Agnisara Advanced Kriyas
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Date: Posted 5 years before Jun 17, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
During breath infusion practice, Swami Rama came. He was on the subtle side. He showed me a diagram with the final kriyas concerning the agnisara practice. He entered my subtle body and began to do the agnisara with it in the base of the trunk area but in specific zones, not haphazardly. Generally yogis do agnisara as stomach pumps, strenuously agitating the intestinal organs. However there was a practice which was given by Gorakshnath Mahayogin who began the Natha Yogi Sampradaya.
These yogis specialize in Hatha Yoga, the extreme type, which concerns complete conquest of kundalini by physical and mystic means. Hatha Yoga has come to mean asana postures but that was not its original meaning.
When doing the breath of fire and the agnisara practice, one usually does the breathing either in zone 1, 2 or 3 of the diagram below. If one advanced in the practice, the actions will move into zones 4 and 5 which are the advanced platforms.
Doing bhastrika pranayama (rapid breathing) usually concerns the lungs but as the yogi proceeds he or she will be able to use other parts of the body as the source point of the pull and push of the breathing actions.
At long last one should shift that to stage 5 or 6, so that the mental impetus as well as the diaphragm muscles are operated from urges from these areas. This happens over the course of time of regular practice for some years.
Swami Rama always advocated the agnisara stomach churning practice with pranayama. This kriya which he released to me, shows that he really knew what he was talking about.
I practiced this kriya in zones 4, 5 and 6 today and was surprised at the operations which were taking place in the subtle body and the effects of this in terms of clearing those areas of every bit of dense energy, even the smallest amount which were hidden here and there in the lower trunk. This also does wonders for energy which is hiding in the thigh which the yogi has difficulty reaching and removing.
Dear Beloved 5 years ago
Just to confirm...is Zone 1 the chest and Zone 6 the rectum area?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Yes, begin counting from the top diagram as zone 1 illustrated.
Thanks for the clarification.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
In practicing, what is/are main difference(s) between bhastrika and agnisara?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Bhastrika is a rapid breathing process in which air is infused into the blood stream via the lungs. This process is forceful and to be truthful it is unnatural. The only time the body naturally tries to force air into the blood stream, is when the body is exhausted as in the case where a person runs at a high speed.
Then the body realizes that it cannot get sufficient air for basic maintenance of the form, and so it increases the breathing rate. Note the panting of the athletes at the end of an Olympic race. All runners bend over and breathe rapidly then. The system itself involuntarily does this.
Bhastrika is doing rapid breathing when there is no endeavor, so as to artificially increase the fresh air in the system and to pull out the used air in the system. The normal system is that the body retains a percentage of the used air for certain purposes but when doing bhastrika one upsets that process and increases the ration of fresh air to stale air in the system.
Agnisara is a complex system and therefore a question about it is really hard to answer. Initially agnisara means just churning the intestines and colon system vigorously, using the diaphragm to help with that.
As one gains mastery over it, one can change the stale air in the cells of that system. This is where doing it during bhastrika practice comes in.
After say about 12 or 20 rapid breaths, one stops and does the churning. Then again one does 12 or so rapid breaths and then one does the churning again. This is repeated until one feels that the cells in the intestines and colon, have released all of the stale air (carbon dioxide) they retained.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
For agnisara, after so many breaths one stops and does the churning.
One stops on inhaled compressed air or the reverse?
Are both ways applicable depending on sought results?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Usually with agnisara specifically one stops on an exhale.
Reason:
To do the churning one needs a vacuous area. If one does it on an inhale, there will be air in the lungs which will obstruct the churning action.
Agnisara is done more efficiently and one gains more understanding of that part of the system if it is done with no air in the lungs.
This also implies that you should infuse the system before each churning attempt, since then you will not be gasping for air but will have a reserve of fresh air in the system.
