Warning: Read this If you do Pranayama/Breathing Exercises

[Leo Gura]

Pranayama is not good to do lying down.

[BlessedLion]

10 hours ago, Something Funny said:

I see. Thank you.

If I were to commit to it, what kind of results can I expect (more or less)?

if you truly comitt, you can go all the way with it (of course)

[Davino]

@cetus It's true that is weird the fact of fainting but I feel really good every time I do Pranayama and I've had plenty of mystical experiences with it.

I'll have to reconsider a few things. I really don't wanna injure myself again.

 

[Davino]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Pranayama is not good to do lying down.

Really??

I'm surprised by such claim. Could you please explain further?

Wim hof prefers doing it lying down. You also did holotropic breathing and that must be also done lying down.

If you get very deep it's hard to maintain balance, everything becomes crisp and shinning with many tingling sensations and it will just go on increasing. Some techniques of prana balancing I prefer seated but heavy ones are to be done lying down.

That's my perspective, I'm open to be wrong. Why did you say that?

[gettoefl]

22 hours ago, Something Funny said:

If I were to commit to it, what kind of results can I expect (more or less)?

the goal of meditation/yoga is twofold

find what you are then stay what you are

and then live

to enjoy what you are

[gettoefl]

13 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Pranayama is not good to do lying down.

you need a tinge of discomfort to keep the awareness sharp

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, Davino said:

Could you please explain further?

According to yoga theory, the spine must be perfectly upright for kundalini to flow upward.

[Davino]

@Leo Gura I agree, seated is most optimal for Kundalini outbursts. 

I'm usually not targeting kundalini with breathwork though. More kind of the pranic body. I don't know how to point to what I mean exactly but it's another layer of the human biomachine that gets enlivened by breathing and can induce mystical states.

[Javfly33]

For Pranamaya you need to be sit. If not is not Pranamaya.

Prana Yama = Mastery of the Prana.

 

When lying down the mechanism is very different than when being sit.

Maybe get some cushions Next time just in case

[Oppositionless]

Lay off the cigarettes bro 

 

[Davino]

@Javfly33 Different asanas make prana work differently.

There's no one Asana that allows prana to flow and in all the rest it's blocked.

For example handstand allows for specific kinds of Pranayama but that doesn't mean it's the only way to do it, so it goes with all postures and techniques.

[Davino]

21 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

Lay off the cigarettes bro 

Maybe I should 

[Javfly33]

2 minutes ago, Davino said:

@Javfly33 Different asanas make prana work differently.

There's no one Asana that allows prana to flow and in all the rest it's blocked.

For example handstand allows for specific kinds of Pranayama but that doesn't mean it's the only way to do it, so it goes with all postures and techniques.

@Davino Not sure what you mean, As long as im aware in asanas there is no pranayama involved 

Edited August 14 by Javfly33

[Davino]

@Javfly33 Asana is a (body) posture or being in form. Pranayamas happen inside asanas, like the blood pumping inside existence.

For example, in the microlevel a hand asana is a mudra.

1 hour ago, Javfly33 said:

Maybe get some cushions Next time just in case

Thanks, it was an option I was thinking about.

Edited August 14 by Davino

[Davino]

There's definetely higher intelligence in all disgraces of life

[kray]

On 8/14/2024 at 0:05 PM, Leo Gura said:

According to yoga theory, the spine must be perfectly upright for kundalini to flow upward.

It’s not a theory….its truth. Thousands of people of direct experience of this.