Doing Justice to Yoga Practice
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jul 30, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Breath infusion session this morning was great. I felt that I meet the requirements of my yoga gurus and did a full session. How many times can a student say that he or she did meet the requirements? Is there anyone whom we are trying to please by doing yoga or is it just our own satisfaction?
Is there anyone who is more advanced, to whom we feel practice is an obligation?
Are we alone in this, like single isolated islands in an infinite sea?
Mostly the infused energy fired in the neck and lower head. The energy, instead of moving through sushumna nadi quickly and entering into the brain, was diffusing through the spinal bones in the neck into the flesh of the neck. This felt like shimmering warmth frosty ice energy scattering out, vibrating whatever it penetrated. This happened repeatedly.
I am accepting this as a stage in the development of the practice of trying to make sure that every part of the subtle body is clarified, cleared of dark heavy astral energy, old energy which lingered there for weeks, months or years. Who knows?
A wonderful practice during breath infusion is when one does an asana posture which is difficult. Because of the difficulty of it one is forced to pay attention to the stretch. This forced attention does wonder for reaching places in the subtle body (and the gross body) which usually one does not reach mentally. Then one can check those areas to see if there is stale psychic energy there, used worn-out energy (carbon dioxide / ketones). One can pull that out with the breath infusion and replace that with fresh energy (prana). Thus cleaning out those dark hard-to-reach places in the psyche.
This might be compared to going through nooks and crannies in a house which were not used for years and which remained dingy, dirty and cobwebbed. Asanas are wonderful in this way and the breath infusion is like that powerful vacuum cleaner to suck out whatever was left there in due to neglect of kundalini. Kundalini makes sure that there is a fresh stockpile of energy for sexual purposes but it is not so concerned with say what is happening down in the knee or even what is happening in the rectal passage, which is so close to it. It is hunting for pleasure and in so doing it neglects some vital services. One can tone these using asana postures and breath infusion simultaneously.
Today after practice, I felt that yes, if my yoga gurus were here they would be satisfied that I did justice to the practice on this one day.
