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Pranayama balances energy in our body
This talk explains the yoga stick and the practice of prāṇāyāma. The stick is a tool for support during long meditation and prāṇāyāma, adjustable to one's height. It can also aid with back discomfort, help maintain posture, and serve as a focal point for concentration. The practice of prāṇāyāma concerns the vital energy, or prāṇa, within the body. Our physical body is nourished by food and liquid, the anna-maya-kośa. The energy that animates this body is the prāṇa-maya-kośa, which governs all functions from circulation to digestion. Imbalances in prāṇa, often caused by poor nourishment or negative emotions like anger and jealousy, lead to disease and discomfort. The practice aims to purify and balance this energy. Key techniques include feeling the breath in the nostrils and Nāḍī Śodhana, a purification practice alternating breath between nostrils. Regular practice balances the body's 72,000 nerve channels and the energies of the moon (Iḍā) and sun (Piṅgalā) leading to health and harmony.
"Prāṇa is doing that. Prāṇa-maya-kośa in whole body, so there is a prāṇa."
"If we practice prāṇa prāṇāyāma, then we can get all energies balanced in our body and every kind of function in the body."
Filming location: Sunshine Coast, Australia
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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4
