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[Guest guest]

thank you chris. i had never heard those terms for 1:4:2 before.

 

om buddha om namahshivaya jai kaliMA

~leela

 

, "Chris Kirner"

<chriskirner1956> wrote:

> Leela,

>

> Puraka is the inbreath

> Kumbaka is the held breath

> rechaka is the outbreath

>

> The ratio is 1:4:2 measured in seconds, or heartbeats, or mantras. An

> example might be a four second inbreath followed by sixteen seconds of

> holding, followed by eight seconds of breathing out.

>

> Jai Maa!

> Chris