Breathe Right: Energize Your Practice

Yoga studios don't want you to know this, but you've been breathing wrong

your entire life. That's why you feel exhausted after practice instead of energized.

Most people breathe into their chest, but yogis breathe into their belly first.

It's called diaphragmatic breathing and it activates your parasympathetic nervous system, instantly calming

anxiety. Try this right now. Put one hand on your chest, one on your belly.

Inhale and make only your belly hand rise. Exhale slowly. Do it three times.

You just hacked your nervous system in under thirty seconds.