Sitkari - the cooling breath

This is a great breath for the hot summer months or whenever you feel the need to “cool it” a bit.   Refreshing and revitalising.

There are variations of this breath - this is my current practice. 

Method

1. ✴    Find a comfortable sitting position  (info on sitting positions here...)
   

1. ✴    Relax with eyes closed or a soft gaze off the tip of the nose
   

1. ✴     Breathing in and out through the nose establish a long, slow & easy rhythm
   

1. ✴     Keep the tongue flat and relaxed behind the lower teeth
   

1. ✴     Breathe in through parted lips, slowly drawing the air across the surface of the tongue
   

1. ✴     Close the mouth and breathe out, long and slow, through the nose
   

1. ✴     Repeat 8-10 times and practice whenever you feel the need
   

1. ✴    At the end of the practice let the breath settle into a small and quiet rhythm  - enjoy the effects.
   

Variations

1. ✴As you breathe in you can raise you chin your, lifting your face upwards. then coming back to
   

        where you were on the out breath

1. ✴Also on the in-breath you can make a long sit sound as the air moves across the tongue
   

You should feel at ease throughout, practicing mindfully aware of each breath and effects as they happen.

Some claim that a powerful polarity between negative and positive ions makes a person more “highly charged”.  Giving them a “magnetic personality”!! 1 

Let me know how that works for you!!  (You have been warned).

1    Swami Gitananda; Philip Xerri

  LesleyDovetonyoga

          

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