How to Breathe with Rajiv Surendra (Yoga Exercises)
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2024
- Although breathing is an involuntary function of the nervous system, and requires no thought, learning how to actually control our breath in times of stress, and learning how to take full advantage of deep breathing can have a profound impact on our lives. Rajiv has been practicing yoga for twenty years and in this video he shares two breathing exercises that he practices regularly.
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★ TABLE OF CONTENTS ★
• 0:01 Importance of knowing how to breathe
• 1:00 Importance of breathing and yoga
• 2:28 Basics of a deep breath exercise
• 3:10 Stomach expansion is key in the slow breath
• 5:00 Your breath is connected to your mind for positivity and negativity
• 7:45 Yoga practice of alternate nostril breathing-Anuloma Veloma
• 12:00 Demonstration of Anuloma Viloma in complete solitude to do in the morning
• 13:00 Same demonstration with beats for clarity of the mind
• 14:30 Very helpful for mental health
• 15:20 Kapala Bhati breathing rapid inhaling and exhaling with abdomen routine
• 17:50 Kapala Bhati demonstration exercise of 30 breaths round
• 19:39 Importance of healthy breathing to our lives
💡 TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO 💡
• Breathing is such an important part of our lives
• Focus on this significance on how to breathe
• Yoga cares for your body and mind and breathing is a fundamental aspect
• Routine on yoga and meditation
• Correct way to take a deep breath versus the incorrect deep breath
• Remind yourself that you can help your mind and mental health by focusing on breath
• Yoga and breathing let you focus on what you are feeling
• Slow work of breathing can help you overcome issues when you are sick
• A pranayama Anuloma Viloma demonstration
•Practice the alternate nostril breathing exercise by counting beats or with a metronome
•Sweeping out the dust in the mind
•Kapala Bhati is an abdomen vacuum exercise
• When you are anxious or stressed take a deep breath!
• Breathing is rooted in science but can also be spiritual and lead to living healthier lives
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As I eat my oatmeal and watch Rajiv breathing I am realizing that Rajiv is Mr. Rogers for adults. 😅
Also eating oatmeal and appreciating this video lol
😂Yes,the only thing missing is the sweater change,and a song.
Great Observation.
I thought that's what Mr.Rogers was
You RIGHT!! Love Rajiv!
It's a very rare person that can learn as many useful skills and crafts as you do, AND then teach them to others in a way interesting enough to share. YOU are an incredibly rare and interesting person. Thank you, Rajiv. Every time I watch your videos, here or on the HGTV channel, I learn many, many useful things.
He speaks to my soul. I’m almost 82.
This is like Sesame Street for adults 😃 Basic, calm, easy to understand education on basic, important things. 🤓💕 I’m here for it!
I’ve commented this on a previous video but it’s more apt here. I think we would all be happy to watch Rajiv breathe.
I have been teaching yoga since 1999, and I I believe it has been indispensable I n my life. It has given me a way of life, where I have been able to connect to the deepest aspects within myself and has allowed me to see and appreciate the spirit within all beings and things.
Yoga has made me a better artist/painter, and has been teaching me how to have relationships that are based in truth and open mindedness, and it has been extremely healing for the body mind and spirit.
Pranayama is one of the best practices! It helps so much other conditions! It should be a must for kids to learn this as early as possible
For people who are wondering what is the music played at beginning and at the end.
It is ‘Gayatri Mantra’ instrumental
I was just abt to ask, so peaceful, thank u
Thanks Rajiv for another masterful video!
It wasn’t until I started yoga and deep breathing that I realized how often I had been holding my breath when I got tense or stressed. This is a common response for many of us, but yoga makes us become aware of it. Then we can do something about it-breathe!
It’s 8:00 where I am and this video has only been up for a few minutes… over 100 people have already watched it in those mere minutes early in the morning.
I really liked this and appreciate the information. Thanks for sharing. I’d love to take yoga for someone who understood it at this level.
Been doing Yoga since 1970 with Lillias Folan, I cant do many of the yoga positions anymore, but chair yoga is wonderful!!Rajiv could you show some chair yoga for us oldies???
Yes us oldies, beginners and those with disabilities can all use chair yoga taught by Rajiv :)
Once again, thank you Rajiv. For fellow viewers, just want to add that if you are hypertensive or hypotensive, learn more about which in/hold/out timings are most appropriate for you. Headstands aren't for everyone either.
I love you Rajiv. Not only because you're Tamil, buuuut it's definitely a plus 😍
Would love it if at some point you recorded a guided meditation with breath work, silences and quiet music, including silences. Your voice is very soothing. Love this video.
