In yoga,breathing is everything. It is the main focus in every pose,every movements have to follow the breath. If we found ourselves holding the breath while doing a posture, or even panting, that could mean that we're pushing ourselves too hard,and needs to ease of a little, until the breathing comes back. There's no point of doing a pose without being able to breath. To get a better understanding of breathing, first we need to know the reason why we breath.
Technically,a human body is 'just' billions of cells working together. All cells has their own metabolism. The metabolism yield energy for the cells to grow, multiply, transform, fight of virus and bacteria, kill other cells, communicate, etc. well,basically everything. There are thousands of metabolisms happening at the same time, and most of them needs oxygen. In other words, every cells need to breathe. Cells takes up oxygen, to burn the fuel, generate energy,and give off carbon dioxide. We get the oxygen from the atmosphere, and of course, by the action of breathing.
We inhale oxygen from our nose or mouth, travel to the lungs, to the blood, travel around the whole body, delivered to the cells, and at the same time moving the waste products; carbon dioxide,in reverse. That's the basic, simplified process. Therefore, if the breathing stops, all the metabolism processes will eventually stop, the cells die, the systems fail one by one, and we just simply die. That's how important breathing is.
Next time,we'll have a look at the anatomy and physiology of breathing.
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