ida
इडा iḍāThe subtle channel running on the left, associated with the cooling, lunar current of breath and energy; one of the three principal nadis with pingala and sushumna.
Where this term appears
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
The tradition counts them in the thousands, but three carry the work. Ida runs on the left, lunar and cooling.
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
On the left is ida , associated with the moon, with coolness, with the quality the texts call lunar.
- What the bindi actually means Journal
…tus, and it is where the three principal channels of energy, the cool ida and the warm pingala and the central sushumna, finally meet.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
…he subtle body, two great channels of energy run alongside the spine: Ida , the lunar channel on the left, cool and receptive and calming, and Pingala , the solar channel on the right, hot and active and energi…
- What is Hatha Yoga? Yoga
… two breath-currents, prana and apana , that run in the side-channels ida and pingala.
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
The two breasts are the Sun and Moon , the two nadis (ida and pingala) of the subtle body, the two principles whose union at the heart is the susumna nadi up which the kundalini rises.
- The Panchamakara Question Treatise
Matsya (fish) is read as the twin nadis ( Ida and Pingala ) that intertwine like fish in the practitioner’s subtle anatomy.
- What the West gets wrong about chakras Journal
Three matter most: ida on the left, pingala on the right, and sushumna up the centre.