Suryanamaskara combines yogasanas and Pranayama. This is a package in itself for the sadhaks of Suryopasana. This is usually done both at sunrise and sunset, facing the Sun, after chanting the following verse:

"Hiranmayena patrena satyasyapihitam mukham

Tat twam pushan apavrunu satyadharmaya Drastay"(Isa.Up.15)

Like a lid to the vessel, O Sun, your Golden orb covers the entrance of truth. Kindly open the entrance, to lead me to truth.

There are mainly 2 modes of performing Suryanamaskara. In one there are 12 steps or counts and in the other only10 in each round. Each round of Suryanamaskara is done after the utterance of “Omkara”with the appropriate “BijaMantra, along with the corresponding name of Sun God in the following sequence:

Each stage of suryanamaskara is accompanied by regulation of breath. the 12 steps of the Suryanamaskara are as follows: