BREATHING EXERCISE {PRANAYAMA} Today let's discuss one important aspect of yoga that makes yoga so unique, I mean an aspect of man that makes him a living being: that aspect of life that's vital to living, that which God blew into a man after creating man from dust and man came to be a living soul. Our life is nothing but a breath. In yoga science, it's called prana, which refers to life force, though prana is not the air, but it's the active force expressed as air, that life force is also in water, in food, maybe we should refer to oxygen as the active force known by yogis as prana. Exercising or regulation of this active force is what is known as pranayama or breathing exercise, I'm going to introduce few breathing exercises for health enhancement. But before I go into that, let's look at the benefits of breathing exercise and the importance of breath to emotions, health, and life in general. Importance of prana or breath Everything in our body ...