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Powerful Pranayama for Mystical Experiences | Transform Consciousness

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Happy to share with everyone today the following 2 yoga pranayama techniques from my personal yoga practice, which when combined together can radically transform ones consciousness and bring about transcendental and mystical experiences.

These 2 pranayamas are very beneficial in their own right, but done together they truly become magical.  The combination, I have found, is capable of disrupting habitual patterns of thinking, and impacting consciousness such that the mystical and other-worldly can be encountered.

You can do this combination for 3 full cycles, but as with any breathing exercise that requires you to hold your breath, it is important to not overdo the techniques and develop your capacity slowly over time.  Modifications are mentioned in the video as well.

As with all Enlightenment and Mystical experiences, they serve to motivate one to delve deeper into the true nature of reality and hopefully this set will open up new dimensions and realizations for you as well.

For those who prefer written text, the full transcript of the video is provided below as well.  This set will become part of the Free Yoga Pranayama Sets here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.

Powerful Pranayama for Mystical Experiences

Direct Youtube Link –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJGpKGgSuWQ

 

Transcript of Powerful Yoga Pranayama to Transform Consciousness | Mystical Experiences 

Namaste My Friends,

Today, I’m going to share with you a portion of my daily pranayama practice. I practice specifically two breathing exercises, both of which independently are very beneficial. The first one is Staccato breathing which is excellent for your respiratory system, for your lung capacity, your circulation, your energy, and the second is Step Breathing, which is great for calming the mind and quieting your thoughts.  It also helps your lung capacity,  and helps your ability to control your breathing, which is essential for doing advanced meditation.

But the combination I’ve found to be a really magical. So when you do this particular combination in the way that I’m going to describe it, you will find that it helps you to really break through patterns of habitual thinking. And it provides an opportunity for something new and Mystical to be experienced, for something profound to be realized.

So staccato breathing is the first breathing exercise. And for this particular pranayama set you will do it 10 times.

Five inhalations in, counting mentally one, two, three, four, five, and then an explosive breath out.  By the fifth breath in you should fill your lungs to capacity. And when you breathe out, you should attempt to empty them altogether.

And this will then be followed by step breathing.  In step breathing you’re going to breathe in slowly counting from one to five mentally, hold your breath counting from one to five, exhale slowly again for a count of five, and then hold your breath out for a count of five.

And then you repeat that process. And for the combination you are going to do staccato breathing, 10 strokes followed by step breathing, three cycles and that completes one full cycle.

And you’re going to repeat that three times for maximum effectiveness, but please don’t pass out when doing this. Anytime we do breath retention, you have to exercise some caution, listen to your body.

Don’t overdo it. Give yourself some time to develop this capacity. If you don’t have it at this point, you can do staccato breathing with less intensity, and you can do the step breathing with a count of three, or you can just do two cycles instead of three cycles.

So let me demonstrate a one cycle of this particular set. Again, you sit up nice and tall. Everything should be nice and relaxed. You can have your hands on your knees and in Drona mudra. So staccato breathing first 10 times followed by step breathing. Here we go.

<Demonstration of the Pranayama is done here in the video>

And that would repeat that step breathing two more times.

So again, staccato breathing for a count of 10 followed by step breathing three times and it produces… try, it right? You don’t gain anything by constantly hearing about other people’s enlightenment experiences except perhaps inspiration. So hopefully you have been inspired to go ahead and try this combination.

Again, it’s part of a larger set, but you can include it towards your end of your Pranayama set, which is where I do it. And it prepares you for your meditation practice and opens the door to the Magical and Mystical.

Thank you everybody.

God bless you all.

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Best Beginner Yoga Pranayama Video

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Best Beginner’s Yoga Breathing Exercises

Tools for Greatness – Anmol Pranayama 1
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Pranayama for Personal Greatness & Spiritual Mastery:

Tools for greatness are full length yoga, pranayama and meditation videos designed specifically to help you achieve personal greatness and spiritual mastery. This is the first video of this series and it is an excellent and complete set of yoga breathing exercises for beginners.

This yoga pranayama video consists of the best breathing techniques from many different schools of yoga and it has been developed and optimized over the years by personal practice. I call this set “Anmol Pranayama 1” and my current pranayama practice is simply an advanced version of these very techniques. The advanced version I call “Anmol Pranayama 2”.

What makes this set so powerful, is not just that it is comprised of the very best pranayamas, it is the sequence that they are done in which makes the set so incredibly potent and effective. This sequence is my very own design and it has been perfected over the years through personal practice and research. I can confidently say, this is one of the very best yoga pranayama set out there today.

Benefits of Best Beginner’s Yoga Breathing Exercises | Anmol Pranayama 1:

The vast benefits of yoga breathing exercises are fast being recognized world over and rapidly being acknowledged by the mainstream medical community as well. There ability to bestow a wide and profound range of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual benefits is hard to match via any other system or practice. Even though I am calling this a beginner’s pranayama set, this set is very very good for you, and is certainly not lacking in value or potency.

