Heaven's Wind: The Life and Teachings of Nakamura Tempu-A Mind-Body Integration Pioneer by Stephen Earle

Author:Stephen Earle [Earle, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: BIO000000 Biography & Autobiography / General, SPO027000 Sports & Recreation / Martial Arts & Self-defense, HIS021000 History / Asia / Japan
ISBN: 9781623171155
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2017-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

The prana can be stopped by way of retention after exhalation.… We breathe out, gradually and intensely, in a very spontaneous, flowing manner, and then do not breathe in; this is one pranayama.… This sort of retention of the breath, which means to say the cessation of breathing in after the breathing out, is called bahya vritti—the pranayama, or the kumbhaka, which follows expulsion.

Or there can be abhyantara vritti, which is retention of the breath after inhalation. We breathe in, in the same way as we exhale—calmly, forcefully, deeply—and then do not breathe out. That retention of the breath after deep inhalation is a pranayama by itself. The way in which we retain the breath is called kumbhaka. Kumbha means a kind of pot which can be filled with things. We fill our system with the whole prana in pranayama. You may ask me, “Is not the body filled with prana at other times? Is it filled with prana only during kumbhaka?”

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