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Please find more details below on Pranayama that you may find helpful when practicing independently.

PRANA
" Pra" is Life's creative, vital energy. "Na" is us in these body-minds. Prana means life energy that literally manifests our body-minds. 
It is the reason why working with practices that allow the free flow of Prana are so effective when it comes to creating any meaningful or long-lasting change in our bodies and state of being. Pranayama is a practice that allows Prana to move and create without inhibition, so we naturally live as and from our most aligned and centered state of being. Pranayama is all about effortlessly living the "Yamas" - ways of being and doing that serve the highest good of the self and all.

At the core, Yoga helps us recognize that we in our body-minds are simply a play of elements beyond our personal mental identity and its conditions.
The way the prana moves and lives in and as our body-minds determines the nature of the cells, their vibratory frequency/consciousness, and the resulting functioning and experience of Life that is lived. The higher the pranic energy in the body, the more aware, balanced, and conscious Life we lead.

The practice of Pranayama, apart from the basic health guidelines, needs no prerequisite knowledge whatsoever. In fact, in my personal experience, the less the mental knowledge and expectations, the better and more effective the practice can feel and be!
Prana needs no guiding, monitoring, or controlling. Prana is Life's innate intelligence, and all that is required is that we arrive entirely at its grace in complete surrender.
We cannot access Prana directly, and therefore, breath that is the vehicle through which Prana moves is what we work with to connect.

BREATH-MIND-WORLD
Ramana Maharishi, who is also known as Bhagavan was a revered Indian sage, and Jnani who shared his path of Self enquiry and devotion as a means to realize the true nature of what we are and reality. He shares with us how the breath is the gross form of mind and that there is a direct connection between the Breath, Mind, and the World we perceive and experience. The breath which is the vehicle of Prana and the Mind/thought both arise from the same space. The movement of breath reflects the movement of the mind and vice versa. Stop your breath for a bit and notice how it stops your mind as well.
The nature of our breath at any given moment indicates the state of our Mind. The movement and unique rhythms and patterns of the breath are intricately linked to the Mind's related states. As our breath changes, so does our state of being, the reflection of which shows up in how we live, perceive, and relate with our World. For most of us who have and live through our active, creative, and imaginative minds - whether it used to worry or be engaged creatively in our worlds - Pranayama serves to be an excellent practice to keep us anchored and balanced. Through Pranayama, the bioenergy in the cells increases allowing the body to shift back into its most aligned breath pattern, which settles the moving, distracted or agitated Mind. It is the very reason why Pranayama is a powerfully effective practice when it comes to preparing for Meditation. In Pranayama, we step aside so Prana can settle the mind and body into an optimum state, allowing us to easefully and deeply experience the Meditation that is us.

Pranayama is an aid to temporarily quieten the mind.
ஆகையால் மன மடங்கும்போது பிராணனும், பிராண னடங்கும்போது மனமு மடங்கும்
āhaiyāl maṉam aḍaṅgum-pōdu pirāṇaṉ-um, pirāṇaṉ aḍaṅgum-pōdu maṉamum aḍaṅgum.
When the mind subsides the prāṇa also stills, and when the prāṇa stills the mind also quietens.
- Ramana Maharishi (Nan Yar? Who am I? Paragraph 12)

PRANAYAMA GUIDELINES AND PRECAUTIONS - Click the right and left arrows on the image to see the slides.

PLEASE WATCH “The 5 Introductory Pranayamas” video below as a refresher.

PRACTICE TIMINGS
Use these just as a guideline. Allow yourself to move and change with where you find the body-mind on any particular day.

20 Mins practice - For days when you are busy.
2 mins - Bhastrika.
7 mins - Kapalabhati
7 mins - Anuloma-Viloma (Nadi Shodhana/Alternate Nostril Breathing)
2 mins - Brahmhari 2 mins - Udgeet

30 mins practice - Basic.
5 mins - Bhastrika.
10 mins - Kapalabhati
10 mins - Anuloma-Viloma (Nadi Shodhana/Alternate Nostril Breathing)
3 mins - Brahmhari
2 mins - Udgeet

45 mins practice - Extended (Ideal for the modern-day lives we live.)

5 mins - Bhastrika.
10 mins - Kapalabhati
10 mins - Anuloma-Viloma (Nadi Shodhana/Alternate Nostril Breathing)
3 mins - Brahmhari
2 mins - Udgeet

90 mins practice - For deeper healing and rapid transformation.
Please be extremely mindful while doing this making sure you are not exerting in any way. Generally, one may feel only called to begin this after doing Pranayama for an amount of extended time. While this does help the body heal (depending on the condition) for safety, it is highly recommended you do this under the supervision and direction of an experienced teacher. Begin with a slower pace and take as many pauses as required.

5 mins - Bhastrika.
30 mins - Kapalabhati
30 mins - Anuloma-Viloma (Nadi Shodhana/Alternate Nostril Breathing)
15 mins - Brahmhari
10 mins - Udgeet

Last but not the least, the most important part of this practice is that we begin with taking complete and radical SELF RESPONSIBILITY for our own well-being and leading with a deep sense of trust and faith in ourselves.

तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम्
Tada Drashtuh Svarupe Avasthanam
- Patanjali Yoga Sutra 1:3
Thus through the recognition of our true Self we realize/see with clarity what we are and what is the true nature of Life.

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pranayama & transformation

Pranayama and Meditation are two magically powerful practices that can help us immensely as we move through these transformational times and uniquely experience our inner/outer shifts.

The 5 introductory Pranayamas

The Ultimate Pranayama Set -
Bhastrika, Kapalbhati, Anuloma Viloma, Brahmahari, Udgeet.

THE gift of pranayama - a blog

I couldn’t name it. It felt indescribable. What had been missing before. And what was now clearly present. I viscerally felt it in each cell of my body.
Ease of being? Wholeness. And more.
Try as I might, I had no words for it.
In many ways, I still don’t.