The art and science of breathing, known as pranayama, is an essential part of yoga practice. Mostly it is about awareness—being receptive, entering the inner kingdom of the body, the caves of the chest and abdomen, feeling, following the internal winds of the breath, the five vayus. Then in all classical pranayamas it can be coached, monitored, assisted, manipulated, attended and directed. You can become a breath attendant (almost the same job as flight attendant!). If there is no connection or consciousness, it becomes mere exercise with no meaning. Now, how do you learn to feel, to see or listen if you don’t? By being present, waiting for the doors and windows to open, by being patient. Open by stretching your antennas in all directions so a certain form of channeling takes place and reveals the wild nature of breath—the primal, preverbal, prehistoric, pre-everything nature of life.