student with emphysema level 1 and 2

[Guest guest]

I have a student diagnosed with low to mild emphysema ( level 1 and 2)

she is very much willing to do the kryas and the brething exercises.

I've looked up on the list to see previous posts but it seems there

are none.

Anyone to give some lights on the subject?

May you lead healthy and long lives helping many.

Dharam Kaur

[Guest guest]

Kundaliniyoga , " kikasaldanha "

<kikasaldanha wrote:

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> I have a student diagnosed with low to mild emphysema ( level 1 and

2)

> she is very much willing to do the kryas and the brething exercises.

> I've looked up on the list to see previous posts but it seems there

> are none.

> Anyone to give some lights on the subject?

> May you lead healthy and long lives helping many.

> Dharam Kaur

>

If this person is a smoker they need to quit. If they are a non smoker

they should ask the doctor for a genetic test for alpha 1 deficency

it's usually free.. The breathing exercises for emphysema include

really pushing the air out from the belly. imaginge as you exhale your

diaphram is an elevator Slowly raising and pushing air up and out.

while doing this purse your lips to add some resistance. Air trapping

is one of the unfortunate symptoms of emphysema. Carolina

[Guest guest]

Hi Carolina,

 

Speaking as a person not on the list, but with a lot of experience with

pranayama, I'd venture to say that western medicine is highly misleading

on lung conditions and makes things like asthma much worse instead of

healing them. Principally, western medicine is based on a key role of

drugs. Pranayama and also qigong accept the influence of

" pressure " in the lower abdomen on lung function. " Pressure " may mean

simple pressure like we learn in school physics and/or chakra alchemy.

If this is not accepted, then the western breathing routines and

theories are generally harmful.

 

It is not a question of pushing air out but of doing doing exercises

like Bhastrika paying attention to drawing in the abdomen during an

inhale (or at any rate putting it under pressure). When you do this

with a sort of fixation on muscular activity around the abdomen instead

of the muscles working the ribs, the lungs are cured. Pushing air

around and pursed lips breathing are I think quite wrong, because they

discourage centering breathing on chakras, as is correct.

 

See http://www.chis.ucla.edu/pdf/asthma_collateral_052002.pdf. That the

asthma epidemic might well be the result of modern " treatment " with

drugs and on the basis of a wrong understanding never seems to enter

anyone's head.

 

I guess anyone should keep to yoga as far as possible. Yoga may be

thrashed by " Skeptics " as being unscientific, but western pulmonary

medicine is far worse in this respect. Regards, Richard Friedel.

 

Carolina wrote:

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> Kundaliniyoga

> <Kundaliniyoga%40>, " kikasaldanha "

> <kikasaldanha wrote:

> >

> > I have a student diagnosed with low to mild emphysema ( level 1 and

> 2)

> > she is very much willing to do the kryas and the brething exercises.

> > I've looked up on the list to see previous posts but it seems there

> > are none.

> > Anyone to give some lights on the subject?

> > May you lead healthy and long lives helping many.

> > Dharam Kaur

> >

> If this person is a smoker they need to quit. If they are a non smoker

> they should ask the doctor for a genetic test for alpha 1 deficency

> it's usually free.. The breathing exercises for emphysema include

> really pushing the air out from the belly. imaginge as you exhale your

> diaphram is an elevator Slowly raising and pushing air up and out.

> while doing this purse your lips to add some resistance. Air trapping

> is one of the unfortunate symptoms of emphysema. Carolina

>

>