This whole breathing exercise was about thirty minutes. In each round of Ravishankar’s chanting there were 20 long breaths, about 70 – 100 medium breaths, about 60-80 short breaths. This whole thing is repeated some 7 rounds of Long, Medium and Short Breaths. Across all the three rhythms the exhalation time was the same – hum. Sooooooooooooo hum Sooooooooooooo hum and so on. Sooooo hum Soooo Hum Sooo Hum after some more rounds of this he switches on to a much faster rhythm Sooooooooooooo hum Soooooooooo hum …… after a few rounds he switches to a faster tempo the medium rhythm Ravishankar in his effeminate voice starts the chanting – Sooo hum, Soo hum for which we breath correspondingly. We breath in whenever Ravishankar Says ‘Sooo’ and for ‘Ham’ we breath out.
We were asked to sit straight and relaxed and for people who cannot sit cross legged they can sit in the chair or even lie down. To signify the sanctity of the recorded instruction.The cassete was put inside the tape recorder. The cassete was wrapped in saffron cloth. Teacher then asked all of us to sit comfortably and follow the instruction from the tape. He says Kriya was devised by Ravishankar when he was in silence for ten days in Shimoga district in Karnataka.
In Sudarshan Kriya we breath in different rhythms Long, Medium and Short. Modern life we have lost the naturnal rhythm and the best way to come to natural rhythm is through practicing rhythmic breathing. There are rhythms in nature – day-night, seasons and so on.
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