In the write-up of this video, it says, “He is known not only as a most influential yoga teacher, but a scholar, and a healer. Krishnamacharya was known to be able to voluntarily stop his visible heart beat/ pulse for over two minutes, probably by drastically reducing venous return to the heart.” i guess that means he was known to be able to slow down his heartbeat to such faintness, that the beat was no longer physically detectable manually, for two minutes. But...there's not necessarily a claim here or elsewhere that he could stop his heart from beating, right -- who knows. (Just curious.)
There are reports on such feats by advanced yogis including Swami Rama. In his book Science of Breath, it says there that his ability to stop his heart from beating was validated by medical scientists.
I guess it's more of being able to slow down the heartbeat to a point that one beat or the pause between beats is extended up to 2 minutes. It's like the breath in pranayama... one technically does not "hold" the breath but simply extended the pause between breaths up to a certain amount of time.
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In the write-up of this video, it says, “He is known not only as a most influential yoga teacher, but a scholar, and a healer. Krishnamacharya was known to be able to voluntarily stop his visible heart beat/ pulse for over two minutes, probably by drastically reducing venous return to the heart.”
i guess that means he was known to be able to slow down his heartbeat to such faintness, that the beat was no longer physically detectable manually, for two minutes. But...there's not necessarily a claim here or elsewhere that he could stop his heart from beating, right -- who knows. (Just curious.)
There are reports on such feats by advanced yogis including Swami Rama. In his book Science of Breath, it says there that his ability to stop his heart from beating was validated by medical scientists.
I guess it's more of being able to slow down the heartbeat to a point that one beat or the pause between beats is extended up to 2 minutes. It's like the breath in pranayama... one technically does not "hold" the breath but simply extended the pause between breaths up to a certain amount of time.
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