The term breath control may mean:
- Pranayama, a yogic technique for controlling breathing
- A vocal technique used in singing
- Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box
- erotic asphyxiation, a BDSM sexual technique where one partner controls the breathing or airway of the other. When used as a self-induced technique for sexual pleasure via breath control its called Autoerotic Asphyxiation.
Famous quotes containing the words breath and/or control:
“A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won’t be for our benefit but for the authorities’. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)