38 SCIENCE OF BREATH. 



uiftx;ery, which he has now acquired by tweans of tlw 

 ^receding exercises. The general principles of the Grant. 

 Breath may be summed up in the old Hindu saying: 

 "Blessed is the Yogi who can breathe through his bone*." 

 This exercise will fill the entire system with prana, and 

 the student will emerge from It with every bone, muscle, 

 nerve, cell, tissue, organ and part energized and attuned 

 by the prana and the rhythm of the breath. It is a gen- 

 eral housecleaning of the system, and he who practices it 

 carefully will feel us if he had been given a new body, 

 freshly created, from the crown of his head to the tips of 

 his toes. We will let the exercise speak for itself. 

 <"1) Lie in a relaxed position, at perfect ease. 



(2) Breathe rhythmically until the rhythm is perfectly 

 established. 



(3) Then, inhaling and exhaling, form the mental 

 image of the breath being drawn up through the bones of 

 the legs, and then forced out through them; then through 

 the bones of the arma; then through the top of the skull; 

 then through the stomach; then through the reproductive 

 region; then as if it were traveling upward and downward 

 along the spinal column; and then as if the breath were 

 being inhaled and exhaled through every pore of the skin, 

 the whole body being filled with prana and life. 



(4) Then (breathing rhythmically) send the current 

 uf prana to the Seven Vital Centers, in turn, as follows, 

 using the mental picture as in previous exercises: 



(a) To the forehead. 



(b) To the back of the head. 



(c) To the base of the brain. 



(d) To the Solar Plexus. 



(e) To the Sacral Region (lower part of the spine). 



(f) To the region of the navel. 



(g) To the reproductive region. 



Finish by sweeping the current of prana, to and f* 

 lorn head to feet several times. 



(5) Finifch with Cleansing Breath. 



