Pranayama techniques for Yoga, channeling the energy of life

When it comes to talk about Yoga often joins the idea of breathing done in particular ways. Most part of ancient methods has been lost in time, that is, the techniques have been misrepresented and belittled their characteristics and potential.
Breathing techniques explained to those wishing to practice what necessary to acquire Yoga state, are called Pranayama. This Sanskrit word is composed of two words, ie Prana and Ayama; the first means "life force", the second means "extension". The set is: “extension of the life force”.
Due to translations not perfectly done some people arrived to the meaning "suspension of breath" or "breath control". This means that is proposed to seek to reach a state in which there are no more breaths: what purpose it will be connected ? No one gives a precise or convincing answer.... Or to control the breath resembles a technical exercise or a respiratory rebalancing but no one knows which one could be the relation in the attainment of Yoga state ...

On the other hand it is undeniable that if you want to manage your breathing in an unusual and special manner, you certainly need to have mastery and so knowledgeable ability to “regularize” it; knowing how to slow breaths automatically leads also to a regulation of brain frequencies , so it is certainly useful for those who want to occupy successively in concentration and meditation.

But the question remains of another factor, namely, that this is a training to manage, regulate and slow breaths ... but then there are a certain number of other particular methods that have no bearing on this result .... And then?
Then, we get the studies and practical applications that derive from the findings by the ancient sages Rishi, thousands of years ago; they were the first to experience the deep effects of Yoga. 
This collection of studies is RAM for Yoga (Ancient Rishi Yoga Methods to reach the Yoga states).

Here Pranayama is returned back to the original meaning ie "extension of the life force".
What does it mean?
It means that through the air is possible to derive vital energy; similarly you can do from the live food, crystals,  another person or an animal, etc.. Acupuncture is, for example, a system that channels the vital energy, present in the air, inside the body's energy meridians (see the Post on Acupuncture in the Blog Wellness-in-Your-Life.blogspot.it by Anjali).
Pranayama, then, what does?

It is a kind of instrument that channels the vital energy
present in the air to store a greater quantity or to send it in some desired directions. More precisely, the steps of a Pranayama practice are: rake, channeling,  compress and absorb.

The fact is to take care of the importance to form these four phases. It looks like the importance,  in many engines, for producing the power necessary for movement, that the internal combustion should have to follow four phases ... ( intake, compression, expansion and exhaust).


These four steps allow to "extend the life energy force energy" to the parts that need it or parts that are intended to be stimulated a little more. For example, one Pranayama allows to send more vital energy to the brain for a better work of the same, consequently to create more intuitive thoughts, easily resulting in enlightments; or another Pranayama is a system to send vital energy in the channels or meridians more occluded, so to reopen them to their normal functions; another one sends vital energy to the Kanda, the place where the dormant or potential energy called Kundalini stays (see the Post on Kundalini and the Caduceus ) for allowing to restore the ideal functioning of the Chakras. Each Pranayama has its own characteristic , way of implementation and of course a specific number of beneficial effects.

Pranayama, as all methods RAM for Yoga have results and effectiveness at many levels at the same time, ie physical, mental, psychological, character, emotional, energetic and some more components thinner and thinner.

If you want to get in a depth knowledge of these topics the World Wide International School "Yoga in Your Life" offers such opportunities (see the website www.allthebestinyourlife.com ).









In the next post I will write some hints on "Mantras and their use"