Better Breathing, Relaxing and Asthma with Yoga

Many people find that they can improve the basic quality of their lives with yoga, a regimen of using a combination of physical and mental practices that many believe began in India over three thousand years ago. And among these basic life improvements noted are better breathing, relaxation and asthma relief, as yoga seeks to help you get back to a more natural state where your body and mind are not stressed.

Deep breathing and relaxation go hand in hand. Both help you to calm down your system and thoughts and re-energize. What happens is that when you spend a few minutes taking slowed, controlled, careful breaths, the breaths are not nervous, hyper action, but instead steadier, calming actions that help supply much needed energy to the system, sending calming messages throughout.

Take five and reclaim some energy with this sample Breathing / Relaxing Exercise. Make sure to read through the entire list of instructions a couple of times first before you give it a go.

1. With or without a chair, sit with good posture, your spine as straight as possible. Have your feet flat on the floor, your knees directly over your feet, placing something under your feet like a pillow or book, if they are resting comfortably on the floor. Place your hands atop your legs.

2. Gently close your eyes, allowing them much needed rest.

3. Focus your thoughts on your ribs and your lungs behind your ribs. As you inhale slowly and deeply, feel your lungs fill up, your ribs expand outward and upward. As you exhale in a similar manner, feel your lungs release, your ribs go back in and down.

4. Repeat for up to 3 minutes when you first start out, once a day. Then increase up to 5 through 10 minutes throughout your day as needed.

Helping Asthma with Yoga

Yoga breathing exercises have been known to help some sufferers of mild asthma. Although asthmatics should never stop using their medications and any health devices as prescribed by their doctors, they want choose to try yoga breathing exercises, as approved by their doctors. Yoga breathing exercise may help with the reduction of the use of low-dose drug inhalers, especially during wheezing attacks.

Learn more about yoga and how it may help with your breathing, relaxation and asthmatic conditions. More studies are being done all the time. And people using different yoga practices are reporting positive feedback.

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