Bhastrika
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Bhastrika (pronounced bah-STREE-kah),[1] a kind of pranayama, is a breathing technique where breathing is forcible and through the nose, with equal time for inhalation and exhalation.[2]. 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.[3]
[edit] See also
- Physiology of Pranayama, by Dr. M. Hajirnis, Thane, in Yoga Magazine, a publication of Bihar School of Yoga
[edit] Notes
- ^ Budilovsky, Joan; Adamson, Eve (2000). The complete idiot's guide to yoga (2 ed.). Penguin. p. 78. ISBN 9780028639703. http://books.google.com/books?id=b5pE8-Oyly0C. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
- ^ Yoga Glossary, in the website of YOGA SHALA BERLIN.
- ^ Anandmurti Gurumaa talks about Bhastrika and Kapalabhati Pranayama
