Ujjayi Breath Technique: Ocean Breath Guide

Just make sure you are comfortable and your knees are happy, your ankles are happy, you are happy. Okay, sitting up tall so we can breathe. We will connect to our Ujjayi breath. There are many ways to connect to this breath.

It also has many names, Victoria's breath, ocean breath and Ujjayi breath. So I was thinking today we will try to find that ocean sound. There are many benefits to Ujjayi breathing, calms the nervous system, but my favorite is that it gives me a sound to kind of rest my mind to when I practice. So we'll really try to find this sound of the ocean today.

So what you're doing so what you're doing you're breathing through your nose when you inhale and when you exhale and you're constricting your breath in the back of the throat. So to hear the sound more clearly we can take our hands around our ears and when we inhale we feel that constriction in the back of the throat almost like we're pulling the breath down and when you exhale also through the nose think of that you're saying only you're doing it through your nose. So closing your ears inhaling, constricting the breath exhaling making the sound only with your mouth closed so just do that a couple of more times just to hear the sound really clearly and then also know that it's not about getting the sound the loudest so you're not trying to tense the breath just finding a steady rhythm of the inhale and the exhale and you can rest your hands down and just keep hearing that more now subtle sound in the back of your head just make sure you are comfortable and your knees are happy your ankles are happy you are happy. Okay sitting up tall so we can breathe we will connect to our ujjayi breath there are many ways to connect to this breath it also has many names victorius breath ocean breath energy breath so i was thinking today we will try to find that ocean sound there are many benefits to ujjayi breathing calms the nervous system but my favorite is that it gives me a sound to kind of rest my mind to when i practice so we'll really try to find this sound of the ocean today so what you're doing you're breathing through your nose when you inhale and when you exhale and you're constricting your breath in the back of the throat so to hear the sound more clearly we can take our hands around our ears and when we inhale we feel that constriction in the back of the throat almost like we're pulling the breath down and when you exhale also through the nose think of that you're saying only you're doing it through your nose so closing your ears inhaling constricting the breath exhaling making the sound only with your mouth closed so so just do that a couple of more times just to hear the sound really clearly and then also know that it's not about getting the sound the loudest so you're not trying to tense the breath just finding a steady rhythm of the inhale and the exhale inhale and the exhale you can rest your hands down and just keep hearing that more now subtle sound in the back of your head you