Asana/Pranayama Agnisara

Asana agnisara is the elementary practice of churning the abdomen. At first is concerns churning the abdomen about the navel. Later it develops into lifting and moving the abdomen below the navel with the reproductive organs which are inside of the body, and affecting the esophagus by drawing it down the back of the neck. For females this means all of the reproductive concerns. For males it means only the reproductive apparatus which is inside the body, the main portion which hangs outside the body in the scrotum.

Asana agnisara is not the full practice. Hatha Yoga really means asanas, pranayama, bandhas and mudras along with observations in the subtle body. Asana alone is not hatha yoga. The full practice of agnisara must include pranayama. Ultimately it has to be a practice in the subtle body primarily. Pranayama gives the yogi the means of seeing what takes place in the subtle body during the practice of churning the abdomen. However the energy which is compacted into the subtle abdomen has to be infused with fresh pranic astral energy so that it can be compressed in on itself and then it will implode causing purification in the subtle body.

There are benefits in doing asana agnisara (agnisara with posturing of the physical body). But that is not advanced yoga. While postures tone muscle, tendons and various types of flesh, pranayama breath infusion tones the blood plasma itself. That infusion is a more important practice which brings the yogi into the vision of what takes place in the subtle abdomen.

Is the subtle body going to need physical food once it leaves the physical system at death?

If the subtle body will need physical food then for sure no matter what the person says, he or she will again take another material body, just based on that compulsion to be physically eating again.

Can the subtle body be changed now so that its need for physical food is eliminated? Is it possible to affect the subtle body so that its subtle abdomen is not a mirror image of the physical digestive process?

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Diet and time of eating are part of the agnisara practice. The practice should dictate what to eat and when to eat. The practice should reform the time of eating if that time negatively impacts the practice.

Do I eat at a certain time because of the work schedule?

Do I eat at a certain time because of my partner’s eating schedule?

Do I eat at a certain time because of my computer engaging schedule?

Do I eat at a certain time depending on when my coffee-drinking caffeine-addiction habit dictates?

Do I eat at a certain time because of my marijuana intake habit?