Yoga is life-changing because it nurtures both the mind and body, creating a deeper connection to yourself. Through mindful movement, breathwork, and meditation, yoga cultivates inner peace, mental clarity, and emotional balance. It helps you release stress, build strength, and foster a greater sense of self-awareness, ultimately transforming your life from the inside out.

It is amazing how quickly and directly we can affect our nervous system and our well being.

Below are three short breathing techniques you can practice at home.

Belly Breathing is the most underrated practice on the face of the earth.

This simple practice is a profound way to connect the mind and body while fully relaxed.

This gives the diaphragm, our breathing muscle, the opportunity to unfold into it’s fully relaxed potential, without any external muscle stimulus. Creating a setting in the body for deep calm, that grows with every practice.

Analoma Valoma is the practice of alternate nostril breathing. It’s based on the yogic and scientific principle that our brain is split into a distinctive right side and left side. Both sides represent aspects of ourselves and work best when they are integrated.

By practicing harmony between left and right we find an awakened centered state.

Box Breathing is one of many breathing techniques that focuses on breathing ratio.

In the case of box breath there are four equal and distinct parts.

• Inhaling for 4 counts.

• Holding the breath in for 4 counts.

• Exhaling for 4 counts.

• Holding the breath out for 4 counts.

• And repeating.

It’s an easy way to measure how developing a relationship to your breath can improve the ease with which you connect to your breath and an easy way to see how your lung capacity improves over time.