#YogabyNivedita# Defeat Fear With Sword Breath Turn to this pranayama practice in times of transformation to invoke Kali and free yourself from anything that's holding you back. In the yoga tradition, there is a dark goddess known as Kali who governs time, death, and change. Her fierce form is portrayed with gnashing fangs, a protruding tongue, disheveled hair, dripping blood, a garland of skulls, and a belt of severed arms, wielding weapons in every hand. Kali represents massive transformation, non-conformity, boundary-pushing, life and death cycles, responsibility and accountability for mistakes, karmic mess cleanup, wild and untamable sexuality, total surrender, and the intensity of love and compassion. Kali is the essence of Freedom and she is the force within that transforms fear and sets you free.