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Practicing ujjayi also allows the user to regulate and control the flow of breath and movement of the diaphragm. Additionally, it helps clean the throat and lungs, bringing up excess phlegm and mucus, and strengthens the diaphragm and throat muscles. [2] [3] [attribution needed] Ujjayi Breath is also known as Ujjayi Pranayama.
Pranayama is the fourth "limb" of the eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga, as mentioned in verse 2.29 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. [8] [9] Patanjali, a Rishi, discusses his specific approach to pranayama in verses 2.49 through 2.51, and devotes verses 2.52 and 2.53 to explaining the benefits of the practice. [10]
Richard C. Miller (born 1948) is an American clinical psychologist, author, yoga scholar and advocate of yoga as therapy. [1]Miller is the founder and executive director of the Integrative Restoration Institute (IRI), co-founder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), [2] founder of iRest Center, and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. [3]
Mode of action of bandhas and mudras, serving to trap energy-fluids (breath, prana, bindu, amrita) and thus help to unblock the central sushumna channel.. A bandha (Sanskrit: बंध) is a kriyā in Hatha Yoga, being a kind of internal mudra described as a "body lock," [1] [2] to lock the vital energy into the body.
Bhastrikā [1] is an important breath exercise in yoga and pranayama. It is sometimes treated as a kriya or 'cleansing action' along with kapalabhati to clear the airways in preparation for other pranayama techniques. Bhastrika involves a rapid and forceful process of inhalation and exhalation powered by the movement of the diaphragm.
The posture, asana, must be steady and comfortable for a long time, in order for the yogi to practice the limbs from pranayama until samadhi. The main aim is kaivalya , discernment of Puruṣa , the witness-conscious, as separate from Prakṛti , the cognitive apparatus, and disentanglement of Puruṣa from its muddled defilements.
In late 2011, Sharath Jois stated that ujjayi breathing as such was not to be performed in the asana practice, but that asanas should be accompanied merely by deep breathing with sound. [25] He reiterated this notion in a conference in 2013, stating: "You do normal breath, inhalation and exhalation with sound. Ujjayi breath is a type of pranayama.
Vatakrama, a practice similar to the pranayama technique of Bhastrika or "Breath of Fire", except that exhalation is active while inhalation is passive, the opposite of normal breathing. Vyutkrama, a practice similar to Jala neti, it involves sniffing water through the nostrils and letting it flow down into the mouth, and then spitting it out.