Practicing pranayama and heart - opening asanas will get your
prana vayus flowing.
The balance of the prana and the
apana vayus is the key to having a healthy mind and body.
Although vayus are subtle, they have a huge impact on how our bodies feel, so learning to move with their natural rhythms is vital for our health.
Everything we take in — from the air we inhale to the food we consume and the thoughts and emotions that we feel — is brought into us with the
prana vayus.
The practice features poses that nurture samana and
apana vayus — which respectively help you digest and release what's keeping you awake.
We'll end our vayu series with the fifth inner wind called vyana, which integrates and balances all of
the vayus and is called the «omnipresent air.»
Vayu translates to «wind,» and
our vayus are responsible for transferring energy throughout the body.
Here's what you need to know about each of the five
vayus:
It is designed to help balance
the vayus, or winds, a concept in yoga used to describe the different types of energy that govern physical and mental health.
In the yoga tradition, every posture is said to have an effect on the body's system of energies, known as
the vayus, or vital forces (sometimes called winds).
Energetic anatomy - bandhas, chakras, koshas,
vayus, and intro to meridians.
-- Pancha vayu, major and minor — How to practice yoga to balance the 5
vayus — Secrets of the five prana — Practice: developing awareness of pancha prana
Also Yogic anatomy and the energy systems of the body including the chakras, nadis, pranas and
vayus, and the ten yogic bodies.