Bhastrika (Hatha Yoga)
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Bhastrika a kind of pranayama
, is a breathing technique where breathing is forcible and through the nose, with equal time for inhalation and exhalation.. Bhastrika Pranayam is aimed at keeping the inhalation cycle equal to exhalation, yet making breath deeper and longer. Deep breath inwards and long exhalation outwords with equal time intervals constitutes this pranayam technique.
Pranayama
Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning "extension of the prana or breath" or more accurately, "extension of the life force". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prāna, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and "āyāma", to extend, draw out, restrain, or...
, is a breathing technique where breathing is forcible and through the nose, with equal time for inhalation and exhalation.. Bhastrika Pranayam is aimed at keeping the inhalation cycle equal to exhalation, yet making breath deeper and longer. Deep breath inwards and long exhalation outwords with equal time intervals constitutes this pranayam technique.
See also
- Physiology of Pranayama, by Dr. M. Hajirnis, Thane, in Yoga Magazine, a publication of Bihar School of YogaBihar School of YogaThe Bihar School of Yoga is an internationally acclaimed school of Yoga founded by Swami Satyananda Saraswati in 1964 to fulfill the instruction given by his Guru, Sri Swami Sivananda of propagating the ancient wisdom of yoga from door to door and from shore to shore...