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Could someone please explain the breath of fire technique? Also is there a

best position in which to meditate? Or maybe it is just a personal

preference, in which case I would be interseted in suggestions. Thank you.

Peace and Love,

~Jennifer

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Hi Jennifer

 

Here's something else. There's a lot of good stuff in the archives - ONElist

have now improved their search facilities. Check them out.

 

Sat Nam!

Gordon

 

>>>>>

I like the explanation pasted below. For me starting in slow motion

with slow inhalations and exhalations helped me to get all the parts

coordinated before picking up speed. Good luck!

--Ori

 

Breath of Fire

One of the breaths used in Kundalini Yoga:

 

Sit comfortably with a straight spine. Rest your hands on your

knees, palms up, with your fingers in gyan mudra (touching the

tips of the index fingers to the tips of the thumbs). Breathe

fairly rapidly (about 2 or 3 breaths per second) through your

nose, while you pump your navel point and abdomen-- pulling

them sharply inward on the exhale, and pushing them out during

the inhale. Your chest should be relaxed. When you're finished,

inhale deeply and hold the breath while you pull the energy up

into your higher centers. Then exhale and relax.

 

This is a balanced breath with no emphasis on either the inhale

or the exhale. Try thinking of it as one continuous breath

being pulled in and out. You won't hyperventilate if you don't

breathe through your mouth. Start practicing breath of fire

for no more than three minutes at a time and work up to 31 minutes

or more.

 

--Tantric numerology by Dr. Guruchander Singh Khalsa, D.C.

p. 121

ori

Kundalini Resources on the Web

http://www.eskimo.com/~ori/kundalini.html

 

 

 

> "Lindsey, Jennifer" <jennifer.lindsey

>

> Could someone please explain the breath of fire technique? Also is there

a

> best position in which to meditate? Or maybe it is just a personal

> preference, in which case I would be interseted in suggestions. Thank

you.

> Peace and Love,

> ~Jennifer

>

> --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ----------------------------

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Hi Jennifer

 

First off, check out the KY website - there are instructions re meditation

positions and also breath of fire in the section covering the Spinal Set -

http://www.gtmark.com/ky/spinal.htm

 

Secondly, I have found the following in the KY archives, written back in

March by my assistant Susan. I'm sure she won't mind me reposting it here -

it covers more than breath of fire, and should prove interesting to many of

our rs

 

Enjoy your Kundalini Yoga

 

Sat Nam!

Gordon

 

>>>>

Most of us don't know how to breathe properly. We take shallow breaths as

if we are afraid of what breath does. But breath is manna to our

bodies...so we should drink heavily and deeply to energize and feed our

bodies. I was taught by breathing in to the count of four...slow counts.

Feel the breath expand your ribcage.....you are aiming to fill your whole

chest cavity with air. At the end of the fourth, when you think you can't

take any more air in, take a sip more. Hold for a count of four. Exhale

over a count of four....and when you think you have all the air out, huff

more out. You will be amazed how much you can get out after this count of

four. You may experience burning in your lungs doing this. But soon, your

breathing comes deep and sure....and the count of four expands to a count

of five...six. I was told to concentrate on the emptiness between

breathing in and breathing out....that period of stillness. Once your

lungs are used to doing this, I started breathing in from different parts

of my body. No one taught me this...it just started to happen when I

meditated. I would open up my crown chakra and breathe the energy down, on

an inbreath....feeling it flow around my heart....keeping it there....then

on the outbreath, push the breath down the rest of my body to exit out my

feet. Then I would reverse it, breathing in my feet, feel it flowing to my

heart, then on the exhale, pushing it up and out my head. Dizzying at

first....but the energy that fills me when I do that was incredible. I

found out later that I was unconsciously doing something that is taught to

get the energy flowing in the two currents that wind around our spines. We

would practice this for about five minutes.....at the beginning of each

session. It prepared us for the work in the session by calming us and

getting our minds into the proper space for work.

 

The fire breath is very different. Here, you concentrate on the outbreath,

as it is thrown out with such force, the inbreath comes after it

automatically. We were taught to put our hand on our bellies and use those

muscles to force air out of our lungs in a whoosh. Our hands were to remind

us to use those muscles to force it out. Your whole abdomen is used to

empty the lungs very quickly. You should hear your breath coming out

vocally....almost like a cough but not so loud...kinda like a HUH sound.

Here, you are not using so much breath...it is like little sips in and

whooshes out. Like my advanced terminology?? :;grins:: As the fire in

fire breath is related to the power centre or third chakra, this is where

the breath is being localized. You are using your diaphram and stomach

muscles to force the breath out. Dizzying again.....and you feel the heat

in your belly rising up into you.....making your head reel with it. It

took me awhile to get used to doing this....and my stomach muscles hated me

for a while... but it was worth everything to feel what I did when the

rising started. At first, we couldn't do it very much.....it was far too

difficult to keep up....but as the weeks went by, we had longer lessons

using it.

 

The alternate nostril breathing was taught to us after the above two.

After doing the first breathing exercise a few times, raise one of your

hands to your face, palm facing it. Put your thumb by one nostril and your

forefinger by the other. Gently put your thumb over the nostril, blocking

the passage of air through it. Breathe in the other nostril slowly, using

the first technique. Hold the inbreath for a second...concentrating on the

stillness....then exhale. Remove your thumb, and put your forefinger on

it's nostril and breathe in...concentrating on the middle...exhale.

Continue to alternate with one complete inhale/exhale per thumb/finger. Do

this for about eight to ten cycles. You should feel this breathing calming

you yet energizing the chakras.

