Non-celibacy Pose

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Oct 29, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

This pose is not a celibacy pose and yet this pose can help tremendously in celibacy. But this pose relates more to the female anatomy than to male structure. Males can use it to work on their use of a form which was ultimately derived from a goddess, Goddess Durga.

For all the yogis and yoginis on this site, I ask you to look at this post and write something about why you feel this could help or could not help with celibacy, that is dynamic celibacy which uses breath infusion and inSelf Yoga.

Marcia Beloved 3 years ago

This view may be helpful in replicating the posture.  The head position is not the same, but the body angles are shown clearly.

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I just started practicing this posture since it was posted.

The question was asked:  why you feel this could help or could not help with celibacy, that is dynamic celibacy which uses breath infusion and inSelf Yoga.

The answer is: Yes, it could help but there are risks according to the motivation and skill of technique.

The first time upon assuming the posture, all the accumulated apana in the pelvic cavity and sexual areas was released through the pelvic floor and buttocks.  I thought, “This can promote celibacy by getting rid of the hard to reach sexual energy which builds up despite daily yoga practice.”   OR   “This can stir up sexual energy, draw the mind to sexual expression, and the posture which openly displays the pelvic floor may cause one’s mind to remember sexual activity, which is not in the interest of celibacy.  In this respect, I would note that this pose, if practiced without seriously intending to cultivate celibacy, could have the opposite effect, and cause one to pursue sexual expression.

I have continued to practice in subsequent sessions and noted the following:

It is easy to infuse the entire sexual region with prana.  The sex lock is easily and fully applied. The bodily posture, however, did not facilitate total application of the anal lock.

The outstretched arms detracted from my focus on targeting the sexual area. Much energy was released and flowed up through the arms after coming out of the posture.  If I were to continue this posture for celibacy purposes, I would consider altering the arms position and let the body rest on the forearms instead. I am using a middle aged body; the adjustment might not be necessary for bodies of greater strength or youth. (The posture can be practiced otherwise for purpose of focusing on the arms and upper body).

The release of energy through the pelvic floor has not recurred, which indicates that this posture is good for maintenance of non-accumulation of apana in the sexual region.

I found it helped me to come out from the position to sitting on the heels, with the toes bent.  In this posture the anal lock could be applied fully, and I could then do a series of breathing, apply all the locks better, lift up the jarred energy and funnel it up into the head.

The posture seems beneficial in cultivating celibacy, but one might need to make adjustment according to one’s age and bodily capacity.

By using inSelf yoga, one would do this pose with covered eyes and be attentive to the energy movements and the effectiveness of the locks, focus on infusing specific targets, and observe the progression of it as one practices daily.

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Marcia Beloved wrote:

The first time upon assuming the posture, all the accumulated apana in the pelvic cavity and sexual areas was released through the pelvic floor and buttocks.  I thought, “This can promote celibacy by getting rid of the hard to reach sexual energy which builds up despite daily yoga practice.”   OR   “This can stir up sexual energy, draw the mind to sexual expression, and the posture which openly displays the pelvic floor may cause one’s mind to remember sexual activity, which is not in the interest of celibacy.  In this respect, I would note that this pose, if practiced without seriously intending to cultivate celibacy, could have the opposite effect, and cause one to pursue sexual expression.

MiBeloved's Response:

The strategy for someone who is working on celibacy has to be twofold:

·       diverting energy which usually is stored for sexual expression.

·       neutralizing the energy which is stored for sexual expression and which cannot be diverted from such expression.

This is a two way process. First the ascetic has to be concerned with diverting as much of the sexual energy as can be diverted. There will be partial success only in the beginning because first of all the ascetic will not be able to grasp the energy. It will repeatedly slip out of his or her grip.

Over time, some grip will be attained. Some of the energy will not route itself through the sexual charging parts of the body.

Whatever energy is not diverted should be noted and then the ascetic should find methods to neutralize all or part of that energy. Here all means part because some of the energy is not the ascetic’s. It belongs to others. Unless they agree the ascetic will not be able to change the nature of that energy so that it is not sexual.

A joint bank account may have restrictions on it, so that one member of the account can remove a maximum sum. Beyond that the bank will not allow any withdrawal. The sexual energies in the psyche of the ascetic may not be his or hers fully but only partially. This means that absolute celibacy is a figment of a person’s imagination only.

In the very beginning of the Mahabharata there is the story of Jaratkaru who later became sexually involved with a woman who was his name sake. He was a wondering celibate ascetic, but in his body were sexual fluids which were destined to be used in the manufacture of a body of someone else. Therefore he was induced to beget a child through a woman, and circumstantially he was compelled to do so.

Again the question arises as to who owns the body?

I took a body to generate this spiritual information which is in my books and I had to, in the process, beget infant bodies. I managed to successfully beget four children. Why was that necessary because it was not my intent to do so in this birth? That was not my objective. Why did the ancestors take possession of the body, acting as the owner of it? Right now sometimes my biological relatives will call me and make demands based on their ownership rights of my body. This is the reality. Even the sexual energy in the body is not owned by the person who has the body.

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Marcia Beloved wrote:

I have continued to practice in subsequent sessions and noted the following:

It is easy to infuse the entire sexual region with prana.  The sex lock is easily and fully applied. The bodily posture, however, did not facilitate total application of the anal lock.

MiBeloved's Response:

This posture targets the sex organ chakra system particularly in the female anatomy. It allows for that chakra to gain a full open position, from which its energy can be yawned. Yawned here as in yawning using the mouth and face.

This posture allows for a complete stretching and outwards expression of this chakra and it throws off all old energy from the chakra. That throw-off is beneficial because old energy at this chakra does not serve the celibate purpose.

When the old energy is thrown off, then if the ascetic pulls in this chakra in some other pose which facilities that pulling action, the ascetic will find that the chakra has a cleaner attitude and is more willing to fold itself up like rose petals which were open and which pull in and return to the rosebud stage.