UJJAYI Pranayama breathing | Breathe like that during Yoga Practice! | Victorious Breath

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namaste my friends today i'm very excited because we will finally learn the ujjayi or ujjayi breathing and first we will try to understand how to breathe this pranayama how to perform it and in the end i will tell you all of the benefits that you will get from practicing it and let's start so first of all i would like to tell you that oj breathing became so well spread and famous and popular thanks to uh vinyasa yoga because a lot of positions a lot of sequencing and flows there require the uj breathing but not only this type of yoga practice uses the diet breathing also hatha yoga or actually any other type of yoga if you prefer to perform it in your practice if you really see that it improves your practice that it helps you on your way you should definitely take advantage of such a great practice ujjayi is a laya pranayama which means the calming pranayama so of course it will calm us down also ujjayi from sanskrit is translated as the victorious breathing isn't it amazing victorious and today we will learn how to do this victorious breathing so in order to start please take a seated position with your legs crossed you should be comfortable better to have back straight if you have some problems with the knees and you cannot sit in this position you can sit even on the chair important to be comfortable and to enjoy this practice and we inhale and exhale for now with a mouth and when we inhale we pronounce the sound so and exhaling we pronounce the sound ham let's try saw you can hear this hissing sound and a bit of restriction in your throat or maybe like you can feel the same you can can have the same feeling when you're singing maybe and this is exactly the right feeling that you have and you can try once again you know a couple times to perform the saw harm out loud with your mouth open and another way to describe it is for example when you're very cold when you're coming from outside and your hands are very cold and you try to warm them up what you do you're like you're putting your breath you're exhaling like with a very hard breath towards your hands to warm them up if you want if it's more understandable for you you can use this explanation we can try yeah good thank you and now let's try to do it with our mouth closed so we will breathe only with the nose but still trying to perform the sound soul and hum let's try and you can continue breathing if you would like still this hissing sound sometimes it may be very loud sometimes you can lower the voice important to have this feeling that the air is passing through the your throat not very easily you're like forcing the air in and out so you can keep on uh practicing and i will tell you the greatest benefits about this yogic breathing about this pranayama one benefit that we talked about already it's that it's a calming pranayama so it calms you down it comes your breath because it's much harder to inhale and exhale so it unlongs it and makes it more long makes your mind more stable more focused makes you more mindful and cautious in everything that you do so performing the practice of yoga the hatha yoga of the positions this is incredible help in order to focus on present and focus on the positions and on now and on your body another great uh benefit that it warms us up especially if you use it together with the practice of the asana with the poses it uses the sound so it can also sometimes be called as the first stage of the meditation so you do your poses and you meditate already also it's important to know uh notice that um this pranayama technique can be very um beneficial not only for people who practice yoga but for everyone especially after the long hard working day when you come home and you want to relax you want to calm down this is a perfect way to do so but please be sure if you practice this technique in the class when there are other students around you maybe to lower a bit your voice not to disturb others and not to draw them their attention towards the way you breathe instead of towards their own practice and in the end i would like to practice with you a couple more times this amazing pranayama ujjayi ujjayi breathing so let's start and you can close your eyes if you would like so very well i thank you very much for staying with me for practicing with me and watching this video please share your thoughts and your experience in practicing this pranayama maybe during your yoga practice i will be very glad to read everything that you would like to share with me i wish you all the best and remember practice makes perfect so the only thing that you need to do is to start namaste