Guided Belly Pranayama

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#30

@SammyG this and the meditation are such treasures. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!

I started my day today with the exercise and am feeling so blissed out. Planning to start every morning with it, as well as in the evening.

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#31

How does one be active when listening to fields like Sun Gazer, or Superhuman Mutant? these fields seem pretty passive unlike Superhuman Genius, where we can learn stuff to expand our brain’s capacity.

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#32

Sun gazer is definitely passive. There are definitely many fields that you can’t do much but listen passively.

Superhuman mutant though… exercising afterwards or during. Going for a run. Getting your energy flowing in some form or another helps a lot with that field.

For the rhodospin protein modification, imagining yourself consuming light when outside helps take advantage of the beinf able to use light as an energy source for your body.

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#33

This is excellent information. Please consider adding this type of info to the descriptions when appropriate. cheers.

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#34

A tip to make this practice even more blissful.
Applied it to my own asana & pranayama for a week now, with epic results.

Before you start:

Then you go with the Guided Belly Pranayama meditation.

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You can also do some smooth Qigong or Yoga movement during the first fields, so your body & brain is more balanced when you start the pranayama session.

Those two fields will boost the later, increase your lung capacity (hence prana intaking capacity) and help your body relax through it (specifically the diaphragm) that is primordial for good pranayama.

Thanks again @Cambrian for the reminder about the Anointing Oil. Another hidden gem.

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#35

Another pro tip if you have issue breathing comfortably through the nose.

It worked nicely for me as well.

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If you also struggle with the long breath retention.
Like, let’s say after 30sec it gets too uncomfortable…

You can take a quick sip in and out (1 sec in, then fully out), and back to breath retention empty-lunged.

A quick sip in won’t disrupt too much the hypoxic state.

The breath hold components create brief periods of safe, beneficial, low oxygen states in the body (intermittent hypoxia).

Intermittent hypoxia is a form of resilience building hormetic stress (like exercise, sun exposure, cold exposure, and sauna).

Intermittent Hypoxia Benefits:

  • Enhanced spatial learning and memory
  • Suppression of pro-inflammatory mediators (lowers inflammation)
  • Reduced blood pressure
  • Reduced cholesterol
  • Stabilizes blood sugar
  • Increased bone mineral density
  • Strengthening of the immune system
  • Increased strength of your heart
  • Increased aerobic capacity and exercise tolerance
  • Aids weight loss
  • Reduces symptoms of depression
  • May enhance neuroplasticity, stimulate neurogenesis, and the growth of new brain cells
  • Supports optimum blood flow
  • Encourages growth & development of nervous tissue
  • Prevents degeneration of tissues and organs
  • Naturally restores normal blood flow to an obstructed coronary heart artery
  • Increases stamina and endurance
  • Relief from many chronic conditions such as asthma, arthritis, diabetes, sleep disorders
  • Stimulates cell reproduction and regeneration

Source: https://www.somabreath.com/
(followed their instructor training a year ago → real good stuff)

Make sure to fully relax as well during the breath retention, with this you’ll get greater benefits and experiences.

Have fun guys :raised_hands:

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#36

What an amazing creation :heart_eyes:
I just did 1 round and it has left me with blissful feelings and it made me smile during the practice
Now to workout!

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#37

This is addicting. I’m hooked ! using it to start my mornings, mid-afternoon before work, and winding down in the evening.

I can only imagine the benefits one gets doing this long-term. I always loved the “buzz” from Wim Hof and this is felt immediately throughout my entire body.

I’ve been experimenting with gazing into A Wondrous Place drawing in some of Shiva energy + Khǽrnips The Holy Cleansing Water beforehand

Thank you again @SammyG for making the video. Hoping the audio will go on Patreon in the future so I can use it when offline as well

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#38

Glad you’re enjoying dude! I’ve been doing this practice daily for months and yes… it only gets better and more rewarding. While doing it, I’d sometimes have a field in the background but I would forget to put one on most of the time. Having these multiple fields implemented into the guide enrich the practice so much more.

I’m getting that buzz immediately too. The fields brought a whole nother level to the practice and makes me look forward to even doing it more!

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#39

I am really loving this.

With all latest powerful audios plus NFTs tags etc i was feeling my upper area like full (too much energy swirling around that area)

And it keeps growing or expanding faster than i could balance the rest.

I didnt know i needed this for instance since i practice breathing when meditating or doing Yoga

But its when you do new things that you feel the difference. And dont know how you did before without so and so lol

This is what i needed to balance and incorporate the energies along my body without feeling “full” on my chest.

