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:
“I do love thee as each flower
Loves the sun’s life-giving power,
For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.”
—Henry Constable (1562–1613)
“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)