Here are some highlights of how this set will benefit you:

  • Bestow Inner Peace & Joy
  • Detoxify Your Entire System
  • Help You Lose Weight & Burn Fat
  • Increase Your Energy & Vitality
  • Help Cure Diseases and Give You Optimum Health
  • Improve Your Digestive, Respiratory, Immune and Nervous System
  • Help You Release Negativity (Mental, Emotional & Physical)
  • Improve Brain Function & Memory
  • Help You Break Addictions and Bad Habits
  • Expand Your Pranic Body and Psychic Energy
  • Raise Your Level of Consciousness & Awareness

 

Design of Anmol Pranayama 1 Video:

This video is actually comprised of 3 videos to make it easy to use. I call each of these videos a “section” and here are the details for each of these sections. When you order this product, you of course get all 3 videos.

Video Section 1: Introduction to Anmol Pranayama 1:

Duration: 4 minutes

This video is the introduction to this set and to the Tools for Greatness Series in general. It gives you an overview of what Anmol Pranayama 1 is all about. Here is that video:

Anmol Pranayama 1 Introduction Video

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Video Section 2: Beginner’s Yoga Breathing Exercises Training:

Duration: 20 minutes

This video introduces and demonstrates each of the 5 pranayamas used in this set, and teaches you step-by-step how to do each one through video instruction. If you are a beginner, this section is very important for you as it will teach you how to correctly and safely practice these amazing techniques.

Video Section 3: Full Best Beginner’s Yoga Pranayama Set (Anmol Pranayama 1):

Duration: 30 minutes

This is a full video class in which we do the beginner’s pranayama set together. This video is what you will want to use in your daily practice, once you are familiar with the techniques. The big advantage of having such a video is that, it will not just guide you step-by-step in dong each exercise, but most importantly, it will encourage your to do your full daily practice, which is the key if you are going to enjoy the benefits of this profound science.

If you are a fan of yoga I guarantee you will simply love this set!

 

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How to take your asana, pranayama and meditation anywhere you go

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Our popular contributor Kara-Leah takes a look at all the different ways we can fit yoga into our daily life – by getting creative!

by Kara-Leah Grant

Author of Forty Days of Yoga – Breaking down the barriers to a home yoga practice.

 

Yoga on the dock- stunning!

Part of my mission as a yoga teacher and writer is to show people that asana, pranayama and meditation can happen anywhere, anytime – not just in a yoga class, at a yoga studio, in a gym or on your mat at home.

Breaking free of our ideas of how asana, pranayama and meditation “should” be practised gets yoga off the mat and integrates it into your everyday daily life.

And when you integrate your practice into your everyday, daily life, you will see great gains, giant leaps, and experience much joy.

At least, I know I did!

Shifting our mindset in this way means we view every moment as an opportunity – an opportunity to be present, be connected, be open, and be yoga.

So here are some of my favourite places to practice asana, pranayama and meditation.

1. On my front deck at sunrise

I once lived in a house that overlooked Lyall Bay in Wellington, and I loved the early morning hours on a still day. I loved watching the sky dance with colour and listening to the cicadas, relentless in their orchestra of sound.

There is something so magical about an always-changing perspective that makes me feel connected to nature and the earth, and makes me feel alive. 

I used that spot for doing my sadhana, or just for sitting and contemplating the moment. Lately, I’ve been sitting in my lounge which has huge sliding doors and expansive mountain views. It’s the perfect spot for an early morning meditation where I can watch the day dawn.

2. The bath

Oh I love practicing yoga in the bath! The hot water seeps into my bones and inspires me to play with leg-lengthening and opening asanas. It’s easy to connect with the breath and just allow the prana to flow through my body, and it’s incredible how many different asana you can do while in the  bath!

I love doing asana in water because it’s so supportive and enveloping – baths rock!

3. In rivers

The first time I played with asana in a river I was on a camping holiday with other people. I was still at that “afraid of what they’ll think of me” stage, but the draw of the water and the play of the current was so strong I just couldn’t help but let prana guide me into supported backbends. And wow! It was incredible!

Water is buoyant, yet the current is also de-stablising so you feel both supported and safe, but your muscles have to work in new and different ways to hold you in place. Facing down stream and playing with the depth at around my waist, I was able to experiment with standing backbends in a way I’d never felt confident enough to do on my mat. And the first time I was able to see the water rushing behind and below me was a moment of pure expansive joy.

Depending on the depth I was working in, this was also a fabulous way to practice Ustrasana (Camel) and Virabhadrasana I & II (Warrior I & II).

