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General Notes for the Pranayama Practice There are innumerable rules and regulations pertaining to pranayama. The main points are to exercise moderation, balance and common sense, with regard to inner and outer thinking and living. However, for those who seriously wish to take up the advanced practices of pranayama, the guidance of a guru or [...]
Nadi Shodhana Pranayama Nadi is a tubular organ for the passage of prana, or energy carrying cosmic, vital, seminal, and other energies, as well as sensation, intelligence and consciousness in the causal, subtle, and physical bodies. Shodhana means purifying, or cleansing. The term nadi shodhana means the purification of the nerves. This pranayama is also [...]
Following an emergency visit to an intensive care unit, yoga teacher Barbara Benagh pledged to beat her asthma. After extensive research, she discovered the key to overcoming asthma is retraining the breath. By Barbara Benagh It’s the middle of the night. Suddenly you’re wide awake, suffocating, gasping for air but unable to catch your breath. [...]
Yoga is an ideal form of exercise. Yet unlike other forms, Yoga offers the full range of fitness benefits. It develops strength, stamina, flexibility, and vitality. The gentle stretching action involved in each yoga posture promotes a gradual, safe increase in the flexibility of the whole body. The thousands of yoga postures were created to [...]
Meditate to live your life to the fullest. Meditation is one of the most powerful tools there is to help us restore the harmony within, and to gain access to our bodies’ inner intelligence. In meditation we rediscover the silence in our mind, and make it part of our life. Silence is the birthplace of [...]
by Shakta Kaur Khalsa About the author: Shakta Kaur Khalsa has been teaching Kundalini yoga for twenty-five years, and has been a Montessori teacher for almost as long. She lives in Herndon, Virginia, with her husband and their son. She also is the author of Fly Like a Butterfly: Yoga for Children (Rudra Press) and a [...]
Hatha Yoga has a very precise set of tools for bringing us deeply in touch with our true nature through the body. They are the five practical techniques, which together constitute the method of Hatha Yoga. Each one of these techniques embodies, and expresses one of the energetic qualities of the five elements. In order for yoga [...]
Yoga has lasted thousands of years because it works. Of all the approaches to yoga, Hatha Yoga is the most well known in the West. This is because of its comparative accessibility. Hatha Yoga works through the body. It involves moving the body into different, and novel positions, and relationships. These changes in the use of the [...]
Dirgha breath is also known as the “three part breath.” This pranayama focuses on the three chambers of the lungs. The first is the lower level of the abdominal area just under the floating ribs . This is the area that allows you to inflate like a balloon. The second area is the middle chest, or thoracic [...]
Some call kapalabhati a pranayama, while others call it a kriya (kapala means skull and bhati means light or lustre). This is similar to bhastrika, only milder. In it inhalation is slow, exhalation vigorous, but there is a split second of retention after each out-breath. Do kapalabhati instead of bhastrika if the latter proves too strenuous. [...]
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