Sama Vritti is the “equilibrium breath.” It comes from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika — one of the oldest texts on pranayama, the practice of working with breath as medicine. Sama means equal. Vritti means movement, or fluctuation — it’s actually the same word used in the Yoga Sutras when Patanjali talks about stilling the movements

Surprise! There is a nerve running from your brainstem all the way down through your throat, your heart, your lungs, and into your gut. It touches almost everything — your digestion, your heart rate, your immune response, your capacity to feel genuinely calm. It’s called the vagus nerve, and most of us have never given