Pranayama - Types, Benefits, Precautions

Pranayama(Pranayam)

Introduction:

Pranayama

Pranayama is derived from Sanskrit, Prana means Breath and Ayama means control. Pranayam is an ancient Indian practice that related to the controlling of breath. It gives us more positive energies and relaxes our body. Pranayam is an integral part of yoga.

"Pranayam create links between the mental and physical disciplines of yoga. While the action is physical, the effect is to make the mind calm, lucid and steady."- Swami Vishnu-devananda, Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga

Pranayam makes your mind opened-pointed so that you can feel more peaceful. Pranayam should be practised in a calm, neat and clean room with arrangements of fresh oxygen.

Types of pranayama:  

There are different types of pranayama that heal our body internally. One must give 30-40 minutes for completing these pranayamas. So let's talk about the various types of pranayamas.

1. Ujjayi Pranayama
2. Anuloma Viloma Pranayama
3. KapalBhati
4. Agnisara Pranayama
5. Bhramari Pranayama
6. Nadi Shodhana Pranayama
7. Sheetkari and Sheetali Pranayama
8. Surya Pranayama
9. Bhastrika Pranayama

Pranayama Benefits & Precautions:

Everyone can be benefited from Pranayama. Nowadays doctors also recommended pranayama. If you practice pranayama daily you can be saved your body from many diseases (like as cancer, depression, anxiety, migraine, blood pressure etc).

Benefits:    

There are so many benefits of pranayama:-

• Improve blood circulation
• Provide relaxation of your body and calm of your mind
• Cure asthma,headache,migraine,blood pressure
• It gives anxiety-free mind
• Build up self-confidence
• Relives stress, depression and hypertension
• Grows your intelligence
• Makes you free from constipation indigestion problems
• Grows concentrate power

Precautions:   

There are many precautions that you have to abide by

• Breathing should be done by nose only, take a long deep breath and breath out slowly slowly
• Practice it on an empty stomach
• Best time for practice in early morning
• Pranayam must be practised in an easy way and any part of the body should not feel uneasiness
• During Pranayam, if you feel tired, you must stop at once and after some time you can start.
• Patients of heart disease, high blood pressure, typhoid and pregnant women should be consulted with yoga teacher
• Don't wear tight clothes when you practice pranayama, wear loose clothes
• Don't do practice yoga when you suffering from fever, as it has a cooling effect on the body

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