4. On the bus

Part of living yoga is re-framing the way I see everything. Once upon a time, when my day job required a 40 minute bus commute either way, I had a choice. I could be pissed off about the wasted time or I could think about a way to use it.

As it turns out, being on the bus is an ideal time to meditate. There are no distractions, I can’t go anywhere, I’m already sitting down… of course, you have to be flexible and modify the way you meditate. I’m not sitting in lotus, but I am sitting with a straight spine, and I play with various mudra in the hidden safety of my lap.

My favourite meditation for bus time is “So hum”. All kinds of expressions of humanity show up on the bus, and doing So Hum reminds me that I am Them and They are Me. Yes, my mind wanders, but I continually come back to my breath, inhaling So, exhaling Hum and feeling my connection to the world and to all people. I arrive at work feeling like a million dollars, already having spent forty minutes meditating (on top of what I’m likely to have done on my deck before work).

5. When I’m waiting

Ah, waiting, waiting, waiting. Nothing to do, no-where else to be… might as well clear the mind and practice meditation in the moment. I mean, what else is there to do when one is waiting? Think about stuff? Worry about stuff? Plan stuff? What for? Giving the mind a rest is so delicious, and there is no better time than when you’re waiting.

Doesn’t matter whether I’m in a line at the bank, sitting in a doctor’s office or stuck in traffic, I grab these opportunities as perfect times to just sink into the moment. The beauty of doing this is that I am hardly every worrying about life, thinking about life, or getting anxious about life… I’m moving into a state where I’m generally just living life, being responsive moment by moment. And it rocks!

6. In the middle of arguments, conflicts or disagreements

OK, it may not be a favourite experience to be having, but when my perspective is differing from the perspective of the person I am currently relating to, yoga really starts to come into it’s own. Yoga reminds me to step back and witness the experience. It reminds me not to hold on to what I think is “right”. It reminds me to inhale deeply, opening to what is and listening to what the other person is truly saying.

And yoga reminds me that We are One – we’re one people on one planet working together to find a place where each and everyone of us can be who we truly are. In the middle of an argument, just knowing this is enough to make me step back and think “Hang on, what’s truly going on here?”. It makes me consider the feelings of the person with whom I am having an argument with – and just in opening to their feelings and their perspective I find that I can more easily be responsive – not reactive – and work toward a solution that works for both of us.

7. At the beach, on a mountain, walking in the bush…

No matter where I am in nature, or who I’m with, I always like to take a moment or two to be where I am. This means pausing at the top of a steep hill climb to check out the view in Tadasana and move through a few slow standing back bends and rounded forward bends.  It might mean squatting down into Malasana at the beach to take in the sunset – who knows I’m doing yoga? To an outsider, it just looks like I’m chilling and taking in the view – and I am. But with attention on the breath and presence in the moment, it becomes yoga.

Taking these moments in nature connects me to life and reminds me that we are animals, we are part of the Great Cycle of Life, it reminds me to let go, to trust, to know that all is perfect right now in this moment. Ah…

8. Sitting on the ground anytime

Perfect opportunity! Any time I’m seated on the ground watching something or talking to someone I sit in asana with awareness both of the breath and the object of my attention. I may be in easy cross-legged, or wide-legged, or one knee bent, or hugging a knee… I shift around as I watch or listen, maintaining that dual focus on breath and object. Of course, doing this is makes it far easier to still the mind. I find I’m completely present in the moment, can absorb whatever is in front of me. And by the time I stand up… I’m also looser and freer.

I find too, that whoever I’m listening to, or whatever I’m watching becomes clearer – my mind’s thoughts and reactions drop away and I’m left with just seeing ‘what is’, instead of thinking about ‘what is’.

These are probably the main ways I incorporate yoga, pranayama and meditation into my daily life – but there are more! In this way, yoga has become a moment by moment practice for me. It’s made me realise that in any given moment, we are either opening to life, or we are resisting life. I feel it in my mind, in my body, and in my heart when I resist life and that is where all the trouble, anxiety, worry and anger starts. Yoga reminds me in every moment that I have a choice – I can resist or I can accept. I can contract or I can expand.

Choosing to live yoga means that I chose expansion over contraction.

Expansion of the body.

Expansion of the mind.

Expansion of the heart.

Sp where do you love to practice your yoga?

Have you dared take it off the mat yet?

About Kara-Leah

 

Kara-Leah is a writer and yoga teacher who has always been infinitely curious about the make-up of the human psyche and body. Regular yoga helped her heal and recover from chronic back issues, including a spinal fusion at age 16, and two episodes of psychosis at age 29.

Her daily home yoga practice began in earnest when people kept asking her to teach them yoga.  She’s since trained as a teacher with Shiva Rea, and immersed herself in practicing, teaching yoga and writing about yoga. Kara-Leah lives just outside of Queenstown, New Zealand with her son Samuel.

