Yoga - Pranayama

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Pranayama

hrwire@gmail.com

2006-07-18, 2:27 am

Hello,

I have doing the seven pranayamas taught by Swami Ramdev which deals
with breath control. I have lost quite a bit of excess fat in my tummy
and no more joint pain in my knee joints by doing simple exercises for
30 minutes.

If you need more info click on my profile, you will see the yoga
related files.

omjaroo

2006-07-18, 2:27 am

Sharath,

Hi and welcome to alt.yoga :-)

I went to your blog and tryed to leave a comment but it was not to be
:-( So here it is.

Very nice site and wonderful presentation of Surya Namaskara. My
favorite :-) This is the first time I have seen mantras associated with
doing the salute to the sun. Are these spoken mantras or silent. If
they are spoken, a hint as to pronunciation would be helpful for us
non-Indians. If they are spoken then I also assume they are spoken on
the exhalation, on which there are 5. But if you include the standing
position then there are 6. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Seems to me this might be a good subject to make a short post on here.

Jared
o
^
giant carrots... www.omjaroo.com

hrwire@gmail.com

2006-07-18, 8:26 am

Hi Jared,

Nice to hear from you an thanks for liking the site. The Surya
Namaskara is sorta like the mother of all asanas as it has about 6
asanas in one. I'm really not sure about the mantras as I had found
these on the internet, infact I've just started doing Yoga about 4
months now, on my own starting with the Pranayamas. If you haven't done
them, it's very benificial for your health. I think the inhalation and
exhalation is more important in the Surya Namaskar.

I've moved most of the content to my yahoo page at
http://360.yahoo.com/shk_g
You can leave your comments there.

Regards,
Sharath

omjaroo wrote:
> Sharath,
>
> Hi and welcome to alt.yoga :-)
>
> I went to your blog and tryed to leave a comment but it was not to be
> :-( So here it is.
>
> Very nice site and wonderful presentation of Surya Namaskara. My
> favorite :-) This is the first time I have seen mantras associated with
> doing the salute to the sun. Are these spoken mantras or silent. If
> they are spoken, a hint as to pronunciation would be helpful for us
> non-Indians. If they are spoken then I also assume they are spoken on
> the exhalation, on which there are 5. But if you include the standing
> position then there are 6. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Seems to me this might be a good subject to make a short post on here.
>
> Jared
> o
> ^
> giant carrots... www.omjaroo.com

omjaroo

2006-07-18, 8:26 am

Well the idea of doing a mantra on the exhale of the salute is
intriqueing none the less. I think I will have a look into it.

Yes I have done pranayama, ala Hittleman. And I agree its most
benificial.

Probably the single most significant "life style" change I have made
over the years is to have retrained my body to breath naturally in a
complete breath. In other words to take the breath out of the upper
part of my lungs and start it in the lower belly. I have gone from a
serious nervous type to a rather calm sort.

Pranayama is an outstanding form of practice for concentration /focus
/meditation in addition to its other esoteric effects.

hrwire@gmail.com wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hi Jared,
>
> Nice to hear from you an thanks for liking the site. The Surya
> Namaskara is sorta like the mother of all asanas as it has about 6
> asanas in one. I'm really not sure about the mantras as I had found
> these on the internet, infact I've just started doing Yoga about 4
> months now, on my own starting with the Pranayamas. If you haven't done
> them, it's very benificial for your health. I think the inhalation and
> exhalation is more important in the Surya Namaskar.
>
> I've moved most of the content to my yahoo page at
> http://360.yahoo.com/shk_g
> You can leave your comments there.
>
> Regards,
> Sharath
>
> omjaroo wrote:

hrwire@gmail.com

2006-07-18, 8:26 am

The beautiful thing about pranayama is that our life is controlled by
the number of breaths we inhale and exhale. At the point when someone
is dying they experience rapid breaths.
In this case, it becomes very essential, since pranayama deals with
control of breath.
When one masters this technique of breath control, they become calmer
and take less number of breaths. Yoga is very much misunderstood in the
west as just asanas.

Most of the people say that the Kapal Bhati and Anulom Vilom are very
benificial. And the Bhastrika is not for the weak hearted since it
involves deep breaths.

omjaroo wrote:
> Well the idea of doing a mantra on the exhale of the salute is
> intriqueing none the less. I think I will have a look into it.
>
> Yes I have done pranayama, ala Hittleman. And I agree its most
> benificial.
>
> Probably the single most significant "life style" change I have made
> over the years is to have retrained my body to breath naturally in a
> complete breath. In other words to take the breath out of the upper
> part of my lungs and start it in the lower belly. I have gone from a
> serious nervous type to a rather calm sort.
>
> Pranayama is an outstanding form of practice for concentration /focus
> /meditation in addition to its other esoteric effects.
>

sungnee@gmail.com

2006-07-18, 9:25 pm

There is actually only one sentence in Pantajali's sutras on breathing;

[breathing is the stuff that life is made of](can't remember the exact
words) "...therefore regulate your breath."

The key word there is of course "regulate". I have no idea what the original
Sanskrit is. But I do know Sanskrit words are extremely complex and
"regulate" probably does not convey even half of the original meaning. (For
this reason I really would like to learn some Sanskrit.) All pranayamas seem
to have been deviced by successive gurus, and the pranayamas have proven
themselves through actual practice.

What I am trying to say is that if you become very proficient in the
pranayamas, you can device your own.

The other thing is that Yoga literature has stated that the number of
breaths that a person has in a lifetime is fixed. It is the same for every
human. Therefore the slower you breathe, the longer you live. This, of
course, has not yet been proven, and to prove it scientifically would
involve at least 3 generations spanning, I would imagine, at least 200
years. So if we start it now, my great-great-grandson may know the
conclusion.

My personal experience is that my breathing slowed down considerably when I
practise Yoga regularly. I did Yoga when I was 8 to 24, and took it up again
at 45, which is about 7 years ago. In both cases, my breathing slowed a lot.
Even when I am jogging, my breathing is slow, and I tend to breathe deeper
rather than faster, if I need more oxygen. In fact, when I jog, I noticed
that if I go faster and thereby need more oxygen, I seem to be only capable
of breathing deeper but not faster. The lungs somehow refuse to go faster.
That's just sharing my own experience.

hrwire@gmail.com

2006-07-19, 2:24 am

Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Your answer lies in "Prana-ayama" pran in Hindi means life......in
sanskrit it is energy whereas ayama means what you mentioned that is
regulation, control, restraint etc.

I learnt Sanskrit during college so I remember some of the words,
besides the fact that Hindi and some languages are derivatives of
Sanskrit.

Sharath
http://360.yahoo.com