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  • To give you an experience of how the breath can influence your mind, heres a wonderful pranayama called, in Sanskrit, nadi shodhana, or alternate nostril breathing.

    Making Room for Mr. Right Robin 2009

  • To give you an experience of how the breath can influence your mind, heres a wonderful pranayama called, in Sanskrit, nadi shodhana, or alternate nostril breathing.

    Making Room for Mr. Right Robin 2009

  • Pase-nadi, meaning “leader of the victorious army.”

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • Eliade, for example, phenomenologically relates the central channel or nadi of the human individual to the axis mundi of the cosmos Atlas holding the heavens in his shoulders in Greek myth, the "navel of the ocean" in Homer, Mount Meru in Indian myth, etc.

    The most eloquent spiritual personality of all time Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Eliade, for example, phenomenologically relates the central channel or nadi of the human individual to the axis mundi of the cosmos Atlas holding the heavens in his shoulders in Greek myth, the "navel of the ocean" in Homer, Mount Meru in Indian myth, etc.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Ye din ye tyohaar khushi ka, paavan jaise neer nadi ka bhai ke ujle maathe pe, behan lagaaye mangal tika jhume ye saavan suhana, suhana bhaiyya mere ...

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

  • BURQA, WEST BANK – Every Thursday morning soon after the second call to prayers, black-robed women, like ebony flamingoes flocking towards a lake's edge, hurry to the nadi, the mother's club building close to the village entrance.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • BURQA, WEST BANK – Every Thursday morning soon after the second call to prayers, black-robed women, like ebony flamingoes flocking towards a lake's edge, hurry to the nadi, the mother's club building close to the village entrance.

    Thursdays with my sisters 2007

  • It contains 72,000 energy-channels (rtsa, Skt. nadi), eight of which are major.

    A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra the First Panchen Lama Lozang-chokyi-gyeltsen 2006

  • However, in kundalini yoga the energy is consciously moved gradually through the sushumna nadi see left and passes through each chakra, where latent psychic powers are awakened and, as a result, different states of consciousness are experienced.

    The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003

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  • "To temporarily inhabit another dimension."

    to be off in your own little world :)

    August 13, 2009