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