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Hot Air Balloon
Sit in a comfortable position with your legs crossed. Start by cupping your hands around your mouth and breathe deeply through your nose. As you are doing this, start blowing out through your mouth, all the while moving your hands outwards in coordination with your exhalation.
This process must be undertaken as if you are trying to inflate an enormous hot air balloon.
Once you have completely exhaled, imagine that your hot air balloon is completely inflated and that you have let it loose to rise up in the sky. Breathe normally as you sway from side to side.
Make sure that this exercise is performed in a clean, pollution-free environment. It helps your child to take deep, cleansing breaths as well as increase his/her concentration. Performed regularly over a longer period of time, this exercise helps your child cleanse his/her body of the pollution that enters his/her body throughout the day.
Tumble Dry
Assume a cross-legged position, pointing the index fingers of both hands towards each other. Position these mutually pointing fingers in front of your mouth and start blowing air through the mouth, while spinning your fingers around each other, creating a sound much like the tumble dry cycle in a washing machine.
Bumble Bee Breaths
Also known as Bhramari in Pranayama, this breathing exercise helps your child cleanse his/her body of the pollution that he/she comes across every single day. Sit comfortably with your legs crossed, while breathing through your nose. With your fingers in your ears, hum out your exhalation. Not only does this exercise help in eliminating the ill effects of pollution from your child’s body over a long time, but also has a calming effect on your child’s being.
(The writer is Consultant Neonatal & Pediatric Intensivist, Apollo Cradle, Kondapur, Hyderabad)
Hot Air Balloon
Sit in a comfortable position with your legs crossed. Start by cupping your hands around your mouth and breathe deeply through your nose. As you are doing this, start blowing out through your mouth, all the while moving your hands outwards in coordination with your exhalation.
This process must be undertaken as if you are trying to inflate an enormous hot air balloon.
Once you have completely exhaled, imagine that your hot air balloon is completely inflated and that you have let it loose to rise up in the sky. Breathe normally as you sway from side to side.
Make sure that this exercise is performed in a clean, pollution-free environment. It helps your child to take deep, cleansing breaths as well as increase his/her concentration. Performed regularly over a longer period of time, this exercise helps your child cleanse his/her body of the pollution that enters his/her body throughout the day.
Tumble Dry
Assume a cross-legged position, pointing the index fingers of both hands towards each other. Position these mutually pointing fingers in front of your mouth and start blowing air through the mouth, while spinning your fingers around each other, creating a sound much like the tumble dry cycle in a washing machine.
Bumble Bee Breaths
Also known as Bhramari in Pranayama, this breathing exercise helps your child cleanse his/her body of the pollution that he/she comes across every single day. Sit comfortably with your legs crossed, while breathing through your nose. With your fingers in your ears, hum out your exhalation. Not only does this exercise help in eliminating the ill effects of pollution from your child’s body over a long time, but also has a calming effect on your child’s being.
(The writer is Consultant Neonatal & Pediatric Intensivist, Apollo Cradle, Kondapur, Hyderabad)
