Even people who are superficially familiar with Indian practices will name the meaning of the word “prana” - vital energy. But Sanskrit is polysemantic and symbolic, the narrower meaning of the word is simply “breath”. "Yama" means "stopping", an action subject to the control of consciousness. Thus, yogic practice pranayama - controlled breathing.

“Is this natural? Why teach yourself to breathe in some special way, everyone knows how to do this from birth, and if you didn’t know how, you wouldn’t live!” This is true, but few people breathe correctly: look how many young people are out of breath after running up the stairs just to the fifth floor! What about the rare, “choked” breathing of people experiencing severe stress? A sudden feeling of “lack of air” in confined space? What about the ugly and unhealthy habit of breathing through your mouth?

If you practice your breathing, this will not happen. By controlling it, you control your vitality and energy! Proper breathing leads to a good supply of oxygen to the brain, you will begin to think more clearly and feel more energetic. And conscious control over your body has never harmed anyone.

In most practices we breathe through our nose. The main thing we will use:

• inhale
• holding your breath immediately after inhaling,
• exhalation. delay after exhalation.

Try some pranayama exercises for beginners.

Vrajana

Vrajana is performed during normal walking; you can try it during any walk or leisurely walk somewhere, even to the store. Just don’t breathe near gas-filled and dusty highways!

Breathe deeply, slowly, in rhythm with your step. Four steps - inhale, and then exhale without delay, it is advisable to stretch it by six so that it is truly complete. If it’s difficult, distribute the inhalation and exhalation into steps “equally.” It will take about 10 days - and the result will surprise you.

Surya Bhedana

Surya Bhedana will help if you experience unpleasant sensations associated with heat generation: you feel cold when others are not cold, you experience chills from stress. It improves the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, increases blood pressure, clears the nasopharynx, calms well and trains the central nervous system.

You need to breathe calmly and measuredly, inhale only into the right nostril, and exhale into the left. Pinch the “unnecessary” nostril with your finger. After inhaling, hold your breath for a second, closing your right nostril but not opening your left. Breathe deeply, completely filling your lungs with air. 8-10 cycles.

Sitali

Sitali will help those who have increased sweating - constantly wet palms and feet, problematic skin. This exercise makes the blood more “active”. By the way, it helps not to suffer from the heat in hot climates - sitali pranayama is also called “cooling breathing”.

Take a comfortable asana (meditation pose) or just sit comfortably. Purse your lips like a tube, sticking your tongue out. Exhale as completely as possible, and then inhale deeply and fully through your mouth. After filling your lungs, hold your breath - ideally for 8 seconds. Exhale calmly through your nose. Repeat 4-8 times, but don’t get carried away.

Ujjayi

Ujjayi (from Sanskrit “uji” - victory) is a convenient exercise, performed standing, sitting, or walking. First, make sure that you are breathing calmly and evenly. Inhale slowly, slightly straining your throat, so that the sound of your inhalation resembles the sound “sa” - deep, to the very ribs, to the diaphragm.

Stay still for a moment or two and gradually exhale with the sound “sa”. Don't strain yourself too much - no coughing, no wild grimace on your face, no shoulders raised to your ears, no head thrown back, no stone shoulders!

Ujjayi, performed correctly, helps with heart diseases, saves from insomnia and nervous tension- it stimulates the central energy channel person (sushumna). Even after such simple exercises, you will feel how your breathing has increased in volume. Don't suppress it - you need to work with it correctly, increasing its quality.

Let's brighten up the skull!

This is exactly how the name of the practice of kapalabhati is translated from Sanskrit - “enlightenment” or even “radiance” of the skull. It is needed to cleanse all prana pathways in the head.

This technique uses the force of exhalation to its fullest. Inhalations should be smooth, calm, deep, and air emissions should be sharp. This practice has many positive health effects:

• increases brain activity, concentration, improves memory;
• breathing exercises and cardiovascular systems, the vital capacity of the lungs increases;
• due to the active production of red blood cells, blood supply to tissues and organs is improved, hematological parameters are improved;
• harmful gases (carbon dioxide) are removed from the body's cells;
• Anxiety is significantly reduced, which leads to overall health. This practice is also called “fire breathing”, which burns all the rubbish in the body.

