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Annie Carpenter, Three Part Breath Pranayama I UDAYA.com

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In this practice

Key teachings

  • Breath awareness
  • Three-part breath (Dirga Pranayama)
  • Mindfulness of inner sensations

Ideal for

  • Beginners to pranayama
  • Practitioners seeking stress reduction
  • Individuals wanting to deepen breath control and mindfulness

Lesson

Instructions

This essential and foundational breath technique helps you lengthen and deepen your breath and is the first step toward evolving your inner witness. Master teacher, Annie Carpenter leads this pranayama practice.

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Steps

  • Three-part breath (Dirga Pranayama)
  • Body scanning for breath sensation

Benefits

  • Lengthens and deepens the breath
  • Calms the nervous system
  • Increases body awareness and interoception
  • Develops the 'inner witness'

Transcript

and notice now after you've brought awareness to the three areas of your body where do you feel the breath wanting to go or not and then ask yourself of those three area focuses which one was really easy for you to feel was it the chest was it the ribs was it the belly and which one was more challenging to feel and now we're going to do the full three-part breath and i'd like for you to place your hands on one of those three areas and i'd like for you to choose the area that was the most challenging for you for today it may not be the same every day so go ahead and place your hands whether that's chest whether that's rib whether that's low belly and let your hands rest almost like they weigh more almost their hands are slightly weighted like you have lead gloves on and then when you're ready please exhale all the breath out and as you exhale completely in particular that area where your hands are try to get empty inhale into the uppermost chest inhale down into the ribs inhale down into the lowest belly a full three-part breath exhale the belly drops exhale the ribs deflate exhale the chest all the breath out of the body

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
5 minutes
Equipment
Yoga matCushion (optional, for comfortable seating)
Target areas
LungsDiaphragmRespiratory systemNervous systemMind
Energy
calming

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