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For body conditioning, yoga is the ideal exercise for flexibility, balance, stamina and energy. Yoga relaxes you at the same time it stretches your muscles and strengthens your bones. If you follow the steps recommended by an experienced practitioner of yoga you will find that the basic move all positions and meditations require is breathing. Slow deep nourishing breaths. The unusual poses and enlightenment come later.

Proper breathing begins with relaxing. Get in a comfortable position sitting on the floor or mat. Maintain good posture with your back straight and your arms out to the sides. When you have found comfort take a deep slow cleansing breath through your nose. Be aware how your muscles feel as you breathe in. When you feel full to bursting exhale at the same rate you inhaled being careful not to hold your breath between inhalation and exhaling.

To see if you are inhaling into your lower lobes place one hand over your chest below your sternum or breastbone. Place another hand over your abdomen an inch below your navel. Take a slow, deep breath through your nose. Your hand over your abdomen should rise higher than your hand over your chest. If it is difficult to tell, try lying down flat until you have the technique correct.