Body and breath practices that bypassed ordinary mental defenses
Yoga, pranayama, and holotropic breathwork appear as triggers in roughly one in twenty accounts. These practices work directly with the body and breath in ways that can produce spontaneous shifts in consciousness, sometimes without the practitioner intending or expecting anything.
Holotropic breathwork appears disproportionately in this category, with several accounts describing full ego dissolution during a session. Intensive yoga retreat also appears frequently, particularly among practitioners of Kundalini Yoga.
Um and this is a great example in your experience of how these themes out of yoga, mantras, and even asanas, even pranayama, the spontaneous breathing, some people think that some wise Indian men made these up.
I had been doing some intense Hatha Yoga taught by Swami Satchitananda, so every morning I would get up at 5 and do about an hour and a half of breathing, pranayama, asanas, postures.
Great and I can relate as well in in yoga there is you know ways to move the energy with the breath pranayama but I found that uh yeah with just just intention with with wherever you direct the intention in the in the body in the nervous system you can flow the energy.
And then in the second half, we went a little deeper and at a certain point, we did what was called "rounding," essentially, which is cycles of yoga (asanas), pranayama, and meditation.