The document describes a 4-step nose yoga breathing technique that is designed to increase oxygen to the brain, increase alertness, and decrease stress, sleepiness, and anxiety. The technique involves making a hand form and alternately closing one nostril while breathing in and out of the other nostril. Practicing the technique is said to help calm the mind and make one feel more awake.

1. Nose
The power of prana

2. Opening
• Yoga is a physical and spiritual
practice, originating in ancient India.
• The goals of yoga are varied and range from
improving health to achieving enlightenment.
• The most basic part of yoga is an emphasis on
breathing and posture.
• On average, we take some 20,000 breaths a day
• “Prana” is Sanskrit for “vital life” and also
“breath”.

3. Objective
• Given that participants breathe freely and
have free range of motion with their
hands, the participant will demonstrate a nose
yoga breathing technique, using a 4-step
process designed by a yoga expert .

4. What’s In It For Me?
• Benefits to nose yoga
– Increases oxygen to the brain in a regulated
fashion
– Increases alertness
– Decreases sleepiness, stress, anxiety.

5. Content
Step 1: Make the hand form
(finger pranayama)
Step 2: Close right nostril, and
breathe in the left nostril.
Step 3: Close left nostril, and
breathe out the right nostril.
(Repeat, alternating nostrils.)

6. Practice and Feedback
• Practicing making the hand form (finger
pranayama), and alternate your breath.
• Pair up with a partner if you need help.

7. Skill Check
• Where you able to master the alternate
breathing steps?
• Did you feel more calm, awake or alert after
practicing nose yoga?
• What else did you experience as a result of
practicing nose yoga?

8. Summary/Close
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