Prana means breath, it is considered as a life-giving force.

The Prana is the source of all activities. The power of the Prana is directly related to the state of mind just like it is to the physical body. While it may be easy to nourish the physical body with diet and exercise, it is not so easy to cultivate a calmness of the mind. In fact, the body and mind are correlated in many ways.

When a practitioner has to synchronize the breath and the physical movements, it is at most important to apply an effort for expanding the state of consciousness. This means that the practitioner has to overcome all the fluctuations and misapprehension which are mostly accumulated in the other layers of mind which is usually termed as subconscious, and develop ignorance towards them. Doing this the practitioner will neither indulge in the memories of the past nor share the conscious power in shaping or planning the future.

This state of complete activeness and being totally associated to the present karma is called dynamism. When air, water and mind which do not flow and remain held at any place, level or time respectively they can not be at the peak of their purity. Thus the dynamic yoga approach is meant to motivate the effort in a practitioner to remain conscious of associating with the present karma that changes all the time.