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HW: Pranayama (30 Day Challenge)
Nadi Shodhana, also known as alternate nostril breathing, is a great way to hit the reset button for your mental state. It focuses the mind and restores balance to the left and right sides of the brain.
Get Comfortable in a tall seated position. Lift up with a straight spine through the top of your head.
Relax your left palm on your left knee facing up.
Using your right hand, bend your index and middle finger in easily. We will be using our thumb and index fingers in this exercise.
Closing your eyes take a deep breath in through your nose, and release through the nose.
Using your thumb close your right nostril. Slowly, take a deep breath in through the left side.
Now, using your ring finger, close the left nostril and retain the breath for a count of four.
Releasing your thumb from your right nostril, slowly exhale your breath through that right side. Take a brief pause at the bottom of your exhale.
Inhale slowly through the right nostril.
At the top of the breath close the right nostril and retain the breath for a count of four.
Slowly release the breath from the left nostril by removing your ring finger.
Repeat this technique 8-10 times, or until you feel calm once again, allowing your mind to follow your breath.
Tip: Try to match the length of the inhales, pauses, and exhales.
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