 She’s the publisher of The Yoga Lunchbox and has just published her first book, Forty Days of Yoga – Breaking down the barriers to a home yoga practice. She’s also a regular contributor to the Elephant Journal.  

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Pranayama for Beginners | The Basics of Yoga Breathing Techniques

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How to Do Yoga Pranayama

Previously, guest author, Richard wrote about Om Mantra Chanting and The Awakening of Kundalini and Energy Centers and today he shares with us another fantastic article on yoga.  In today’s post Richard instructs us on the the basics of pranayama, which is the science of yogic breathing techniques, and teaches us how to do both basic and advanced pranayama.  Richard is a meditation teacher and author, and you will find more information on the courses he offers on his website Shaktipat-meditation.org.

If you would like to be a guest author on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga, please email me at anmol@anmolmehta.com.

Pranayama Beats Starbucks

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Richard Crown

Yoga Pranayama Floating

  

Through practicing Pranayama, it’s possible for your body to become so light that it floats effortlessly instead of being bound by gravity.

Pranayama clears, cleanses and opens your energy system –your chakras and nadhis. You get a huge lift instantly that leaves your mind crystal clear and your body light and energized.

Prana means life force energy or chi. Yama means restraint or control. So Pranayama means the control of life force energy.

You achieve control of the life force energy in your body through controlling your breath.

When you breathe in, you inhale prana along with the air. When you retain your breath, you drive the prana deep into your system. When you exhale, you expel the releasing negative energies.

The correct breathing ratio is 1:4:2. This means that if you breathe in for 1 second, you must hold your breath for 4 seconds and then exhale for 2 seconds.

How to Do Pranayama: 

There are three levels of Pranayama: Adama, Mahdyama and Puttama.

 In Adama, the first level, the goal is to become able to:

  1. Peraka (inhale) for 12 seconds
  2. Khumbaka (hold) for 48 seconds
  3. Rechaka (exhale) for 24 seconds

80 repetitions is the recommended number for optimum results. Dedicated practitioners practice 4 times daily at 6 hour intervals. Practicing only twice a day brings big changes fast.

Sneaking in a few reps any time you need a lift works great too. It doesn’t take many.

48 seconds is a long time to hold your breath. You might be more comfortable starting off small and working up gradually. Please remember to be kind to yourself. It’s never good to overstrain. A comfortable place to begin may be:

  1. Peraka 4 seconds
  2. Khumbaka 16 seconds
  3. Rechaka 8 seconds

You can choose do any length of breath you want. Just remember that the ratio must always be Peraka 1: Khumbaka 4: Rechaka 2.

Choose your beginning point by observing your body. If you can do repetitions one after the other, without strain, you’re OK.

Pranayama Cautions:

If you start feeling starved for breath, you may want to shorten the time.

Please, do not attempt Pranayama if you have high blood pressure, a heart condition, diabetes, menstruation or are pregnant. Consult your health care practitioner if you have any doubts.

Advanced Pranayama:

In the beginning, it’s good to breathe normally through both nostrils. Later, when you become accomplished in the basics, you can add other advanced techniques like alternate nostril breathing, breathing into your chakras and mentally chanting Om to increase power exponentially.

But in the beginning, get the basics of counting and comfortable breath retention down so that you can do Pranayama effortlessly and automatically, without strain or thought, before attempting to go on. This may require several weeks, or months, of practice.

Pranayama Posture:

As for posture, keep your spine comfortably erect. You can sit on a chair with both feet flat on the floor, or in a meditative posture like the full or half lotus.

Please use deep abdominal breathing. When you breathe in your tummy goes out. When you breathe out, your tummy goes in.

Pranayama is a wonderfully simple way to boost your energy levels, clear your mind and grow your energy system. 

How to Meditate

  Richard Crown teaches meditation via Skype at Shaktipat-meditation.org.

  You can download his latest book at Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above.

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Tips for Yoga Pranayama

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Tips for Yoga Breathing Exercises

One of the best parts of yoga is yogic breathing exercises or yoga pranayamas and you will find a huge collection of them in the following section, Free Online Yoga Breathing Exercises. There you will find detailed instructions as well as videos on how to do these life transforming techniques. In this article I will offer some tips on how to get the most out of these yoga pranayamas

The two pranayamas (Yoga Breathing Exercises) which I strongly recommend to all is Kapalbhati Pranayama and Anuloma Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing). These two breathing exercises are amongst the best and below are some helpful tips for you to get the most out of them.

Note, that the titles below are links to the specific chapters which have complete details about these wonderful techniques.

Yoga Pranayama

If you really want to feel the tremendous power of this pranayama and the peace it can bestow try the following technique. When doing the breathing, to ensure you are doing long, slow and deep breathing, do it such that you do it without making any sound. So the breathing should be done absolutely quietly. This requires some patience and discipline, but is well worth it as this pranayama can single handedly transform you.

