Kapalbhati Yoga Pranayama for Health & Healing

Kapalbhati is a highly energizing abdominal breathing exercise. Kapal  means forehead and Bhati means shining.Everyday who Practicing Kapalbhati leads to shining face with inner radiance. It Should be practiced empty stomach or 3-4 hours after meal (people with high blood pressure must not do it).Sit in a comfortable crossed leg posture, sukasana (using padmasana or vajrasana is the best) and keep your back straight. Rest your hands on the knees using gyana mudra or chin mudra.Inhale deeply trough your nose, this will expand you abdomen.Exhale using a great force so that your abdominal muscles contract to the maximum These exhalations are similar to your breath outs, but they should be forceful,Make sure while exhaling, the air should be pushed out of your lungs by contracting the diaphragm,After exhalation again do inhalation, but this time with out any effort. To do this just relax your lungs, they will automatically expand and fill with air,One cycle of Kapalabhati pranayama include one deep inhalation, then forceful exhalation and an effortless inhalation.A learner can practise up to three rounds, each with 15 exhalations. Small breaks between each round are allowed dominant inhalation through nostrils which results contraction of abdominal muscles and proper aeration to blood circulationSo in Kapalbhati more attention is to be given on act of forceful exhalation while the inhalation is passive, Silent and short, during abdominal contraction force is applied to the Manipura, Swadhisthan and muladhar chakra.Healthy person can practice it 10-15 minutes regularly.Patients with obesity, Vitiligo, leukaemias, breast carcinoma, Fallopian tube blockage, hepatitis etc. should practice it 20 minutes to half hour twice daily.In Kap-albhati while exhaling you are throwing all negative thoughts out and while breathing in all the positive thoughts get way to enter in mind, this makes mental wellbeing. Kapalbhati stimulates pancreas to release insulin thereby helps to control diabetes mellitus.By improving liver and spleenic functions it presents and cures hepatitis (A.B.C), Cirrhosis of liver and Anaemias. If done regularly it relieves constipation, acidity and anorexia etc.Regularize endocrine and exocrine systems being helpful in regulation of all glandular secretions it is highly effective in azoospermia, oligospermia and fallopian tube blockage etc.It also helps in eradicating cysts and tumours.The most common cause of backpain includes improper posture, weak muscles, emotional stress and psychological disturbances. Not only weak back muscles but weak abdominal muscles are the major cause of backache, especially it is compounded by protruding belly. A Distended abdomen pulls the buck forward, distorting spinal alignment and stretching the back-muscle resulting in spasm. Muscular spasms are also caused and aggregated by emotional stress Now how ''Kapalbhati'' helps in relieving backache is explained as Strengthen the muscles of the back and abdomen.Maintain and increase the flexibility of the muscle ligaments and tendons.  It improves posture. Increase bone density and strength.Kaplabhati helps in blood purification which provides glorious and lustrous skin. It also helps in curing skin disorder like psoriasis, eczema. Vitiligo, leucoderma etc. Thus, Kapalbhati prevents disorder and treats a wide range of physical as well as mental disorder but it should be practiced with rest.

Naadi Shodhana Pranayama

      Naadi shodhana means cleansing of channels in body. This Pranayama is helps by increasing the supply of oxygen in blood. This will relieve tension and refresh the whole body.


The Method:

1. Sit in padmashan
   
   
2. Sit straight with the back perpendicular to ground. Now bend your head forward so that chin touches the upper chest between collar bones. This is Jaaladar Bandha.
   
   
3. Hold the fingers of left hand in jnana mudra. Rest the wrist on the left knee without bending the arms. Close your eyes.
   
   
4. Form a fist of the right hand, open the thumb, ring finger and little finger. These will be used to close and control the breath in and out of right and left nostrils.
   
   
5. Close the left nostril with the right hand ring finger and control the outlet of right nostril with right hand thumb. The nostril opening should be touched and conrolled by the right thumb.
   
   
6. Exhale through the right nostril slowly and completely. The passage of air should be felt only upto the right palm. You should not force the air out hard.
   
