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=== Vitalizing Pranayama  ===

=== Vitalizing Pranayama  ===

Kapalabhati is one of the vitalizing pranayamas. 'Kapalabhati' means 'shining forehead' in Samskrit.<ref name=":0" /> The process involves exhaling with full force by squaring the stomach inwards after deep inspiration. This act throws the abdominal gas out with a jerk.<ref name=":3" /> Thus, it removes carbon-dioxide from the body and makes one feel fresh, oxygenated and vitalized.<ref name=":0" />

Kapalabhati is one of the vitalizing pranayamas. 'Kapalabhati' literally means 'shining forehead' in Samskrit.<ref name=":0" /> It is made up of two words viz. Kapala meaning skull where skull includes all the organs under the skull too and bhati meaning shining or illuminating. It is called so because the process influences the organs under the skull especially, the brain and the small brain in a good manner. <ref name=":4">Sunil Kumar Yadav (2015), [https://www.academia.edu/12631093/Effect_of_Bhastrika_and_Kapalbhati_Pranayama_on_Selected_Physiological_Variables_of_Sports_Men Effect of Bhastrika & Kapalbhati Pranayama on Selected Physiological Variables of Sports Men], International Educational E-Journal (Volume IV, Issue II, Apr-May-June 2015), Accessed on 2nd November, 2022.</ref> The process involves exhaling with full force by squaring the stomach inwards after deep inspiration. This act throws the abdominal gas out with a jerk.<ref name=":3" /> Thus, it removes carbon-dioxide from the body and makes one feel fresh, oxygenated and vitalized.<ref name=":0" />

The speciality of Kapalabhati is that it cleanses both the body and the mind using just the breath. It is highly useful for mind detoxification and purification. Another interesting factor is that Kapalabhati reverses the normal course of breathing making expiration an active process and inspiration a passive process. This is believed to induce the reverse flow of nerve impulses to and from the brain facilitating the stimulation and awakening of the centers.<ref name=":3" />

Kapalabhati is an important part of Shatkarma or Shatkriya, the yogic system of body cleansing techniques.<ref name=":4" /> The speciality of Kapalabhati is that it cleanses both the body and the mind using just the breath. It is highly useful for mind detoxification and purification. Another interesting factor is that Kapalabhati reverses the normal course of breathing making expiration an active process and inspiration a passive process. This is believed to induce the reverse flow of nerve impulses to and from the brain facilitating the stimulation and awakening of the centers.<ref name=":3" />

=== Balancing Pranayama ===

=== Balancing Pranayama ===