Anuloma Vilom Pranayama Technique

Here are the steps that need to be performed for Anuloma Vilom Pranayama. Use the written description along with the video to gain a better understanding of the process of Anuloma Vilom Pranayama.

1. Sit in any of the poses recommended for Pranayama.
2. Use the fingers of your right hand to manipulate the flow of air through your nostrils.
3. Sit comfortably. Close the right nostril using the right thumb and slowly inhale through the left nostril.
4. Complete the inhalation. Close the left nostril with the ring finger and the little finger of the right hand. With both nostrils thus closed retain the breath as long as possible. Dont over exert.
5. Next, release the thumb and open the right nostril. Steadily exhale through the right nostril till all the air in your lungs is completely expelled.
6. Once all the air is expelled, start breathing in from the same nostril and reverse the whole process without pausing. Keep the left nostril closed and breathe through the right nostril.
7. Next, seal both the nostrils and retain the breath as long as possible.
8. Finally release the fingers and exhale.

These two respiration cycles make one complete round of Anuloma Viloma Pranayama. Continue this process smoothly till you reach the required number of rounds of Anuloma Viloma Pranayama.

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