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Pranayama

Pranayama

The Sanskrit word Pranayama means “restraint (ayama) of energy, life force (prana)," and refers to ancient techniques combining breathing, concentration, visualization, and sacred sounds. The purpose of these exercises is to harness and transform the most powerful energies within us and utilize them in the development of our full potential.

"Meditation combined with pranayama serves for the awakening of the consciousness."  - Samael Aun Weor

"Pranayama is a system of sexual transmutation for single persons." - Samael Aun Weor

Books about Pranayama

Articles about Pranayama

  • What is Pranayama?

    Pranayama is a method to transmute creative energy that relies on a combination of sexual chastity (restraint or containment of sexual energy), concentration, imagination, and breathing. The word pranayama comes from Sanskrit and...

    Also labeled: Sexuality
  • Tibetan Exercises

    Also labeled: Health, Tantra, Yoga
  • The Transmutation of Sexual Energy (4)

    A Transmutation Practice: Ham-Sah There are diverse esoteric systems for transmuting the seminal entity into sexual energy. Certainly, the most powerful one (the Arcanum A.Z.F.) has to be performed by a man and a woman - we...

    Also labeled: Sexuality, Tantra
  • Pranayama

    A judicious study of the marvelous esoteric work The Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky takes us to the logical conclusion that seven tremendous initiatic gates exist. By all means it is clear that to reach the fifth...

    Also labeled: Kundalini
  • Christic Egyptian Pranayama

    Prana is the Great Breath. It is the Cosmic Christ. Prana is the life that palpitates within every atom, as it palpitates in every sun. Fire burns because of Prana. Water flows because of Prana. Wind blows because of Prana. The sun exists...

    Also labeled: Kundalini, Sexuality, Techniques, Yoga
  • The Two Witnesses

    1.     And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.   2.     And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold...

    Also labeled: Sexuality, Yoga