In brief Anuloma Viloma pranayama is great for bestowing unearthly peace and for helping to balance and refine the entire system at all levels.

For health and well-being there is no better breathing exercise that Kapalbhati Pranayama. It is great for weight loss, your digestive system, your respiratory system and for purging the system of negativity.

Here are some tips to help you include this technique into your busy lives.

Kapalbhati can be easily done during daily activity, so when watching TV, taking a walk or driving, go ahead and practice this pranayama. You should initially try to build up to 400 repetitions, which should translate to about 5 minutes. Do sets of 50 (or less if just starting out), with short breaks, then slowly increasing the number of repetitions in each set. Later you can build up to 10 minutes.

Breath of Fire can be quite frustrating for those who are just beginning yoga. It is the one of the most common questions I get when it comes to pranayamas. The constant complaint is that yogis cannot maintain the rhythm for a sustained period of time and are constantly having to reset and start over.

There is essentially one reason for this. The inhalation and exhalation are not equal, and for you to do Breath of Fire Kundalini Yoga style without resetting, the inhalation and exhalation quantity of air needs to be the same. This is the key to Breath of Fire and it takes time to get this correct. So if you are new to Breath of Fire, stay with it and with practice will come mastery.

More Yoga Tips

You can get more yoga tips to help you with your yoga practice in the following articles:

5 Simple Yoga Tips to Elevate Your Practice

Clever Yoga Tips for Busy People

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Yoga Pranayama Breathing for Energy Video | Surya Bedhi Pranayama

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Yoga Pranayama Free Video

Surya Bedhi Yoga Pranayama

Pranayama is a yoga breathing exercise and there are many different pranayamas for a variety of different purposes.  There are pranayamas to help calm the mind and prepare it for meditation, there are paranayamas for increasing lung capacity, there are pranayamas to promote weight loss, to name just a few.  You will find all these excellent breathing exercises is the following 2 free collections here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga – Free Online Yoga Pranayama Videos and Free Online Yoga Pranayama E-book.

In that collection there is a particular pranayama which is excellent for raising the heat in the body, fighting depression and increasing your energy.  It is called Surya Bedhi Pranayama.  Many pranayama techinques are based on Kundalini Yoga’s Seven Chakra Model and Surya Bedhi is a great example of such an exercise.

Surya Bedhi Pranayama

For this pranayama, you breathe exclusively through the Right Nostil, which is associated with the Pingala Nadi, or Sun Channel of the body.  By breathing in this manner you activate this channel, which then enfuses your system with heat, energy and power.  In the same way, if you were looking to calm your system down, you would breathe exclusively through the Left Nostil to engage the Moon Channel (Ida Nadi).

This pranayama is detailed for you in the following article Potent Yoga Breathing to Treat Depression and Increase Energy.  What has been missing thus far though is a video demonstration of this technique.  So today I am happy to present to you all the video teaching how to do Surya Bedhi Yoga Pranayama.

For Yoga Certification Program Students:

For students enrolled in the Online Yoga Instructor Certification Program, Surya Bedhi Pranayama is part of Week 6 of your program.  It is chapter 87 (page 417) in your Yoga Training Manual, and I will be including this video in the original chapter on Surya Bedhi as well, which is linked to from your e-manual.

How to Do Surya Bedhi Yoga Pranayama:

Although all the detailed steps for how to do this pranayama is in the full article discussed above, the pranayama simply requires you to close your left nostril and do long deep breathing exclusively through the right nostil.  An addition step is to hold your breath in for about 5 seconds, after every round of 10.  So this is a very simple technique, but one you should be careful not to overdo, especially if you have heat related issues.

Surya Bedhi Pranayama Video Contents:

  • The video gives a brief overview of this pranayama.
  • It gives a step-by-step instructions of how do Surya Bedhi pranayama.
  • It guides you through practicing the technique.
  • It discusses the benefits of this pranayama, along with other details and cautions.

Surya Bedhi Yoga Pranayama Video

Direct YouTube Link –>  Yoga Breathing Exercise for Energy – Surya Bedhi

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Deep Relaxation with Yoga Breathing Exercise | Bhramari Pranayama

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Deep Relaxation Exercise

Yoga to Relax

The wonderful science of Yoga Breathing Exercises or Pranayamas is really worth learning as it has a wide range of applications, with deep relaxation being just one of these great benefits.  You will find many pranayamas in the Free Online Yoga Breathing Exercises E-book, and in today’s article I want to detail for you another wonderful breathing exercise called Bhramari Pranayama.

This breathing exercise is excellent for promoting deep relaxation and capable of activating the Third Eye Chakra as a bonus, which is the seat of intuition and psychic powers.  

