Breathing is harmony energy and the life. If it is partial or incorrect, it has great psychological, emotional, mental and physical implications. Most of us do not have a full breath. Accumulated tension in the shoulders and neck lets the spine collapse and restricts lung expansion. We breathe superficially, often agitated, leaving fully inhale and exhale deeply. Fatigue, anxiety, poor health and discouragement may originate in poor breathing. 

These exercises make us aware of how we breathe, the patterns we have acquired over the years and how we must change. They also help us attune with valuable physical, mental and spiritual tool we have in our breath. Thus, we clean, we heal and we are filled with energy, clarity and health in each inhalation and each exhalation. Yoga can be as simple as breathing. 

To begin with and become aware of your breathing, lie on your back on the floor with your knees bent on a blanket or yoga mat, wearing comfortable clothing that allows you to move. Put one hand on your lower abdomen below the navel and one below the ribs, close your eyes and inhale and exhale long and deep, always breathing through the nose. 

Feel your body movements. As you inhale, feel what body part is expanded first. Look what happens to the abdomen and chest. See if you can identify some tension in the abdomen, shoulders, or throat and try to release. 

Try to emphasize the abdominal breathing, so that with each breath of your abdomen rises due to the pressure exerted by the diaphragm on the abdominal cavity and see how your hand is raised with it. As you exhale, the diaphragm relaxes, and your hand should go down to your abdomen. 

Breathe deeply through your nose, inflating the abdomen like a balloon, and try to engage the shoulders as little as possible, because it does not represent an efficient breathing. Try to isolate the three parts, starting with the abdomen, the middle part below the ribs and upper chest. 

Now concentrate on the way you breathe. Inhale slowly and deeply, reaching the full capacity of your lungs. Hold the breath briefly and then exhale to empty them in a controlled manner. Exhalation gives the same importance as inhalation and feels a consolidation in the torso when exhaling. 

In the same position, bring your hands to the sides. One way to do this is folding arms across chest and put hands under armpits. Do you feel how your ribs expand and contract with each breath? After exploring this way, find breathing expands the abdomen first, then the ribs and finally the chest.

You can sit in the child's posture and place your palms under your shoulder blades. Do you feel like your back is also involved in breathing? You have explored the different ways your lungs expand to the maximum capacity. 

Finally you can try the full breath. Sit up straight, one hand on the abdomen and the other on the chest. Now breathe three times but smooth and deep, starting from the bottom abdomen, middle ribs and upper collarbone of the lungs and feel each part is filled with air. Exhalation begins with the abdomen, going inward when you breathe out in the same order. 

All these exercises help us breathe in different directions, knowing the amazing ability of our lungs and helping us to release tension that has accumulated over the years and that may be hindering our breath. It is an effective way to attune to our body and to reverse some habits and beliefs by which we carry a significant part of our lives breathing shallow and incomplete. With only have optimal breathing, you will find a difference in your energy level, attitude and health. The next step are the exercises of pranayama, the science of controlling prana that are essential part of yoga practice.