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Alternate Nostril Breathing
Online · Anywhere quiet
Nadi shodhana, the balancing breath
HostAway
Duration6 min
You needNothing
Classical pranayama, thousands of years of practice
Close one nostril, breathe in. Switch, breathe out. A practice old enough that nobody knows who started it, kept alive because it works. The switching asks just enough attention that the mind has nowhere else to go.
How to do it
- 1Close the right nostril with your thumb, inhale left
- 2Close the left with your ring finger, exhale right
- 3Inhale right, switch, exhale left
- 4Continue slowly for six minutes
An experience, not a claim. Offered as a way to take a break. Away makes no health claim for it.


