Practice Report: Surya Yoga Sadhana - 11/15/2012
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Date: Posted 5 years before Nov 27, 2017
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Thurs. - 11/15/2012
Yoga-Breath of fire practice session:
Session was focused on the lower part of the body with particular effort on the left side.
Life Force Energy:
The energy was awakened, and manifested throughout.
Shift in practice: willing the energy downward versus soliciting it to rise as usual. The energy has been consistent in rising as of lately.
Compression was executed in a limited fashion, as attention/ will power followed the energy as it spread/ manifested, encouraging it to spread further, as well as shed insight/ light into the subtle body. The energy was felt as it spread throughout the body as waves moving outwards from the core, about the plexus. The compression is more about following the trail of pain at this stage.
Mind focus: a dynamic and exerted process of observing and analyzing by the mind and intellect.
Subtle transcendental sound frequencies were perceptible and loud.
The frequencies were generally tuned to at the back of the head with a few attempts to refocus.
Attempt to maintain locks until the energy dissipate, increase breathing capability. Increase control over the life force energy.
Goals and Objectives –long term/ adjusted:
Subtle body detection: looking down in the trunk more.
Book Readings:
The "Yoga Sutras" of Pantajali; Enlightenment in practical terms!
Subtle body ventures or interests recalled synopses:
Reenacting late evening preoccupation.
Reflections:
Resultant Belly burnt hypothesis/ speculation/ formulation:
The life force energy will rise based on:
The lungs taking in oxygen, with the proper attitude.
Diminished obstruction along the main canal that is the spine.
But also it seems that the energy because it is pushed by the pressured prana will rise effectively depending very much on clearing the lower navel zone.
When the lower navel zone is cleared kundalini energy might rise very, very promptly!
MiBeloved 5 years ago
unlimitedsun wrote:
When the lower navel zone is cleared kundalini energy might rise very, very promptly!
MiBeloved's Response:
This is only true if the sex organ chakra serves the same purpose. The lynch pin to the base muladhara chakra is the sex organ chakra. As the compressed energy moves down from the lungs, its first obstacle is the navel zone, as you stated but then the other bigger obstacle is the sex organ chakra. If the student is able to capture the energy of that and mix it with the infused energy, then it sparks over to the base chakra and provided that the anus lock is applied effectively, kundalini will have to go upwards through the spine.
Initially students must apply the locks physically but after much practice, those locks remain as psychic locks in the subtle body and then there is no need to stress the physical action of the locks.
Now if psychically those locks are not in place due to insincerity of the student or due to lax practice, then kundalini will disperse itself in some other way if it is aroused.
Pool 5 years ago
MiBeloved,
During Breath Infusion, if one doesn't hold any locks such as the sex lock and anus lock, especially in the breath retaining phase. If the energy is infused effectively in the trunk and groin area, are there any Prana sensations or pressures to be felt down there knowing that once someone applies the locks Kundalini might raise? like some sort of sign that the body has been charged enough and one have to pull one more switch? I always do the locks, but sometimes the physical body is really tired/weak that it takes much effort to apply them and much of a distraction.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
By all means, if you can, get someone to check your practice. There are some little things that we do during practice, which you just cannot figure out by yourself. But if someone who is proficient checks your practice you can be advised on how to proceed and be shown what you are not doing in the correct way.
If it takes much effort to apply the anus, sex and under-navel locks, then it means that you are using a physical body which needs to be re-designed. Usually Western bodies are not inclined to these locks and it appears that the modern Indian bodies are also not inclined. But this can change by repeated effort to apply these locks.
For instance in Western culture there is this idea that a person should always have a very active sex life even beyond say the retirement age which is about 60 years of age. In a Western body, once the sex chakra is open, it remains open till death. But in the Vedic yogic system, the sex chakra is opened for begetting children and then it is closed down again and does not remain open.
This is not just something that happens to the physical system but also to the subtle body as well.
If you do not apply those bottom three locks, then it is hardly likely that you will be able to raise kundalini except by chance, now and again. This is because the infused energy, if you are able to do that, will not accumulate. It will disperse. It will not accumulate and develop a sufficient charge to spark across to kundalini and cause it to be aroused to the extent that it will want to move.
One does know when it is aroused because of sensations in some part of the system, especially sensation in the head. These sensations are very distinct. They are clear enough for you to know that it is something different to what you normally experience in the head. There are also similar sensations which might occur in other parts of the body.
Let me ask a question:
When you are having sexual intercourse, can you know for sure of the experience?
The answer is of course that this is definite. Even though a person in a sex experience may not show anything externally, the internal experience is intense and is real to that person. So in the same way kundalini experience is definite even though it is subjective for the most part.
If there are no locks, then the breath energy will just disperse out and there will be no specific sensations except rarely.
