How Yoga Can Relieve Your Allergies
Alternate-Nostril Breathing
A 2008 study found that alternate nostril breathing—one of the most common breathing exercises in yoga—can increase your body's relaxation response.
Try it: Cover your right nostril and inhale through your left for a count of ten. Hold your breath for five seconds. Then cover your left nostril and exhale through your right for a count of ten. Inhale through your right nostril and hold for five seconds. Cover your right nostril again and exhale through your left. Do three more rounds.
From the
April 2013 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
