ᑎᗩᗪI ᔕᕼOᗪᗩᑎᗩ ᑭᖇᗩᑎᗩYᗩᗰᗩ: Nadi= channel// Shodana= purifying/cleansing

Alternate nostril breathing is a beautiful breathing technique that helps keep the mind calm, happy and peaceful by just practicing it for a few minutes.

• Sit comfortably with your spine proud and shoulders relaxed. Keep the mouth soft

• Place your left hand on the left knee, palms open to the sky or in Chin mudra (thumb and index finger gently touching at the tips)

• Place the tip of the index finger and middle finger of the right hand in between the eyebrows, the ring finger on the left nostril, and the thumb on the right nostril

• The ring finger and little finger will be used to open or close the left nostril and thumb for the right nostril

• Press lightly your thumb down on the right nostril and breathe out gently through the left nostril

• Now breathe in from the left nostril and then press the left nostril gently with the ring finger. Removing the right thumb from the right nostril, breathe out from the right. Breathe in from the right nostril and exhale from the left. This is one completed round.

• Continue inhaling and exhaling from alternate nostrils

• Complete 9 such rounds by alternately breathing through both the nostrils

• After every exhalation, remember to breathe in from the same nostril from which you exhaled

• Keep your eyes closed throughout and continue taking long, deep, smooth breaths without any force or effort

• Finish to just sit with a natural breath, feel and observe the effects

  Some of the lovely benefits:

• Lowers heart rate, reduces stress, anxiety and it helps release accumulated tension and fatigue

• Calms the mind and bring it back to the present moment

• Works therapeutically for most circulatory and respiratorn problems

• Helps harmonize the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which correlate to the logical and emotional sides of our personalityHelps purify and balance the nadis, the subtle energy channels, thereby ensuring smooth flow of prana (life force) through the body

  Give it a try and let me know what effects this beautiful breathing exercise has on YOU!!

Only Love,
// C