Bhramari Pranayama

If your mind is overactive, you are constantly worrying and anxious, your nerves are buzzing, then it is time to turn to this exercise.  This technique will calm your mind down, sooth your nerves and give you a great sense of peace and tranquility within.  Due to these pacifying powers, Bhramari Pranayama is also great to do prior to meditation, to prepare the mind for going deeper.

On the website are many other yoga and meditation techniques to help you relax deeply and I have listed those at the end of this article.  In addition, please note that the De Stress Free Online Program is also now available in the free yoga and meditation program’s section.  So if you want to undertake a comprehensive relaxation program, then this course is for you.

The very fist step in spiritual evolution is to learn to relax and be at ease, so having such relaxation techniques tucked away in your tool box are really very useful.

Below are the step-by-step instructions of how to practice this breathing exercise, along with benefits and other details.

Benefits of Bhramari Breathing Exercise for Deep Relaxation:

  • Helps promote deep relaxation.
  • Helps reduce stress and reduce anxiety.
  • Helps promote sound sleep and fights insomnia.
  • Helps open the Third Eye to bestow intuition and Psychic Powers.
  • Helps reduces anger and irritation.
  • Helps promote peace and tranquility.

Duration for Bhramari Yoga Relaxation Technique:

  • As with all yoga breathing exercises you should start out gently and slowly build up from there.  With Bhramari, you can start with 1-2 minutes and build up to 15 minutes.

Step by step Instructions for Bhramari Yoga Breathing Exercise:

Bhramari means bee, and this pranayama uses the humming sound of a bee to work it’s magic.  I really love this technique.

  • Sit up straight then elongate your spine upwards, lengthen your neck and subtly bring your chin back and in like a soldier at attention.  This will align the spine with the back of your head.
  • Now close your eyes and relax yourself deeply.  Specially relax all the muscles of the face and forehead.
  • Take 5 long deep breaths through the nose to relax and calm you further.
  • Now close the flaps of your ears with your index fingers and bring your awareness to the center of your forehead.  This is the location of the Ajna Chakra or Third Eye.
  • Next inhale deeply and then make a slow humming sound like that of a bee (exhalation will occur naturally as a result of the sound).
  • Keep the sound soft and consistent and feel the vibrations created reverberate in your forehead region.
  • Once you have exhaled completely, inhale again deeply through the nose and repeat the process.  Continue on with the pattern for the duration of the meditation.

More Yogic Relaxation Techniques, Teachings, Music and Exercises:

Here are more techniques for yoga and meditation that will help you relieve stress and relax deeply.  Many of these articles come with video instructions and illustrations, so head on over for all the details:

Relaxation Meditation for Stress Reduction

Best Yogic Relaxation Technique | Corpse Pose

How to Relax Your Mind | Teachings from Tao Te Ching

Free Downloadable Meditation Music for Relaxation

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Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation for March | Detox Your Body and Mind

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Yoga Moves for Detoxification

Yoga and Meditation to Detox Mind and Body

Each month we have been practicing together a particular yoga move, pranayama technique and meditation, in order to enhance our skills and learn from each other.  It is time now for the yoga posture for March, as well as the pranayama and meditation for this month.  These moves and techniques will concentrate on helping us detox our entire body and mind. 

As you will recall, we started this series with just doing yoga moves, but as this caught on, we added yoga breathing exercises and meditations to this concept.  Below you will find all the techniques that we have practiced so far.  Following that are the techniques I suggest to add to your practice for March, or if you are starting out, they are great techniques to help you establish a daily yoga and meditation routine.

detox

Yoga Poses for Each Month

 

 

 

August:        Learn Yoga | Nauk Asana for the Month (Abs)

September:  Yoga Pose for Thighs – Frog Pose (Thighs/Butt)

October:      Important Hatha Yoga Posture for Healing – Forward Bend (Thighs/Buttocks)

November:   Yoga to Work on Your Aura (Aura and Magnetic Field)

December:   Kundalini Yoga Exercise for Emotional Health – Cat-Cow  (Back and Emotional Balance)

February:    Daily Yoga Cobra Pose for Healthy Back

 

 

 

Pranayama for Each Month

 

 

February:   Kapalbhati Yoga Video for Daily Practice

 

 

Meditation for Each Month


February:  So Hum Mantra Meditation for Joy and Peace

 

 

Yoga Move to Detox Your Body:

For the month of March I think the following Kundalini Yoga Exercise will be excellent to do.  You may have put on some extra pounds over the long winter months and the following exercise will help you get your abs back into share.  It will also help you detox your body and give your digestive system a much needed boost.

This set is called Pavan Sodhung Kriya and you will find the full details in the following article: Natural Liver Detox – Pavan Sodhung Kriya.

All the details in that article and please do read it before starting this practice, but here is a quick easy for how to do this practice this yoga sequence to help you detoxify your system.

