Our articles about Pranayama breathing exercises in Yoga. For conscious Breathwork concepts, practices, techniques, and treatment modalities, visit our Breathwork topic.
Box Breathing — also known as Square Breathing — is a Breathwork technique applied to instantly help you calm down and relax, particularly useful in stressful moments. A note of precaution: the lead image of [ Read more … ]
For those who engage in Breathwork exercises the question may arise what the difference is with the Pranayama breathing practices we find in Yogic traditions. In a very simple explanation, we could say that contemporary [ Read more … ]
Nadi Shodhana (also written Nadi Shodhan) — popularly called Alternate Nostril Breathing — is a Yogic Breathwork technique i.e. breath control practice, a so-called Pranayama, which is thought to have a wide range of health [ Read more … ]
Kapalabhati breathing (also written Kapalbhati), synonymously called the Breath of Fire exercise, is one of the Shatkarmas, the latter being a set of Yogic purification or cleansing techniques. In fact, Kapalabhati is a type of [ Read more … ]
Yantra Yoga, not to be confused with Trul Khor, which is sometimes also called Yantra Yoga, is an ancient Hindu Yogic practice that includes bodily movements, breathing exercises, and visualizations, while focusing the mind on [ Read more … ]
Purification or cleansing techniques are common Yoga practices and applied to prepare body and mind for certain Yogic activities, such as Asanas (Yoga postures), Pranayama (breathing exercises), Dhyana (meditation and contemplation), or Samadhi (meditative absorption), [ Read more … ]
Yoga is an ancient Indian spiritual practice of movement and breathing exercises, and well-known around the world. There are many types of Yoga practices, with different aims, but in this post we will not dive [ Read more … ]
Simply said, Pranayama is the Indian Yogic practice of conscious breath control, an ancient type of breathing exercise, which today is usually called Breathwork. Mind that the phrase Pranayama is a general term for a [ Read more … ]
Tantric Breathwork is based on Tantric philosophy and concepts, and is usually applied within Neo-Tantric activities and practices such as Tantric Sex, Tantric Coaching, and Tantra Massage. The Breathwork approach within a Tantric context consists [ Read more … ]