Using this technique as an example, let's look at how breathing is used in yoga for weight loss.

• You need to sit either on the floor - on your heels or in padmasana, if you can - or on a chair. Straighten your back, but don't strain it. Place your palms on your knees, relax your shoulder girdle and stomach as much as possible - it will become our main “actor”.
• Carefully, slowly exhale through your nose, feeling how your lungs are emptying. At the same time as you exhale, pull your stomach inward. Now just relax it - your lungs will automatically begin to fill with air again.
• Pull your stomach in with effort (as if to “deflate”) - exhale! Relax - inhale. Repeat. You need to move your abdominal muscles sharply! Control this process, pay attention to not breathing with your chest! Do it 10 times.

Soon it will come completely naturally. Do 3-5 such “entries” a day. Over time, you can increase the number of repetitions up to 20 times.

Watch the rhythm of your breathing and ensure that there is no excessive tension. After completing the exercise, do not jump up immediately, sit quietly for a minute or two, and balance your normal breathing.

In addition to the fact that working the abdominal muscles makes them elastic, this technique:

• regulates metabolism;
• has an activating effect on the functioning of the liver - the main filter in our body;
• reduces hunger;
• increases stress resistance (in the fight against overweight this is important: many people “eat” negative emotions).

Abdominal muscles that are not used to training may ache - this is normal, they will soon get used to the stress. But if you feel a sharp deterioration in your condition, stop exercising until you get back to normal. Most likely this was due to overvoltage.

Look at the photos of pranayama and pay attention to the bodies and faces of the practicing people: they don’t “squeeze” at all, they don’t do anything through force. You are not setting an Olympic record, but doing yoga, don’t “tear your belly button” - it’s better to meditate on it!

Jala-neti

The nose plays a major role in breathing practices - yogis even believe that breathing through the mouth is as unnatural as eating through the nose - and therefore he must be prepared for them. Namely, it is clean from mucus.

No proper breathing is possible with a nose tightly clogged with a well-known green substance. The “jala-neti” procedure will help cleanse it - this is the beautiful name for the most common, but very effective rinsing of the nose with salted water.

There are special “neti-pot” teapots for this purpose - they are sold in specialized stores. But you can use an “Aqua Maris” teapot from a pharmacy or an ordinary small custard teapot.

You will need 1 liter (more for a clogged nose) of boiled or drinking bottled water. Dilute with boiling water to body temperature and add salt - 1 teaspoon per 0.5 liter of water.

Bend over the sink, left nostril up, and slowly pour the solution into it from the spout of the teapot. Goal: Water should flow out through the right nostril. If it gets into your mouth or your ears are blocked, most likely you need to “adjust” the tilt of your head.

At first, water will drip, washing the nasal passages, and then flow from the “lower” nostril in a trickle. Gradually ensure that water flows freely in both directions. Soon this practice will take no more time than brushing your teeth, and your nose will be clear! In the future, there is no need to practice it every day - if your nose does not become clogged. Once a week, for prevention.

During rinsing, do not inhale water through your nose - and do not blow your nose afterwards! After finishing the practice, take quick, sharp exhalations for a minute using your abdominal muscles, as you already know - this will remove excess water and dry out your sinuses.

Jala Neti helps:

• from rhinitis, sinusitis, sinusitis;
• diseases of the eyes and ears;
• for prevention colds in the autumn-winter period;
• from hay fever (allergic rhinitis);
• in cases where you have inhaled harmful substances - dust, paint, varnish and other toxic fumes.

About the results

So, breathing practices are a path to cleansing and healing the entire body; they can be called comprehensive yoga therapy.

The initial exercises and the elementary procedure of jala neti are accessible to absolutely anyone, they take almost no time, and the benefits from them are a whole wagonload of health.

Only laziness can interfere with execution. But once you start, you will notice that the habit of regular practice will cure it too!

Photo of pranayama

It is not difficult to learn prana breathing. To do this, you need to imagine golden light (light with golden particles) that enters through your crown to the middle of your chest as you inhale, and as you exhale, fill your body with this light.

