Bandhas Explained

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hey y'all nico here welcome back to my channel and if you're new here thanks for joining me i'm nico today's video is about the bandas or the body locks of yoga i did a video i can't remember which video it was and i asked if you wanted me to make a video about the bonus and you said yes so here it is so the bondos again are body locks and they help direct your prana or your life force energy to certain parts of your body so after you learn how to do these bandas you can start to incorporate them into different parts of your yoga practice so there are three main bandas the first one is the mula banda or the root bonda the second one is the jalindara banda or the throat banda and the third one is the udiana banda which means udiana means flying up but it's related to your belly so i'm going to show you how to do each one of them now for the root bonda that's kind of something you'll have to experience experiment with and feel think about your kegel muscles so that's it's really like i can't really show you but um just do some research on how to activate those kegel muscles it's really about pulling your pelvic floor up so i'm sure many people know how to pull up and activate that pelvic floor so that's the first banda is that pelvic floor muscle that pulling up and the idea of the bondus is that it's pulling the energy up and through our body rather than the energy just falling out so the first one the mula banda is related to those pelvic floor muscles and those kegel muscles the second bond of the throat banda to feel the throat bondo all you have to do is sit up nice and straight and think about making like a double chin so you'll pull your neck back and then bring your chin down to your chest and that's your throat bonda your jalen darabanda that's how you activate that one so that one is good if you're doing anything where maybe you're hollowing out the body or anything where the chin is down to the chest so again pulling your chin back and then down towards your chest and you'll feel that lock in your throat third one is your udiana bonda which is in your belly so to practice this one we're going to stand up and bend our knees and have our hands on our knees so knees are bent hands are on our knees and keep the elbows straight and i want you to think about like when you do cat cow in your round your spine think about that think about pulling your belly button back towards the spine and activating the core so i'm going to round my spine maybe you guys can see me a little bit better without this big sweatshirt okay so we're standing hands on our knees elbows are straight we're not bending the elbows elbows are straight and you pull pull that belly button back towards the spine activate the belly and that's your udiana bonda an example i gave was like when you do cat cow and you pull your belly button back so just try that and see if you can feel that lock in your belly so hopefully this video was informational and can help you take your practice to the next level let me know what else you would like like to learn about in yoga leave a comment down below don't forget to like share and and thank you for watching peace and love you