Pranayama with Ayurveda or other healing modalities

During my years of practising pranayama, I have noticed that when I can afford some Ayurveda medicine that it works in extremely well with Pranayama, and especially in chronic conditions. Ayurveda helps in speeding up the recovery and cure of most ailments. These herbs are powerful helping with giving fast pain relief in chronic conditions like arthritis, and many more symptoms.

Ayurveda also helps in accidents sprains, dislocated joints swelling etc. but Ayurveda can be quite costly, and if you can afford it, it is well worth using in conjunction with practising Pranayama.
At the same time, Pranayama works wonders even if you cannot afford the Ayurveda medicines. This is why I love Pranayama as it costs nothing and all we need to do is practice it, it is so simple. And the brilliant part about Pranayama is that it does not interfere with any other healing modalities or healing medicines, but it will enhance the power of any other healing modalities and medicines.

For chronic ailments, Pranayama may take a bit longer for the healing to come about, but it can work quite quickly in acute situations and as it works on all levels, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual it is a wonderful tool to use.

I love using Aura-Soma products like Pomanders and Quintessences before and after a Pranayama session as I feel it has made me more sensitive and aware during my Pranayama practice which I love very much.

When I have a bit of spare cash, I use Ayurveda for my chronic and physical ailments if need to, I also use Homeopathic if need to, as I have been a practising Homeopath for many years, and I love using homoeopathic in severe acute situations together with Pranayama and mudras.

There are so many healing tools around and for me, the most important thing is that I can use a tool even when I do not have much money....so Pranayama costs nothing!!

Pranayama improves your Lungs

5. 07. 2017

It has been incredible to watch the improvement of my lungs, and with a special mudra, I could learn to feel the difference between breathing just with the upper part of my lungs, or then the mid part of the lungs, and it had taken quite a while before I could feel the breath in the lower part of the lungs.
At the beginning when I learned to really take a deep breath I had quite a sore chest. I think the expansion of the lungs bruised the chest walls as it was a very new experience.
Only very recently I noticed, even so, I had been a bit unfit again when I climbed a very steep hill I did not get as puffed that I use to and very quickly my breathing settled down again. Something that is very new to me. It feels like even when I am not exercising regularly I can stay fit and my heart and lungs work really well. I must say so, that just practising Kapalabhati pranayama, it is like doing a fitness practice and it definitively keeps me fitter than if I did not practise it. Pranayama really improves the lungs and the heart and circulation. I can now hold my breath for quite a bit longer than I have ever been able to and my inhaling in the past could not be deeper than a four second inhale, now I can inhale for about fifteen sometimes even twenty seconds. the same with the exhale. When your lungs improve and heal you are less likely to catch these chest colds and coughs, Since practising Pranayama I have had hardly any colds, a snuffle maybe for a very short time that is all.


2. 04. 2011

I have always been a shallow breather and often huffed and puffed while walking up the hill or upstairs. Even as a child I huffed and puffed, but nobody ever thought it was a problem. I just lived with it and felt that I was just unfit. But even after doing a lot of exercises and becoming quite fit my breathing did not change. I was never diagnosed with anything but often wondered about my huffing and puffing. Never was I able to hold my breath or hold out my breath for very long.
Since doing Pranayama it has certainly improved, but I noticed that holding my breath in or out I could not do for very long. I can take a deep breath, but it has never been as deep as others have been able to do. So when I was reading the book Yog in Synergy with Medical Science especially the chapter Role of Pranayama In Yog practice and its effectiveness, I have learned more in depth how to control the breath and how to hold and do the bandhs and have felt in a short time great improvement. At first, I also felt a bit light headed, but now this has settled and I am feeling my lungs expanding and filling with air. It makes a big difference. Learning to do the Pranayama and experiencing the depth of Pranayama is just amazing. Being focused while doing Pranayama and really having control, following the breath inside the body is a great experience.