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Yoga -
Anuloma Viloma |
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What
is Anuloma Viloma? |
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Anuloma Viloma is a breathing technique. In
Sanskrit Anuloma means with the natural order and Viloma means going
against. Thus it is called Alternate Nostril Breathing Technique. In this
Breathing Technique, you inhale through one nostril, retain the breath,
and exhale through the other nostril. A healthy person breathes mainly
through the left nostril that is the path of the ida nadi, and then
through the right nostril, the path of the Pingala nadi. If you are really
healthy, you will breathe through the Ida nostril about one hour and fifty
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But in many people, this natural rhythm
is disturbed. Anuloma Viloma balances the rhythm of
breathing and restores, equalizes flow of Prana in the body.
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What
is the technique of Anuloma Viloma? |
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There are six steps
that form one round of Anuloma Viloma. First raise your right hand,
curling your forefinger and middle finger into your palm, leaving
thumb, fourth finger, and little finger extended.
1.
Place your thumb on
the right side of your nose and apply gentle pressure just under the
bone, where the fleshy part of the nose begins. Inhale through the
left nostril, to the count of four.
2. Hold the breath by closing both the
nostrils, to the count of sixteen.
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3.Then exhale through
the right nostril, closing the left with the ring and little fingers,
to the count of eight.
4. Inhale through the
right nostril, keeping the left nostril closed with the ring and
little fingers, to the count of four.
5. Hold the breath,
closing both nostrils, to the count of sixteen.
6. Exhale through the
left nostril, keeping the right closed with the thumb, to the count of
eight.
Initially practice
three rounds and gradually reach upto twenty rounds.
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What
are the benefits of practicing Anuloma Viloma? |
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Anuloma Viloma helps to balance and harmonize the functioning of the right
and left hemispheres of the brain and ensures optimum creativity and
optimum logical verbal activity. It is the best technique to soothe the
nervous system and calms the mind. It encourages the removal of state air
and toxins as the exhalations are longer than inhalation in this
technique. |
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