Yoga: Victoria's Breath

Video Transcript

"We'll begin with our Ujayi breath or Victoria's breath. This is a very nice breath to help focus the mind when we're holding postures such as the standing postures which we, our minds can start to travel to other places when we're focusing on holding on these more difficult postures. So, let's begin. We're going to be breathing again as we do throughout our yoga practice in and out through the nose. So let's just practice breathing in and out. Now in the Ujayi breath, let's place a hand near our face and as we breathe out, let's breathe on to our hand as if we're fogging a mirror or a piece of glass. So let's breath in and then out. Feeling the breath on our hands, hearing that "haah" sound in the back of our throat. So let's continue breathing in that way for a couple of breaths, breathing in. After we breathe in that manner for a couple of breaths, we're going to close the lips and do the same thing. So it'll sound something like this, partially closing off the back of your throat, hearing that noise in the back of your throat. And that's Ujayi breath."