Yoga for asthma: Breathing exercises for patients with asthma
Yoga expert suggests the following Yoga asanas or easy breathing exercises for patients with bronchial asthma. Here are their steps and health benefits
Bhastrika Pranayama
Breathing exercises are known as pranayama and this one is referred to as bhastrika. Your breath should make a sound similar to the bellows blacksmiths use while performing this pranayama.
The practise of bhastrika helps the body’s capacity grow. As you deepen your practise of this breathing method, you’ll benefit in a number of ways—physical, psychological, and spiritual.
Method
• Take up any comfortable position for sitting, such as Sukhasan, Ardhapadmasan, or Padmasana.
Close your eyes, arch your back, and place your hands in the Prapthi Mudra on your knees.
• Take a full, deep breath in and out. Inhalation to exhalation should be a 1:1 ratio. For instance, if you take six breaths in, you must also take six breaths out
Anulom Vilom
The term anulom vilom refers to a specific type of controlled breathing (pranayama) utilised in the practise of yoga. In order to do it, you must keep one nostril closed when inhaling and the other closed while exhaling. After that, the process is repeated in reverse.
A few of the many stated medical and psychological benefits of alternate nostril breathing include stress reduction, improved breathing, and improved circulation. Scientific evidence backs up some of these statements.
Method
• Sit down in a relaxed position, ideally cross-legged. (such as Ardhapadmasan, Sukhasan, or Padmasana) • Align your spine and close your eyes
• The technique entails breathing via your opposing nostrils, with your left nose inhaling and your right nostril expelling.
• To complete a breath cycle, close your right nostril for left-sided inhalation, your left nose for right-sided exhalation, and your right nostril for right-sided inhalation.
• Use your thumb to gently press the air out of your nostril. The right nostril’s airflow is intended to be stopped.
Make sure that when you inhale through your left nose, your right nostril feels equally pressured.
• Breathe deeply as you inhale.
• As you open your right nose, close your left nostril to let