He's back!!
Like physical therapy for lungs. Making lungs strong in youth will help as one gets frail in old age.
I'm shocked and wanted to share. I'm a subscriber and a few months back started to look into proper breathing again when hearing myself huff in FB vids I make for friends, I'm 55 and always sound out of breath (people have told me I always have but I didn't notice until filming myself). It's crucial as I'm now developing sleep apnea, which scares me. My Toronto born, white, hippie parents had followed Hinduism all through my growing up and I was in the process of trying to remember when I unlearned proper breathing when, like a miracle, your vid popped up. Anyway I was shocked when it came to me how my breathing in the chest came to be a decades long habit. I remember now through my teens and twenties forcing this because young women were always worried about looking fat, I was only 110 pounds but peer/societal pressure. I wanted to keep my belly as small, tight and flat as possible, I would NEVER breathe deep and bulge my belly, and with how tight jeans were one often couldn't. I have a clear memory now of training myself to breath while holding my belly muscles in as tight as possible. I would even use a visual image to help, imagining that the inside of my belly button was stuck to my spine. I would hold everything in all day, everyday breathing shallow through my chest only. This is frankly sad to remember but it's made me realize I can in fact relearn how to breathe and that, unlike right now, it will become an unconscious automatic proper new way (right now I can only breathe right when I make time to purposely work on it). Your video will help me so much with healing, much gratitude to you Rajiv :)
Thank you Rajiv for keeping me on track with my breathing along with my daughter - she’s a Yogi and when I’m stress sounding, like you, she says, “Ma breathe”, and it really helps to clear my mind. Thanks again for all your teaching that I am aware of 🥰
I learned to practice yoga in the Sivananda tradition but have been neglecting alternate nostril breathing lately. Thanks for sharing and especially for the reminder about how beneficial these breathing exercises are!
I’ve been struggling to get my health back on track after a lot of stress and life changes, but after seeing this video (love all your others, btw! They bring great joy!) I have yet another positive, useful, practical thing I can integrate into my journey of taking care of myself ❤ Thank
you 🙏🏼
As I’ve grown older I’ve noticed my lung capacity has decreased so I’ll be trying breathing exercises from now on.
I'm Indo Trinidadian, and I ❤ to do my breathing routine .
Thank you so much Rajiv ❤ This couldn't have been better timing. I just got a scary diagnosis a few weeks ago and this is the first time I've felt relaxed since then. I'm so grateful that you share your gift with all of us.
How wonderful!!!!
Thank YOU Rajiv for sharing all these gifts that make your life an amazing one to live.
I mean if there is one person i would watch breathe, its Rajiv ❤
It's taken me a while to sit down to watch this. I didn't want to feel rushed. Thank You for your wonderful 'life lessons'.
A few years ago, I had a wonderful yoga teacher that would hold 'Breathing classes". It was a blessing! All of the yoga teachers in the studio I went to (almost every day for one class or another) talked about breathing during our practice. One said, "just watch a baby breathe, it's a natural thing to breath with your abdomen and not so much your lungs. I've never forgotten that and a lot of my other breathing lessons and use them casually on a regular basis. (I still practice yoga every day.)
I remember, one time I had a doctor appointment that I was not looking forward to. I arrived early and sat in my car for a bit. I often listen to 'spa' or 'zen' type music and while I was sitting there a voice on the radio started leading me through a short breathing excercise. I went into the appointment a lot calmer that I was feeling just a few minutes earlier.
Rajiv,
Really appreciate in being proud & open about our heritage ,culture &the knowledge system from which the whole world has been benefitting.
Yog is sanathan &let the world not have any deliberate misconceptions about it.
Keep it up
From New Jersey
Great job Rajiv. Deep conscious breathing sure does wonders for you body soul and body. I am a yoga and meditation practitioner. Love my me time. 🙏❤️🙏great head stand. Love the Gaithri mantra instrumental. Think about turtles takes 3-4 breaths for a minute and they live to be over 150 years. 🙏❤️🙏
It is relaxing just to watch Rajiv breathe! Thank you Friend!
Ahh! Love the ambience for the Yoga time- Goddess Saraswati on the swan, the lovely Tulip arrangement and the traditional mat , the Light and airy corner... Its such a joy to begin your day with Yoga! I am impressed with your head stand! but don't do it for too long..
somehow this video makes me kind of wanna cry.... in a good way ofc... we ought to take good care of our body and mind as much as we could.... thank you!
Good morning Rajiv. That was wonderful to start. Mind-breathing correlation is very true.
