What is Pranayama?
Pranayama : A Yogic Breathing Exercise Traditional Yoga in Rishikesh, India Pranayama (prana = energy + Yama = control) is a type of meditation technique that involves various ways of controlling the breathing, with the goal being to withdraw one's senses from the outside world The names that come under textual literature are unanimously given as PRANA, APANA, VYANA, SAMANA, UDAAN as the five flow mechanisms envisioned based in different parts of the physical manifestation of this body. PRANA has the access to whatever we are, which we know about what we are knowing about and that too which we otherwise would never know about. PRANA is giving us the life-giving air and mixed oxygen for the energy and stamina for this physical self. At the same time, the same PRANA moves in the microscopic cell anywhere within our body were within each of them is there as flow and motion of the various constituents and systems which even exist in these unseen an