Three Doors Into Breath Vocabulary: Words for the Air, the Act and the Aim

Learn the Sanskrit and plain-English vocabulary of pranayama, from prana and nadi to kumbhaka and ujjayi, as background for THE BILLIONAIRE BREATH MASTERY. Breathwork writing has a way of sounding either mystical or mechanical, and the vocabulary is often to blame. A single paragraph can jump from a Sanskrit term to a gym metaphor to a half-remembered biology lesson. This article slows that down. It is a background guide to the language of breath practice, written for readers curious about THE BILLIONAIRE BREATH MASTERY (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=xhrEQAAQBAJ), a book that sets breathing techniques alongside the older discipline of pranayama. To be clear about what this is: it is a guide to terms, not a summary of the book, whose contents are for you to discover there. The explanations below are general and widely taught. Where scholars or teachers disagree, the hedge is stated. Get the book: Google Play Books · Apple Books — THE BILLIONAIRE BREATH MASTERY by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake.