prana
प्राण prāṇaThe vital breath or life-force; in the Taittiriya sheaths the pranamaya kosha, and in yoga the energy moved through the subtle channels.
Where this term appears
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
What pranayama means The word is a compound. Prana is the life-force, and in ordinary use the breath.
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
Prana and the five winds The second layer of the subtle body is energetic.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
In the rite of prana-pratishtha , the "establishing of the breath," a priest uses mantra and mudra to transfer breath, life, and the senses into the murti , the image, so that a shaped stone becomes a living pr…
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
And when the image is carved and set in place, it is brought to life by the rite that matters most, the prana-pratishtha , the "establishing of the life-breath".
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
The rite is prana-pratishtha , "the establishing of the life-breath." Through mantra (sacred sound-formulas), through nyasa (the ritual placing of divine power onto the image and the body), through yantra (geom…
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
One of vata's five sub-types is prana-vayu , where Ayurveda and the yogic map of the body share a vocabulary.
- What is Ganesh Chaturthi? Worship
Through a rite called prana pratishtha , the breath-installation, the worshipper asks the deity to be present in the clay.
- What is Hatha Yoga? Yoga
…d lunar energies in the body, the joining of the two breath-currents, prana and apana , that run in the side-channels ida and pingala.