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AYP Public Forum => Support for AYP Pranayama, Mudras and Bandhas => Topic started by: bivin on August 17, 2005, 04:08:15 AM
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.