The heat is on and it’s best to learn a few strategies to keep cool through the summer. Sheetali pranayama regulates the temperature, reduces tension and blood pressure, purifies the blood and tones the liver and spleen.

Procedure:

• Practise this in a sitting position. Close your eyes and place your hands on your knees
• Now curl the sides of your tongue upwards to create a tunnel. Slowly breathe in through the mouth. Allow air to pass over your tongue
• Inhale for four seconds through the mouth while rolling the tongue and exhale for six seconds through both nostrils. Practise for five minutes. and then increase the counts to 4:8, or 5:10 or 6:12 seconds.

 Precautions:

It takes a little more awareness to know of the rigidity in one’s mind as well as the rigidity in emotions.

A rigid person is typically identified as one who believes that he is perfect because he does not allow room for any other way of looking, thinking or feeling.

In the same way, there is enough and more rigidity on the energy level too.

Yoga during pregnancy

Yoga postures, together with breathing and relaxation techniques, provide the mother-to-be with physical flexibility and suppleness.

Breathing exercises aid relaxation and well-being and also enhance both mother and child with vitality and extra energy. They also bring about a relaxed attitude towards the actual birth experience for the mother.

Yoga is dynamite to make you feel younger. When diseases and habits leading to degeneration are removed, one lives longer.

Inverted postures