In this alternate nostril breathing exercise, you inhale through one nostril, retain the breath then exhale through the other nostril in a ratio of 2:8:4. If you are really healthy, you will breathe predominantly through the Ida nostril for about onehour and fifty minutes, then through the other nostril. But in many people this natural rhythm is disturbed. ANULOMA VILOMA restores an equal flow, balancing the flow of PRANA in the body.
Description of the asana
- Close your right nostril with your thumb and keeping it closed breathe in through the left nostril counting up to four.
- Hold your breath and count to sixteen while opening the right nostril and closing left with your third finger.
- Breathe out slowly through the right nostril to a counterfeit.
- Repeat the exercise but breathe in through the right nostril and out through the left.