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ning the breath all the while. You may vary this by rotating them alternately like the sails of a windmill. (4) Exhale the breath vigorously through the mouth. (5) Practice Cleansing Breath. EXERCISE IV. (1) Lie on the floor with your face downward and palms of hands flat upon the floor by your sides. (2) Inhale Complete Breath and retain. (3) Stiffen the body and raise yourself up by the strength of your arms until you rest on your hands and toes (4) Then lower yourself to original position. Repeat several times. (5) Exhale vigorously through your mouth. (6) Practice Cleansing Breath. EXERCISE V. (1) Stand erect with your palms against the wall. (2) Inhale Complete Breath and retain. (3) Lower the chest to the wall, resting your weight on your hands. (4) Then raise yourself back with the arm muscles alone, keeping the body stiff. (5) Exhale vigorously through the mouth. (6) Practice Cleansing Breath. EXERCISE VI. (1) Stand erect with arms "akimbo," that is, with hands resting around the waist and elbows standing out. (2) Inhale Complete Breath and retain. (3) Keep legs and hips stiff and bend well forward, as If bowing, at the same time exhaling slowly. (4) Return to first position and take another Complete Breath. (5) Then bend backward, exhaling slowly. (6) Return to first position and take a Complete Breath. (7) Then bend sideways, exhaling slowly. (Vary by bending to right and then to left.) (8) Practice Cleansing Breath. EXERCISE VII. (1) Stand erect, or sit erect, with straight spinal column. (2) Inhale a Complete Breath, but instead of inhaling in a continuous steady stream, take a series of short, quick "sniffs," as if you were smelling aromatic salts or ammonia and did not wish to get too strong a "whiff." Do not exhale any of these little breaths, but add one to the other until the entire lung space Is filled. (3) Retain for a few seconds. (4) Exhale through the nostrils in a long, restful, sighing breath. (5) Practice Cleansing Breath. CHAPTER XIII. VIBRATION AND YOGI RHYTHMIC BREATHING All is in vibration. From the tiniest atom to the greatest sun, everything is in a state of vibration. There is nothing in a
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