Alternate Nostril Breathing: 3 Complete Rounds With So Ham

Alternate nostril breath is also known as joyful breath. A regular practice helps to stabilize, balance and calm our nervous system and settle our mind. In this guided practice, we allow the mantra so-ham (pronounced so-hum) to flow with our smooth continuous breath from the eyebrow center to the base of the nostrils. We then follow the sound into stillness and meditation.

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Fabulous cyclic breathing meditation! Best of all I have tried. Wow! Amazingly calm, well paced instruction by a teacher with a beautiful, resonant, empowered, peaceful voice. Thank you for this gift! ❤️❤️❤️🌈🌈🌈❤️❤️❤️

That was wonderful. Thank you so much! I’ve been doing alternate nostril breathing for years, since it’s sooo powerful, but not with a mantra, so I really liked this! I tried my mantra with it too!

This pranayama has helped me so many times—not to just feel calm but to think much more clearly too and to remember things—I even do it while watching movies so I don’t forget them!

My nostrils are blocked so often though —one or the other—that I finally found an Immune aromatherapy by Saje that helped open them finally and I could do this pranayama more :)

Also, my yoga teacher taught us that if one of our nostrils is severely blocked, we can just inhale through our mouth and do the exhales though whatever space we have in the blocked nostril (easier to exhale than struggle inhaling!), as we’re still activating both sides of the brain and so when nothing will unplug me, I do that! ( I’m going to teach that to others too if their plugged nostrils stop them from trying it!!).

I look forward to doing this one with your mantra everyday—so glad I found this track :) xo Lisa

I followed this while feeling completely overwhelmed and it brought calm and stability. Thank you.