  • Start as illustrated in Picture #1, flat on your back with your hands underneath your buttocks to support your lower back.
  • Inhale deeply, hold your breath in for 15 seconds and come into Illustration #2, with legs raised 60 degrees from the ground and knees straight.
  • Exhale as you bend them and bring your knees towards your chest (Illustration #3).  Hold your breath out now for 15 seconds.
  • Inhale again, hold your breath in for 15 seconds and come back into Illustration #2 position, with legs raised 60 degrees.
  • Finally exhale and return to the starting position, and hold your breath out of 15 seconds.  Inhale, hold breath in for 15 seconds as you raise your legs back up to 60 degrees and continue.
  • Continue with this pattern for the remainder of the exercise.  Start with 1-3 minutes and build up from there. 
  • Very important, please do not try 15 seconds right off the bat, start with 5 seconds or less and make gentle progress as you develop your capacity.

Yoga for Detox Illustrations

 

Yoga for Detox Illustration #1

 

Yoga for Detox Illustration #2

 

Yoga for Detox Illustration #3


Yoga Pranayama for Daily Practice:

For the yoga breathing exercise for March, I suggest we all practice the following deep breathing exercise.  This exercise is great for improving your lung capacity and getting your energy going.  It will also help detoxify your system and get rid of deep seated toxins. Here is the link to the article with all the details, which also has a video demonstration of this terrific exercise.

Meditation for March Practice:

As I mentioned last month I was going to start with my favorite meditation Zen Meditation Technique, but because I was getting so much positive feedback with So Hum Mantra Meditation, I had decided to go with that instead.  So for this month, let us do Zen Meditation Technique together and enjoy it’s enormous benefits.  This is perhaps the best meditation to detoxify your mind .

Here is the article with a video demonstration and details for this technique:

Zen Meditation Technique

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Yoga Pranayama for Everyday Practice | Kapalbhati Pranayama Video

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Daily Pranayama

Pranayama for Health and Weight Loss

Now that we have our Yoga Exercise for Everyday Practice and our Daily Meditation for February, it is time to add the pranayama piece for February as planned.  So for our techniques of the month series, where we all practice the given techniques and report any feedback and thoughts, let us include today one of the very best yoga pranayama exercises, the excellent Kapalbhati Pranayama for Health and Weight Loss.

Pranayama for Health and Weight Loss

Daily Yoga Pranayama for February:

Kapalbhati is a terrific pranayama and it has a wide range of excellent benefits.  These range from helping you lose weight, to helping your respiratory system, digestive system and many other aspects of your health and well being.  

Start off nice and slow as I have explained in the article I linked to above and build up over time.  My mother-in-law, who simply amazes me on how much she is able to do in life, is pushing 70, but does Kapalbhati daily for 15 minutes!  I think every time I see her, she has even more energy and power.  So for you folks out there looking for some inspiration, this should be motivation enough.

Kapalbhati is a core component of Hatha Yoga practice, and it is very much in integral part of many of the free online yoga classes that are offered here on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.  If you are new to yoga and would like to get your practice underway, these daily techniques is a good way to do that, and also the Free Online Beginner’s Yoga Class is a good place to start. 

Below you will also find a nice video of Kapalbhati Pranayama which should help you do this technique correctly and thus, extract maximum benefit from it.

 

Video of KapalBhati Pranayama for Daily Practice

 

Next month I will again give a yoga, meditation and pranayama technique for everyday practice.  Please feel free to provide your thoughts, feedback and comments below…

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Amazing Pranayama Benefits – Your True Stories

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Benefits of Pranayama

Benefits of Yoga Breathing Exercises

From time to time I share with all of you some of the wonderful real life stories I get regarding the amazing benefits of pranayama, yoga and meditation.  These stories and testimonials are not just a great source of inspiration and encouragement for all of us, but in addition, they validate the claims which are made regarding the benefits of these spiritual sciences. Some of the past articles where I have shared these uplifting stories include, Yoga Cures Disease, Depression, Stress & More and Benefits of Yoga Pouring In.  In addition, I have created a page where you will find lots of feedback from the readers, and you can read those here – Mastery of Meditation & Yoga Reader Testimonials . 

Today, I will share with you testimonials that are consistent with an awakening that is happening on a global scale these days.  World over people are starting to realize the enormous power and benefits of pranayama.  That’s right, just yogic breathing is significantly helping improve people’s health and lives, and today I will share with you real life stories of such changes and benefits.

Your True Stories

Before I jump ahead to that though, let me just give a quick list of benefits that are associated with pranayama practice.  Essentially you will see that pranayamas are available to work on almost all aspects of your body, mind and spirit, and no matter what you are looking to achieve, there is a pranayama to help you do that.

