breathing while doing MULABANDHA

[bivin]

How do we do Breathing during Mulabandha? Is it like When we Pull the Muscles up - Exhale and when  we release the muscles- INhale. Please Kindly reply at the earliest.
 Thank you

[Anthem]

Hi there,

Mulabandha is explained in detail on the AYP website. A direct link to this topic can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/advancedyogapractices/55.html.

Briefly the idea is to hold mulabandha gently throughout spinal breathing pranayama. Tracing the spinal nerve up on the in-breath to the point between the eyebrows or the third eye and then down on the exhalation to the perineum or root chakra.

[quickstudy]

For variations on mulabandha with breath, see also http://www.aypsite.com/plus/119.html

More lessons on "mulabandha" can be found near the top of the list in the topic index at http://www.aypsite.com/plus/TopicIndex.html
Also see "spinal breathing pranayama" in the topic index.

[veritasophia]

Just a quick note on my experience with mulabhanda so far.  I just started to practice it about a week ago.  It was very "clunky" at first, it took about 3 days before it became comfortable.

Its amazing what a huge boost it gives to those blissful feelings arising during pranayama.  I've been doing spinal breathing for a while and just the addition of this simple bandha has had a tremendous effect on my practice.

The integration of the best yoga practices out there (thank you Yogani ) really does make a difference.