Summary: Sitting Posture & Pranayama

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• 1 Sitting Posture and Pranayama

• 1.2.1 Abdominal Breathing

• What is another word for abdominal breathing?

  Easy breathing.

• What moves when you are doing abdominal breathing?

  Only your abdominals move. Your chest, shoulders and neck are still.

• What can you do when you are not sure if you are doing the abdominal breathing correctly?

  Put your right hand on your chest and your left hand on your belly. That way you can make sure your chest is not moving.

• Which nervesystem is activated during abdominal breathing?

  The parasympthetic nervestystem.

• When do you use abdominal breathing?

  Always. This is the standard, default, breath.

• 1.2.2 Full Yogic Breath

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• What is another word for full yogic breath?

  Deep yogic breath or full breath.

• To what places do you breathe with full breath?

  In to the belly, chest and then throath. Then relax belly, chest and then throath as you breathe out.

• 1.2.3 Prepretory Pranayama

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• What are the workings of Kapal Bhati?

  The energy in your body rises and cleans your energy body and makes your skull shine.

• How is the preparatory pranayama we use in hatha yoga called and what does that mean?

  Kapal Bhati and it means "skull, to shine".

• How does Kapal Bhati work?

  Take an easy breath in and start counting. You count 1,2 fourty times. On 1 you will forcefully exhale and your belly pulls in. At 2 your belly relaxes. Breathing in will happen automatically. Only your belly is moving. Then one easy breath in, breathe out, one deep breath in, breathe out, one easy breath in, hold for 30 seconds and relax. Start again.