Pranayama Practices
This technique is known as the cooling breath and involves curling your tongue into a "straw."
What is sitali?
These are the three parts you "breathe into" in three-part breath.
What are belly, ribcage, and chest?
Dirgha svasam is this.
What is pranayama?
Raga and dvesha mean these in Enlish.
What are attachment and aversion?
This nadi resides within the spinal cord and travels upward through each of the 7 primary chakras.
What is sushumna?
This practice is known as "three-part breath."
What is dirga svasam?
This mudra is commonly used to practice nadi shodhana.
What is Vishnu mudra?
Focusing on soham is this.
According to yogic teachings, there are this many koshas.
What are 5?
A chakra is formed when more than three of these intersect.
What are nadis?
This pranayama is known as the "victorious breath."
What is ujjayi?
This is the primary muscle of breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
Nadi shodhana is this.
What is pranayama?
This nadi is related to the moon and terminates at the left nostril.
What is Ida?
This is the Sanskrit name for the navel center chakra.
What is manipura?
In the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, this practice, which we typically refer to as a pranayama, is classified as a shat kriya—a cleansing technique.
What is kapalabhati?
Kapalabhati involves a forceful _____ and a passive _____.
What are exhale and inhale?
Lovingkindess is this.
What is a mediation?
What are the kleshas?
This chakra's yantra typically has 12 petals.
What is the heart chakra?
Kapalabhati means this in English.
What is skull shining breath?
Bhastrika involves a ______ inhale and a ______ exhale.
What are forceful and forceful?
Sama vritti is this.
What is pranayama?
Pingala nadi terminates at this nostril.
What is the right nostril?
Much of the current popular understanding of chakras comes from interpretation from modern teachers—not necessarily ancient texts—and this school of thought, which was popular in the early 20th century.
What is Theosophy?