Anwen Meditates - A Steemit Health Channel // Today: Introduction and Alternate Nostril Breathing

Hi friends! I am creating a new tag #anwen-meditates to post my own health videos and tutorials. I am creating a Steemit health channel - all of my videos and tutorials are for the wonderful users of Steemit! I am planning on sharing many tutorials, including yoga, guided meditations, breathing exercises, and more. I am also uploading the videos to YouTube in the hope of attracting more users to Steemit.

I have been practicing yoga and meditation for 8 years now, and these practices have been critical in shaping who I am today. My constant practices have brought me inner peace and stability during crazy times, have healed physical and emotional injuries, and have taught me how to be PRESENT!

I am really excited to be able to share these practices with you all. I am first going to share tutorials and videos that you can do right now, wherever you are. These can be used as breaks from the information overload of Steemit / life in general, when you wake up, before you go to bed, or really any time at all :-) My first video tutorial is called "Alternate Nostril Breathing". This ancient Indian practice has many benefits, for example it: connects your right and left hemispheres of your brain, quiets your mind, calms your emotions, prepares your body for meditation, and regulates your body temperature.

Here are the steps that I cover in the video:

• Use your right thumb to close off your right nostril
• Inhale through your left nostril
• Close your left nostril with your ring finger and release your thumb from your right nostril
• Exhale through your right nostril
• Inhale through right nostril
• Use your thumb to close of right nostril
• Breathe out through your left nostril

Happy Sunday and Namaste :-)