Sitali Pranayama

Welcome to today's guided pranayama session. In today's practice, we will be going over Sitali Pranayama.

Sitali Pranayama is a breathing technique that helps cool the body, calm the mind, and bring about relaxation to the practitioner. Please note that Sitali Pranayama is contraindicated for practitioners with low blood pressure, respiratory ailments, or existing heart conditions.

Thank you for joining me in this practice, and have a wonderful rest of the day.

Namaste.

Transcript

Namaste.

Welcome to this guided Sitali Pranayama meditation practice.

To begin,

Go ahead and find a comfortable seated position in a quiet and calm place.

Sitting either on a bolster or on a chair or on a pillow,

Allowing yourself to lengthen through the spine and deeply relax through the shoulders and the eyes here.

Closing the eyes,

Allowing yourself to take a few deep,

Clearing breaths.

To begin,

Inhaling fully through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.

Now to begin our Sitali Pranayama,

I will offer two techniques.

First,

The way that it is traditionally practiced is by curling the sides of your tongue to form a taco or a tube shape.

Now from this taco or this tube shape,

You will inhale slowly and deeply through your curled tongue,

Taking in a long and smooth breath.

Traditionally,

You would close the mouth and then you would exhale steadily through the nose.

Now,

If you are unable to roll the tongue,

A modified variation of this Pranayama is by inhaling slowly and deeply through pursed lips.

So either through your tube taco shaped tongue or through pursed lips,

Inhale deeply through the mouth and then exhaling fully through the nose.

Again,

Long,

Deep inhale through the mouth through your rolled taco tongue or pursed lips and exhaling fully through the nose.

Again,

Big in breath through the taco or tube tongue or pursed lips.

And then exhaling out nice and steady through the nose.

Again,

Inhaling fully through the mouth,

Taco tongue or tube tongue or pursed lips.

And then long,

Steady exhale through the nose.

Again,

A few more times here.

Deep,

Full inhale through the mouth,

Curled tongue or pursed lips.

And then exhaling fully and steadily through the nose.

Again,

Deep,

Full inhale through the mouth,

Curled tongue or pursed lips or taco tongue.

And then exhaling naturally through the nose here.

Now allowing the breath to return to its natural pace here,

Its natural rhythm.

Steady,

Easeful and natural breathing here.

Now our sita lipranayama is well known for its cooling and calming effect on the mind and the body.

And it is also good for bringing a sense of relaxation and balance into the body.

So feel free to come back to this practice as much as you like.

Thank you for joining me in this practice.

Have a wonderful rest of your day.

Reviews

Thank you so much 🎈🌺🎈🌺🎈for the wonderfully breathing practice 🎈🎈🎈up and away in the cooler and relaxing air🗺️have a blessed day 🕉️Namaste