Breath awareness
Breath awareness is central to yoga practice. Yoga recognises that breath awareness can positively affect your nervous system and through it your mood state. You
may have noticed that when you are calm, your breathing is smooth and
even. When you are anxious it becomes shallow and irregular. When you
experience fear it is constricted, and you may feel tight in the chest. Often this link between mood state and breath is subtle and goes unnoticed in
everyday life. Breath awareness practice is a valuable tool to help you to understand and calm the
mind and emotions and is central to Western
stress management programmes; meditation; the Buddhist practice of mindfulness as well as yoga.
"It’s made me like a chameleon. Yoga made me really think about the depths and widths of my experience. It made me take stock. I don’t over extend myself now, as I would before. I do what I can within my own capacity. I’m at peace with myself. Life’s for now."
Participant
"It’s made me like a chameleon. Yoga made me really think about the depths and widths of my experience. It made me take stock. I don’t over extend myself now, as I would before. I do what I can within my own capacity. I’m at peace with myself. Life’s for now."
Participant