Mantrandala Breathing Meditations

Clicking on any of these thumbnails will either open another page (with more thumbnail links of that tradition) or a PDF of that particular MBM. The PDF will include a brief description and minimal instructions. The patterning of syllables (and consequent visualization and head movement, the least important of MBM’s three foci (along with breath and internal sound)) is mostly according to the natural tendency of the torso to rise up when inhaling and relax downwards when exhaling. Pranayama, conversely, teaches that inhaling is a contraction and exhaling an expansion. From that inhaling can be felt as downwards and exhaling upwards. Consequently some of the MBMs can be done inverted (not your body, but the mandala)…either way “works”. Also, doing them on the horizontal plane, like a lotus, or three-dimensionally, obviates any of this. Just doing something that does not feed the ego is what is important.

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Universal Interfaith