This is a very blissful meditation that activates all your chakras, establishes your spine as your center, and fills your circle with healing energy. When you need help of any kind, chant this mantra. Vibrating this mantra in your spine produces healing, magic, and miracles. I love this meditation! It puts me into a deep connected space. Chant it a minimum of 5-11 minutes every day and consolidate “the feeling” in your body.

"Sitali Pranayama is a cooling breath that involves inhaling the breath through the curl of the tongue. We breathe as if “drinking” in moisture-rich air, which cools us down – physically and emotionally. This practice is said to cool the body and in the wisdom of Ayurveda, soothe a pitta imbalance. This practice also reduces fatigue, bad breath, and fevers."

When You Need More Patience (and Tolerance) Even the calmest among us can feel stretched thin this time of year. Long lines, travel delays, extra family opinions- your patience can get tested fast. This is where Sitali Pranayam comes in. It’s literally the “cooling breath,” and it works wonders when you’re on the edge of snapping.

This meditation is one of a class of meditations that will become well known to the future medical society. Meditation will be used to alleviate all kinds of mental and physical afflictions. But it may be as many as 500 years, however, before the new medical science will understand the effects of this kind of meditation well enough to delineate and measure all its parameters.

The quantity, quality, and circulation of the breath creates the foundation of a vital and creative life. It is a barometer of how much energy we normally run on, and how much reserve capacity we have created for emergencies. The breath is both gross and subtle. The gross aspect is the blend of oxygen, nitrogen, and other elements that constitute air. The subtle aspect is the prana or vital force that energizes the mind, body, and consciousness. Most people do not breathe cor