Didn’t see this til now so sorry for the late reply. The answer is yes! Definitely ways to take it further. Although I’ll answer with what I think is the next step if you want more, I would like to ask, what would more entail to you? What do you mean by beyond? (just tryna gauge where you want to go lol)
Play the video on low enough volume so that your breath is louder than the audio (not hearing my talking/breathing). Then close your eyes and do the practice in your own flow.
Do the mouth breaths continuously and consciously to the extent you get into a flow. Lose track of how many breaths. Just keep going at it and truly consciously breath in and out. Go way past the usual 30. Keep in mind, it might feel annoying at first to go beyond these breaths at first, but as you keep pushing past that feeling, breathing feels effortless and entrancing. Eventually, take your final breath in and release. Then hold… for as long as you can. Focus on the present moment. Focus in on your awareness. Just be.
When you start to feel discomfort in any way, embrace it. Love the feeling. And then finally when you reach your limit, you take in that deep breath in and hold it… for as long as you can. Then release.
What you’ll realize is you were able to hold for way longer than the video goes for. If you’ve been doing this daily for a while, your capacity to hold will increase dramatically. And these longer hold states lead to deeper experiences.
Obviously you then switch to nose. Then both. And then just do nose more relaxed and in a meditative flow.
The goal is to do more breaths and hold for longer. Listening to your body while at the same time pushing past your limits. It literally gets to the point where 2 minutes and 30 seconds of holding my breath feel like nirvana… without even getting the urge to breath. (having the original video playing in the background allows you to still get field benefits)
Afterwards, the synchronized breathing takes you even deeper.
And honestly… it can go even deeper than that. I’ve made some powerful additions tothe practice that have long lasting effects and also allow for reprogramming of the self. But the other additions could be far too intensive and sorta risky. It’s like a mix of this practice and kundalini yoga but an easier (yet not easier) way of doing so. I’ll keep refining this more advanced practice til I feel that it’s safe enough for others. And it’s only a practice that someone who’s become adept at doing the pranayama could do anyways. So maybe I’ll share it with just some of ya’ll? I don’t know yet. But it’s exciting to me. Discovered some cool things along the way.
PS: You might want to check out @anon32464289 's soma recommendation as it is always advanced breathwork.
