Sublime Version of Ujjayi Pranayama

Summary

September 4, 2020, 11 min

Ujjayi Pranayama, also called the Victorious Breath and the Hawaiian Ha Breath, taught first as a voiced mouth breath with a Kahuna-style Mana variation, then refined into a quiet long nasal outbreath. Covers how throat constriction lowers heart rate via the carotid sinuses, and Richard Gevirtz's teaching of long breathing to uptight children.

In this video

Teaches

Ha breath

Discusses

AMOLRichard GevirtzTeaching kids to meditateHRV Resonance

Mentions

PranayamaHunaManaMedullaRescue BreathMartial artsHoly Trinity of BreathNLP ModelingParasympathetic nervous systemSympathetic nervous systemVentral Vagal ComplexDorsal Vagal Complex

Key moments

00:00Ujjayi, the Victorious Breath, and the Hawaiian Ha Breath 01:00Gross to sublime: capital letters before lowercase 01:39Learning the Ha Breath as a mouth breath with sound 02:44Kahuna style: open hands and receive the Mana 03:50Throat constriction, carotid sinuses and a lower heart rate 04:43Like the rescue breath: doing it internally without sound 05:25Martial arts analogy: a big block becomes a small one 06:27Modeling Gevirtz: kids breathe long and stomach issues fade 08:32Long nasal outbreath without extra tension, toward the dorsal vagal 09:30Demonstration: watch the throat constrict