generally the way you should be using your
breath. So that helps you in expanding your breath. The expansion of the breath is
the first step in the pranayamas in the expansion of the prayers, expansion of the
breath is not Parana pranayama it is just the first step but definitely a very big step.

And I hope you enjoyed the practice we will see you in the next pranayama or maybe
in the next philosophy session. If you have, if you are interested in knowing more
about the mudras because if you have observed we were using chin mudra
chinmaya Mudra are the mudra and Brahmaputra every 21st of every month, we
have some something called some yoga talks. So, this is we this is generally a
unlined zoom session in the Indian standard time it is from 8h30 to 10.

This month, on September 21, we have a session completely 90 minute session

focusing on the Madras the whole idea is to bring different topics which are related to
yoga and spirituality which are not covered generally in the yoga teacher training
courses and you may not get that kind of knowledge. So try to bring this kind of
knowledge into the ceramic yoga family. So if you're interested, definitely feel free to
register. I'll give you the link in the description. This is on 21st of every month starting
mudras will be on this month. The topic of the month is mudras so this is on 21st at
8:30pm the night please check your timezone and if possible, we'll see you there and
probably another with another beautiful topic in the next month. 21st also have a
wonderful day.

Thank you