Rachel Ribeiro Horta

TAMIL ALTERNATE NOSTRIL BREATHING (ADVANCED)

This excerpt from an ancient Tamil script describes the practice of pranayama*, a complex and challenging alternate nostril breathing technique.

1. Inhale through left nostril for 16 maathirai - 4 sec

2. Exhale for 32 maathirai through right nostril = 8 sec

3. Hold the breath for 64 maathirai = 16 sec

   Let the truth be

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.

—Jorge Wagensberg

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it,