Mula Bandha and Uddiyana Bandha clinic

As simple as you say, Thank you very much! So well explain.. I wait for the third bhanda, Jalandara Namaste!

Beautifully explained. Thanks so much.

Very interesting explanation of something I have been doing, to the best of my ability according to my knowledge and understanding. However this puts a different and probably helpful focus on this and I imagine it will help me in my practice as well as overall distribution and use of energy. Thank you :-)

Thank you. Very clear explanation, very helpful!

Thanks Clayton, very clear explanation which helps me a lot.

Thank you Clayton thats very helpful. I shall practice that now. ??

Hi Clayton. Great video and very informative. I have a question on the use of Bandhas. Throughout my whole practice regardless of the asanas I do, do I keep both Bandhas engaged or do I let one go while the other engages and vsv? Mula engaged on exhale, then do i release this to then engage Uddiyana, then release that to engage mula again on the exhale.Its the sequence im not sure about. Or do they both stay engaged until practice is finished ? Can you tell me how it works during full practice continually. Thank you Clayton

Thank you very much, Clayton, you're instructions are clear and very effective, I like very much the way you teach. Hope to see some new classes of you, namaste!

Thanks for the explanations! I will take these with me as I continue my practice.

Thank you Clayton for this very helpful explanation of the Bandhas. Namaste

Engaging in these locks are much needed in my practice and tend to forget engaging them easily. Thank you for this super explanation. Namaste

Great explanation! Thank you very much. Namaste

Thank you Clayton, very clear easy to follow lesson. Namaste ??

Excellent ! Thank you!

thank you Clayton! this was extremely helpful!! :) can you explain if the mula bandha and uddiyana bandha need to be activated for only one cycle of breath or if we can keep up for many breath how shall we do?? we activate mula bandha in the exhale and in the inhale when uddiyana is activated does mula bandha stop? in order to start again in the next exhale?? thanks. Sara

thanks very much for the explanation. its very useful. two questions: while we do ashtanga, should we engage our bandha all the time or just on some specific pose? should we engage the bandha when we breath-in or out?• •

super. really an excellent explanation. finally i got to understand this difference! not many teachers around yoga studios knows it. congratulation, i am amazed.

Thank you so much for such a clear and concise explanation. Are there only three bandhas in the body. If not, how many are there?

Superb ! You were so convincing I could not help engaging my muscles while listening to you, although I was sitting on a chair. Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much! Very informative and cute

question: I've learned to engage bandhas on the exhale rather than on the inhale. its a bit confusing as in Warrior I for example you engage uddiyana on in the inhale (rising). A bit confusing Annette

Thank you for this clinic Clayton. I have been trying to engage my bandha's throughout my practice for nearly a year, however, at times it feels as though there is no engagement at all and nothing is happening! What could that mean?

Very helpful, thank you Clayton.

I heard by engaging Mula bandha allows you to be lighter on your limbs, and thus lighter on your mat. But why is that? Shouldn't it be the other way round? While your body is performing those challenging poses together with gravity, why would engaging your mula bandha help to prevent fatigue by making your body lighter to perform those poses?

Excellent points that I have not yet heard. Your pearl metaphor is good, the apanic flow reference is good. Thank you.

I completely get the idea of connecting the two poles, north and south, and become one. For some reasons I have never been doing sports as I don't put weight on very easily. The consequences are that my body, this is also due to some bone structure that perhaps shaped in a certain way during my youth, are not helping me to keep up right. My main problem is the lower back that is curved and my hip is tilted forward and my upper back that consequently is out of equilibrium and carries a lot of weight as it is not distributed fairly between legs and back (disconnection). The breath is very scatty also and tension accumulates in my back mainly. I found this class very helpful, and I'm glad you answered a question I was asking myself these days. How much do I need to engage the mula bandha...and you said to gently hold the pearl without squashing it! It makes sense because I couldn't squeeze for too long without my breath being affected. Sorry for the long story. You guys at Ekhart Yoga rocks, that is what I wanted to say. Love you all! I will follow you more. Namaste Clayton

Hey , I have a question, I have strain in my back , how should I transition from chaturanga to upward dog to downward dog , I was not applying bandhas before . Should I be applying udiyana bandha on inhahe in upward dog ? Will it support my back ? Should there be mulabandha in chaturanga? Please guide me for these transitions.