The Healing Power of Breath

 Susan Shumsky explores the benefits of a pranayama practice, including self-healing.

To keep a light burning, we have to keep putting oil into it. - Mother Teresa

A healthy routine of ample, complete breathing replete with prana, which nourishes every cell, can revitalize your life. The yogis of India believe that proper breathing can annihilate all disease from this planet. In addition, the power of prana in breath can increase mental capacity, happiness, self-confidence, self-discipline, inner strength, and clarity, and can awaken latent mental powers. Read more

6 Breathing Exercises to Relax in 10 Minutes or Less

If you're feeling stressed out, these six breathing exercises can relax you in ten minutes or less.

Don’t wait until fight or flight kicks in before minding your breath. Controlled breathing not only keeps the mind and body functioning at their best, it can also lower blood pressure, promote feelings of calm and relaxation and help us de-stress. Read more

Why Nose Breathing Is Crucial to Optimal Health

Proper breathing has always been an important element of Tantric practice. Now Western science is beginning to understand its importance, too.

Patrick McKeown is one of the top teachers of the Buteyko method — a breathing method named after the Russian physician who developed it. McKeown has been teaching the Buteyko Breathing Method full-time in his native Ireland and abroad for over a dozen years.

As he notes in the featured TED Talk, breathing is typically an ignored topic when it comes to health, yet breathing properly can improve oxygenation through your body, including your brain, and is a powerful strategy for relieving stress and anxiety. Read more

How to Breathe for Better Sex

For a simple way to improve your sex life, try better breathing. These breathing exercises will get you started.

Good sex is really simple. That’s what makes it so complicated.

There are countless ways to enhance the pleasure of sex. Sexual moisturizers and introducing sex toys into the bedroom are both ways to immediately start exploring new sexual avenues. Reading erotica, watching adult films together, finding new and exciting places to make love – all of these are exhilarating ways to have better sex. Read more

3 Fast-Acting, Stress-Reducing Breathing Techniques

The right breathing techniques can reduce stress in minutes, says Dr. Frank Lipman. 

Breathing is, fortunately, second nature. We draw breath hundreds of times a day and around the clock without a second thought. However, when we get flustered, breath becomes short and shallow – and stress has nowhere to go but up! In that flustered state, it’s easy to forget to be in the moment and, as they say, “just breathe.” Read more

Indian Brain Breathing: The Ancient Tantric Science of Prophecy and Health

Stasia Bliss unveils the art of Indian brain breathing,an amazingly detailed and ancient Tantric science, which she says can be implemented for prophecy, personal health, empowerment, and inner wisdom.

Ancient science exists that can help one understand the deeper meaning in the cosmos by simply observing the patterning of one’s own breath.  This traditional Indian Tantric science is known as Swara yoga, or ‘brain breathing’ and is an art form originally thought to be so valuable that it’s secrets of prophecy and health were only passed down from teacher to student orally.  In today’s day, these ancient teachings are being revealed as it is believed that human kind has reached a crux in it’s evolutionary progress where it ‘needs all the help it can get. Read more

Breathing Exercises for Raising Kundalini

One of the goals of Tantra is to awaken the kundalini energy that dormant at the base of the spine. Ashley Miller shares four breathing exercises for raising your kundalini.

Breathing is usually an unconscious activity. You might never give a second thought to proper breathing technique or the quality of your breath -- the breath just happens of its own accord. But practicing breathing exercises may provide a number of benefits, such as relaxation or increased energy. Yogis use specific breathing exercises to raise the coiled, serpentlike invisible energy that lies at the base of your spine, known as Kundalini. Whether they're energizing or relaxing, these exercises all serve to awaken dormant Kundalini. Read more

Breath Your Way to Hotter Sex

The secret to hotter sex can be as simple as breathing. Try these pleasure-boosting techniques to increase your enjoyment tonight.

Inhale. Exhale. You do both all day long without even thinking about it. But did you know that simply paying attention to how you breathe between the sheets could be the difference between so-so and sensational sex? Give these Tantric sex–inspired breathing techniques a spin to feel more tuned in—and turned on—when it counts. Read more

Conquer Stress through Ujjayi Breathing

When done properly, Ujjayi breathing, aka "ocean-sounding" breathing, should be both energizing and relaxing, but it can be confusing at first. Garry Alesio shares some insight and tips into making this effective breathing exercise a natural stress-reducing solution.