 

 

 

 

> "Lindsey, Jennifer" <jennifer.lindsey

>

> Could someone please explain the breath of fire technique? Also is there

a

> best position in which to meditate? Or maybe it is just a personal

> preference, in which case I would be interseted in suggestions. Thank

you.

> Peace and Love,

> ~Jennifer

>

> --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ----------------------------

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  • 2 months later...

Joel-

I asked about breath of fire myself a few months ago, these are the two

responses Gordon was kind enough to send me.

Peace and Love,

~Jen

 

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gordon

Kundaliniyoga

Re: breath of fire....

Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:19AM

 

gordon <gordon

 

Hi Jennifer

 

Here's something else. There's a lot of good stuff in the archives - ONElist

have now improved their search facilities. Check them out.

 

Sat Nam!

Gordon

 

>>>>>

I like the explanation pasted below. For me starting in slow motion

with slow inhalations and exhalations helped me to get all the parts

coordinated before picking up speed. Good luck!

--Ori

 

Breath of Fire

One of the breaths used in Kundalini Yoga:

 

Sit comfortably with a straight spine. Rest your hands on your

knees, palms up, with your fingers in gyan mudra (touching the

tips of the index fingers to the tips of the thumbs). Breathe

fairly rapidly (about 2 or 3 breaths per second) through your

nose, while you pump your navel point and abdomen-- pulling

them sharply inward on the exhale, and pushing them out during

the inhale. Your chest should be relaxed. When you're finished,

inhale deeply and hold the breath while you pull the energy up

into your higher centers. Then exhale and relax.

 

This is a balanced breath with no emphasis on either the inhale

or the exhale. Try thinking of it as one continuous breath

being pulled in and out. You won't hyperventilate if you don't

breathe through your mouth. Start practicing breath of fire

for no more than three minutes at a time and work up to 31 minutes

or more.

 

--Tantric numerology by Dr. Guruchander Singh Khalsa, D.C.

p. 121

ori

Kundalini Resources on the Web

http://www.eskimo.com/~ori/kundalini.html

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gordon

Kundaliniyoga

Re: breath of fire....

Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:20AM

 

gordon <gordon

 

Hi Jennifer

 

First off, check out the KY website - there are instructions re meditation

positions and also breath of fire in the section covering the Spinal Set -

http://www.gtmark.com/ky/spinal.htm

 

Secondly, I have found the following in the KY archives, written back in

March by my assistant Susan. I'm sure she won't mind me reposting it here -

it covers more than breath of fire, and should prove interesting to many of

our rs

 

Enjoy your Kundalini Yoga

 

Sat Nam!

Gordon

 

>>>>

Most of us don't know how to breathe properly. We take shallow breaths as

if we are afraid of what breath does. But breath is manna to our

bodies...so we should drink heavily and deeply to energize and feed our

bodies. I was taught by breathing in to the count of four...slow counts.

Feel the breath expand your ribcage.....you are aiming to fill your whole

chest cavity with air. At the end of the fourth, when you think you can't

take any more air in, take a sip more. Hold for a count of four. Exhale

over a count of four....and when you think you have all the air out, huff

more out. You will be amazed how much you can get out after this count of

four. You may experience burning in your lungs doing this. But soon, your

breathing comes deep and sure....and the count of four expands to a count

of five...six. I was told to concentrate on the emptiness between

breathing in and breathing out....that period of stillness. Once your

lungs are used to doing this, I started breathing in from different parts

of my body. No one taught me this...it just started to happen when I

meditated. I would open up my crown chakra and breathe the energy down, on

an inbreath....feeling it flow around my heart....keeping it there....then

on the outbreath, push the breath down the rest of my body to exit out my

feet. Then I would reverse it, breathing in my feet, feel it flowing to my

heart, then on the exhale, pushing it up and out my head. Dizzying at

first....but the energy that fills me when I do that was incredible. I

found out later that I was unconsciously doing something that is taught to

get the energy flowing in the two currents that wind around our spines. We

would practice this for about five minutes.....at the beginning of each

session. It prepared us for the work in the session by calming us and

getting our minds into the proper space for work.

 

The fire breath is very different. Here, you concentrate on the outbreath,

as it is thrown out with such force, the inbreath comes after it

automatically. We were taught to put our hand on our bellies and use those

muscles to force air out of our lungs in a whoosh. Our hands were to remind

us to use those muscles to force it out. Your whole abdomen is used to

empty the lungs very quickly. You should hear your breath coming out

vocally....almost like a cough but not so loud...kinda like a HUH sound.

Here, you are not using so much breath...it is like little sips in and

whooshes out. Like my advanced terminology?? :;grins:: As the fire in

fire breath is related to the power centre or third chakra, this is where

the breath is being localized. You are using your diaphram and stomach

muscles to force the breath out. Dizzying again.....and you feel the heat

in your belly rising up into you.....making your head reel with it. It

took me awhile to get used to doing this....and my stomach muscles hated me

for a while... but it was worth everything to feel what I did when the

rising started. At first, we couldn't do it very much.....it was far too

difficult to keep up....but as the weeks went by, we had longer lessons

using it.

 

The alternate nostril breathing was taught to us after the above two.

After doing the first breathing exercise a few times, raise one of your

hands to your face, palm facing it. Put your thumb by one nostril and your

forefinger by the other. Gently put your thumb over the nostril, blocking

the passage of air through it. Breathe in the other nostril slowly, using

the first technique. Hold the inbreath for a second...concentrating on the

stillness....then exhale. Remove your thumb, and put your forefinger on

it's nostril and breathe in...concentrating on the middle...exhale.

Continue to alternate with one complete inhale/exhale per thumb/finger. Do

this for about eight to ten cycles. You should feel this breathing calming

you yet energizing the chakras.

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