Practice Report: Surya Yoga Sadhana - 10/28/2012
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Date: Posted 5 years before Nov 05, 2017
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Sun. - 10/28/2012
Yoga-Breath of fire practice session:
Session was challenging. Breathing was decent and somewhat systematic. Body was successfully charged. The routine is adapted to working on mid-section on downward.
Life Force Energy:
The energy was awakened, and manifested throughout the entire body. Intellect still gets toppled.
Blockage on the left side involving lower back, gluts, thigh and leg, is manifest. Assaulting the blockage as the main focus of the session makes it very demanding but somehow rewarding.
The more the blockage is addressed the more it is exposed, as it creates resistance.
My left side is only blocked relative to the right side. I also understand that generally one side of any given individual is favored to the other creating an imbalance. That imbalance is a sign of blockage from what I think. That relative tension in one area is an indication that at this point there needs to be more relaxation on that area for the system as a whole to move forward in a wholesome fashion.
The resistance to stretching is a tacit refusal to allow more oxygenation in the tissues of the organ or the muscle, and that has direct implication in the subtle. By analogy, if I make a cotton ball tightly compact, it will not take up in flame easily. The same cotton ball loosened and aired will readily go aflame, because there is more open inter-space area that is accessible to oxygen.
This problem muscle must be steadily stretched in order to elongate over time, it needs to reverse the tendency to remain contracted from years of strengthening exercises.
This therefore will deserve my persistent attention over months, as I try harder to observe and understand what is going on in the lower subtle body.
In addition, this tension is radiating gradually towards the small of the back and into the lower stomach under the belly button, particularly when relaxing after stretching.
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Efforts were made to keep the awareness in the lower part of the body, in an attempt to observe and understand. Energy was not fostered upward, but to spread out in other parts of the body including the limbs.
Mind focus:
Subtle transcendental sound frequency was perceptible, loud and of a higher quality reverberation. Frequency accelerations are felt as concentration is focused on frequency (source?)
The frequency was generally tuned to at the back of the head with a few attempts to refocus.
Goals and Objectives – long term:
> Detecting the subtle body configuration:
-More focus on internalization and especially what goes on regarding lower part of the body during practice.
-Allow the energy to shed light into the obscure areas; it will show the way!
> Make sessions more targeted and purposeful.
- Loosen tension areas about the sacrum on the left side.
Book Readings:
The "Yoga Sutras" of Pantajali; Enlightenment in practical terms!
The book is as though a code that can only be approached by practicing yogis.
So, even divine words in their purest forms can be deemed useless; unless they are refined, broken down, made digestible and perhaps palatable.
Subtle body ventures or interests recalled synopses:
Family association and routine concern.
Reflections:
Detection of the subtle body:
Given that kundalini is freed from some primary duties and that naad is connected to sufficiently I am able to detect the subtle body.
This detection is based on the myriad of tiny sensations that envelope the body, as if wrapped in a cocoon, because the nadis are felt.
Initially, when this would happen it would be near painful throughout the body and there would be sense of feeling feverish.
Now it just gives the sense that the two bodies are indeed inter-spaced and may allow tiny frictions. Also that tuning closer the transcendental sound or directing the awareness to certain area of the body increases the vibrations in the nadis in those areas.
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Providence creates the material opportunities (based on individual desires?, previous activities, among other factors), individual engages indiscriminately based on motivation, and through such activities consciousness is implicated and imbued. As a result the subtle body adjusts to the new imposed form, which in turn will produce a next body accordingly.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
unlimitedsun wrote:
The more the blockage is addressed the more it is exposed, as it creates resistance.
My left side is only blocked relative to the right side. I also understand that generally one side of any given individual is favored to the other creating an imbalance. That imbalance is a sign of blockage from what I think. That relative tension in one area is an indication that at this point there needs to be more relaxation on that area for the system as a whole to move forward in a wholesome fashion.
MiBeloved's Response:
Please do not run off with the balance idea to the extreme. There is no truth in it because you cannot bring me one principle, reality or object in nature which is a perfect balance to another. It just does not exist.
Don’t buy into these harmony concepts, ying yang and so on without respect to reality. Man’s mind craves order and neatness because we see that even the most disorganized people will demand perfect this and perfect that, without their realizing that it does not match themselves. However we have a sun and a moon and they are not perfectly balanced. We have winter and summer but if you measure the energy in each for any given year, it won’t be evenly balanced. If you check every person’s thumb on the right-hand to the one on the left, you will find some misfit.
So please be realistic.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
It is noted. There won't be any deviation.
