Is Yoga breathing posible trough the mouth?
I ve been practiseing Yoga for sime time now. I have ALWAYS breathe trough the nose and. But that is not an option anymore. So i was wondering does it really matter do you breath on the nose or trough the mouth.
Any Information?
Thank you
john,
take the deepest inhalation you can through your mouth. now do it through the nose. the difference should be obvious. you cannot fill the lungs to capacity when breathing through the mouth the way you can through the nose. breathing through the nose also allows you to lengthen your breath and have more control in your inhalations and exhalations.
you also cannot get the “heating” quality of the ujjayi breath when breathing through the nose and i imagine mouth-breathing would be quite dehydrating.
why is nose breathing not an option anymore?
thank you for the reply
its quite boring to explain the reason
but belive me its not posible
thank you again
I’d like some advise too…during yoga classes when the teacher needs us to do looooong and sloooooow inhalations and exhalations, I find it IMPOSSIBLE to do with my nose…the air would be used up in a jiffy and I simply don’t feel the air filling my entire trunk.
But when I suck in and push out air through a small ‘o’ of my mouth, I can time my breath slowly and feel the large volume of air going in and out of my body., which in turn i can synchronise my asanas better with my breath.
Any experienced yogis to advise? thanks! 
the first breathing technique i was ever taught was to inhale for about 3 seconds and then exhale for 6 seconds, supposedly this will help sterngethn your diaphram in your lungs which i believe is the muscle that opens and closes your lungs thus pulling in air through suction, allowing you to take those logn deep breaths.
The main reason why it’s not good to breathe through the mouth is that nadis (the energy channels) become weaker. The only function of the nose is breathing. There’s no other function of the nose. And mouth have several functions, while breathing through the mouth is possible only because breathing is absolutely the No.1 vital function of the body, and there must be a “backup” option if breathing through nose is obstructed. Many studies discovered that children who breathe through the mouth don’t have mental functions properly developed. It’s well known in yoga that two of three main nadis - ida and pingala - flow through left and right nostrill respectively. Those nadis are manipulated and purified with pranayama (e.g. nadi sodhan, breathing through one or the other nostril, or alternating). There are many, many pranic as well as phisiologic reasons why one should breathe through the nose which cannot be described here, but there are many books dealing with this subject. I can only say that one who cannot breathe though the nose is’n t lucky one.