How many seconds can you inhale?

[How to be wise]

So I’m currently practicing Kriya yoga, and there are some techniques that require you to inhale for 10-15 seconds. The max that I can inhale is 5 seconds. Does anyone have any tips on how to considerably increase inhalation time? Thanks. 

[Sahil Pandit]

Easy!

Breathe through a straw, you want to decrease the velocity of air and you want to breathe in your lower chamber. 

There are 3 chambers of respiration

 1. The first is shallow - its your upper chest - where smokers inhale and exhale from 

 2. The second is the normal breathing pattern, your lungs haha.

3. The third is your lower abdomen. If you can learn how to breathe from here, you should feel the air going all the way down your body all the way to your genitals. 

Let me know if you need more help, I've been doing these techniques for a couple years now and I practice them while exercising as well. 

[How to be wise]

4 minutes ago, Sahil Pandit said:

Easy!

Breathe through a straw, you want to decrease the velocity of air and you want to breathe in your lower chamber. 

There are 3 chambers of respiration

 1. The first is shallow - its your upper chest - where smokers inhale and exhale from 

 2. The second is the normal breathing pattern, your lungs haha.

3. The third is your lower abdomen. If you can learn how to breathe from here, you should feel the air going all the way down your body all the way to your genitals. 

Let me know if you need more help, I've been doing these techniques for a couple years now and I practice them while exercising as well. 

Thanks man!

How do I breathe through my lower abdomen?

[Sahil Pandit]

@How to be wise How in shape are you? The leaner you are, the better, I fasted off pretty much all my lower belly fat before I could do proper Kriya. 

Here is a video my friend lower chamber breathing, I actually went to a workshop for this and learned some more techniques as well. 

 

[Sahil Pandit]

@How to be wise Caution - you get super high by doing this and your sex organs become supercharged! When I was in my Kriya prime, I got so addicted. I was doing yoga, breathing techniques and certain types of Kriya for 4 hours straight! HAHA 

[Markus]

How to considerably increase inhalation time? Inhale considerably slower.

[Nahm]

@How to be wise just breath into your stomach & diaphragm as much air as you can, then breath out as slow as you can, keep repeating. It takes around 10 minutes to expand it to 15. Singers do this to warm up. 

[How to be wise]

@Markus it’s not as simple as it sounds 

[Markus]

5 hours ago, How to be wise said:

@Markus it’s not as simple as it sounds 

It takes some practice, but that's the gist of it. Also, are you sure you need 10-15 seconds or just counting to 10-15?