Hatha yoga of "Hatha yoga pradipika", "Siddhasana" is the most suitable and easiest posture to learn breathing exercises. The different Hatha yoga texts discuss "pranayama" in various ways. For example, "Hatha yoga pradipka" in section 2.71 explains it as a threefold practice: "recaka" (exhalation), "puraka" (inhalation) and "kumbhaka" (retention). During the exhalation and inhalation, the text states that three things move: air, prana and yogi's thoughts, and all three are intimately connected. It is "kumbhaka" where stillness and dissolution emerges. The text divides "kumbhaka" into two kinds: "sahita" (supported) and "kevala" (complete). "Sahita kumbhaka" is further sub-divided into two types: retention with
Kirtan Hindu scriptures such as the "Bhagavad-gita" where Krishna describes multiple paths to spiritual freedom, including karma marga (way of works), jnana marga (way of knowledge) and bhakti marga (way of loving devotion to god). "Kirtan" relates to the bhakti marga tradition of Hinduism. References to "Kirtan" as a musical recitation are also found in the Bhagavata Purana, an important Vaishnava text. Kirtan is often practiced as a kind of theatrical folk song with call-and-response chanting or antiphon. The ancient sage Narada revered as a musical genius, is called a "kirtankar" (singer of kirtan) in the Padma Purana. The famous story