When it comes to yoga breathing you always have something to focus your attention on. Whether it be the sound of your teachers voice, your hand positions, your breath count or even your breathing itself.
Another benefit of yoga breathing is the results. Both yoga breathing and meditation have phenomenal health benefits. Both practices balance your nervous system, your endocrine system, control your stress response and even have the potential to lengthen your life. They will certainly improve it.
The most important thing to consider is can you do it every day without any obstacle to your ability to practice. You see, with both practices, consistency is everything.
While meditation is amazing, with plenty of free resources available on sites like YouTube, as well as some great guided apps. In reality very few people are able to be consistent enough with their practice to ever see the full potential.
Yoga breathing is far more accessible, it can be practiced anywhere and at anytime and what is most important, you get all of the same benefits to your overall health and well being.
It doesn't end there, as long as you practice consistently the results are guaranteed. Some of our water category practices for example are so safe and simple you can do them anywhere. This includes while driving or sat in traffic or standing in line at the grocery store and the results are immediate.
If, like me, you are someone that struggles with meditation, either the practice itself or the consistency that it requires then breath work really is for you.
In fact, it can even help you to clear the mind before meditation. I now start my meditation practice with a breath work exercise and the results have been profound.
I used to struggle to with almost every aspect of meditation. I struggled to switch off, or maintain my focus, but I especially struggled to visualise so I would constantly loose interest. Simply by adding a one of our water or a whiskey breath work techniques I now find that I enter my meditation practice in the right mindset to go deep and the knock on benefits have been huge.