It just meant holding the lips together, teeth lightly touching, with your tongue on the roof of the mouth. Hold the head up perpendicular to the body and don’t kink the neck. When sitting or standing, the spine should form a J-shape—perfectly straight until it reaches the small of the back, where it naturally curves outward. While maintaining this

True health and inner peace occurs when breathing is quiet, effortless, soft, through the nose, abdominal, rhythmic, and gently paused on the exhale.

By far the best way to keep your nose clean and your nasal passages clear and unobstructed is to give yourself a regular nasal douche, known in yoga lore as the “neti.” The neti nasal douche is a particularly important form of hygiene for deep breathers, especially in this age of air pollution, smoking, and mucus-forming diets. The neti loosens and

Breathing slow, less, and through the nose balances the levels of respiratory gases in the body and sends the maximum amount of oxygen to the maximum amount of tissues so that our cells have the maximum amount of electron reactivity.