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Rothkoid, that sounds like an ideosynchratic hatha yogi. Hatha combines a lot of different yogic schools and it can get a little esoteric -- never the same thing twice. Shivananda is a popular, and very regularized, form of hatha yoga that's popular in the US (though sometimes its students don't realize it i shivananda!). You'll do that breathing exercise in every class. I've been doing Iyengar yoga as a supplement to martial arts, because I have terrible breath control and trouble with foot cramps. Iyengar is almost completely physical, focusing on perfecting the stances at all costs. Painful, definitely worthwhile, but not much for altered states (unless you count the pain of persisting through foot cramps an altered state).
Listen to me, all yogic n shit. Anyway, none of this stuff is really conducive to losing weight; there are plenty of fat yogis, and the things their fat little bodies can do would amaze you. It does give lie to our consumerist idea that fatness=unhealthiness or even unfitness. Ms Tricks probably found that yogic breathing helped direct her unconscious will to conform to her conscious wishes. Somehow, you have a tendency to do what you ask yourself to do under these conditions. I'm using yogic techniques to help me learn algebra... a little bit.
So, Mickey, as others have suggested, it might not be healthy to ask the sigil to eat the fat for you -- lots of nasty possibilities there. Rather, make a sigil to help you perfect your body, and remember that a flat stomach does not a perfect body make -- as much as I'd like to have Brad Pitt's abdominals.
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