eans of refreshing the mind and clearing it after
arduous mental labor.

Sit in an erect posture, keeping the spinal column straight, and the
eyes well to the front, letting the hands rest on the upper part of
the legs. Breathe rhythmically, but instead of breathing through both
nostrils as in the ordinary exercises, press the left nostril close
with the thumb, and inhale through the right nostril. Then remove the
thumb, and close the right nostril with the finger, and then exhale
through the left nostril. Then, without changing the fingers, inhale
through the left nostril, and changing fingers, exhale through the
right. Then inhale through right and exhale through left, and so on,
alternating nostrils as above mentioned, closing the unused nostril
with the thumb or forefinger. This is one of the oldest forms of Yogi
breathing, and is quite important and valuable, and is well worthy of
acquirement. But it is quite amusing to the Yogis to know that to the
Western world this method is often held out as being the "whole
secret" of Yogi Breathing. To the minds of many Western readers, "Yogi
Breathing" suggests nothing more than a picture of a Hindu, sitting
erect, and alternating nostrils in the act of breathing. "Only this
and nothing more." We trust that this little work will open the eyes
of the Western world to the great possibilities of Yogi Breathing, and
the numerous methods whereby it may be employed.

(11) THE GRAND YOGI PSYCHIC BREATH.

The Yogis have a favorite form of psychic breathing which they
practice occasionally, to which has been given a Sanscrit term of
which the above is a general equivalent. We have given it last, as it
requires practice on the part of the student in the line of rhythmic
breathing and mental imagery, which he has now acquired by means of
the preceding exercises. The general principles of the Grand Breath
may be summed up in the old Hindu saying: "Blessed is the Yogi who can
breathe through his bones." 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 general housecleaning
of the system, and he who practices it carefully will feel as 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,