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Ajapa Japa

So-Ham riding the ujjayi breath through the frontal passage, navel to throat.

Awaiting subject reviewThis page is an outline. Its stages are named, not yet written out, and it has not been checked by a teacher of this practice.

Technique: Breath mantra
Time: 15 minutes

The mantra So-Ham, riding the ujjayi breath through the frontal passage from the navel to the throat.

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The stages, in outline

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Outline only. The full practice will be written and reviewed before it is offered for independent practice. Learn it with a teacher.

Ideas behind it

Four stages of japa
Japa, the repetition of a mantra, deepens through four stages: aloud, whispered, silent, and effortless with the breath.

Sources and tradition

YOG Union App Content Map, 2 November 2026, p. 9

Also known as So Ham, Soham.

Awaiting subject review · revision 1 · updated 5 November 2026