Udana-Vayu is situated in the throat and it has a circular flow around the neck and head. It functions to “hold us up' and governs speech, self-expression and growth.
Udana
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one of the five sub-pranas; energy located in the extremities of the body arms,legs and head ...
Udana: The fourth prana is udana. Udana is located in the head region as well as the limbs, between the shoulders and the fingertips, and from the hips down to the toes. It is associated with the motor and sensory nervous system.
udana [one of the five pranas] : it moves upward from the body to the crown of the head and is a regular channel of communication between the physical life and the greater life of the spirit.
udara high and noble.
Madhusudana Sarasvati blends Advaita Vedanta and Bhakti-Rasa, and he is the author of the most polemical and authoritative Advaita text, known as the 'Advaitasiddhi', ...
Madhusudana Sarasvati (b. circa 1490) divided the Gita into three sections, with the first six chapters dealing with Karma yoga, the middle six with Bhakti yoga, and the last six with Jnana (knowledge).
By mastering udana, one of the five currents of prana, chiefly connected with vertical motion, the yogin makes his body essentially impervious to external influences, including the presence of gravity and the inevitability of death.
5 Jnanendriyas (ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose); 5 Karmendriyas (speech, hands, legs, genitals, anus); 5 Pranas (Prana, Apana, Vyana, Udana, Samana); Manas (mind); and Buddhi (intellect).
Five types of prana are responsible for various pranic activities in the body, they are Prana, Apana, Vyan, Udana & Samana. Out of these Prana and Apana are most important. Prana is upward flowing and Apana is downward flowing.
The function of Prana is respiration; Apana does excretion; Samana performs digestion; Udana does deglutition (swallowing of the food). It takes the Jiva to sleep. It separates the astral body from the physical body at the time of death.
Vâyu: (air, vital energy) movement of the air in the control of the breathing process (see p r â n â y â m a). In five types: going up (udana), ...
" These are prana (outgoing breath), apana (incoming breath), vyana (retained breath), udana (ascending breath) and samana (equalizing breath). Each governs crucial bodily functions, and all bodily energies are modifications of these.
air; prana or energy flow as in pancha vayu: prana, apana, samana, udana, vyana
Vedanta ...
to give very deep rest to intra-abdominal structures.
Persons with IBS and ulcerative colitis have to avoid many of the brisk loosening practices in standing position and emphasize inverted posture to achieve balance the excess of Apana and Udana.
Our body contains energy in the form of Prana, Apana, Udana, Vyana and Samans. The Manas or subconscious element is supervised by the Prana energy this is the high cadre psychological capacity of the brain.
 See also: Body, Yoga, Energy, Mind, Prana
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