5 Yoga Techniques to Help You Lose Weight

These five yoga techniques can help you lose weight, says Ipshita Kumar.

Losing 20 kilos is definitely not easy. But if you have to spend hours working out in a gym or hours running on the tracks outdoors, it’s tedious as well as expensive.

How about some simple and inexpensive breathing techniques that can help you lose weight? Yes, you heard it right! The secret to shrinking your beer belly is also in your nose. Check out the 5 yoga breathing techniques that help you to lose weight. Read more

Immortal Compression Breath

Learn the Immortal Compression Breath for increased energy and longevity.

Breathing for Life: The Mind-Body Healing Benefits of Pranayama

Sheila Patel, M.D. shares the mind-body healing benefits of pranayama.

“For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.” ~Sanskrit proverb

Breath is essential to life. It is the first thing we do when we are born and the last thing we do when we leave. In between that time, we take about half a billion breaths. What we may not realize is that the mind, body, and breath are intimately connected and can influence each other. Our breathing is influenced by our thoughts, and our thoughts and physiology can be influenced by our breath. Learning to breathe consciously and with awareness is the fourth limb of yoga, and it can be a valuable tool in helping to restore balance in the mind and body.

Researchers have documented the benefits of a regular practice of simple, deep breathing (1,2,6), which include: Read more

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

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

Stay Fit with Pranayama in Twenty Minutes a Day

V.N. Mittal explains how to perform the seven pranayama techniques that he learned from Swami RamDev. The original program is supposed to take from 45 minutes to 2 hours, but Mittal has condensed it to a twenty minutes routine, by reducing the length of time for performing each technique.

INTRODUCTION
When I started learning the package of seven yogic pranayama techniques of Yogiraj Swamy Ram Dev in India about two years back, I did not realize that it would turn out to be the greatest healer for me and would become a part of my regular practice, eventually. I was already into natural healing arts through teaching of Reiki, Art of Living ,Sujok therapy, Acupressure and Reflexology, which I practiced regularly to keep my body and soul together in my late sixties but I always missed something which could bring me to a deeper meditative state besides addressing my physical problems effectively. The amazing package which has healed hundreds of thousands of people in India and worldwide provided me the answer.

IMPORTANCE OF PRANAYAMA
The importance of Prana or the breath as an instrument to control diseases is recognized universally. In fact, no life is possible without breathing. Breathing may be considered as the most important of all the functions of the body for indeed all the other functions depend on it. .Prana (Chi) is thus rightly called as the life force energy and the art of modification of normal form of prana through its conscious control is known as pranayama. In view of its importance, the Yogis from times immemorial have emphasized on the need of regular practice of Pranayama for harmony of body, mind and spirit. Pranayama is the fourth limb of the eightfold Yoga system founded by Maharishi Patanjali and is capable of addressing all kinds of physical and mental ailments effectively. Read more

The Secret to Freeing Yourself From Limiting Habits - In Bed

Tantra teacher Tao Semko explains step-by-step how to experience more pleasure and free yourself from limiting habits - in bed.

This weekend I was at a bridal shower where I'd been asked to speak about the sexual side of tantra. Of course, the ladies were a lot of fun, and as always, they had some really good questions. I'll share an answer to one here today.

As I've explained in past issues of Tantra Tips, and as I explained at the bridal shower, if your breath and energy ("chi" or "prana") cannot freely circulate in your body as you make love, the pleasure you can feel is limited. You're cheating yourself of better sex! Your breath, energy, and mind are all linked, so your capacity for spiritual bliss is also limited (your ability to experience samadhi through complete absorption in the love and/or sensuality of lovemaking, or in anything else for that matter).

So here's the question: How can you learn begin to relax, deepen the breath, and maintain relaxed awareness while making love if your body is in the habit of tensing up and panting?

And here's the answer: You don't. Not at first. Just trying to remember to do all those things while "getting it on" will only make you more stressed and tense, and make you stay in your head and worry self-consciously instead of enjoying yourself, right? No fun. And if you start to get carried away by the moment, your breathing will get away from you again.

So then, the *easy* way to change your limiting sexual habits is to start changing your habits and your awareness when you're *not* making love, just a little bit each day, and making the whole process relaxing and fun....
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Kapalbhati Yoga Breathing Exericse for Weight Loss

One of the best yoga breathing exercises for weight loss, healing, and health is Kapalbhati yoga pranayama.

Sodarshan Chakra Kriya to Develop Occult Powers

Some people study Tantra in the hopes of gaining occult powers or siddhis and wind up disappointed when their teacher won't - or more likely can't - teach them how to acquire them. If you are willing to devote some time and effort to the practice, Sodarshan Chakra Kriya is a pranayama that bestows psychic powers, says Anmol Mehta.

Background: Sodarshan Chakra Kriya (set) was taught to me by my Kundalini Yoga teacher Ravi Singh who studied it under the guidance of Yogi Bhajan. It dates back a few thousand years and is reputed among all the known Yogas, including Kundalini Yoga, to be the most powerful Pranayama exercise there is. You will notice that it is called a kriya, although a kriya typically is a complete set of asanas and yogic exercises (see Introduction to Kundalini Yoga for more information on kriyas and how Kundalini Yoga works in general), it also applies in some cases to a single exercise, which is very complete in and of itself. Sodarshan Chakra Kriya is a pranayama exercise that is exactly that, very complete and also very powerful.

Benefits of Sodharshan Chakra Kriya: The superlatives describing Sodarshan Chakra Kriya are lavish to say the least. In Yoga terms it will give you Nao Niddhi (the nine precious virtues) and Artha Siddhi (the 18 occult powers). Read more

An Effective Tantra Breathing Technique to Prolong Sexual Intercourse

Tantra uses breathing exercises (pranayama) to help raise and channel our sexual energy. One breathing exercise, a variation of Kapalbhati Pranayama, can also be used to prevent premature ejaculation.

During sexual intercourse, as the excitement peaks for the male and he approaches orgasm he should begin to do Kapalbhati Pranayama through the mouth. Specifically, he should puff air out of his mouth while pulling in the stomach muscle sharply with each exhalation. As in Kapalbhati, allow the stomach to relax for the recoil inhalation to take place. This rapid puffing out of air through the mouth changes the blood chemistry and will retard ejaculation by easing the blood supply to the male sexual organ. Read more

Breath of Fire Demonstration

Gurmukh teaches Breath of Fire, a cleansing and energizing breath, powered by abdominal contractions. Breath of Fire will entirely charge the nervous system, causing the glands to secrete and purify the blood.