basic yoga exercises

We breathe in order to survive. One of the five principles of basic yoga is the Pranayama or breathing exercise that encourages right breathing. The breath, and how deeply or shallowly, slowly or rapidly we engage in this condition for staying alive, is closely related with how we feel. In a yogic viewpoint, right breathing is to bring more oxygen to the blood as well as to the brain, and to control Prana or the important life energy.

Almost all basic yoga styles are based on hatha yoga, yoga’s physical discipline which concentrates on developing control of the body through asanas or poses. While all yoga forms aim to balance the body, mind and spirit, they keep doing it in different ways. They might differ in how asanas are performed and where they concentrate the attention -on mastering and holding the posture, on strict alignment, on breathing, or on the flow of movement.