Benefits of Pranayama

  • Improve health and heal diseases
  • Improve concentration and mental focus
  • Bestow joy, peace and happiness
  • Bestow psychic powers and yoga siddhis
  • Awaken, balance and heal the chakras
  • Increase energy, vitality and awareness
  • Cure insomnia and help break bad habits
  • Help manifest desires and intentions
  • Self-Realization

There are 2 sections below.  Section 1 are testimonials from readers who have benefited from the pranayamas found in the Free Online Yoga Pranayama Breathing E-book (which contains the pranayama videos as well) and Free Yoga Breathing Exercises Video Series.  Section 2 are testimonials from clients who have purchased and are practicing my Best Beginner’s Yoga Pranayama Video.

Section 1:

Benefits of Pranayama Using Free Tools

Saaleha Says:

I want to express my gratitude to you for the work you have taken on and the inspiration you are giving to people all over the world. I am just one recipient of your wonderful lessons and words of wisdom. I receive your newsletter often just as I am falling off the wagon and being in contact with you brings me back to the realisation of why I am here in the first place. May you always stay blessed.

Last weekend I was involved in a car accident which resulted in my having surgery to both hands. The day before I had just read about the calming breath exercise. I can assure you that the breathing techniques you have shared with me have assisted me in coping with the undignified circumstances that I find myself in now. It has even helped with the pain management. The most remarkable thing is that I don’t feel like a victim and don’t feel sorry for myself, like I used to before, when anything bad happened to me. I find ways and means of helping myself, hence this mail typed to you, using my index finger.

My yoga exercise has to be put on hold for a while as my foot is also in plaster. In the meantime I will practice breathing.

Love to you and your family from South Africa

Dagmar Says: (BOF is Kundalini Yoga Breath of Fire)

I started practicing BOF on Feb 1st (tried many times before, but always got frustrated and gave up). In the beginning I could do it for 30 sec. It was hard, I would get hot and sweaty. It took me 41 days to get to 5 min. Than it became easier. I got to 11 min, and … what a difference, what a feeling!

This morning during BOF, as I could feel the energy moving in my body, around my body, and on the top of my head (?!), I did not want to stop. INCREDIBLE FEELING! I did BOF for 13 min; after I stopped (as I was sitting motionless), I still could feel the energy moving for some time. AWESOME!

Raj Says: (The exercises below are primarily pranayamas, although some are an advanced form).

I have been practicing yoga for the last three months in the order of

1. Anuloma Viloma Pranayama
2. Third eye opening and balancing
3. Breathing of fire.
4. Kundalini Awakening Raja Yoga Kriya.

It makes me a joyful person and not to worry about any problems.

Alka Says:

I live in a small town in India. I am meditating for the past few years. I wished to add Yoga to my routine. It took me few hours to read the instructions and watch videos from Pranayama e-book. On day 1 I did all the 9 Pranayama exercises 1-2 minutes each. The result: I felt surrounded by peace, beauty and joy. I woke up with high energy levels next morning. The instructions are precise and wonderful. Thank you for sharing this valuable information with us.   

Anonymous Says: (Sodarshan Chakra Kriya is one of the most powerful Yoga Pranayamas)

It’s a great relief that you have posted such a powerful meditation (sodarshan chakra kriya), because I am a very depressed person and with very weak character.

Since one week I am doing the Advanced Sodarshan Chakra Kriya everyday for 93 minutes and since I am doing this meditation I am feeling very strong physically and my character is changing.  I am gaining more self-confidence, willpower and control over my emotions.

Normally I do this meditation in the afternoon for 62 minutes continuously and 31 minutes in the evening.

 

John Says:

Today i was having trouble with restless thoughts and unable to get out of my head. I did the heart chakra opening yoga set you prescribed and feel so much better tonight. I also did some Kapalbhati (pranayama). Perhaps that helped also.

Section2:

Benefits of Pranayama Using Anmol Pranayama 1

Below are testimonials and feedback from clients you are using my Best Beginner’s Pranayama Set Video.

Rishi Says:

Greetings, I have bought the beginner pranayama tools for greatness and since practicing the 5 beginner pryanama for a week, I am more at peace with myself and my surrounding. Thanks so much Anmol for the great product.

Kelly Says:

I just purchased your Pranayama Video Series and find them to be an amazing source on these wonderful exercises.

Benefits of Pranayama Summary:

The above is just a small sample of the feedback I receive regarding the benefits of pranayama.  There are also some amazing personal stories which readers ask me not to share on the website, but I can assure you it is quite incredible what pranayama practice has been doing for them.  Recently, my parents visited friends who had devoted themselves to 1 hour of daily pranayama, and were now living examples of the transforming affects of these exercises.  My parents came back inspired to vitalize their own practice and I hope this article inspires you to elevate your practice as well, so that you too can enjoy the amazing benefits of pranayama.