Position : Sit in any meditative posture or any comfortable sitting posture with the head and spine straight. Close the eyes and relax the whole body.
Practice :
- When the body is comfortable and relaxed , focus on your breath for a few minutes effortlessly.
- Adopt Nasika Mudra with your right hand (folding index and middle fingers towards palm).
- Close the left nostril with the little and ring fingers of Nasika Mudra.
- Inhale and exhale slowly through the right nostril (surya nadi) only.
- During the practice, keep the left nostril closed all the time during the practice.
- One cycle of inhalation and exhalation forms one round.
- Exhalation should be longer than inhalation.
- Repeat 9 rounds.
- Depression patients should practice this pranayama 27 rounds before breakfast, lunch, dinner and before sleep ( 4 times a day ).
Benefits :
- It increases the heat in the body.
- Purifies the blood and improves digestion.
- Cures the problem of gas in the abdominal region.
- Beneficial for depression patients and weight reduction.
Limitations :
- Avoid the practice during summer.
- Not recommended for anxiety, high blood pressure patients.
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