be luminous yoga



we'll begin with our ujayi breath or victoria'sbreath. this is a very nice breath to help focus the mind when we're holding posturessuch as the standing postures which we, our minds can start to travel to other placeswhen we're focusing on holding on these more difficult postures. so, let's begin. we'regoing to be breathing again as we do throughout our yoga practice in and out through the nose.so let's just practice breathing in and out. now in the ujayi breath, let's place a handnear our face and as we breathe out, let's breathe on to our hand as if we're fogginga mirror or a piece of glass. so let's breath in and then out. feeling the breath on ourhands, hearing that "haah" sound in the back of our throat. so let's continue breathingin that way for a couple of breaths, breathing

in. after we breathe in that manner for acouple of breaths, we're going to close the lips and do the same thing. so it'll soundsomething like this, partially closing off the back of your throat, hearing that noisein the back of your throat. and that's ujayi breath.