Inspired Breathing

Inhale, and God comes near you. Maintain the inhaled air and God will remain with you. Exhale, and you go near God. Maintain the exhaled air and you hand yourself up to the God.

- Krishnamacharya

The essential virtue of breathing is that it acts like a transmitter between your body and mind. Oxygenation is not only necessary to remain alive but also to provide an excellent connection with the inner self. The energy generated by the process of breathing, when it reaches the dimension of internal consciousness, facilitates mental vibrations harmonious to our whole being at all levels.

Breathing simply means to fill our inner selves with the positive energies of life; literally it means to be inspired. To exhale is to vacate our selves, to open up to the unknown, to feel that something has ended and to initiate a new journey.

- Brenda Barnaby