Hey everyone, welcome to Yoga Lands Yoga Teacher Companion on your host, Jason

Krandall. And today I want to give you my three best ways, my three favorite

ways to teach yoga students how to breathe a little bit more skillfully while

they practice. Now we're going to look at two different ways of working with

Ujjayi breath. And when we're working with Ujjayi breath at least in this

context, we're primarily focusing on two dimensions of the breath. The

duration of the breath. So that's one of the great aspects of Ujjayi breath is

and I'll talk about this in a moment, but because you gain a little bit more

control over the aperture of the throat, the vocal folds, it's a it's a simple

method to help people increase and regulate the duration of each in breath and

out breath. The second thing that's really nice about Ujjayi breath is that it

produces a really light aspirant and civil and sound, which is called the

Juppam mantra. And like all mantras, they help harness attention. The third thing

that we're going to look at is just a really simple reclined method of breathing.

And in that reclined method of breathing, which you can use Ujjayi breath or not,

but in this reclined breathing, we'll focus a little bit more on location of breath,

meaning we'll focus a little bit more on helping your students direct the

emphasis of their breath into their abdomen or their mid ribs or their chest

wherever you want to do this. Now I want to acknowledge two things first. The

first thing is any student will benefit from what I'm going to share with you

right now. But the context that I find myself teaching this most frequently in

is beginner's classes or a beginner's series. I have a, well I'm recreating it,

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