The 26 postures of Bikram Yoga

Prayama: Standing deep breathing

Starts the class by bringing awareness and focus to the breath.

BENEFITS:

• Quiets mind and centres you in your practice
• Vibration through lungs and throat brings toxins up and out of lungs
• Helps relieve blood pressure
• Relieves irritability
• Exercises nervous, respiratory and circulatory systems

TIPS:
 

• Keep the shoulder down and lift through the chin on the exhale.
• To increase focus imagine tracing a line along the ceiling backwards as you exhale, and forwards as you inhale.
• Try to expand the lungs fully – imagin opening the lungs to both sides to the front and to the back