Bhastrika Pranayama is a SANSKRIT word that means Bhastrika means breathing like a bellows. This is also known as ''bellows breath''. Bellows are a device for producing a strong current of air which was used to fan the fire in ancient days. our lungs are moved with movements that are very much the same as the bellows. Bhastrika pranayama breathes in and breathes out both are performed forcefully. The belly is an automatic movement at the time of Bhastrika Pranayama. Bhastrika Pranayama is a balancing technique that helps to balance in Vata dosh, Pitta Dosha and Kapha Dosha.
Proper sit on the padmasana pose. and closed eyes. take a deep breath in, failing the lungs with air. then breathe out. Breathe in and breathe out should be taken the same. While you take to breathe in assume that you are taking in positive energy and vibration and you are being energized by them. During breath out, you should imagine that you are taking out all the toxins from your body and find.
Benefits of Bhastrika Pranayama:
There are the most important health benefits of Bhastrika Pranayama are,
1. This pranayama is good for brain oxygenation.
2. Bhastrika Pranayama helps to benefit the nervous system and the motor system.
3. Bhastrika Pranayama helps to energize the body and the mind.
4. Daily practices of Bhastrika Pranayama help to reduce depression and anxiety.
5. Bhastrika Pranayama helps in treating fibrosis.
6. Bhastrika Pranayama helps greatly for lungs, cough, flu, respiratory issues, allergies, or breathlessness.
7. Bhastrika Pranayama improves the strengthened immunity.
8. Bhastrika Pranayama helps to check out sleep apnea, snoring loudly while sleeping, do you feel perennially tired after a full night's sleep, and suddenly breathing starts and stop during sleep. Bhastrika Pranayama is the best medicine to check and treat this problem. Bhastrika Pranayama is the best for a robust and energized body and mind.
Step by step Bhastrika Pranayama yoga:
1. Sit in any comfortable position like Padmasana (Step 1), Siddhasana (Step 2) or Virasana (Step 3).
2. Keep the back erect and rigid. Lower the head to the trunk. Rest the chin in the notch between the collar-bones just above the breast-bone. (This is the Jalandhara Bandha.)
3. Take a fast, vigorous breath and exhale fast and forcefully. One inhalation and one exhalation completes a cycle of Bhastrika. The sound made resembles air rushing through bellows.
4. Complete at a stretch 10 to 12 cycles. Then take a slow deep breath as in Ujjayi. Retain the breath with Mula Bandha for 2 to 3 seconds, then exhale slowly and deeply as in Ujjayi.
5. This Ujjayi type of breathing rests the lungs and the diaphragm and prepares them for fresh cycles of Bhastrika.
6. Repeat the cycles of Bhastrika three to four times with Ujjayi breathing in between.
7. If the sound of the air lessens, and the vigour diminishes, then reduce their number.
8. After completion lie down in Savasana. (Step 4)
Bhastrika Pranayama Stage 2 yoga:
1. Sit in any comfortable position like Padmasana (Step 1), Siddhasana (Step 2) or Virasana (Step 3).
2. Keep the back erect and rigid. Lower the head to the trunk. Rest the chin in the notch between the collar-bones just above the breast-bone. (This is the Jalandhara Bandha.)
3. Adjust the thumb and finger pressure on the nostrils as explained in the technique of Siirya Bhedana.
4. Close the left nostril completely but keep the right nostril partially open.
5. Inhale and exhale vigorously only through the right nostril for 10 to 12 cycles of Bhastrika as in Stage 1 above.
6. Close the right nostril. Open the left nostril partially and repeat Bhastrika for an equal number of cycles.
7. Release the fingers from the nostrils.
8. Take a few deep breaths as in Ujjayi.
9. Repeat the cycles on both sides three or four times, doing Ujjayi in between.
10. After completion lie down in Savasana. (Step 4)
