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Two – phase:  stretching &  bandha breathing

As a rule, at the beginning of  yoga practice we become familiar with bandhas breathing. Once the
technique of bandha breathing is  mastered, the practice of asanas will be correct from the very start.
Ther are  4 main  bandhas in the body:
-  Mula  bandha – the root lock
- Jalandhara bandha – the throat lock
- Mula bandha – lifting of the diaphragm lock
- Maha bandha – is the application of all three of these bandhas at the  same time
Yoga treats the human organism in an  analogous way. The passive support system of the body is skeleton, with its joints surfaces, the active support system of the body, is the muscle. In bandha breathing consciousness and the body are connected. Well bandhas breathings activity, are extremly well for the brain centre. They harmonise and balance the central regulation in the brain,  with  the stady and controlled breath.
The frequency of breathingis fundamentally regulated by the body s metabolic processes, complemented by the intake of energy sources, the removal of metabolic by-products, and external
environmental conditions.
Through bandha breathing, yoga establshesan analytically precise movement and carefully structured action in individual asanas, in accordance with the natural laws of gravity as described by Isaak Newton.
The principles of gravitational forcesand the common  center of mass of the acting body, in each movement, highlight the importance of the quality of the skeletal joint surfaces and connective tissue, through its activity, produces force as a product of its performance:
- tennis/swing with a racket
- the cyclist pedals the bike hours and hours.
Therefore, the basic working position of an  athlete under extremly intense load is decisive for the result. I emphasise the joint surfaces because the angles of the skeletal joint surfaces also provide information to the balance center in the brain.
The synchronous cooperation of the body s active musculature is a guarantee for high- quality joint surfaces. Under loads with sport equipment when the gravitational moments of movement are enorms, the exposed joint surface must be perfect (tennis- a stroke with the racket, or in cycling-
the driving stroke on the pedal).

When fundamental neuromuscular coordination is optimally synchronized, the execution of sport-specific loads – such as a tennis racket stroke – bocomes highly reliable, while cyclical actions like pedaling can be sustained over prolonged periods with conssistency and progressive output, depending on the regulation of the atlete s performance demands.

Yoga, through its rich expression of human movement kombined with bandha breathing, provides a two – phase execution of muscular stretching integrated with bandha breathing.
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»Phase 1: muscle elongation /prolongation/  during the inhalation phase,
 Phase 2: muscle stretching during the exhalation phase«.
»Implementing bandha beathing within the high – intenzity demands of competitive sport is a complex task.Its effective transmission and integration into the training process require a competent yoga teacher, who is also well – kinesiological methodologies of sports training«.