Opportunity to teach belly inflation in person!

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Tue, 05/21/2013 - 23:43

nineteenthly

I've been restraining myself from saying this, but if i don't say it i'm gonna burst :-) !

A bit of context: I'm a herbalist and my wife's a Yoga teacher. She was on TV a few years ago drinking her own urine, which is a Yoga practice I prefer not to emulate but anyway, she's known for it. Since what we do overlaps, i sometimes teach health-related Yoga techniques, e.g. breathing exercises, during consultations. Also, i've got the whole male pregnancy vlog running on YouTube at the moment, and unlike the inflation channel i'm 100% open about it and advertise it quite openly to friends and subscribers on the main one.

Anyway, someone contacted me a few weeks ago for a herbal consultation due to the main channel stuff, so we did that, it went well and so on, and she was also very curious about how i make myself look pregnant. In Yoga, plavini is a combined cleansing and breathing exercise, so it fits right into the kind of stuff i train clients to do and recommend. Therefore, tomorrow i am going to get to train her to do it in person.

I feel a little weird about this because of the need for professional detachment and ethics, but obviously one side of me is really happy about this. It also makes me wonder if there's scope to do this more often. I've long wondered if there was a chance that this could be openly offered as a therapy, so the possibilities of taking this further in that respect are intriguing.

The fact is that, yes, i'm excited about this on a personal level but at the same time, i honestly believe that there's a role for it which fits into my world view. It's hard to be detached about this, but basically, yay! I mean, i can totally justify this on a professional level, but OMG, i am so lucky!

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Thu, 05/23/2013 - 12:49

Blue_Eyes

Aaaand you lost me at the drinking your own piss.

Good day sir.

Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men.

Thu, 05/23/2013 - 23:44

nineteenthly

Well, that in particular is not something i find appealing. I suppose my point there is that many practices which have sexual connotations for some people, and for some that does include drinking urine, also have a role in Yoga. Why that is, is an interesting question. However, my main point is that belly inflation is practiced in Yoga and therefore i am going to get to teach a woman in person, and an attractive one at that, to inflate herself in front of me, and that seems to be right along the lines of what people here would like to do. I have the chance to get a customer of mine to bloat herself up with gas until her belly is really tight, full and round and she feels like she's going to burst, and word of mouth might even lead to a situation where i get to do the same lots of times. That's almost a dream job to me. I'm surprised people aren't more enthusiastic about this.

In fact, the lack of interest is itself interesting. Is it that fantasy inflation is more appealing because of what can happen in your imagination being more spectacular than in reality? Is doing it for real too creepy?

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Sat, 05/25/2013 - 21:10

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doubleintegral

In fact, the lack of interest is itself interesting. Is it that fantasy inflation is more appealing because of what can happen in your imagination being more spectacular than in reality? Is doing it for real too creepy?

Blue_Eyes made a very valid point - including the "drinking your own piss" bit, much less in the first three sentences, painted the entire post in a very vivid shade of "WTF?". I found it to be needlessly alienating while also adding nothing to the overall point.

Plus, equating a breathing exercise with "belly inflation is practiced in Yoga" is one hell of a leap.

Whatever floats your boat, man.

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Sat, 05/25/2013 - 23:40

nineteenthly

Maybe. The reference to wizz-quaffing was supposed to give it context - Yoga often includes practices which are also practiced sexually.

If you look for videos on plavini on YT, you do in fact find that besides mine, there are others where it is both a breathing exercise and involves belly inflation. There's a fairly well-known Gujarati one where a woman inflates her belly very quickly and another American one where another woman specifically refers to making her belly bloated. Also, burping videos often start with plavini. It's not just us who do it, and it's not solely sexual. There's controversy about what the Hatha Yoga Pradipika actually refers to among the Yoga community and most people seem sceptical that it's about belly inflation, but that's because they see the idea of belly inflation as implausible. They tend to think it's about ventilating the lower parts of the lungs. However, whereas that may be partly what it's about, clearly people do practice it as belly inflation, and they do that without an overt sexual connotation, just as they practice urine-drinking without one, although obviously that too is sexual for many people. That's why i mentioned it. Somewhere else, people could be having the reverse of this discussion on a forum about water sports: they're very keen on my wife sticking videos up about her urine-drinking but put off by someone mentioning plavini.

As it happens, this exchange has triggered off a whole train of thought about the connections between belly inflation as practiced in Yoga and as we see it, so it's proven quite fruitful.

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Opportunity to teach belly inflation in person!

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