Day 10 - Bhastrika - 21-Day Breathwork Challenge

This session is part of the 21-day Breathwork Challenge. If you follow my profile, you can find all the available previous sessions there. You can also find all the other tracks in the playlist "The 21-Day Breathwork Challenge".

Please note: this track has strict safety guidelines, which are discussed on Day 9. Please listen to those if you are not in a healthy mind-body or are carrying a child.

Day 10 of our challenge: In Sanskrit, the word Bhastrika means “bellows” (to emit a loud deep sound). Bhastrika pranayama is a fast breath practice with sound. It is quite similar to Kapalabhati in force, and use of the supporting breathing muscles, yet the inhale is not passive but active, and in most versions, inhale and exhale are of equal length.

So, where kapalabhati emphasizes the exhale, Bhastrika has an equal emphasis on inhaling and exhaling. Bhastrika also goes slightly faster than Kapalabhati, making this a more advanced and stressful exercise.

Reviews

I feel uncomfortable doing fast breathing as I do have quite some peri menaupause syntomes, like waking up too early and hot flushes. Is there any study linking fast breathing and hot flushes? Thanks so much

Wow this practice was invigorating! As I reached rounds 3-5 it got intense and my whole body felt more alive. Round 5 was very fast but I loved it. Definitely saving this practice to return to and get better at it. This also helped with some slight congestion I’m having after having had a cold recently. Thank you 🙏🏼

This was great! Could definitely feel something after round 2.
I found myself yawning before the sigh after each round, is this normal?

Once I got the hang of the faster breaths, it was very empowering! 🙏