Hello Panormaix,
Thanks for taking the time to post.
Well, Kundalini Yoga is a powerful sadhana in itself. There are some many subpaths to follow, anything that works and makes you approach to moksha is appropriate. I also lead an eclectic discipline: Hatha + Kriya + Zazen.
Agreed.So many.So many.
I don’t think it matters which “path” you follow as long as it gets you there, It should’nt be either here nor there.()Sorry that probably sounded cryptic.heheh):D.
Mandala Yoga Ashram? I hadn’t heard about. Thanks for the info, i’ll pay that swami a visit in the future.
It’d be a good place to further one’s education.
Hey, talk to us about your experiences with your chakras, how do you feel those you’ve activated? Describe it if you wish. And your kshetrams as well.
Well i’ve been following that particular programme since jan,2010 so that’s not more than 6 months. I would say i’m probably getting better at locating and feeling the specific chakra locations,i think.
I think my manipura chakra is now a good inch lower than i maybe thought it was. I did that test where you stand up , put a finger on the navel and the other on the back/spinal collumn should be level. I was previously guaging it sittiing down…Also at this point it’s like say another inch IN.Alot of folk, including myself at one point , probably erroneously think(thought) of the spinal collumn as being at the back of the body. But it is more central and somewhat deeper therefore,than some folk imagine.So the idea that versions of kriya yoga that are just linear may miss out the front of the body may well be the basis of this kind of speculation.
The breath cultures the nervous system,to state it more succintly.
Therefore why kriya yoga yoga is so powerful a yoga; Yes!
I find these practices are adjuncts to other practices i used to practice and ways of making them more potent and/or effective… then starts to look like some versions of kriya yoga,simple or complicated & elaborate.
As i say manipura & anahata and to some extent vishuddhi are my ones i probably need to work on the most.I think i awoke the first two but then it hink K might have went back to sleep. I read i believe in that book that once it gets to manipura and anhata, then it is unlikely to go back to sleep,the scales being sufficently tipped.
I think i’m making good progress.I’m happy with it.Yes wkaing up your K can be somehwat tricky and needs a lot of patience and application but it can be done.The idea that it could happen by accident spontanooeously is possible though pretty unlikely unless hte nervous system was already ripe.The state of the nervoussystem or the fact that someone is engaged in continual sustained application of all the yoga methods out there.Of course some people it does happen relatively quickly but we can be walking an unsafe tightrope if we go too fast,if the system has opened up faster than or relative to the amount of purification that has already occurred (within an already tight time-scale).
You sound to be making great progress. I am specualting that you saw this vision after your ajna chakra(mind’s eye) was sufficently opened.
Another thing: When you practiced Ajapa-Japa for awakening Anahata Chakra, did you finally see a blue lotus, or anything else? I saw a red rose on a black background, daily, never a lotus. Western archetypes vs. eastern ones? (Jung)
Some times i’l experience very little.And at other times with sustained sadhana deep micro psycho-physical changes occuring.As you know the chakras are psycho-energetic centres for awakening Consciousness & Kundalini.
Are your chakras all purifed and are you enaged in the kriyas that follow?
Would you say your Kundalini is alot more awake than before. I’d imagine one would feel ecstatic currents up & down the spine or suhumna nadi.I have experienced this a number of years ago.
Some schools put a lot of stress on balncing ida & pingala as a pre-requisite or prepration. They sy when this happens mother kundalini finds it irresistable to rise up sushumna. Some go for a more global purification apporach, or purify the chakras first (more like this apporach) and say these can be both causes and effects of this dynamic or result.
As long as you are getting results that are working for you in a gradual,systematic and safe manner.
Zazen: Is that zen-inspired walking meditation?
I heard you can practise pranayam while walking,takiing a certain number of stride on the in-breath and out-breath and/or any k. if that is being done.
You sounds like you have learned alot ,about the different yogic techniques and methods. I think it pays to be as well-informed as possible.
The yoga journey definittely is a steady one requiriing alot of patience.It is not an over-night sensation but a journey.
You only need reply to these questions if you have the time & energy.
Ohterwise i’ll send you a PM.
Thanks.
P.S Also another thing- i’ve been imagining the chakras are like located right behind the kshetrams.I guess using them as markers.But theyare more central than one might imagine at first, in the centre of the (subtle)body.I think you can tell alot by the results you get per session- how you feel etc…
Regarding visshudhi; you should find kechari mudra what they call stage 2 may assist to help opening up this one,as well as the other practices they outline.Just a thought.
Great Stuff!!!
