Pranayama for everybody
The traditional pranayama is a quantity of knowledge or
the science of breathing and life-energy and its application. The pranayama
as exercise contains the integration of this knowledge and the skill to apply
this knowledge.
Pranayama begins with entering the field of your own sphere, in other words,
to go inwards with the attention. Then the investigation of the structures
and processes of this energy field and its possibilities will begin.
The research and the developing of the possibilities ask for a special situation,
in which the surroundings, the posture with patterns of tonus and relaxation,
the breathing, the sensitivity and the mental and spiritual attitude are of
importance.
These conditions are being varied in the pranayama-exercises and this gives
knowledge special in a practicle sense. The energies will unfold directly
by the exercises.
In addition an internal attentiveness and clarity is required: the greater
this clarity, the faster the developments will occur. (Douwe Tiemersma
"Pranayama", ISBN 90 805739 8 1 /NUR 726, 894, Dutch Publisher Advaita
Centrum, is still only available in Dutch)
Basic pranayama exercises in short:
(*) Updated March 13' 2006
translated by Wouter
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