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This breathing exercise is the foundation and one of the first taught to beginning yoga students.
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[[Category:Beginner Meditation]]
1. Sit with your spine straight, you may also stand if you wish
 
2. Breathe in through your nose:
 
A. Pushing out your lower abdominal muscles, fill the bottom part of your lungs, then
 
B. the middle part of your lungs, then
 
C. Your upper lungs
 
3. Hold for 5, 8 or 10 counts [whichever is most comfortable, without straining]. NEVER push this!
 
4. Exhale with contracting your lower abdominal muscles, then your mid-section [lower lungs], then your upper lungs, until completely empty of breath
 
Steps 1-4 constitute one round. Perform 5 rounds.
 
 
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