Prana breathing traces its history back to yoga practices. Presents a simple, but very effective method healing the body. The meaning of prana breathing is to saturate the cells of the body with oxygen, accelerate metabolism and remove toxins and waste from the body. Allows you to learn to concentrate, and accordingly improve your psychological well-being, as it helps to let go of stress. Helps warm the body and improve sleep. It is advisable to breathe using the prana breathing method 2 times a day: morning and evening 50 times (inhale-exhale).

It is not difficult to learn prana breathing. To do this, you need to imagine golden light (light with golden particles) that enters through your crown to the middle of your chest as you inhale, and as you exhale, fill your body with this light. You can fill individual parts of the body one by one, or you can fill the whole body. You can pass light as you exhale through a certain organ, as if breathing it with golden light.
It is recommended to take a shallow breath (to prevent dizziness from oxygen oversaturation) and exhale deeply and as long as possible. Exhale air with noise and force

Breathe, breathe, breathe... to your health!

If you have any questions, ask

PRANA BREATH

Origin of Prana Breathing

“Prana breathing was the essence of survival in the earliest times here on the Earth plane. Over time, man learned to use the lungs and mouth to breathe and thus limited his ability to distribute precious energy in the molecular structure. At correct use Prana breathing allows a person to transfer his molecular structure to another level of existence.”

Meditation "Prana-Breath"

Imagine a beautiful golden light coming from the Creator Essence and entering through the chakra at the top of your head. As you inhale this light, allow it to travel down through your pineal and thymus glands. Allow the light to fill your entire physical being. After holding this light for a few seconds, exhale and release the light through your heart chakra. Repeat this procedure several times. Once your mind is calm and your body is relaxed, begin to slow down your breathing. With the eye of your mind, connect with this light, become its friend, see how slowly you can draw this light down and out through your body. As you slow your breathing, you will experience a sense of grace, a sense of love and healing in the Divine Light.

"Translated from ancient Sanskrit "Prana" means "breath" or "life". Prana breathing, commonly used as meditation, is a method of conscious breathing that improves your physical health, mental focus and gives an overall sense of well-being. You can experiment with directing light or prana through your head and around and within your body to areas where you feel the need for healing light.

Journey to Love

You ask: “Can it be that simple?” My answer is yes". For in the simplicity of healing in the Divine Light there is no reason or excuse not to move forward towards love. You will begin to see clearly how you have lived your life within your self-imposed limitations, and you will have the strength in your heart to heal, change, and take a new journey in Truth, Trust, and Passion.

Remember that we are spiritual beings going through a human experience, so please join me in the Divine Light. While sitting in silence and experiencing the Divine Light, during your Prana Breath, simultaneously visualize Mother Earth surrounded by the Divine Light. This vision will heal the consciousness of fear that surrounds our planet and inspire the consciousness of love.

1- Inhale; 2 - Exhale

I greet you, dear friends, with the words of light Omat Ta Satt.

Day after day, the vibrations of Lady Gaia and all humanity are rising, but sometimes it is difficult to adapt to the rapid energetic changes on the planet. It is just as difficult for many to believe that the basis of nutrition for the body in the new world will be prana, based on photon energy.

And we will consume almost all the substances necessary for the body through breathing prana photon energy.

But in order for our body to be ready for the upcoming transition to a completely new system vital activity he needs a little help with this.

Changes After the Great Transition

From Kirael's book "The Great Transition", Kirael says:

“Your breathing will change as you ascend (into the Fourth Dimension), the prana breath will be the source of energy in which the body functions best. Remember that prana is what you lived on during your time in Lemuria. The only thing you used your breath for was to enrich your system with oxygen. Your energy system was supported by prana.

In the Fourth Dimension, prana from Photon Energy will be your primary source of life. Therefore, practice prana breathing now, as it will revitalize and replenish your cells, and purify your cellular consciousness. This will be the main reason why your life expectancy will increase dramatically.”

Dear friends, I invite you to master and, as necessary, use prana breathing with photon energy in your life. During prana breathing with photon energy you:

• You will need less food to keep your body in good shape (it is already possible to consume some of the necessary substances by inhaling photon energy, since our bodies have passed most necessary transformations and are ready to consume photon energy for life).

• By practicing prana breathing with photon energy, many systems of your body will begin to come into balance and begin to balance.

• General well-being will increase.

