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:
“Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In Vietnam, some of us lost control of our lives. I want my life back. I almost feel like I’ve been missing in action for twenty-two years.”
—Wanda Sparks, U.S. nurse. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 72 (November 7, 1993)