the top front teeth—the same place we put the tongue to make the N sound “nuh.” Just like nasal breathing, optimal resting tongue posture is not a recent discovery; for thousands of years it formed an important part of Eastern yoga and the religion of Buddhism. Yogi Bhajan, who introduced Kundalini yoga to the United States in 1968, accredited the upper palate and the tip of the tongue as the two most important parts of the body. The ancient Buddhist scriptures of the Pali Canon contain passages describing how the Buddha pressed his tongue against the roof of the mouth for the purposes of
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