Hey everyone, welcome to Yoga Land's Yoga Teacher Companion.

I'm your host, Jason Crandall.

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 Ujaya 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 Ujahi 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 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 sibilant sound, which is called the Jopam 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 recline method of breathing, which you can use ojjayi breath or not,

but in this recline 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 beginners classes or a beginners series.

I have a, well I'm recreating it, but I have an art of teaching beginners online training

that I'll release in the second half of 2020 where we cover all this content.

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