Swara Yoga: Connecting the Cosmos to Biorhythms

Breath, The Cosmic Conduit

To master Swara is to unfold the creative intelligence operating with energy and matter. A cosmically connected dance revealing the master and the music behind the orchestration. This orchestration influences all of life on earth, and has a direct correlation on man’s mind and nervous system. Breath, is the method and the revelation, it is the key to prana-vital life force which is the living bridge between the microcosm of the body and the macrocosm of the universe. Swara Yoga is the science of this sacred rhythm—the breath as both map and compass, guiding us through mental, physical, and spiritual landscapes.

Ancient Swara texts declare:

"Analyze the breath, and the wisdom of the cosmos is revealed."

Nostril dominance is directly connected to the waxing and waning cycle of the moon. Alternating nostril dominance throughout the fortnight and the energy of the body, many of us don’t realize the intricate connection between the reflection of the moon and the biochemistry of the body. But, beyond the body the waxing and waning cycles of the moon has a direct correlation to the animation of prana, through the subtle elements- or components of our sensorial and manifested reality. It isn’t just humans, but all animate life from plants to insects, animals, and of course humans.

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The Moon’s Silent Command

Our nostrils obey the lunar phases and operate behind the conscious mind as an unseen conductor. Her waxing and waning cycles dictate which nostril breathes dominance into our days.

• Right nostril (Pingala) – Solar, masculine, left brain (logic, action).

• Left nostril (Ida) – Lunar, feminine, right brain (intuition, creativity).

This is no mere biological quirk. It is the cosmic choreography alternating dominance of the brain hemisphere based on the phase of the moon. Brain dominance affects the nervous system, biochemistry, and the processes and proclivities of the mind into action. Alternating every hour between right and left hemisphere dominance, the dance between the masculine and feminine, positive and negative charges perfecting in sync from the heavens unto earth. This cosmic command occurs simultaneously in plants, insects, animals, and humans alike. The Moon governs the tides of our biochemistry, the pulse of prana through the subtle body and our physical animations from mind to physical embodiment. 

Moon is the primary connection between the biorhythms but isn’t the sole conductor. She operates in accordance with the Sun as each nostril dominance is determined to begin at Sunrise, yet another union of Solar and Lunar, active and passive, tantrically this is correlated as consciousness, Shiva principle awakening into matter, Shakti. As above, so below. The cosmic connection doesn’t end with the Sun and the Moon, Swara Yoga is the art that unites the universal energies into their terrestrial operations, so too, the planets have influence. 

Planetary Polarities & the Body’s Hidden Clock

When looking at the masculine and feminine correlation, we have a bit more insight into the ordering of polarities within our form and through the planets, now let’s take the mind into a broader context. The polarities (positive and negative, masculine and feminine) that govern the nostrils and the biorhythms of the body are also divided among the planets to organize the days. 

Recap: the moon organizes the mind and body, the sun organizes the daily timing of the moon’s influence, and the planets organize days. The macro to the micro of cosmic intelligence working through life on earth- the melody within the noise. 

The masculine planets—Sun, Mars, Saturn—rule the right nostril’s domain. Their days: Sunday, Tuesday, Saturday. Positive, activating energies.

The feminine planets—Jupiter, Mercury, Moon, Venus—command the left. Their days: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Negative, animating energies

(Why is Jupiter feminine? Consider its watery, expansive nature—exalted in Cancer, the Moon’s throne. Mercury, though often neutral, bends to the feminine through Virgo’s life-giving wisdom.)

To dive further into this subject would require the explanation of planetary hours (hora) energetic signatures, and deeper knowledge into the planetary spheres. For simplicity's sake, the application of planetary rulership over days can be applied to the action according to the nostril dominance and based on the day. This reveals how the characteristics or energy signature of planetary influence is either active or passive and how that signature is working through the creative evolution/animation of life on earth. Another key take away, across numerous esoteric disciplines from East to West the Sun and Moon are the primary luminaries, it is through Swara the connection of the mind to the day, lunar phase, hour (cosmic connection) that we are able to understand the Solar and Lunar influence are not solely symbolic but have physical manifestations within the phsyio and psyche of man. 

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Breath’s Hidden Mathematics

• Waxing Moon (New → Full): 9 nights of right nostril dominance (three 3-day cycles), 6 nights of left (two 3-day cycles).

• Waning Moon (Full → New): 9 nights of left nostril dominance, 6 of right.

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The Sun activates the dominant nostril at sunrise, but the Moon decides which one rules based on the lunar phase (progression of the moon through the lunar month).

This is no arbitrary pulse,  the nostrils are the gateway for prana (vital life force) to sculpt our emotions, chemistry, and nervous system. Swara in its essence is the Tantric art and science of elevating consciousness and unifying the waking state with the hidden intelligence animating life. The application of Swara is to elevate man’s consciousness and awaken him to the higher realms of existence. Each day splits into 12 hours of the right nostril-left brain being dominant, and 12 hours of the left nostril-right brain being dominant. (12 Masculine, Active, Analytical hours) (12 Feminine, Passive, Creative hours). There is perfect harmony between light and dark, yin and yang, shiva and shakti. Equally the month is divided into fortnights (two sections of 15 days, e.g. waxing and waning) (lunar month 30 days each month) 15 days on the waxing moon in which the masculine right nostril governs primarily with feminine balancing, and conversely the waning cycle the feminine principle or left nostril begins a majority of the days with the masculine principle balancing. Equating to each operating 15 days each out of 30 day lunar month. A balance between forces- nature’s order within the cosmos that orders life. Science echoes the ancients: Swara Yoga reveals the electromagnetic poetry of our being—where breath becomes the language of the universe.

Taoist sages whisper:

"Meditate upon the breath, and the celestial deities will unveil themselves within your flesh. Sustain yourself on prana alone, and your being will purify, strengthen, and ascend—touching the eternal."