Feeling/Taste/Sensation during deep breathing in certain asanas

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#1

Hey everyone. I have been practicing yoga on and off for a couple of years. However over the past 8 months I have been more and more dedicated to my practice. Currently it is about 2 hours every day. About 3 weeks or so ago I noticed (and this is something I believe I noticed briefly early on) that during deep breathing in certain asanas I feel as though I can taste or smell or feel something in my breath and it is always the same taste/smell/feeling. If I breath normally, nothing, but in deep rhythmic breaths during what seems like well performed asanas I feel this.

Has anyone else experienced this? I have Parkinson’s disease and so I need to take medication to function. My friend thought that might be part of the issue.

Any response is more than welcome.

Thanks,
Robbie

#2

I experience the same thing sometimes during my practice. usually when I’m doing backbends.

I dont’ know what it is but for me it’s enjoyable and maybe just my senses becoming more sensitive, smell and taste. Or maybe it’s the ‘kundalini’ or prana being breathed or swallowed or entering the sushumna nadi, I don’t know, some kind of ‘ambrosia’? Not sure.

namaste

#3

It is very difficult to specify anything given your medical condition. I am sure you must have shared this with your doctor. Ironically, the doctors ask the Parkinson’s patients if they have ‘lost’ sense of smell.

This may help you: While nose etc are sense organs, the sense of smell etc is independent of the organs. Sense is subtle like electricity, while nose is gross physical like a wire that carries it. Yoga practice activates our suble body and chakras. Each chakra is associated with a sense that gets sharper and soon it becomes possible to sense without ‘sensing’. Rhythmic breathing does activate chakras.