Video / Kundalini Yoga
This is a semi-aggressive session.
This is a second session on that day. First session was at 3.30 am. This session was at 10 am. This session was easier. energy will flow more easily during second session. First session is more aggressive and abrasive to remove sluggish energy which accumulates during sleeping of the physical body.
Pauses after rapid breathing are for distribution of accumulated compressed energy. As soon as the energy is distributed, one should cease the pause and begin infusing breath again.
Do not hold the breath just to hold it. Only hold it when there is an accumulation of energy which should be distributed. Then supervise the distribution mentally by inward focus.
If the body is sluggish, lazy or sleepy, it is best to do an aggressive first half of a session and then during the second half focus on the breathing and do postures in which the breath focus is entertained, rather than on the muscular tenses, stretches and relaxes.
Pranayama has the subtle body as the target but initially one has to use it to affect the physical form. Still, one should always remember that the target is the subtle form.
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Application of locks
In this video the application of locks is not clearly shown. This is due to the poor lighting as well as to the fact that a lock may be applied and not be plainly visible on the surface of the body.
However, a more important consideration is that there are two of each of the locks which means that the locks must be applied or not applied to the physical body and/or the subtle body. One may apply locks to the subtle body and not have any application of a locking action in the physical one.
Initially a yogi must be concerned with physical locks but later once he/she learns to focus on the subtle body, it is no longer important if a lock is applied physically but that it is applied in the subtle body.
Pranayama really has the subtle body as its focus in the advanced levels of practice which means that the energy which is compressed and expressed in breath infusion is focalized in the subtle body. That is where the locks must be applied essentially.
It is assumed that whatever one does physically is done in the subtle body automatically but this is only an assumption because it is not necessarily the fact that a physical action must carry with it a subtle compliance.
There is yet another consideration which is if a lock needs to be applied on any level. In advanced practice, the energy may arrest itself such that the yogi does not need to apply a lock and can made a full observation and not have to focus on a lock.
In the training of domestic animals like bulls, we experience that after a time, a bull will stop at a place where its driver needs for it to stop even when the driver does not apply a checking movement or a speech command. Why is that? It is because the bull developed a sense of check. There is no need for the driver to apply pressure to the harness or to give a verbal command.
After a time, practice of the locks is no longer needed because the energy remains in check by itself. The yogi is free to give all attention to the compression and expression of the energy and as to its distribution and absorption.
Suppose there is no bull, then a driver sitting on a wagon pulling the harness will cause nothing to happen. In that sense unless energy is compressed properly into the subtle body, even if the yogi applies locks such action will result in nothing of significance. Hence the important first act is to infuse the energy properly into the lungs, and to direct it downward into the groin. Then apply the locks but as one advances if one notices that just as one was about the apply the locks, the system already did so or that the energy checked itself, retrained and compressed itself, then the yogi would give no attention to locks.
