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Benefits:
- Enhances lungs and ribcage increases lung capacity
- Excellent exercise for diaphragmatic tone
- Helps with mental relaxation, helps you become present
- May help reduce high blood pressure
- Relieves irritability
- Good for cleansing
- Exercises nervous, respiratory and circulatory systems
Tips:
- Don’t snap your head back or forward
- Slow your movement down
- Coordinate your long breath with your movement
- Maintain slight pressure of fingers against jaw and jaw against fingers, on both inhales and exhales
- NEVER keep thumbs interlocked on the inhales. Allow them to drift apart, only keeping your fingers interlocked
Check that you:
- Keep your elbows up the whole time (after your initial inhale)
- Maintain consistent contact and slight reciprocal force of fingers against jaw and jaw against fingers
- Keep your shoulders away from your ears. Shoulders down is the priority over elbow height