Air qualities are opening, expansion, lightness, grace, and thinking. The fundamental expression of air is spaciousness, lack of restriction, and it is embodied in the technique of Pranayama.
Air is cultivated and expressed, by creating space in the joints and organs, particularly the lungs. The arena of air is the thorax, its source is the throat, its medium the skin (including the nerves), and its control the limbs.
The superficial application of air is to develop the capacity to overcome the effect of gravity on the physical body. The subtle application is to free the breath from the limitations of physical, and mental tension. Establishing air requires the utilization of movement; the sign of its presence is its opposite, stillness.
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