Pranayama beyond the Fundamentals: An In-Depth Guide to Yogic Breathing
Richard Rosen
Language: English
Pages: 238
ISBN: B00EYGHNBU
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
For serious students of yoga who have an established pranayama practice, this book is a follow-up to Rosen’s previous book, The Yoga of Breath. Here he picks up where he left off, offering a selection of traditional yogic techniques for those who wish to deepen their practice of pranayama and their understanding of the ancient wisdom of yoga. Rosen skillfully puts forward an array of awareness disciplines, breathing practices, mudras, and seals, interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from ancient texts.
A free audio program available online offers a variety of guided practices so that listeners can create their own pranayama series, with guidance from the author in the appendix. (Download instructions available in the book.)
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Imagine you’re this lizard: stretch your tongue not from its physical root in your throat but from its metaphysical root in your perineum. Let the stretch draw your perineum deeper into your torso. FIGURE 9.4 Then roar—or at least huff—like a lion, pushing the breath slowly and steadily out of your lungs with a strong contraction of your belly muscles. Be sure to contract your platysma, the broad flat muscle on the front of your throat. Also, spread your palms and fingers like the paws and.
The wing, the outer nostril. The highest point of the nostril (its uppermost curve) is the roof, and the lowest point (just above the upper lip) is the floor. Preliminary Turn your awareness to the linings of your nostrils, and for a few minutes feel the touch of the cool inhales and warm exhales. There’s no telling where you’ll feel the greatest point of contact in each nostril. The points won’t necessarily be the same; for example, the inhale may touch the outer left and inner right linings.
Speculate that the advertised cooling action of this breath might exacerbate the introvert’s self-withdrawing tendencies, but I mention this only in the interest of full disclosure. I think, if you consider yourself an introvert, you should still test the effects of Moon Piercing for yourself, though if you have any concerns, get the help of an experienced teacher. We might expect that extroverts would be warned away from Sun Piercing—after all, wouldn’t the heating action of the breath drive.
And the three major bonds, for example—are potential health hazards when performed by the uninitiated or unprepared. I’m not trying to frighten you off of retention, but I want you to be aware that it demands respect. We’ll follow custom here and, to avoid confusion, continue to read kumbhaka as retention. But if I had my druthers we’d substitute a phrase like “breathing spell” or “breathing space,” or maybe just a word like breather, as in “Let’s take a breather from breathing.” According to.
Intentional hyperventilation—we call it Skull Brightener—measurably increases the time we can hold our breath. So you might like to begin this practice with Skull Brightener at your capacity. Then switch to Conqueror, counting the length of your inhales, until you establish your fullest count (let’s say eight). Then back off to about half that number (four) for the practice proper. Practice As you approach the four-count, lower your head into Net-Bearer Bond and activate Root Bond. With the two.