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PRANAMAYA KOSHA

  • 1. Prana and the Five Vital Processes
  • 2. Bring In Awareness
  • 3. Meditation
  • 4. Auxiliary Simple Humming Meditation
  • 5. "Just Sitting" again…
  • 6. Questions and Answers

Objectives:

To understand deeply about Pranamaya kosha To learn how prana shakthi imparts health To add awareness to breath to unload more prana shakthi The pranamaya kosha, the breath layer, which is the next layer Annamaya Kosha (Physical layer) On a physiological level, the layer of prana refers to your circulatory and respiratory systems, the streams of life flowing in you. Prana refers to the life giving energy that you inhale through air, every time you breathe. You don"t actually need air to be alive; you need only prana.

Adi Sankara discusses about Pranamaya kosha in his book Tattvabodha

Pranamayah kah? Pranadi panca vayavah vagadi indriya pancakam Pranamayah

Meaning:-

What is this Pranic (life-force) sheath? The five airs and the life-force, the organ of speech, and the other sense organs of action are called the Pranic sheath