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Heart with Wings

Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan

The Elemental Breath Practice

Given by Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan

January 2007, Kansas City, Missouri USA


         Play the Audio Recording of Part I - Intro to Breath Practice

         Play the Audio Recording of Part II - Elemental Breaths

         Play the Audio Recording of Part III - Elemental Breaths

The body is made of five elements, according to the mystical view - earth, water, fire, air and ether. Yet these terms must not be compared with the scientific terms: these are mystical conceptions and they should be understood in a mystical sense. These five elements form the sustenance of the body; at the same time these elements purify the body. (Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi Volume 13, Gathas, Everyday Life 1.7, The Five Elements of the Body)

Breath is the medium between the outer life and the inner life.


Breath is a life current, its value is known to so few. Breath in itself is a phenomenon, but the phenomenon becomes manifest when once the breath is fully mastered. (Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi Volume 13, Gathas, Breath 2.10, Communication Through the Breath)

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