   
7. Now start inhaling in a slow and steady manner through the right nostril and completely fill in the lungs. The opening of right nostril would be controlled by right thumb. The left nostril is completely closed by the right hand ring finger and little finger.
   
   
8. Once the lungs are full, close the right nostril using thumb. Release the ring and little finger so that left nostril is opened. Start Exhaling slowly and steadily till the lungs are emptied. Make sure you are not forcing out the air hard, it should be slow and steady. The time take to inhale should be the time taken to exhale.
   
   
9. One pair inhalation through right nostril and exahalation through left nostril, Completes this pranayama. You could inhale using the same nostrils you have exhaled after each cycle so that there is no stain on heart or breathlessness.
   
   
10. Repeat the cycle for 6 to 8 times.

Asana And Pranayama

As per my knowledge  Yoga, Asana does not mean a specific posture, but means sitting. It means, mainly, sitting for meditation. Asana means a meditative seat.The way in which you sit for meditation should be such that the body is motionless and steady and it should not cause any discomfort to the body; otherwise, it cannot be maintained for a long time.When the posture is comfortable that you can maintain it for a long life.Maintaining the Asana for a long time is of paramount importance to facilitate proper meditation. Yoga is science and it help to prepare the person for meditation physically and mentally.So, a comfortable posture is a very important thing.Each Yoga teacher likes to think that he has discovered many of these forgotten postures and so there are Yoga teachers who have produced books containing 200 postures, 250 postures and so on.As per basic Yogasana book has mentioned this fact steady posture, the practitioner develops Titiksha, the power of endurance.

Follow this tips when practicing yoga poses

* Which appropriate to your mood and energy level,always choose that. * Begin with gentler poses and work up to stronger ones. * Breathe evenly through the nose throughout the postures. * Never rush into and out of a pose. * Never strain in a pose - if it hurts, stop. * Don't habitually practice in front of a mirror. Focus on how the pose feels, not what it looks like. * The postures should be both steady and soft.

Tip's For Beginner

If you decide for yoga, you may want to take a few practical classes to learn the basic poses. Otherwise it's not to good for your health,because every person don't know the perfect process of yoga.Take a few beginner's classes to learn the poses and avoid the risk of injury. Now there are many great yoga books and videos available, there is no substitute from learning directly from a good teacher in a yoga class. So find a class and let books and videos be a supplement.
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Everyday if we practice Yoga, it help us to cure from or protect from

1. acidity ,
   
2. allergies,
   
3. alzheimer disease,
   
4. anemia,
   
5. anger,
   
6. anxiety,
   
7. arthritis,
8. asthma,
9. back pain,
   
10. bronchitis,
    
11. cancer,
    
12. nervous tension,
13. obesity,
14. osteoporosis,
    
15. prostate,
    
16. enlargement,
    
17. sciatica,
    
18. skin problems,
    
19. sleep apnea,
    
20. slipped disk,
    
21. sterility,
    
22. stiffness,
    
23. stress,
    
24. insomnia carpal tunnel syndrome,
    
25. chronic fatigue,
    
26. colitis,
    
27. common cold,
    
28. constipation,
    
29. depression,
    
30. diabetes,
    
31. epilepsy,
    
32. eye problems,
    
33. facial wrinkles,
    
34. gastrointestinal disorders,
    
35. headaches,
    
36. heartburn,
    
37. hemorrhoids,
    
38. hepatitis,
    
39. high blood pressure,
    
40. hypertension,
    
41. immune-deficiency,
    
42. impotence,
    
43. menopause,
    
44. menstrual cramps,
    
45. migraines,
    
46. multiple sclerosis,
    
47. muscular dystrophy,
    
48. nervous tension,
    
49. obesity,
    
50. osteoporosis,
    
51. prostate,
    
52. enlargement,
    
53. sciatica,
    
54. skin problems,
55. sleep apnea,
    
56. slipped disk,
    
57. sterility,
    
58. stiffness,
    
59. stress,
    
60. insomnia,
    
61. intoxication,
    
62. thyroid problems,
    
63. kidney stones,
    
64. stuttering and stammering,
    
65. urinary tract disorders for women,
66. vaginal infections and much more.