Yoga Pranayama: Bellows Pranayama

This breathing method, compiled by Mr. Zhang Huilan and Mr. Bai Zhongyan, calls it "very intense extreme practice". No matter who practices too much bellows style, it will damage the body.

Phase 1:

In this technology, the lungs should be used like a blacksmith's bellows. When this exercise is done correctly, it is quite effective. However, if you don't do it well, you can have harmful results. Therefore, be very careful. Even if you do it correctly, if you practice bellows breathing too much, it will cause harm to the human body. Throughout the exercise, remember to relax your body. At first, you should breathe fairly quickly, but don't do it hard or hard.

Start: Sit in a comfortable yoga sitting position. Place your index finger and middle finger in the center of your forehead, place your thumb next to your right nostril, and place your ring finger next to your left nostril, as you would do the meridians and recuperation exercise.

Cover your right nostril with your thumb and breathe abdominal.

Inhale and exhale continuously in a rapid, rhythmic manner (but not violently) to expand and contract your abdomen.

Take twenty complete breaths like this.

Then inhale deeply through your left nostril (full yoga breathing), then close both nostrils (thumb covers your right nostril and ring finger covers your left nostril).

When you are in suspension, do chin retraction and perineal retraction, or either of the two.

Hold your breath and count from one to three or one to five, or count freely, but only as comfortable as you are, then relax your tightening method. Use a steady throat breathing pattern and exhale simultaneously from both nostrils.

Then repeat the entire process, but now you should use your right nostril for abdominal breathing (i.e. cover your right nostril).

This completed a round.

Do two rounds. Rest for about one minute between rounds, with your eyes partially closed, and focus on repeating the yoga sounds.

Phase 2:

Continue to meditate in the original position, but place your hands on your knees.

At this stage, breathe together through both nostrils at the same time.

Take twenty rapid breaths. Then breathe in deeply and do internal suspended breathing for about a few seconds. On one hand, do the internal suspension breath, and on the other hand, do the chin retraction and perineal retraction, or either of the two.

Exhale.

This is a round. Run this second stage of exercise into three complete rounds.

Then lie down and rest in a relaxed position on your back.

Note that as your lungs become stronger, you can increase the number of rapid inhalations and exhalations to 40 rounds. The number of rounds per meditation can also be increased to a maximum of fifty rounds per stage.

Benefit Bellows regulation makes people's abdominal muscles, spleen, liver, and pancreas active vigorously. It increases appetite and improves digestion. It helps clean the sinuses and removes mucus from the throat. It helps treat asthma, tuberculosis and pleurisy. Of course, it also cleans and strengthens the lungs. The wind box makes the person's mind introverted, which makes him ready for yoga meditation. It also "oxygenates" the human body. According to the Introduction to Hatha Yoga:

It quickly awakens Kundalini, cleans the system, makes people happy and produces benefits. It removes mucus and impure matter that has accumulated at the entrance to the Brahma channel (middle vein).

In addition, this bellows-like breathing helps relieve (or break) three knots: the Brahma knot (i.e., the Heart chakra), the Vesnou knot (i.e., Adam's apple) and the eyebrows chakra) in the human body.

Warning: This is a very extreme exercise. In this exercise, always keep in mind to relax. Do not breathe violently until your face becomes distorted or your body tremors violently. If there is a slight tremor, don't worry. At first, breathing should be quite slow. After a week or two, the breathing rate gradually increased.

If you start to feel dizzy and sweating, or either, it means you are not doing your bellows breathing correctly. If this is the case, try reducing the amount of air inhaled, slowing down, and the power of breathing. Try to relax more. If you find that you always experience these negative phenomena when practicing this, stop practicing.

Anyone with high blood pressure or heart disease should not practice this practice. People with vertigo should not practice it either. People with weak bodies and small lung capacity, as well as people with severe ear and eye diseases, should not practice this practice. If you bleed from your nose or have earache while doing this exercise, stop it immediately.

No matter who practices bellows too much, it will damage the body, so everyone must practice with moderation and caution.

Needless to say, wind boxes cannot be practiced in places where the air is polluted. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)