Pancha Kosha: Annamaya(Lagna)=Body; Pranamaya=Bridge; Manomaya(Moon)=Mind; Pranayama: Anulom Vilom=Calm+Inaudible+80% Capacity+No Holding+10min; Ida-Pingala Balance; Physical Features→Dosha: Kapha=Thick Hair+Well-Built; Pitta=Muscular+In Between; Vata=Thin

The Five Kośas — Prāṇa Joins Body and Mind

The teacher brings in the five sheaths to explain why a planet afflicting both Lagna and Moon points to breath.

"Moon is the controller of the Manomaya Kosha and Lagna is the controller of the Annamaya Kosha, the physical matter. And Pranamaya Kosha is in between them. It is the connection between the manas and the anna, the physical matter and the mind."

• When prāṇa is affected and the life force starts to get depleted, the person's breathing is affected and the person has an unstable mind.
• In this chart a doṣa is being activated by Saturn from both Lagna and Moon. That is the body sheath and the mind sheath together — so the link between them, the breath, is where it shows.

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Prāṇāyāma — Done Calmly

The first recommendation, before diet: breathing control. Simple anuloma-viloma prāṇāyāma, "and maybe some kapālabhāti as well". Ten minutes every day.

How to do it

1. Breathe in through one nostril.
2. Breathe out through the other nostril.
3. Do not hold. Breathe in again through the nostril you just breathed out through, and out through the first.
4. Keep going: in, out, in, out.

Calm and without sound

• Do it very calmly. No sound should be heard. The teacher demonstrates both ways.
• Making a sound means exerting pressure on the muscles of the respiratory tract. They are being pulled aggressively.
• Any muscle forced aggressively, in an unnatural way, upsets the nervous balance of the body.

Iḍā and piṅgalā

• The nervous system has the piṅgalā and iḍā nāḍīs, the solar and lunar channels. They control the push and pull of the nervous system. Everything in the body is a result of push and pull.
• The solar channel pushes you to action. The lunar channel withdraws — it pulls back, restrains.
• Too much push is too much aggression. Too much pull is too much relaxation. The right balance has to be there.
• This is not only about the mental state. Moving the bowel, digesting food, circulating blood, the heart pumping — many muscles move all the time, and nervous signals control them. That balance between the two channels is what has to be restored.
• Anything done aggressively means more of the solar channel. So breathe in a relaxed way.

Stop short of full

• When you breathe in, the lungs fill, push the diaphragm, and the stomach comes out. Do not fill to the point of strain.
• At 100% you start to feel strain. Stop at about 80% or 85% — breathe as much as you can, but stop while there is still room to breathe more. Then breathe out very slowly.

When the mind is unsteady

• When something bothers you — worry, anxiety, frustration — calm down, relax, breathe in and breathe out.

"Mind controls the breathing and breathing controls the mind. So it's difficult to say who controls who. By manipulating one of them, you can control the other one, depending on which one you can control better. And most of us can control the breathing better than the mind."

• This is why prāṇāyāma is done before any ritual. The teacher's complaint: priests only make the gesture, say "prāṇāyāma", and go on with the pūjā. They do not do it.
• Prāṇāyāma means controlling, disciplining the prāṇa. After it the life force should be in a disciplined, rhythmic pattern.
• He strongly recommends it when Saturn is the planet and there is a Vata disturbance.

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Judging the Dosha from the Body

The other student's birth data is not given. The teacher has not seen his chart and judges from his appearance.

Breathing trouble is not always Vata

• The student has had breathing problems for many years. The teacher: looking at him, he does not seem a Vata person; Saturn may give a temporary Vata problem.

"Breathing problem doesn't necessarily come because of Vata."

• In Ayurveda any problem — difficulty breathing, heart problems, indigestion, acidity, gas, headache — can have three different root causes. Kapha people, Pitta people and Vata people each have a different course.
• A Pitta person has a lot of fire in the system and is prone to inflammation.

Build

• Kapha people are usually fat or well-built.
• Vata people are thin — "like him and like me".
• Pitta people are in between. They can be fat or thin, but usually not too thin. They are muscular and have a good personality.

Hair and forehead

• A Kapha person is expected to have very luscious, thick hair.
• This student's hair is of a drier kind and not as thick. His forehead is not that wide. Both count against Kapha.
• His overall build suggests Kapha or Pitta.
• The student mentions Jupiter in the 7th of his chart (the rest of what he says is not clear on the recording). The teacher: Jupiter in the 7th aspecting the lagna can also give some Kapha.
• The teacher's reading from the body alone: a Pitta–Kapha person, more Pitta.

Pitta and Vata digestion

• A Pitta person produces a lot of acid that is not used. He has digestion problems because of hyperacidity.
• Vata people have digestion problems because they do not have enough enzymes.
• Pitta people have too many enzymes and do not use them well, so they become acid. It is absorbed into the blood, goes everywhere, and gives backaches or headaches.

The recording ends here, in mid-sentence.

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