How Do You Do Alternate Nostril Breathing, Nadi Shodhana?
Alternate Nostril Breathing is a balancing breath exercise, very calming and relaxing, adding clarity and depth to your day. Take your right hand and bend in the first and second finger. Place the thumb against the right nostril and inhale smoothly, slowly (say, to a count of four if that’s comfortable) through the left. Close off the left with the ring & pinkie (both nostrils are compressed right now) for a retention of comfortable length (you might try one equal to the count for the inbreath). Release the right nostril and exhale – smoothly and slowly for the same count as the inhale – through the right nostril, and observe a rest, or kumbacha of the outbreath, at the bottom, allowing your spirit to reside in the emptiness for a comfortable period of time (again, you might try another count equal to the inbreath). Then inhale through the right nostril, compress it (the left is still compressed from before, so both are closed at the top). Practice a comfortable, non-straining retentio
