Contrast between asana postures and pranayama breath infusion

Contrast between asana postures and pranayama breath infusion

There is a contrast between asana posture and pranayama breath infusion. The two are related but each has a distinct process and specific effects. The two may be combined into one practice, where it is difficult to determine which part is caused by the pranayama, alone and which by the asana posture.

There is also the contrast between what each does for the physical body, and what targets and affects in the subtle form. There is breath infusion in one posture only. There is also infusion while doing several postures, one after the other is succession. Those who master the combination practice of asana postures and pranayama breath infusion, should periodically focus on doing pranayama in just a few postures, where the infused breath is minutely observed. This will not cause infusement in every part of the body but only in the places which are easily facilitated by the selected postures.

Asana postures alone causes the release of energy pollution in specific areas of the body, and only according to the particular pose  assumed. It rarely causes this released energy to leave the physical or subtle body. It gives a circulation benefit as well but that is limited to particular areas where there are stretches and contractions of muscle, ligaments, tendon, and glands.

Breath infusion with postures causes the energy pollution which is released in an area of the body, to be evacuated by the flow of breath energy from the lungs This happens because the released pollutions which enter the blood stream are extraccted from the blood stream on the physical side and through the subtle nadis in the psychic body.