# The Nasal Cycle and Nadi Shodhana Breathing

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121193985800802668
- Source account: [@mohitk_v](https://x.com/mohitk_v)
- Source language: Hindi
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 2026-11-13
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing) Right this very moment you’re breathing through more than one nostril and you don’t even know it.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=6) Check. Press one nostril closed with a finger, and breathe. Now the other one.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=12) Air flows freely on one side, and a little less freely on the other.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=17) It’s not a cold. Science calls this the nasal cycle.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=21) Every few hours, your body changes it on its own.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=25) But yogis saw something more in it. The moon flows through the left nostril, the Ida nadi, cool and calm like the night air.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=34) The sun is in the right nostril, the Pingala nadi, warm and intense like the midday sun.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=40) When the sun dominates, your mind grows restless and angry.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=43) When the moon dominates, you feel sluggish and sad.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=47) The Hatha Yoga Pradipika says, until these two currents are purified, the mind cannot become still.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=53) For this, the yogis created a practice, Nadi Shodhana.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=56) Let’s do it together now. Sit up straight and close your eyes.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=61) Close your right nostril with your right thumb and slowly breathe in through the left.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=66) As if cool air like moonlight were flowing in.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=70) Now close the left nostril with your ring finger and exhale through the right.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=74) Now inhale through the right, like the warm morning sun.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=77) Close the right nostril and exhale through the left.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=79) Moon in, sun out, sun in, moon out. Repeat five times without rushing.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=86) Now lower your hand and check again. The airflow on both sides will feel more balanced than before and there'll be a slight stillness within.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=95) Yogis say, when the sun and moon flow equally, the central channel, Sushumna, opens and meditation comes naturally.

[1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/B7h9L1lbxqJU/en/the-nasal-cycle-and-nadi-shodhana-breathing?t=105) So next time your mind feels restless, just five breaths, the moon and sun and you between them.