• Immunity will begin to strengthen.

• Practicing prana breathing of photon energy are less susceptible to stress and headaches.

• Over time, practicing prana breathing restores the natural balance of all organs of the body.

• Chronic diseases gradually begin to go away.

• The aging process of the whole organism slows down, and a person’s appearance rejuvenates.

• The frequency of vibration of all bodies increases.

• Natural human abilities begin to appear, such as: healing, strong intuition, telepathy, spatial vision (clairvoyance) opens, and the heart opens.

• Adaptation of life in new energies proceeds more calmly and smoothly without any discomfort.

This is just a small list of pleasant and amazing changes that are beginning to happen in life. This excellent practice also helps prepare for Personal and Group ascension, if it is chosen by you for further life and evolution on the beautiful planet Earth together with Lady Gaia.

Practice

Prana breathing photon energy.

First, before starting the practice, you need to find a quiet place where no one will disturb you, take a comfortable position, for example, standing or sitting, whichever will be more comfortable and convenient for you. After this, relax, close your eyes and begin visualization.

Mentally imagine small golden lights (you can also visualize them in the form of golden snowflakes) when you inhale, they enter through the chakra at the top of your head. As you inhale this light, allow it to travel down through your pineal and thymus glands. Allow it to fill your entire physical body.

After entering, hold the golden lights (golden snowflakes) for a few seconds, while exhaling, imagine how they come out through your heart chakra.

Throughout the entire practice we breathe calmly, slowly and relaxed. When you breathe calmly, slowly and relaxedly, you will feel that you begin to experience a sense of grace, remembering love and healing in the Divine Light.

Breath is the outer manifestation of prana, vitality. Breathing is macroscopic, prana is subtle. By learning to control your breath, you will be able to control the subtle matter of prana contained in it. Breathing is like an important flywheel of some mechanism. Just as the rest of the gears in a machine stop, if you stop this flywheel, the organs of the body stop working. If you can control the flywheel, you can easily control the other gears.

In the same way, if you can control the external mechanism of breathing, you can control the internal life force, prana. And then you will be able to completely control all the forces of the universe, mental and physical.

Prana and consciousness are closely related to each other. Consciousness cannot act without the help of prana. It is the vibrations of prana that lead to the formation of thoughts in the brain.

Just as water is part of milk, so prana is in consciousness. Prana sets consciousness in motion. If you control prana, your consciousness will also be controlled. If you control consciousness, prana will automatically be under your control.

Prana breathing, widely used in meditation, is a method of conscious breathing that improves your physical health, mental focus and gives you an all-encompassing sense of grace.

Master Guide Kirael said that this is the breathing system that people will use in the fourth dimension. In Kirael: The Great Transition by Kahu Fred Sterling, Master Kirael says:

“As you ascend into the fourth dimension, your breathing will change. Prana breathing will become the energy source through which your body will function best. Do not forget that with the help of prana you existed during your lives in Lemuria, when you used breath only to saturate the body with oxygen. Your energy structure was supported by prana.

In the 4th dimension, prana from photon energy will be your main source of life. Therefore, practice prana breathing now, for it will restore and strengthen your cells and purify your cellular consciousness. This is one of the many reasons why your life expectancy will increase so dramatically.”

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRANO BREATHING???

Imagine golden particles of light above your head. Feel them entering your crown chakra.

These are golden particles from the essence of the Creator.

Inhale this light, and draw these particles in, passing them down through the pineal gland. And carry them further down to the thymus (thymus gland). Allow these particles of light to fill your entire body. After holding this light for a few seconds, exhale it through your heart chakra.

Repeat this process several times, and when you have calmed your mind, relaxed, slow your breathing a little. Travel with this light, become its companion. See how slowly you can breathe and send that light down through your body, for as you slow your breathing, you will experience grace, remembrance of love, and healing in the light of the Creator.

IN Everyday life a person rarely thinks about the correctness of his breathing. Most people have a shallow and rapid rhythm of inhalation and exhalation, in which only the upper part of the lungs works. Thus, complete gas exchange does not occur and the degree of oxygen saturation of the body remains extremely low. All this negatively affects the functioning of the circulatory and nervous systems and becomes the cause of chronic illnesses.

