Seven Minor Breathing Exercises

The main purpose of breathing exercise is to give you control over your Prana and unfold the Psychic Force latent in you. Seven minor breathing exercise  that develop your mental and physical strengths are-

Exercise I

(1) Stand erect with hands at sides.
(2) Inhale complete breath.
(3) Raise the arms slowly, keeping them rigid until the hands touch over head.
(4) Retain the breath a few minutes with hands over head.
(5) Lower hands slowly to sides exhaling slowly at the same time.
(6) Practise cleansing breath.

Exercise II

(1) Stand erect with arms straight in front of you.
(2) Inhale complete breath and retain.
(3) Swing arms back as far as they will go; then back to first position; then repeat several times, retaining the breath all the while.
(4) Exhale vigorously through mouth.
(5) Practise cleansing breath. 

Exercise III

(1) Stand erect with arms straight in front of you.
(2) Inhale complete breath.
(3) Swing arms around in a circle, backward, a few times. Then reverse a few times retaining the breath all the while. You may vary this by rotating them alternately like the sails of a wind-mill.
(4) Exhale the breath vigorously through the mouth.

(5) Practise cleansing breath.

Exercise IV

(1) Lie on the floor with your face downward and palms of hands flat upon the floor by your sides.
(2) Inhale complete breath and retain.
(3) Stiffen the body and raise yourself up by the strength of your arms until you rest on your hands and toes.
(4) Then lower yourself to original position. Repeat several times.
(5) Exhale vigorously through the mouth.
(6) Practise cleansing breath.

Exercise V

(1) Stand erect with your palms against the wall.
(2) Inhale complete breath and retain.
(3) Lower the chest to the wall, resting your weight on your hands.
(4) Then raise yourself back with the arm muscles alone, keeping the body stiff.
(5) Exhale vigorously through the mouth.
(6) Practise cleansing breath.

Exercise VI

(1) Stand erect with arms "akimbo" that is with hands resting around the waist and elbows standing out.

(2) Inhale complete breath and retain.

(3) Keep legs and hips stiff and bend well forward, as if bowing, at the same time exhaling slowly.
(4) Return to first position and then take another complete breath.
(5) Then bend backward exhaling slowly.
(6) Return to first position and take a complete breath.
(7) Then bend sideways exhaling slowly (vary by bending to right and then to left).

(8) Practise cleansing breath.

Exercise VII

(1) Stand erect or sit erect with straight spinal column.
(2) Inhale a complete breath but instead of inhaling on a continuous steady stream, take a series of short, quick "sniffs" as if you were smelling aromatic salts and ammonia and did not wish to get too strong a "whiff." Do not exhale any of these little breaths, but add one to the other until the entire lung space is filled.
(3) Retain for a few seconds.

(4) Exhale through the nostrils in a long restful breath.
(5) Practise cleansing breath.