Muktananda's Posture for the Elderly
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 14, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
During practice this morning, Swami Muktananada showed me a posture which I did for about 5 days now. So my assumption is that it was a posture he discovered. He must have showed me this posture before on another level in the astral world and the memory of his teaching it disappeared when I left that level. In cases like this, it seems to the yogi that he discovered a posture, while in fact, it was shown to him in the astral world on a level of consciousness when he was not objective enough to realize he was being shown it.
This is very similar to when one is an infant and one is shown something repeatedly by a parent. One develops in the body with that skill and one does not realize that the parent might have spent much time training one in that skill.
I see much of this with my children, where they do not know what I did for them. So this is one of the features of our massive ignorance as we take these bodies.
It is a very simply and non-strenuous posture, one does not have to be a contortionist to do it. Swami Muktananada said this relating to the posture which I show below in a few photos:
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There are some postures which I did when I began to focus on breath infusement. In these postures one does not stress the complicated yoga asanas. One focuses on the infusement. It all works better if one has mastered the asanas, but one can do these even without the skill of postures. Elderly people can do some of this and get help with their introspection even if their limbs have arthritis and other rheumatoid malfunctions.
When this posture is done, the first thing is to force the air down to the bottom of the spine. When one has infused sufficient energy there, then the energy begins to spread out into other parts of the trunk of the body, into the groin and into the thighs. When that is infused sufficiently, the energy rises up in the trunk of the body into the neck and then it enters the brain, particularly the bottom part of the back of the brain which hangs down a little.
