Connecting the two worlds (heaven above and the sphere of darkness below) is the spinal column, a chain of thirty-three segments protecting within them the spinal cord. This ladder of bones plays a very important part in the religious symbolism of the ancients. It is often referred to as a winding road or stairway. Sometimes […]
Continue reading "The Spinal Column"Kundalini and the Sympathetic Nervous System The sympathetic nervous system, the soul ganglia of the ancients, is a series of ganglia connected by intervening cords and extends on each side of the vertebral column from the skull above to the coccyx below. “The sympathetic cords take their rise from a sacred spot above the […]
Continue reading "Kundalini and the Sympathetic Nervous System"Nadi Shodhana is the first pranayama described in the classical yogic texts. Ideally, other classical pranayamas should be attempted only after practising nadi shodhana as instructed by the teacher for a specific period. The word nadi means ‘energy channel’ and shodhana means ‘to cleanse’ or ‘to purify’. Therefore, nadi shodhana is a practice whereby the […]
Continue reading "Nadi Shodhana"Pranayama Unveiled The techniques of pranayama are designed to bring the central Nadi, the Sushumna, into the primary function, rather than the Ida or Pingala dominating the functions of prana flow. With the activation of the Sushumna as the primary flow for prana, the yogi experiences freedom from the human condition, and joy. By […]
Continue reading "Pranayama Unveiled"Sri Yantra (pronounced Shree Yantra), also known as Sri Chakra, is called the mother of all yantras because all other yantras derive from it. In its three-dimensional forms, Sri Yantra is said to represent Mount Meru, the cosmic mountain at the center of the universe. The Sri Yantra is conceived as a place of spiritual […]
Continue reading "Sri Yantra"Pranayama (devanāgarī: प्राणायाम prāṇāyāma) is a Sanskrit term composed of two words. The first is prāṇa, and refers to the life force or vital energy, and also to the breath. The second word can be ayāma (beginning with short a: “extension”, “expansion”) or āyāma (beginning with long a: “stopping”, “restraining”). Therefore, the composed term can be translated as either extension or stopping of the life force or breath. […]
Continue reading "Pranayama"Kundalini yoga (kuṇḍalinī-yoga) derives from kundalini, defined in Hindu lore as energy that lies dormant at the base of the spine until it is activated (as by the practice of yoga) and channeled upward through the chakras in the process of spiritual perfection. Kundalini is believed[by whom?] to be power associated with the divine feminine. […]
Continue reading "Kundalini Yoga"Tattva The word Tattva is used to denote the causative factors of the creation. Tattva means the cause for the universe. Tattva Vargikarn (Classification) Sankhya Darshan divided these Chaturvivshati (25 factors into 4 categories). They are: 1. Prakruti. 2. Vikruti. 3. Prakruti-Vikruti. 4. Na Prakruti na Vikruti. PRAKRUTI This is one which will be a […]
Continue reading "Panchvivshati Tattva"Tattva tattva (Sanskrit: “Truth, Reality or True Essence”) from tad, that which is strictly speaking, there is only One Reality. That Reality is Brahman (the Supreme Being and Highest Truth), the Para Tattva. This is the original teaching of all true Scriptures. Tattvas are the primary principles, elements, states or categories of existence, the building […]
Continue reading "Tattva"Nadi Nāḍī (Sanskrit: नाडी, lit. ‘tube, pipe, nerve, blood vessel, pulse’) is a term for the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine and spiritual knowledge, the energies such as prana of the physical body, the subtle body and the causal body are said to flow. Within this philosophical framework, the nadis are said to […]
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