paul grilley : prana & breath

Paul Grilley discusses Prana and Breath in this clip. Part 1/7

-  Prana = life force/life energy
-  Prana makes you breathe and controls all of our physiology
-  Yoga exploits the relationship between prana & breath
-  We have voluntary control over our breath
-  We can influence our breath: stop it, change the rhythm
-  Breath is easy access to prana
-  Prana moves the muscles of body that draws air in
-  Prana makes us exhale
-  Prana beats the heart and acts on the digestive functions
-  Prana moves/flows the nerves and coordinates the activity of the chakras
-  Breath is an easy, obvious and traditional access to prana
-  Prana is the physical energy we are trying to manipulate through the breath
-  We are trying to feel prana in our bodies by manipulating our breath
-  Three Breathing Postures: Neutral, Expanded and Contracted
-  Natural elasticity in the rib-cage and abdominal section
-  We are looking to get to a neutral state -- calmness
-  If we can conserve prana, gather it, hold it to a chakra - it will change
-  Prana will change and transform to an astral awakening