Pranayama: Breath Work for Inner Alchemy

For Self-Care Sunday today, enjoy the following video featured as an enhancement to Robbie Short's article, "No Mud, No Lotus" included in the "Alchemy" section of our Summer Almanac print edition.

If we want to create inner alchemy, we need to become more aware of the power of the breath. In Sanskrit, pranayama actually translates to mean energy control. Since the breath is the primary portal of energy, we use breath work to transfer and transmute energy. In this clip, I give you a brief introduction to four different techniques. The first one is calming and relaxing, the second is invigorating, the third is hearing and transformative, and the final one is cooling. I recently wrote an article for the New Earth Almanac and wanted to provide this video of instruction to go along with it. Hope you find this to be useful!