Breath of Karuna - Lotus Breathing Timer
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Beautiful practice. Your breath is your anchor.
About Breath of Karuna
Breath of Karuna was created as a sanctuary, a quiet moment of refuge where you can return to your body, your breath, and your inner wisdom. Breathwork is a subtle yet potent practice that opens the heart, calms the mind, and brings you back into harmony with yourself.
Explore a variety of breathing patterns, choose the colors and chakra energies that resonate with your intention, and let the symbolic breath icons guide your inner journey. Customize your sounds, set your intention, and allow the living animations to gently lead you into Presence.
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Lovingly crafted and sponsored by the Karuna Foundation, a non-profit that exists to heal the human heart, awaken self-worth, and guide people from survival to sovereignty through heart-centered tools and environments.
The Power of Breathwork
What is Breathwork?
Breathwork is the conscious practice of controlling your breath to influence your mental, emotional, and physical state. It's one of the most accessible and powerful tools for self-regulation, used for thousands of years across cultures worldwide.
Benefits of Regular Practice
- 🧘Reduces Stress & Anxiety
Activates your parasympathetic nervous system, signaling safety to your body
- 💤Improves Sleep
Calming breath patterns prepare your body for deep, restorative rest
- 🎯Enhances Focus
Increased oxygen flow sharpens mental clarity and concentration
- 💪Boosts Energy
Energizing patterns can naturally increase alertness without caffeine
- ❤️Emotional Balance
Creates space between stimulus and response, improving emotional regulation
- 🌙Present Moment Awareness
Anchors you in the now, quieting mental chatter
Getting Started
Begin with just 2–3 minutes daily. Choose a pattern that feels comfortable, and let the visual animations guide your rhythm. There is no perfect way to breathe. Simply follow along and notice how you feel.
Popular Patterns
Equal parts inhale, hold, exhale, hold. Great for calm focus and stress relief.
Inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8. Excellent for sleep and deep relaxation.
Quick inhale, fast exhale, no holds. Wakes up the body naturally.
The Seven Main Chakras
Chakras are energy centers in the body, each associated with different aspects of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Color: Red
Element: Earth
Focus: Safety, security, grounding, survival, stability
When balanced: You feel grounded, safe, and secure.
Signs of imbalance: Anxiety, fear, feeling ungrounded
Affirmation: “I am safe. I am grounded. I belong here.”
Color: Orange
Element: Water
Focus: Creativity, pleasure, emotions, flow
When balanced: You embrace pleasure and express creativity freely.
Signs of imbalance: Creative blocks, emotional numbness, guilt
Affirmation: “I embrace pleasure and abundance. I flow with life.”
Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Focus: Personal power, confidence, self-esteem, willpower
When balanced: You feel confident and empowered.
Signs of imbalance: Low self-esteem, indecisiveness, control issues
Affirmation: “I am powerful. I am confident. I honor myself.”
Color: Green
Element: Air
Focus: Love, compassion, connection, forgiveness, healing
When balanced: You give and receive love freely.
Signs of imbalance: Difficulty with relationships, jealousy, holding grudges
Affirmation: “I am love. I give and receive love freely.”
Color: Blue
Element: Ether/Sound
Focus: Communication, self-expression, truth, authenticity
When balanced: You speak your truth with clarity and kindness.
Signs of imbalance: Fear of speaking up, dishonesty
Affirmation: “I speak my truth with clarity and love.”
Color: Indigo/Purple
Element: Light
Focus: Intuition, wisdom, insight, imagination
When balanced: You trust your intuition and inner guidance.
Signs of imbalance: Lack of clarity, poor memory, poor decisions
Affirmation: “I trust my intuition. I see clearly.”
Color: Violet/White
Element: Cosmic Energy
Focus: Spirituality, enlightenment, connection to the divine
When balanced: You feel connected to something greater than yourself.
Signs of imbalance: Spiritual disconnection, closed-mindedness
Affirmation: “I am connected to the divine. I am one with all.”
Other Chakra Centers
Beyond the seven main chakras, there are additional energy centers that connect us to the earth below and the cosmos above.
Color: Brown/Deep Earth
Element: Earth
Focus: Deep grounding, ancestral connection, earth energy, stability
When balanced: You feel deeply rooted to the earth and connected to nature.
Signs of imbalance: Feeling disconnected from nature, lack of grounding
Affirmation: “I am deeply connected to the Earth. Her energy supports and nourishes me.”
Color: Magenta/Pink
Element: Divine Love
Focus: Unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, divine connection
When balanced: You experience unconditional love and compassion for all beings.
Signs of imbalance: Difficulty forgiving, conditional love patterns
Affirmation: “I am a vessel of unconditional love. Divine compassion flows through me.”
Color: White/Pure Light
Element: Cosmic Light
Focus: Soul purpose, divine wisdom, spiritual enlightenment
When balanced: You feel connected to your soul's purpose and receive divine guidance.
Signs of imbalance: Feeling lost or purposeless, disconnection from higher self
Affirmation: “I am connected to infinite wisdom. My soul guides my path with light.”