The meaning of the sanskrt word yoga has been convoluted by the Westerners and partly Indians too!
It comes from the root word "yuj" meaning "link, connect". The words in sanskrit language have multiple meanings. Hence it allows for ambiguity and multiple interpretations.
The language Tamil, unlike Sanskrt, which is older than Sanskrt(99.9999999999% of the people do not know) is very precise, logical and doesn't allow ambiguities. Tamil is considered as the language of the lawyers as its logical and consistent.
The Hindu God Lord Krishna(there are many Gods in Hindu religion and I am reminded of the great comedian George Carlin 😂) is known as Yogeshwar, meaning the Lord(Ishwar) of all Yogas.
What it really means is that He is the connector/link of All things in the Universe.
In body building, there is an Ab exercise called vacuum exercise which Arnold Schwarzenegger made it famous.
The diaphragm separates the lower and upper torso. Thirty percent of breathing is done by chest cavity and 70% is done by the diaphragm.
When you inhale O2, the diaphragm(and the chest) automatically extends out and when you exhale CO2, they are sucked in.
We are made up of atoms. When one loses weight(physics), what happens? What did the person lose and where did that matter go?
Too many "so called" fitness gurus have confused people's minds with calories and what not. This gave rise to zillion diets and yet we have been the reigning champion of obesity for years.
When a person loses weight, that "lost" matter went out as carbon dioxide and water🤣.
When you suck in the abs, you are exhaling CO2. When you do exercise through respiration and perspiration(water as sweat), you lose weight...
Forget about calorie count. I know people who have told me "I consume less than 1000 calories, yet don't lose weight". If you don't understand the basics, its hard to understand any topic, let alone remember it till your last breath...
Sorry for going on a tangent. I just wrote in case, anyone is struggling to lose weight.
Rajiv, You are so precious and a rare gem.
Thank you for another wonderful mind/soul searching video. Have a great weekend❤
We need to bring yoga back to hindu roots 🙌🏽
Thanks for this amazing video on breath and breathing. I wish all Yoga teachers spent the time to teach this, what it actually means to inhale and take a deep breath.
Thank you for yet another beautiful video, and bringing peace to my mind.
Rajiv! This is such important content right now. The world has always been complicated and fraught but it seems that the set of factors we're faced with now is causing such fatigue and fear. It seems I've been noticing the idea of yoga popping up in all sorts of unconnected places in my life. I feel like I need to follow this line of thought and learn yoga. And this morning - it's you teaching us! As always, thank you for your decision, method, and style in teaching people,
eta Also, breathing. It's so simple, so effective, yet it's rarely something I prioritize as a deliberate practice. Maybe a daily alarm on the phone will help. Finally, can you share the music you played at the end of your video? ❤
Thank you. This is very helpful.
You're simply wonderful!
Inspiring, thank you Rajiv!! Would love to see you showing us Sri Lanka - a travelogue in your own inimitable style!! 😎
I just did one round of the first breathing practice and it literally cleared my congested sinuses. Remarkable!
I’m going to try ! Thank you for this 🥰🙌🏻 have a nice weekend 🍃
Awesome, thank you, that feels wonderful!!
Always learning with you , so grateful ,thank you
Thank you it is very appreciated
Thankyou for showing this.
Hi Rajiv, would you publish a book that captures bits and pieces of you? Your sketchings and drawings, your writings, your calligraphy, your philosophy, your stories, your memories, … contained in that beautiful medium, paper. I am in the midst of Austin Kleon’s “Keep Going”, and going through that book fills me with joy; watching your videos made me think that a book from you would similarly make my spirit sing.
Thank you Rajiv. That is so helpful and I just ordered the book you were holding. 🏴
Being musically trained on wind instruments I leaned to diaphragm breathe early. It has been a lifetime enhancement to my mental and physical well-being. I will be adding these ancient techniques as well. Thank you.
I never knew this before. Thank you. Your a very handsome man. Your flowers are beautiful. I bought a thift store vase for flowers to try because of your inspiration. Have a good day.🌷❤️
I am saving this video to start this practice. Thank you Rajiv! Also your biceps are popping!!! ❤
I've been curious about this. Thanks, Rajiv
Rajiv thank you for teaching us these techniques! You are a treasure. I'd like to hear more about your yoga practice too if you're willing to share. Thank you so much for everything you do.
