sheetali pranayama

rishi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:17:57 +0000

Sheetali pranayama is a breathing technique to reduce heat in the body. It is often referred to as the “Cooling Breath”. Using the cooling tendencies of the tongue, sheetali pranayama only allows cool, relaxed breaths to enter the body. These breaths have the effect of lowering the temperature of the body, as well as cooling the mind. People with disorders resulting from excess heat in the body/mind, such as high blood pressure, acidity, or ulcers will benefit greatly from the daily practice of this pranayama. Remember, since this technique is very cooling to the body, it is preferrable to practice it in warm weather compared to cold weather.

For further reading, check out these links:
http://yogashaastra.blogspot.com/2008/05/beat-heat-with-sheetali-sheetkari.html
http://www.healthandyoga.com/HTML/news/sheetali.html
http://living.oneindia.in/yoga-spirituality/yoga/sheetali-surya-bhedan-pranayama.html

–Rishi

series of pranayama videos

rishi — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:25:43 +0000

Since I got back from India, I’ve been wanting to do a series of videos on pranayama, since most of the videos I found that actually explained the techniques well were in Hindi. Now that I finally have some free time, I’m going to really get these started. I’ll try to make these as easy to follow and as full of useful information as possible. I won’t go into too much detail, however, because there is a lot of supplemental info about pranayama all over the web.

So here they are, the first two videos in our series on pranayama:

Pranayama – Part 1: Introduction

Pranayama – Part 2: How to Sit

If you have any comments or questions about the videos, please leave them below.

I hope you enjoy these!

–Rishi

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sheetali pranayama

series of pranayama videos