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Breath of Fire (Agni-Prasana)A cleansing & energising breath, powered by abdominal contractions

Once the diaphragm is felt during Long Deep Breathing then there are a couple of ways in

which one can begin to do Breath of Fire, where the air is pulled in and pumped out veryrhythmically, just like pumping a bellows, without any tension being felt whatsoever on the

abdominal muscles, chest and rib cage muscles or shoulders, which remain relaxesthroughout the breath, so that it may almost seem that you can continue the rhythm

indefinitely with little effort at all

One way to start Breath of Fire, which was the way ! learned it some "# years ago, is to

start with long deep breathing, then as soon as the lungs are completely expanded, as

described earlier, to immediately force the air out, and as soon as most of the air is out toimmediately expand the air back in, each time arching the spine forwards and pressing the

palms inward against the knees in a light manner to feel the diaphragm filling the lungs

from the back to the front completely, then contracting again

$ith each breath one expands a bit faster and contracts a bit faster until without expanding

or contracting completely, a rhythm is felt, and you let that rhythm take over

%ou might liken it to an old model locomotive where the wheels lurch forwards until some

steam and speed is built up, then suddenly the train is moving forward almost effortlessly,with each breath like the chugging sound of the locomotive

&he other way to get into the rhythm of the Breath of Fire for some, may be to immediatelygo to a powerful rhythmic breath, just by visuali'ing the bellows like nature of the

diaphragm

(ither way, from that point on you can make the Breath of Fire very powerful or very light

&he Breath of Fire is not the same as Bastrika, which is a light fast rhythmic breath, usuallytaught as one of the pranayamas in hatha yoga

)or is the Breath of Fire like *abalabati, which is a forceful breath, where you contract theabdomen and rib cage +pulling on the root lock with each contacting breath, where the

simple relaxing of the rib cage brings the air back into the lungs, without inhaling, and youforce the air out again +also in a rhythmic manner

$hile *apalabati is very powerful and beneficial, and while it is used in many *% *riyas, it isnot the same as Breath of Fire

Breath of Fire will entirely charge the nervous system, causing the glands to secrete andpurify the blood $hen it is done with certain postures and movements, which are meant to

put contracting +drawing in or expanding +releasing pressure in nerve plexuses andglandular centers, those areas are made to fire and become completely charged

-s an area becomes charged, the sexual +seminal fluids are released into the bloodstreamand flow to those charged areas, so that gradually those areas will maintain that charge and

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pranic pressure builds throughout the body converting Bindu +&amasic and .ajasic energyto Ojas +/atvic energy, which fills and permeates the entire body and mind

Bit by bit, over a period of just a few weeks of sets and kriyas combining posture,

movement, breath, sound and locks, the entire body will begin to feel magnetically electricand etheric, as the field becomes balanced with an inward dynamo0like force

-s this charge builds and polari'es, the mind becomes very still, very clear and bright, and a

radiance is felt in and through and around the body and head

&he feeling of the stressful need to think and act and to be the 1doer1 begin to recede, as

the mind becomes more receptive and open to notice that there seems to be an almostautomatic connectedness between one2s aims and events and experiences that come to

fulfill them &he feeling of a natural ever present oneness begins to emerge as a cleareralways existing reality

Little by little, outward tendencies of the mind towards the physical and mental begin tofade, and one abides in one2s satvic presence 0 spacelike, pervasive, without the sense of

me or mine 0 the /elf0(ffulgent 3eart, where 1! -41 is the single &ruth

&he practice of *undalini %oga with the natural awareness and rhythm of the diaphragm in

Long Deep Breathing and Breath of Fire allows the postures and kriyas to have the greatestand most complete effect in bringing the satvic field to the point where the /elf recollects

!tself and abides without attention in one2s &rue )ame 0 /at )am

&ry these breaths out this way and see what happens