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Yoga Technique Pranayama
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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