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PRANAYAMA.

THE TERM PRANAYAMA, IS A SANSKRIT WORD, AND
IS LITERALLY TRANSLATED AS “VITAL BREATH CON-
TROL.”

Pranayama techniques can be classified into three groups:
By Henry Binerfa
Martial Science
Magazine Director 1. The one that aims to improve the physical health of man.

2. The one that focuses on awakening the latent powers of the
Spirit.
“...Tai Kamae we learn to

develop techniques in a right 3. The one whose main base is to promote rapid progress along
way, thus through practice the Spiritual Path.

we learn to carry them out The method that we will discuss next is known as: “The obser-
without stopping to think vation of breathing” is a technique that is present in most of

or to look at our bodies to the procedures of the ShinKaiDo Ryu practice and is based on
Chan Buddhism.
repeat it. Once this happens,

we get to a higher level of Before beginning the practice of the exercise we must consider
knowledge of Kamaes within these aspects

Shin Kamae...” • When observing breathing, you should never force your
rhythm. Let the breath follow its natural cadence. It doesn’t

matter if the breathing is deep or shallow: the key lies in ob-
serving from the attention. If breathing is deep, we know it is

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