breath is a two fold path
from you -- to the world
from the world -- to you

This relationship is a journey
from a point A you call birth
to a point B you call death

You can divide and subdivide
add and multiply
but
A thud regulates it
it regulates the thud
This music will go all along your life
till the day the song ends
the coughs, the wheezing, the apnees
and all the inbetweens to catch up

Fast pace -- when joy or angered
slow pace --  when sad or depressed

Five thousand years ago
Patanjali pondered
wondering
what the hell to make out of it
the prana, the pranavayu, he said..Pranayama
thats it -- the sutra
the harnessing key
vital body,vital breath
ida, pingala, sushama
tantra mantra yantra

niyama

he locked it, held it , released it
he sucked it, blew it , whistled it
he stood like a tree, a cow, a lion
stable like a chair and a table

in eighty four ways he twisted, tangled, untangled

placed mindfulness to meditate inbetween

And thats how he died
teaching the system

in -- we live
out-- we die
in -- we live
out-- we die
sohum, soohummm, soooo hummmmm
some bearded fart made it an art
millions others a religion
and Baba Ramdev made mostly the money.
oh what else , Patanjali.