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Practising pranayama with Vishwaguruji

Morning practice integrates posture, breath, and environmental purity.

A straight spine with knees grounded relaxes the lungs and stomach, aiding digestion. Slouching forces the stomach outward, creating problems. Periodically stretch when working. Sit with hands on knees, shoulders back, and spine slightly forward to allow easy breath. Inhale with the chin lowered, then exhale through the mouth. Practice this movement repeatedly, feeling the lungs and breath. Conclude by sitting straight, focusing on the breath throughout the body.

"Shoulders strong, up, chin down."

"Feel the breath in the whole body."

Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsab Dās Prabhu Śaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇam. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Devādhi Deva Devapurīṣṭha Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Oṁ Śāntiḥ... Jai, very good. You are very good. Very good lungs, yes. This is also a way to learn how to make our lungs strong; with this song, it is the best. If we are doing it through the nostrils, it’s good. But for these instruments, we are creating better lungs. However, if you are an alcoholic or a tobacco user, then it’s not good. So, you had a good breakfast? Again, so quickly, Guru. Oh, there is more of our cleaning, our lungs more. It was good rain. It came here; the water was very pure, very clean. If you have a very nice, clean vessel, put it outside and see what kind of water came in. This is also water, which you are using very much for energy. Yes, so this is very good to catch your water. Catch your water and put it in a clean bottle—a glass bottle—and take it home. You can use it for something as a medicine. This here is very clean water. There are aeroplanes, but not like that. So try to catch it, but if you put it on some trees and then you take it, no. So many countries, your countries also, there are not very many companies or factories and such, but there are places where it is beautiful, very good. And for our land, the earth is also very good because from there, water doesn’t come after the road to us. That is our... there is another going out the other side; it’s going the other side. So we are in a very pure, clean atmosphere. But again, we go to our practice. So you can sit in Vajrāsana, or very good as you are, but it is about our kidneys—not kidneys, knees—should touch the earth, yes. And if you put a little posture down, then you can sit very nicely. So, our knees should be bending down. Yes. When our knees are down, and we have a little, some pillows or something down, or someone has good buttocks, then you don’t need to. That’s very important. So, when we are in this position, then our spine is very straight for it. When that is, then our lungs are completely relaxed. We are relaxed and open. At the same time, our intestine and the area below from the navel down, our stomach, is very relaxed. So it means whatever we eat or drink... as it is very comfortable in the stomach, going through and digesting. Because our lungs are that, and what are our bones? Mostly, we are always like this. When we are bending forward always, then what does our stomach do? It tries to hold out his lungs, ribs, going in. We are going down. Then the stomach comes out, because the stomach tries to take us up again. And that’s why we have stomach problems, so we should always sit straight. Otherwise, many people are working all the time like this, like this. And the hands also. When we are working with some instruments on the table, after five minutes, maximum ten minutes, then stretch yourself like this. That’s enough. One second, two seconds, three seconds, a minute, a minute. Okay, one minute is okay. We can go this way, we can like this, this, then we will be very comfortable, relaxed, etc. So, what we did yesterday, that practice, the first is, of course, when our knees are on the floor, then we are relaxed. Our shoulders are straight. The spine is very straight, and our neck is very good and relaxed. Also, our head is good. Our eyes are in good ways, everything. And when our arms are very long, from our shoulders to the hips, it’s not only our hands like that, our hands are going more light. So, how to sit? We sit with our hands on our knees. Very relaxed. But when we are going to practice some exercise, then, as we said, we put our shoulders. Shoulders, the shoulder goes like this and like that. Now, it means again we are making our spine very comfortable, straight, and we need a little, a little bit forward. Then, our belly is relaxed, breath, air is going in very good. Then we inhale, then perfect. And so, we yesterday were doing so, we will do this practice, the chin. That’s here, nearby this collar bone, yes, like this, but don’t press like this, no, not like this, comfortable. And that time, without palms, hands, we touch on our knees, and then shoulders come a little up, and then we inhale and exhale like we are under the ocean. Yes, so how does it sound when we dip in the water somewhere, and then we exhale? Then the sound is different. And when we feel like inhalation but don’t inhale, or you have the pump outside, then you can say, then it’s going like this. That is how people who are going to go deep in the water, or the fish, or the animal, are doing it. And so, we will inhale, our chin down, inhale, and exhale through the mouth. Go ahead, elbows straight. Elbows straight, shoulders strong, up, chin down. And now, elbows relaxed, shoulders a little relaxed, head up, and look to the ceiling, and bring your neck back to normal. Again, inhale up, shoulder up, knees straight, and head down, chin close. Inhale through the nostrils, and slowly exhale through the mouth. 20 times, then you will raise your head up, shoulders relaxed, elbows relaxed, eyes closed, and feel your nostrils, your shoulders. And lungs. How do you feel with the lungs? Go ahead. Again, raise your head, bend your chin and shoulders up, knees straight, and chin just near, don’t go too far down. Inhale, and exhale through the lips. Feel your lips, the sound from the air which is coming from the mouth. Five, inhale, exhale, six, seven, inhaling, exhale through the lips, inhale, eight, nine, nine, go ahead, continue at your own pace. Hands relax, body relaxed, straight. Feel the lungs. Inhale. Nāḍīśodhana. Exhale. Lips. Second, and go ahead. Four, five, one, lean left, left, you are left, in the middle, right, middle, left, middle, right, middle, left,... middle, left, middle, right, middle, left, middle, left,... middle, left. Right, middle, hands down, fingers on the shoulders. First from up: four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 11, other side. 1, 2, 3. By inhaling, go down. Exhaling. Inhaling. Sitting straight. The head, middle, right, middle, left, middle, right. Inhale. Middle, left, middle, right, middle. Very good. Now, index fingers in the ears, and shoulders and elbows right straight, like this, knees. And ten times brahmrī. Go ahead, yourself. 15. Hands down, close your eyes, hands on the knees, eyes relaxed, comfortable, straight up. Feel the breath in the whole body. Very relaxed, body straight, elbows relaxed. Concentrate on your breath. Inhale and exhale. Inhale and exhale through the lips. Five times oṁ from the navel to the sahasrāra, to the nostrils.

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