Pranayama
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Breathing techniques; breath control, often synchronized with movements between asanas in yoga. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Sanskrit प्राणायाम (prāṇāyāma), from प्राण (prāṇá, “life force, vital energy, the breath”) (whence also English prana) + आयाम (āyāma, “lengthening, extending, stretching”).