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    5 major prana and 5 minor prana

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    Within the practice or Pranayama (life force expansion) there are different pranas.

    There are 5 major pranas – you hold on to them.
    ✦ Prana – inhalation
    ✦ Abana – exhalation
    ✦ Samana – digestion
    ✦ Udana – talking, activities, listening
    ✦ Uyana – circulation and transportation

    There are 5 minor pranas – you let them go
    ✦ Naya – hiccups
    ✦ Koorma – blinking
    ✦ Krikara – yawning, hunger, thirst
    ✦ Dharmjaya – sneezing
    ✦ Devadatta – pervade the whole body, the organ of touch