Nadi Shodhana: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Nadi Shodhana: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Beloved One,
Nadi Shodhana, also known as Alternate Nostril Breathing, is a calming and balancing pranayama (breathing technique) in yoga. It involves inhaling and exhaling alternately through each nostril, one at a time, while closing off the opposite nostril with your fingers. This practice helps to cleanse and purify the energy channels (nadis) in the body, promoting mental clarity, reducing stress, and bringing harmony to the mind and body. Nadi Shodhana is often used to enhance focus, improve respiratory function, and encourage a sense of deep relaxation and inner peace.
How to:
1. Sit in a comfortable position either cross legged or you may sit in a chair with your feet comfortably on the ground.
2. Vishnu Mudra: Take your right hand and bring the index finger and middle finger to touch while brining the ring finger and pink to touch. Fold down the index finger and middle finger. You will use your thumb to cover the right nostril and the ring finger to close your left nostril.
3. To begin: Close the right nostril with your thumb and begin breathing in through your left nostril. Exhale slowly and completely before taking another inhale of equal length. At the top of the breath you will switch nostrils by closing the left nostril with the ring and releasing the thumb.
Continue this alternate nostril breath at your own pace, nice and slowly.
Only switching nostrils on the after the inhale. Take a pause at the top of the breath before exhaling. If you are pregnant, skip the pause and just keep the breath slow and rhythmic without holding the breath in or out.
4. Continue for 1-3 minutes, gradually increasing your time as you please.
Benefits:
Increases oxygen flow
Clears and releases toxins
Reduces stress and anxiety
Calms and rejuvenates the nervous system
Balances hormones
Clears and balances respiratory channels
Helps to alleviate respiratory irritants
Balances solar and lunar, masculine and feminine energies
Enhances mental clarity and cognitive function
Enhances concentration
Balances both hemispheres of the brain.
Breathing through the left nostril cools the nervous system and stimulates the right hemisphere, our creative side
Breathing through the right nostril warms the nervous system and stimulates the left hemisphere, our logical side
Enjoy a full Kundalini class with The Basic Spinal Energy Series Kriya, Nadi Shodhana Pranayama and Chii-A Kriya Meditation for Protection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYPm6rKeNA
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