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Preparatory Practices for Bhutashuddhi Kriya
Deep Breathing
- Sit comfortably in any meditative posture
- Place your hands in your lap
- Slowly inhale to your full capacity
- You chest will expand as you reach your capacity
- As your breath starts running out slowly exhale
- Do not bend as you exhale completely
- Repeat the cycle again and again for 10 minutes
This technique gives instant calmness and freshness when you are tired.
Hissing Breath
Bhutashuddhi Kriya calls for roaming your awareness across the complete
length of your spinal column. You should be able to inhale as your attention
ascends from the botom of the spine to the top and you should be able to exhale
slowly as your attention descends from the top of the spine to the bottom. In
order to perform Bhutashuddhi Kriya correctly you need to extend the inhalation
and exhalation time slightly by introducing a hissing sound. This technique is
called as Ujjayi breathing.
- Sit comfortably in any meditative posture
- Place your hands in your lap
- Now slowly start inhaling
- As you begin contract your throat slightly so as to produce a soft
hissing sound. This hissing sound resembles to snoring.
- Let your chest expand as you fill in the air
- As the breath starts running out exhale slowly
- Keep the throat contracted as before so as to produce the same hissing
sound
- Keep repeating such cycles for 5-10 minutes
In this preparatory practice you need not pay any attention to mantras of
individual chakras or roaming your attention across the spine. Just be aware of
the hissing sound and try to make the entire action as smooth as possible.
Bipin Joshi is an independent software consultant and trainer by profession specializing in Microsoft web development technologies. Having embraced the Yoga way of life he is also a yoga mentor, meditation teacher, and spiritual guide to his students. He is a prolific author and writes regularly about software development and yoga on his websites. He is programming, meditating, writing, and teaching for over 27 years. To read more about him go here. More details about his Kriya and Meditation online course are available here.