Neti

Amma in Sanskrit, it's like physical stagnation, but there's also a kind of mental sluggishness that we can think of, scraping it off our tongue, down the sink, and start the momentum of how we want to feel for the day.

Scrape out the gunk, wash it down, do your Jal Neti.

And then I like to add, it's kind of a continuum from that.

And then I do my oil pulling.

So often when I was interviewing people who were visitors to Kavaya Dam, who were there to do a yoga program, most of them hadn't really heard of the Kriyas before they arrived.

And the few that had, they knew about Neti and they knew about Kapalabhati.

And most of them had heard about those things through televised demonstrations by a guy called Ramdev, who's quite a controversial figure.

So I think they, even in India, I think they're probably less... prominent than they were certainly in the early 20th century when modern yoga was really beginning to gain momentum.