The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Bhastrika Pranayama – Bellows Breath
Aired: 2022-08-06
Duration: 02:26


=== Bellows Breath Meditation (02:14) ===

[00:00:11]  Greetings my esteemed subscribers.
[00:00:14]  Before you you see me checking in from Paradise doing some bastrika pranayama, aka bellows breath.
[00:00:22]  So the technique is quite simple.
[00:00:24]  You can envision your belly as being a bellows and you aggressively exhale.
[00:00:29]  And you can do 15 to 20 repetitions before going into a breath hold, which you see me doing right now.
[00:00:37]  And you can of course, if you are out in a paradise-like environment, you can simply focus on your surroundings.
[00:00:44]  You can focus on the wind, you can focus on the sensation of the sunlight caressing your skin.
[00:00:51]  Or if you are meditating upon something in particular, such as the runes, this would be the time you can do it.
[00:00:59]  So this can be an entry point to a deeper meditation.
[00:01:05]  You can do a few rounds of Bastrika Pranayama before going into a meditation.
[00:01:10]  Or you can just view it as yogic coffee, as some people have labeled the exercise.
[00:01:18]  So it has many uses and you can experiment a bit with it.
[00:01:23]  So basic point is that you can take a few relaxing breaths and then you go into the breathing itself.
[00:01:33]  So looking at my belly again, I envision it as a bellows that is pumping.
[00:01:40]  So that is the main mental technique, the main mental image that you can use for this particular exercise.
[00:01:48]  So this is similar enough to Breath of Fire, but the difference is that the emphasis is on the exhale during Bastrika Pranayama.
[00:02:00]  So bellows breath.
[00:02:02]  So hopefully that tutorial, this tutorial, is useful to you.
[00:02:07]  And I highly encourage you to experiment a bit with this breathing exercises and with meditation overall.
[00:02:15]  It's a quite rewarding quest, I can assure you.
[00:02:19]  So anyway, thank you for watching and thank you for your support.