What is PRANAYAMA and the 3 categories [] www.21stCentury.Yoga ~ Manish Pole

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namaste pranayama prana is lifeforce ayahs the expansion of this so the art of expanding one's life energy is known as pranayama generally done by working with the breathing process there are three kinds of pranayama techniques energizing from I am balancing pranayama and tranquilizing or relaxing Brown I am let's look at all three of them in these stressful times a lot of people are looking at mindful breathing let's study the classical pranayama techniques and those can be incorporated in your daily life for energizing crown I arm we look at bus trick up rely on kapal Bhati is considered a shut Kriya in hatha yoga a cleansing technique the kapal Bhati is done like this you block a nostril exhale out ten times the exhalation is active the inhalation is passive once again on the other exhalation active inhalation faster and you do it's a great thing to do first thing in the morning to start to energize bhastrika pranayama is the classical energizing pranayama in yoga the difference being here that both the inhalation and the exhalation after you do inhalation exhalation both are active there are different ways of doing it you can also do as you get better and better you won't even need to use the hands and everything can happen through the nose so you'll do you can do a hundred of these and the last ten will be rapid bhastrika pranayama is used as a modern meditative practice by changing the pace of breath especially the last and when you go rapidly and then sit in silence you will find that your very energetic and the mind has gone completely blind it's a doorway into meditation and can be used for focus training that's bus trigger if you have high BP or hypertension you can avoid this the second kind of pranayama technique are the balancing ones and these are the most important nadi shodhana or on-loan balloon in classical hatha yoga nadi shodhana is done by inhaling through the left nostril closing the nostrils to hold the breath it exhaling out to the right and once you exhale again closing the nostrils and then inhale right hold exhale left hole and there's a ratio in which you do it nadi is the flow of energy show the nice to cleanse your cleansing the different pathways that carry prana through the body it is said that when you reach a stage when you don't need to use the hands but you can just breathe in left hold without right hold without the hands then we call it on a loan balloon pranayaam often even this hand use it is still call on the loan balloon because it is training for that let's start with nadi shodhana on a loan below the ratio is like this you breathe in for a count of one hold the inhalation is called Bora for one unter compact internal retention for two Rach up exhalation for two and baahar go buck external retention for two now you can add the external retention after a few months when you're comfortable with just inhale hold exhale inhale hold exhale so the ratio 1 is to 2 is to 2 and when you add the external retention again to after a few months you make it 1 3 to 2 and after a few years 1 4 to 2 no rush to certain heart a yoga pradipika just like you take time to tame an elephant or a lion you take time to tame the breathing the prana if you go too fast you will damage the subtle nervous circuits and the in the brain and the level of prana will not be something you can handle so please go slow so let's begin I'll show you the classical one we do this with NASA kagra or Vishnu mudra you can also do it like this essentially the ring and little finger the combined weight is the same as the thumb I'm showing you the classical way block the right nostril the ring finger on the eyebrow Center inhale through the left counter one pora unter come back hold curve to to double the time through right Richard exhale down to optic sailing close the nostrils record to that Bar Kokhba external retention para conor one anther come back out to Rachel talk to bah hucklebuck out of two [Applause] this balances harem Sitaram hatha yoga is a balance of the right nostril physical energy Pingala Nadi prana Shakti with the mental energy irin Rd mana Shakti this balance as you will see in the symbol of Medicine a doctors the staff of caduceus those two snakes intertwining a finger line leader because just for health you need the perfect balance of physical and mental energy and more so for meditation when they balance out and negate each other so sushumna can rise through the central channel making meditation spontaneous affair as it should be in hatha yoga in yoga now that's a balancing pronoun let's also look at a tranquilizing relaxing pran I am the primary one that we use is huije pranayama and drum memory so what are you doing with Jerry is you can strict that big glottis the throat so when you breathe in just with the mouth closed try to say the word saw whole you're replicating a snoring sound exhale trying to say the word ha with the mouth closed again puta [Applause] all exhale [Applause] whoo jury means victory the sound is like the sound of the waves so this is the pronoun that you do during us in our practice you can do it throughout the day it will give you a lot of focus and takes away stress the other pranayaam that is used for relaxing is bhramari bumblebee so what you'll do is you'll block out the ears the eyes and you like sail through the mouth keeping the lips first together so you'll do [Music] so the air is going out through the mouth the lips up first as a response to this vibration the body causes the secretion of serotonin so you can use it at night before you go to sleep or whenever your stress it's the most relaxing frown I am another - I'd like to show you carry it sail through the nodes we use this in summer as the air passes through the spit it cools down so this is a relaxing for now and to energize there's another program called Surya bade piercing the Surya Nadi inhale right close exhale left once again inhale right close exhale as always in right close exhale left this will energize the metabolic critic can use it in winter or when you're feeling low these are the basic pranayama techniques I would suggest that you keep practicing daily about 20 rounds of unload the long run I am daily drummer II in the night with Jay you through the day bus trigger first thing in the morning and throughout the day you can also do sahaja lion just mindfully sitting watching the inhalation watching the exhalation you become a witness to the breathing prana M is very significant because you're making an unconscious activity that's controlled by the brain stem breathing into a conscious activity and then it's the cerebral cortex that gets involved as soon as you have done this yeah because the cerebral cortex is involved the decision-making your focus becomes much better you're taking an unconscious activity making it conscious that is the art of pranayama it happens to a person once asanas mastered once you can sit comfortably and your still then you'll enjoy pranayama till then he will find that you're just moving too much you don't have the focus you don't have the interest in the subject when you have still dear mind your body mind then Quran becomes enjoyable the next stage from pranayama the yama niyama asana pranayama is proper heart after pranayaam it's much easier to withdraw the senses Fatiha happens naturally preparing you for Dharam beyond Samadhi focus concentration and Samadhi self pronoun is that magic silver bullet in the yoga practice please pivot your entire yoga journey meditation journey the life itself on your breath let's just finish with some deep breathing together namaste