Bhastrika (pronounced bah-STREE-kah),[1] a kind of pranayama, is a breathing technique where breathing is forcible and through the nose, with equal time for inhalation and exhalation.[2]. Bhastrika Pranayam is aimed at keeping the inhalation cycle equal to exhalation, yet making breath deeper and longer. Deep breath inwards and long exhalation outwords with equal time intervals constitutes this pranayam technique.[3]