Thank You, that was so much more helpful than endless videos of experts! Talking and doing are two different things and it was so good to see correct breathing techniques in action
What a beautiful video! ❤❤
Ahh what an amazing inspiring vlog. A lot to learn from this young human (old soul) . Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Wow finally ❤
Magnificent!😊❤
Thank you I've been wanting to know how to breathe in such a lonv time!
I love the end music!
Next winter I'll look for one.
Rajiv, you truly are a Godsend 😊 I haven't been doing yoga for about a year, and I forgot all about breath work. I also picked up terrible breathing patterns from childhood (ballet - chest out, stomach in, which I did for decades and still struggle to stop). I will start with morning breath work immediately again. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏 PS Your memory etc will improve because your blood is more oxygenised and will be taking more oxygen to all of the millions (billions?) of cells in your body! What a blessing to be reminded of this free practice - thank you 🙏😃
Thanks for watching.
Thank you Rajiv!
Thank you Rajiv! Just what I needed to remind me of what I have put off during my yoga practice. Being a caregiver is stressful and this will help! You are the best
Thanks for watching!
Thank you!
Went to therapy for this and didn't understand. Maybe it's just the right timing... Idk, this makes total sense now. Thank you so much 🙏🏻
damn, he's living right. the tulips on the windowsill while he does a headstand, yes!
Thank you.
Yes. It REALY does...🤗 Private also for me too, so thank you for sharing.
This is such an encouragement. Ive been struggling a lot and keep feeling pulled toward expanding breath work and it felt really frustrating bc it didnt feel like there was any real meaning i could find. Until you said chixken or egg and hand and hand with what ails our thoughts bc i have beem finding it easier to concentrate when i Neuro breath but then i had to try blocking and then i thought well thats just a substitution for longer breaths so i was breathing deeper... Feeling simultaneously unsatisfied with the practice and results. And now i see they were both skewed. Sorry to ramble but this explained a lot.
Good morning ❤
Sooooo true!
A book by James Nestor called Breathe is a scientific reed in breathing. Thank you Rajiv!
Hi Rajiv,
I would love to see a video on how to sleep, much needed!
Thanks Homie
Thanks Rahiv
rajiv! these breathing exercises are the very same that are taught by Dr.K - I think it would be interesting to see a colab between the two of you ^^
Well thank you Rajiv. Wonderful information.🌷 also love your tulip dispaly. 🥀
Thanks for watching, Judith.
pranayama❤
Have you visited the Sivananda Ashram outside of Montreal?
Wow...... Idkt😮
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I’ve been trying this for years and stomach part seems to really be just performative for me. I can move it regardless of breathing and it def doesn’t affect how much or how I breathe but I can see that it makes breathing uncomfortable enough that it catches the focus and this allows for more presence
Please show us your prayer shawl. I am curious how you wear it, what is the symbolism of it? Please tell us. Thank you for your videos
When you deep breathe, do the ribs automatically expand and contract as well
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Thank you for the meaningful content you create!
May I ask which is the song playing in that video? it is beautiful.
Gayatri Mantra 🙂
@@rajivsurendra 😊 thanks
It took me decades to understand why I can't do the full yogi breathing. Since my visit at the ENT I know my nose bone is not in the middle and blocking from time to time one nose hole.
I just love you.
Jaya
Does incorporating the patting/beats make it more meditative? I think it would have this affect on me. I’ll try it when the world is still tomorrow morning. 😊
Thank you, Rajiv, for your contribution to the betterment of the human race. ❤
Hi Kelli, no, you're not supposed to be patting those beats, I was just doing that to audibly count so you could follow along - I couldn't do the breathing and speak at the same time, hence the patting.
@@rajivsurendra thanks for clarifying!
my cooridnation is so bad..... I am so not good at it! need to practice :/
Yoga originated in ancient Kemet - Black/Afrikan Egypt. Indian got it from Afrika-Kemet.
Thx bro,I haven’t breathed since I was born
You're welcome, bro.
The title reminded me of the video "how to drink water"😂😂.
Just when you're starting to relax and get into learning this practice, here comes the MID-ROLL ADS! Sir, please fix this. These ads are so counterproductive. Thank you
0:00 the blinds 💀
Lol is Rajiv trolling us now?
After the recent "How To Walk?" we were chuckling with friends like "What's gonna be next? Ho to blink? How to breathe?"
And there you go...
I'm all for a How to Shower episode though.
@@degrotekoningwouter Oh yes lol! After that we don't need much else!
Holding for 16 seconds is hard
Rajiv's muscles are looking big...I feel you are subtlety putting down the West. I love that you embrace a catholic view. We should embrace East and West but avoid putting one down. The West has good aspects just as the East does. Both have bad parts as well.