[Tutorial] How to do Sheetkari Pranayama?

Question

This tutorial is on practice of Sheetkari pranayama

Answer 1

1. Sit in any comfortable meditation posture, preferably padmasana.
2. Keep the head and the spine straight.
3. Relax the whole body and close the eyes.
4. Hold the teeth lightly together.
5. Separate the lips, exposing the teeth.
6. The tongue may be kept flat or folded against the soft palate.
7. Inhale slowly and deeply through side openings of the teeth.
8. At the end of inhalation, close the mount.
9. Exhale slowly through the nose in a controlled manner.
10. This is one round.

• With the practice, the duration of the inhalation should gradually become longer to increase the cooling effect. Gradually, increase the number of rounds from 9 to 15.
• The practice of sheetkari pranayama cools the body. This cools and reduces mental and emotional excitation and encourages the free flow of prana throughout the body. It induces the muscular relaxation.
• It gives control over hunger and thirst and generates a feeling of satisfaction.