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Pranayama Yoga




While the world is raving about Pranayama Yoga, you keep avoiding it, scheduling it to "next weeks". The next weeks never come and you feel fat and sick as the days pass on. Now, do you wish to make a twist to this story to discover the real strength within you? Switch to Pranayama Yoga and reap benefits in few days time.

The Process of Pranayama deals with method of breathing. While "Prana' means life, "ayama" means control, so Pranayama is nothing but "having control over breath". This systemic respiratory exercise improves many problems related with mind and body and helps you to emerge as a strong individual by regular practice. Consider the following pranayama exercises taken from Swami Ramdev's teachings:

Bhastrika Pranayama:

  • Method: Take in deep breaths and breathe out completely.
  • Time: You should do this for at least two minutes, maximum 5 minutes.
  • Health benefits: cures problems related to heart, lungs, brain, depression, migraine, paralysis, neural system.


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Kapalbhati Pranayam:

  • Method: Push the air out forcefully. The stomach will shrink and go inwards.
  • Time: You can start with 30 times or 1 minute, increase up to 5 minutes or up to 10 minutes (maximum).
  • Health benefits: helps in obesity, constipation, gastric, acidity, Croesus (liver), hepatitis B, uterus, asthma, snoring, concentration, diabetes.
  • Important tips: heart and high BP patients, and weak people should do this very slowly.

Baharya Pranayam:

  • Method: Breathe out air, try to touch your chin to chest, squeeze stomach completely and hold for a while. Breathe slowly after releasing the chin.
  • Time: You can do this exercise 3 times to 5 times normally and up to 11 times (max)
  • Health benefits: this is extremely beneficial for stomach (udar), hernia, urinal, and uterus.
  • Important tips: people having heart problems and those having high BP should avoid this exercise.

Anulom Vilom Pranayam:

  • Method: breathe from the left nasal after holding your right nasal with thumb. Now open the right nasal and close left nasal with middle and ring finger. Now breathe out from the right nasal. Breathe in from the right nasal now. Repeat vice versa.
  • Time: You can do this exercise for 10 minutes.
  • Health benefits: this is extremely beneficial for Parkinson, paralysis, neural related, depression, migraine pain, asthma, sinus, high BP, heart blockage, vat-cuf-pit, arthritis, cartilage, bent ligaments.
  • Important tips: do this exercise slowly. Take care to see that you breathe into the lungs and not stomach.

Bhramri Pranayam:

  • Method: close your ears with thumb, index finger on forehead. Place the rest of the three fingers on base of nose touching eyes. Breathe deeply and then breathe out through nose while humming like a bee.
  • Time: You can do this exercise for 10 minutes.
  • Health benefits: this exercise is beneficial for getting relief from tension, hypertension, high BP, heart, heart blockage, paralysis, migraine pain.

Udgeeth Pranayam:

  • Method: Take a deep breath and chant 'Om' for a long time.
  • Time: You can do this exercise for 10 minutes.
  • Health benefits: meditation, relaxation and peace of mind.

Ujjayi Pranayam:

  • Method: sit erect in a comfortable posture; slowly inhale drawing air by both the nostrils. While doing so, sound is produced. Do not allow the abdomen to swell, let the chest expand. After this exhale out slowly. During exhalation, abdomen should be steady while chest should go inside.
  • Health benefits: relaxation, lowers blood pressure, reduces pain, insomnia, and migraines.

Nauli Kriya:

  • Method: stand with legs slightly apart. Bend and hold the thighs, exhale deeply by retaining breath outside. Shrink in the abdomen muscles as much as possible.
  • Health benefits: averts abdominal ailments, eliminates problems of constipation, good for sexual organs.
Note: if you have high BP or heart problems, seek proper guidelines of Yoga trainers, before doing Pranayama. Educate yourself before commencing with the exercises.



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