Nadi shodhana pranayama
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Oct 30, 2026
Sebastian ForsmanHOST
I also try when I get to a place, I try to take, when I arrive, 10 minutes, you know, kind of meditation.
Sebastian ForsmanHOST
I put my hands on my heart and do an om or like a little bit, just something to kind of ground me to where I am or do a nadi shodhana or some kind of breathing exercise usually.
Sebastian ForsmanHOST
Like, yeah, just to kind of ground me when I get to a place.
Sebastian ForsmanHOST
I don't know, Katrina, if that's something you do.
Alan FingerHOST
The techniques are part of me.
Katrina RepkaHOST
Yeah.
Alan FingerHOST
So I don't feel that I stop to do Nadi Shodhana or stop to feel my heart.
Alan FingerHOST
I'm doing it all the time.
Katie FarinasHOST
So And the yogis must have come to see this was happening naturally and understand that by playing with it, that we could have an impact on our body and our minds.
Katie FarinasHOST
And that's where Nadi Shodhana came from.
Katie FarinasHOST
So fascinating stuff.
Katie FarinasHOST
We do know from research that slowing our breath has a lot of benefit to our well-being, to our physical and our mental health.
Katie FarinasHOST
And we are doing that during Nadi Shodhana.
Katie FarinasHOST
It's a natural byproduct of the breath practice.
Katie FarinasHOST
So lots of different ways to understand this from the traditional yoga perspective, which is that it helps us to balance these solar and lunar sides so that our overall energetic system is in balance.
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Katie FarinasHOST
Now just release that hand back down to your lap closing the eyes and just feel into the energetic effects of the practice.
John DouillardGUEST
Those would be three really good articles for folks to read and watch and learn how to create a functional breathing, you know, and diaphragm.
John DouillardGUEST
From there, you can go and do the classic pranayama breathing techniques like Nadi Shodhana and Bhastrika and Kapalabhate, which is the brain lymphatic breathing or Brahmari.
John DouillardGUEST
All these techniques work really, really well, but they work much, much better if your diaphragm is working.
John DouillardGUEST
And your rib cage is elastic.
Leyla AliHOST
What about the nose one? What's...
Lisa HomGUEST
Nadi Shodhana, alternate nostril breathing.
Lisa HomGUEST
Yes, that one's great as well.
Lisa HomGUEST
That's more of a pranayama breathing, grounding, restorative breath too.
Katja PatelHOST
The next day, it might be three rounds of sal- uh, Surya Namaskar, a salute to the sun.
Katja PatelHOST
Another day, five minutes of Nadi Shodhana is what fits in.
Katja PatelHOST
I do that all the time.
Katja PatelHOST
Three Surya Namaskar are the minimum.
Katja PatelHOST
Your five minutes of yoga can follow brushing your teeth.
Katja PatelHOST
Your lunch can come before your 1:00 meeting rather than whenever work finally allows it.
Katja PatelHOST
Your Nadi Shodhana can happen as you get into bed.
Katja PatelHOST
That small action becomes an anchor.
Christy LyonsHOST
No, to answer your question that you asked a while ago is, like, what is the yoga that's supportive, um, any kind of practice that kinda helps to take a step back for a moment, and I have a meditation that I wanted to walk us through.
Christy LyonsHOST
Um, we're gonna start out with a pranayama that's called nadi shodhana.
Christy LyonsHOST
It's the alternate nostril breathing.
Christy LyonsHOST
Um, so we breathe, uh, through one side and, and this is a variation of that, where we close off one nostril, we inhale through one, pause, exhale through the opposite.