Air Quote by Christy Turlington

Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale…

— Frederick Lenz

Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important…

— Virchand Gandhi

“The human body is sustained by the same prana that nourishes the universe. The body (your equipment) has the ability to control and use…

— John Holland

“The word ‘pranayama’, often referred to as alternate breathing, comes from the Sanskrit meaning ‘extension of life force’ or ‘extension of breath’. At times,…

— Christopher Dines

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

— John Feldmann

“Pranayama. Stopping the right nostril with the thumb, through the left nostril fill in air, according to capacity; then, without any interval, throw the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“There are eight components of Yoga. These are: yama, our attitudes toward our environment. niyama, our attitudes toward ourselves. āsana, the practice of body…

— T.K.V. Desikachar

Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and…

— Richard Rosen

Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness.

— Michio Kushi

“Just as the light bulb allows the electricity within it the opportunity to express its power, the body allows prana—life energy—to express itself. In…

— Darren Main

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

— Sivananda