Im literally looking forward to eat less throughout the day so i can do this more :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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#40
  1. Don’t be discouraged by many details in the instructional video. The routine is easy to do after short practice.
  2. As soon as the second session I noticed it was much easier to hold breath.
  3. Today after first full session I felt problematic areas of the body were activated. Don’t be surprised to feel some pain before gain.
  4. As Borisju suggested above, take a quick sip in and out if it feels difficult on 60/80 secs hold.
  5. It is said in the video to sit up straight. I dare say that good posture is important for everything in life - be it physical or energetic aspects. Hence, the Spinal Tapper field. It brings good results.

Will update on progress.

For breath enthusiasts, I would also suggest trying Rebirthing (fast-paced non-stop nose breathing) technique. It is usually done with calming music. Last week I put on the Essence of Mantras field instead of usual “generic” meditative music… I couldn’t believe what was happening. The effect was times stronger than usual. Quite a discovery for me.

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#41

2 or 3 years with Sap. Nothing is as good, stimulating and safe as this breathing combo (Belly Prana and Synchro Breathing).

Several days into practice. Strong vibrations in the body, especially in the belly area during Belly Prana. The energy is clearly rising, this is not mind concept, you know it when you feel this strong sensations in the body. Also, blocks are easily identified around min 4-6 of listening.

During Synchro breathing “energy” is more pronounced in the feet and legs area. After min 6-8 something happens and I begin to feel joy. Today it was laughing. At that moment I knew I skipped the breaths, but I wanted to laugh because it felt like release. Then I began to sink into this ecstatic state. But before completely giving up my mind interfered. It told me repeatedly to write this. It was like a choice to be made - ecstasy or coming back to senses to write about this experience. I’m very much mind-driven, so I chose the latter, and now writing these sentences in the middle of the night. Next time I will just surrender completely.

Love you all. Let go and let God.

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#42

I’m going to use the Super Lung Trainer before then :joy:

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#43

Wanted to congratulate you publicly again @SammyG.

I have been doing pranayama on and off for a few years, but by far this has been the best practice to start the day and/or hit a well-being reset after a long day.

Both the field from Captain and the technic are powerful and amazing :pray:

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#44

The sessions (Belly Prana+Breathing) are becoming more and more intense. @SammyG is there a way to go beyond? I want more. I need more.

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#45

Thanks Sammy and Captain for these breathing videos. I`ve done the advanced pranayama then the synchronized one with the bone and organ breathing field in the background, and after i’ve finished them, my whole body was buzzing.
Will definitely make this a daily practice

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#46

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.

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#47

Epic sharing Sammy :raised_hands:

Gonna complete it a little bit.

One tip here is actually to download the video in mp3 with a youtube converter, then cut everything but the last segment of 85 sec where Sammy goes silent.

Here you’ve got your Advanced pranayama field to loop :slight_smile:

Ofc learning of such things doesn’t replace the need to subscribe to Patreon: supporting Sapien Medicine, high quality audio, exclusive, etc.

If you’d like to achieve that heart brain coherence and be rapidly in the flow, synchronized breath is also nice thing to explore (2 sec in - 4 sec out for relaxation ; 4 sec in - 4 out for coherence ; 4:8 or 8:8 ; or any other interval fitting you)

I highly recommend this tool to keep track of intervals and avoid counting in your head: https://xhalr.com/

Highly recommended as well for anyone suffering from panic attacks, anxiety, etc.
(And go for 2:4 → slower is often too slow, faster keeps the nervous system on edge)

As well of a conscious effort to relax.
The deeper the relaxation, the deeper the state.

And a quick sip in and out once (one sec in, one sec out) when you feel you can’t hold your breath anymore, but you’d like to enjoy the hypoxic state longer (beneficial state you create with breath retention).

A pro & easy tip for this part is also to activate the mula bandha and feel what it does.

Later in time, you can also go for the maha bandha (or four bandhas)

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Will be looking forward to it :grin:

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#48

@SammyG in what other positions can this breathing be performed? just asking cus it hurts my back real bad, to the point it feels like i have to let go of trying to hold it up or straight

I am really looking forward to doing this every single morning / day, it feels amazing lol. Thank you for this video and practices and all of the effort you put into it :D

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#49

Technically you can do it laying down as well. Hand movements can be a lot more calm an not so exaggerated laying down (would be more difficult). But you’ll still be able to get the same flow.

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