In the Total Immersion swimming book I’m reading they talk about using “yoga breaths” during recovery. How is that done exactly?
Once when my wife was on a diet she had yoghurt breath.
Yeah, I have that tape too. I really like it, but the Yoga breath seems kind of just thrown in there. If anything, I think she just means a deep, slow breath into the belly. I quite liked this article on the subject of breathing and swimming:
http://xtri.com/article.asp?id=1073
–ashayk
Somewhere in the book it’s explained. I think you inhale slowly and then just let the breath “fall out” of your lungs.
I’ve never done yoga, so forgive me if that sounds like I’m full of sh*t.
Yoga breathing is done from the belly not the chest. As you breathe in your stomach should expand. As you breathe out it should contract forcing the air out. That is the simple version.
Jim
Of course, that’s just one kind of breathing done in Yoga. No need to get all up in it, but there’s really no such thing as one kind of Yoga breathing. There’s the belly breathing, reverse breathing, sometimes you do just fill your chest and not your belly, etc., etc…
I’m far from an expert, but I’ve done enough Iyengar to have been exposed to a variety of different breathing styles, all of which were under the banner of Yoga.
I believe the book ‘Light on Pranayama’ by B.K.S Iyengar would let anyone know more than they ever could possibly want about breathing in Yoga.
–ashayk
I believe it is explained in the book as a pause of a couple of seconds before inhaling. That is, exhale steadily and completely, pause, inhale.