The Golden One - August 06, 2022


Bhastrika Pranayama – Bellows Breath


Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

102.2873

Word count

319

Sentence count

25


Summary

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Bastrika Pranayama aka bellows breath is a simple exercise that can be used to prepare you for a meditation. It has many uses and can be a great entry point to a deeper meditation. I highly encourage you to experiment a bit with these breathing exercises and meditation overall.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Greetings my esteemed subscribers. Before you, you see me checking in from paradise
00:00:17.160 doing some Bastrika pranayama aka bellows breath. So the technique is quite simple.
00:00:24.240 You can envision your belly as being a bellows and you aggressively exhale. You can do 15
00:00:31.100 to 20 repetitions before going into a breath hold, which you see me doing right now. And
00:00:37.220 you can of course, if you are out in a paradise like environment, you can simply focus on
00:00:43.540 your surroundings, you can focus on the wind, you can focus on the sensation of the sunlight
00:00:49.980 caressing your skin. Or if you are meditating upon something in particular, such as the
00:00:55.260 runes, this would be the time you can do it. So this can be an entry point to a deeper meditation.
00:01:05.020 You can do a few rounds of Bastrika pranayama before going into a meditation. Or you can
00:01:11.180 just view it as yogic coffee, as some people have labeled the exercise. So it has many uses
00:01:20.000 and you can experiment a bit with it. So basic point is that you can take a few relaxing breaths
00:01:28.180 and then you go into the breathing itself.
00:01:33.340 So looking at my belly again, I envision it as a bellows that is pumping. So that is the
00:01:41.820 main mental technique, the main mental image that you can use for this particular exercise.
00:01:48.740 So this is similar enough to Breath of Fire, but the difference is that the emphasis is on
00:01:56.620 the exhale during Bastrika pranayama, so bellows breath.
00:02:02.380 So hopefully that tutorial, this tutorial, is useful to you. And I highly encourage you
00:02:09.220 to experiment a bit with these breathing exercises and with meditation overall. It's a quite rewarding
00:02:17.500 quest, I can assure you. So anyway, thank you for watching and thank you for your support,
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