Yoga begins when pranayama becomes consistent.

This episode is personal testimony first, education second. It traces pranayama from its earliest roots in the Vedas and Upanishads, through the Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and the Hatha Yoga tradition, into the tantric understanding of prana as Shakti itself - the dynamic, creative energy of consciousness. Along the way: what prana actually is, why "pranayama" doesn't mean what most people think it means, what the nadis are and why the first few months of practice are really about cleansing them, and where this practice ultimately leads within the framework of Advaita Vedanta.

It also covers what modern science has confirmed - autonomic nervous system regulation, heart rate variability, the nasal cycle and brain hemisphere balance, and CO2 tolerance - briefly, with a dedicate ...