Alternate Nostril Breathing, also known as Nadi Shodhana, is a pranayama breathing exercise where you breathe first through one nostril, then the other. It has a calming effect on your body and mind. It can combat insomnia and calm your anxiety. The trick of course, is to sit and do the breathing exercise when you are feeling anxious or can’t sleep.
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How to Ujjayi
Ujjayi breath has been described in many similar ways. I have heard it defined as conqueror’s breath, success breath and victorious or victory breath, all synonyms of each other.
Pranayama: it’s not just breath work
For many, Pranayama is simply the mastery of breathing techniques to be used with yoga. Pranayama is actually much more that this. Prana means life force and pranayama is the practice of mastery of the life force. The life force translates to breathing for our human bodies. Certain breathing techniques can be used to achieve certain effects in the body. There are many prana exercises that can help energize you, or help you fall asleep. It can be a practice in its own right, apart from yoga, but it is useful in yoga too. It helps maintain an easy and calm mental state when flowing into and out of pose.