kriya yoga question for Michael Winn and others

I don’t know much about kriya but isn’t the essental physical technique to slow down your breathing to an almost stand still?

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-http://www.rumba.fi/the-residents-40-vuotta-silmamuna-asuissa-ja-horhoilyn-syvassa-ytimessa-35608/

I don’t claim to be any kind of expert, but pranayama is clearly for breathing first of all.

It seems that if one wants to have simple idea what kriya yoga is about, it’s better see it in terms of those later limbs of ashtanga yoga; that is pratyahara, dharana, dhyana & samadhi.

So for starting to learn kriya yoga one doesn’t stop practicing asana, pranayama, mudra, bandha etc, but one again learns new techniques, but mostly it would happen so that these are learned separately and when some mastery have been acquired one start to combine these with earlier mechanized practices. So it’s also a matter of learning yogic multitasking.

By the way I have impression that these are starting to be quite advanced practices.

HOWDY