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Awakens The Power of Breath ~ Ishan Shivanand

Name: Awakens The Power of Breath ~ Ishan Shivanand
Uploaded: 2025-07-21T09:36:37+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Aarti Samani
Description: In this brief segment, the speaker explains that meditation can be learned using tools we already possess, illustrating the concept with a martial‑arts…

21 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker explains that meditation can be learned using tools we already possess, illustrating the concept with a martial‑arts analogy. He describes a martial artist who, despite having the same limbs as anyone else, can perform extraordinary feats because he has trained his body. Similarly, every person has breath and awareness, but most do not know how to harness them. The speaker argues that, just as martial arts teach the body to function in wondrous ways, yoga provides a systematic practice to train and utilize the breath and awareness effectively, unlocking their hidden potential.

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We learn how to meditate with the tools that we have in hand. I will give you an example. I am talking to a martial artist, a martial artist that can do phenomenal things with his body. He can do stunts, flips, defense, he can do offense, and that martial artist has the same two legs and the same two hands like everybody else, but he can do so much more because because he learned and practiced the martial arts. In the same way, a person has breath, a person has awareness, but a normal person doesn't know how to use his breath, how to use his awareness. And just like martial arts can teach you how to utilize your body in a wondrous way, yoga can teach you how to utilize your breath in a wondrous way.