Question #4807: Lack of air during Kundalini Yoga

You can start with lower repetitions and try to get used to it. Furthermore, you can strengthen your breathing with breathing exercises.

Make sure you are doing it correctly, read the instructions again, watch videos of it and practice. Also, if you can do it outside, this might help.

There are multiple breathing exercises that you can practice with, take for example the breath of fire. Also make sure that you breath in and fill the lower half of your lungs first, causing your belly to protrude. This way of breathing should be done at all times, its the most natural way of breathing.

Also if it is to uncomfortable to do the right breathing during yoga, you can temporarily skip this or lessen the amount of reps.

There are good breathing exercises to increase lung capacity, read here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taixi_(embryonic_breathing)External ↗

Learn about sahita (सहित) kumbhaka in these books, where other breathing methods are also described in detail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_PradipikaExternal ↗

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheranda_SamhitaExternal ↗

AskSatanOperator wrote:View source

When I breathe quickly, I start to lack oxygen and I start yawning

You need to develop in breathing exercises.

I recommend that you seriously familiarize yourself with breathing exercises, which will seriously help you in yoga.