{"id":6149,"date":"2022-03-23T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:38:11","slug":"pranayam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/pranayam\/","title":{"rendered":"Pranayam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yoga is India&#8217;s gift to the world. Those sages who came up with it a thousand years back must be happy from heaven. Yoga&#8217;s adoption is global now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked Be here now last week. The book is a personal journey of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ram_Dass\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ram_Dass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ram Dass<\/a>. It talks about his psychedelic trips and finding a guru in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neem_Karoli_Baba\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neem_Karoli_Baba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neem Karoli Baba.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One part of the book talks about Pranayam, food, and Yoga. I liked it. Yoga came to me at a boarding school in Ranchi, class 4 or 5. I got back to it again five years back and mostly did simple breathing exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After COVID in January, I had stopped doing it and was completely lost the last few months. Let&#8217;s see if getting back to Pranayam takes me back to the old days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Understanding Pranayama : The 4th Anga&#39; by Sri M<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ARpIdxssfq\">https:\/\/t.co\/ARpIdxssfq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/1506326650530660360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga is India&#8217;s gift to the world. Those sages who came up with it a thousand years back must be happy from heaven. Yoga&#8217;s adoption is global now. I picked Be here now last week. The book is a personal journey of Ram Dass. It talks about his psychedelic trips and finding a guru in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/pranayam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pranayam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6150,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}