Long Breath

The daily practice of the one-thousand-two-hundred-long breaths supports our development of Samana, the energy that lifts our consciousness to its highest frequency.

Having a spiritual routine that allows you to have 1200 long exhalations directly awakens the kundalini shakti, and moves us to a lifestyle of Jeevan Mukti - Living Enlightenment.

Scriptural Reference

Bhagavad Gita – Karma Yoga Chapter 3: Verse 29 prakrter guna-sammudhah sajjante guna-karmasu tan akrtsna-vido mandan krtsna-vin na vicalayet || 3.29

Benefits

Reduce your thoughts

The breath and the mind are very closely related. The length, breadth, and depth of the breath correspond directly to the number of thoughts experienced. With long slow deep breaths, the number of thoughts is reduced.

Health and Longevity

Your longevity is nothing but the length of your breath. Your longevity is dependent on the length of your breath. Swamiji indicates Raghupathi Yogi aligned his breath properly and beautifully with proper yogic training which will allow Him to live for quite a long time in this body.

Samana Bolts your experiences

When we acquire deep insights, our brains evolve new grooves to hold that information. The Samana, from the 1200 long breaths seals those grooves so they become a permanent shift for us, and seals in the information as well.

Go Beyond Food

When you sincerely do Yoga for an hour a day, within two years, you can become a Nirahari. When the 1,200 full-breath happens, long-breath happens in you, you go beyond food.

Your Breath decides your moods!

Early morning how you are breathing and life, that decides how you are going to be the whole day. Especially when we do the daily morning kirtans, the joy becomes our bio-memory, muscle-memory, and we cultivate the strong long breath which is very good for our health.

References

http://www.nithyananda.org/photo-gallery/temple-pada-puja-bgsatsang-dialtheavatar-nithyakriyalongsightedness-sarvadarshan-–-12january2012?page=1?#gsc.tab=0 http://www.nithyananda.org/video/shape-your-life-imperishable#gsc.tab=0 http://www.nithyananda.org/video/wake-shiva#gsc.tab=0 http://yoga.nithyananda.org/page/4/