[crdrost]

Yeah it's somewhat of a more broad term though? Like, the freakiest pranayama gets is rechaka pranayama, where you breathe out the air from your lungs and try to hold it out, depleting your blood-oxygen levels (hypoxia mimesis). Has also been practiced in qigong[1], thankfully you can't actually induce self-unconsciousness this way (at least not without, say, breathing into a bag[2]). But all to say that my understanding is that pranayama is just kind of yoga slang for "breathwork", there's not just one kind of it as far as I know?

1. https://www.pacificcollege.edu/news/blog/2020/03/26/the-link... 2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17324641/