In yoga, enormous attention is paid to control of respiratory processes. Meaningful control of exhalations and inhalations is inextricably linked with the concept of “prana” - limitless vital energy. According to yoga philosophy, during breathing an energy exchange occurs between the human body and the Universe.

It is the control of the respiratory cycle that makes it possible to strengthen the flows of prana, retain them and direct them along the structure of the nadi channels. In addition, yogis note the subtle connection between the supply of oxygen to the body and the ability to think. With the help of deep spiritual practices, a person can acquire new abilities, cultivate best qualities own personality and achieve harmonious interaction with the outside world.

Phases and types of the respiratory process

Most techniques involve inhaling and exhaling air through the nose. Neglecting this rule can adversely affect your health. The main concepts of breathing pranayama include puraka (inhalation), rechaka (exhalation), kumbhaka (pause after inhalation) and sunyaka (retention after exhalation). The normal human respiratory cycle includes three phases:

• calm inhalation through the nose;
• exhale evenly;
• short pause.

The ability to correctly carry out each phase is the first step in mastering pranayamas for beginners. To learn a simple yoga technique, you should sit with a straight back, relax your muscles, close your eyes and fully concentrate on the process of inhalation and exhalation. At the same time, it is important to try to feel some fullness of consciousness during the meditation process.

There are three types of breathing:

• top;
• average;
• lower.

Each type uses different parts of the lungs. Thus, the upper or clavicular method moves the ribs and shoulders, but uses only a small part of the lungs. Medium type called intercostal. Most people who lead a sedentary lifestyle are accustomed to inhaling and exhaling this way.

Only the ribs move during this process.

The lower view is called diaphragmatic or abdominal. It is this type, in which the diaphragm and the entire lung area are actively involved, that yogis practice. There is a separate concept for this type - full yogi breathing.

Preparation for practice

Before you begin mastering pranayama breathing for beginners and performing asanas, special preparation is recommended. Standards must be followed proper nutrition, and practice shatkarmas for some time - practices for cleansing. A cleansed body is capable of better and safer immersion into the deeper levels of consciousness. Next, it is recommended to master Vajrasana, Sidhasana and Ardhapadmasana. These asanas help you understand your body better and increase your concentration. We should not forget about the mudras for pranayama.

The most popular mudras are chinmaya, adi, brahma and jnana.

In addition, you need to familiarize yourself with various literature on yoga philosophy. Learn terms and definitions that can later be experienced and understood in practice.

Pranayama techniques for beginners

Most effective respiratory complexes at the same time the most understandable and simple. Even simple pranayama techniques for beginners can radically change the state of the human body and its emotional reactions. One of the techniques that beginners can use is sahita kumbhaka. It helps increase endurance, both emotional and physical.

With its help, you can get rid of anxiety and cleanse internal channels.

Sequence of exercises:

• smooth inhalation and air retention;
• the delay should be maintained for as long as possible without discomfort;
• exhale and hold again;
• holding;
• repetition of the cycle.

Five approaches are required. After which it is recommended to lie down in shavasana.

The main thing is to feel the feeling of emptiness of consciousness and inner lightness during the stages of holding.

Another pranayama recently available to practicing yogis is the bhramari breathing technique. The literal translation of the name of this complex is “breath of a buzzing bee.” Such exercises are very beneficial for the nervous system.

Sequencing:

• deep nasal breath;
• exhalation, accompanied by the pronunciation of the sound “bzzzzz”;
• repeat the cycle.

The duration of the exercises should be at least 5 minutes. Then comes the turn of shavasana.

Basic safety rules for beginners

To ensure that pranayama training is competent and does not bring negative consequences, it is advisable to turn to experienced specialists. There are recommendations for performing exercises that should be strictly followed. Important rules:

1. Correct posture. It is customary to use meditative asanas for practice.
2. Straight back.
3. Head position in which the chin is parallel to the floor.
4. Nasal breathing.
5. Refusal of toxic products.
6. Empty stomach.
7. Comfortable clothes.
8. Feeling good.

In the practice of pranayama, the most important thing is not the strength and intensity of training, but their regularity and consistency. Each person requires a certain period of time to assimilate the basic complexes and achieve a therapeutic effect.