'Baba squirrel dev': Squirrel doing 'Kapalbhati' will shoo away your mid-week blues

A video of a squirrel performing kapalbhati is going viral on social media. In the one-minute-long video, you can see squirrel standing with folded hands in front as it seems to exhale air with force.

The video was shared by Indian Forest Service officer Saket Badola with caption- "Kapalbhatiaasana…. Squirrel style".

Kapalbhati aasana....squirrel style. pic.twitter.com/Tdgx9vDRHS

— SAKET (@Saket_Badola) May 12, 2020

The video has garnered more than 11,000 views in 24 hours and netizens were amazed at Squirrel's skills. Take a look at how netizens reacted...

Baba squirrel dev

— Aman D Rathi (@AmanDRathi1) May 12, 2020

That's awesome!

— Kayzad Kasad (@KayzadKasad) May 12, 2020

Encouraging and funny at the same time

— Sarita Khatri (@saritakhatri15) May 12, 2020

Nice

— Praveen Reddy Balla (@Praveen51749143) May 12, 2020

Can't stop laughing..Too cute sir

— Komal Panwar (@Panwar_K06) May 12, 2020

Benefits of yoga

Yoga is a sanyog (blend) of asana (exercise) and pranayama (breathing). The goal of pranayama (prana – breath, Yama – elongate) reduces the breaths-per-minute ratio. However, wrong breathing techniques have lasting consequences.

Yoga preaches eight pranayamas to stir the dosha, or type of biological energy – vatha (space and air), pitta (fire and water) and kapha (water and earth). So, for instance, Surya bandana pranayama (breathing technique to activate heat in the body) if overdone causes hair fall, acidity, and headache, and internal injury too.

Kapalbhati (fast, quick breaths), is not pranayama, but shuddhi-kriya, a detoxification process. It is beneficial, but like kaada (stomach cleaning agents), it must not be indulged in every day.