Mulabandha

Dear Karin,

You have to understand that sexuality differs in a great degree from males to females. As women have seven times more sex force, men rapidly deplete our pranic reservoir due to sexual intercourses.
Taoism says that woman has infinite yin energy. In tantrik love woman is encouraged to have as many orgasms as possible while man is supossed to preseve his semen at any cost.
This is why your teacher told you to free your sexual energy. She talked from a female standpoint.

dear deciples

in mulbadha the main thing is that why you are doing this ? what is your purpose to do this ?

if your purpose is to get benefitted by the mulbandha exercise then do the streching of muscles. but if wanna increase a energy then there is a same method but with some additional spiritual adding in exercise.

so fir st you have to clear your purpose then only once can give you answer

Dear Siddhyogi,

My purpose is to activate the Muladhara Chakra by means of Mulabandha (and Nasikagra Dristi). It is part of a full Kundalini Yoga practice i’m bringing on.

Thank you

[QUOTE=gartxott;4488]Dear Karin,

You have to understand that sexuality differs in a great degree from males to females. As women have seven times more sex force, men rapidly deplete our pranic reservoir due to sexual intercourses.
Taoism says that woman has infinite yin energy. In tantrik love woman is encouraged to have as many orgasms as possible while man is supossed to preseve his semen at any cost.
This is why your teacher told you to free your sexual energy. She talked from a female standpoint.[/QUOTE]

Hight Gartox,
I just think we have at least as different oppinions and experiences as there are differences between male and female sexuality :wink:
(My teacher talked to the class with men and women participating and her partner was also there …)
Many greetings,
Karin

Ok Karin.
Wish you well.

[QUOTE=gartxott;4339]I like your explanation of big and small Mulabandha, but the Book of Yoga of Swami Vishnudevananda also speaks of contracting the anal muscles, and other sources too… Are they refering to big MB also? If it is so, it would be awesome…


You say it’s natural… Death is also natural. Having an orgasm without ejaculating is pretty difficult, we have to master Vajroli Mudra first.

Personally i have always felt drained and miserable after ejaculation. Actually, in my current sadhana, after an ejaculation it takes two weeks to retrieve the lost prana level, felt at pranayama.

Please have a look to verses 83-91 (Vajroli Mudra).

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well you are right preserve your semen at any cost. dont loose it. mulabandha actually means contraction of the place between anus and penis only. what you practise is a short form of mahabandha without jalandhar and uddiyan

There are differing opinions on this topic. And so much to talk about when discussing mula bandha, or any of the locks for that matter!

Some believe that the pelvic floor contraction (mula bandha) includes the anus, some do not. My own personal experience is that in order to effectively provide physical support for the pelvis and lower back, the anus must be included… it also seems to engage the transversus abdominus, which is key in back support.

In terms of energy movement, I’m not sure if it matters. I always feel an increase in energy flow whether the anus is contracted or not. To me it’s a matter of awareness too… if you have awareness in the area it will naturally increase energy, bloodflow and your ability to relax. This is partly why it is used in tantra as well.

… in my humble opinion!

Hello All. This is what I got.

Ashwini mudra is anal contraction up and in a little bit. Some say it works on sva-adhisthana. I don’t know about that. I do know I can use it to make the vayu go up the spine. I have used it as a short cut, instead of patiently waiting for the vayu to go on it’s own ashwini can speed it up.

Vajrioli. Hmmm. I can’t really say what thats for. But if you can feel the vayu currents then you should be able to figure out what it does.

Mulabandha - In my opinion proper Mulabhanda makes a very specific “connection” between the apana vayu and samana vayu. When this connection is made between the two currents there is a major increase in the force.

In my opinion proper Mulabhanda or easy Mulabhanda uses very little muscular force. If your squeezing everything too much this is no good. All this squeezing is exhausting.

Lie down in shavasana. Relax everything for a while. Breath in and sigh out - subtly. As your breath out RELEASE. Breath out and release. With every breath out let everything go in a subtle sigh.
It will be hard to feel the vayu when you have muscular tension. The goal here is to feel the vayu vibrating in the current of the subtle body. You can’t feel it if there is muscular tension or your clinging to your squishy body. So recede awareness back into the subtle body by releasing gripping with the sigh out breath.

Now when you get on down to the subtle body and you can feel the vayu vibrating all around start trying to make the connection with mulabhanda. LIGHTLY!!! Maintain relxation. No anal contraction. No urogenital contraction. It’s up above the perineum a bit. If your sufficiently relaxed and in touch with the vayu circulating in the sublte body when you make the connection you will feel it instantly, in the form an amplification of the energy, and you will know exactly where it is. The two currents are linked and this action of linking amplifies the above currents. If you can’t feel the amplification your not doing it right. If its hard your not doing it right.

On Bhramacharya. To me this means moderation of activities. How can you practice when you overeat and your belly is stuffed? How can you practice when you overwork yourself and your energy levels are low? How can you practice when you make love all the time? For women this making love is fine. For men everytime they drop semen the body simply has to expend vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, and carbs to make more. Which it will do almost instantly. Survival of the species is a number one function. Prana is not lost through loss of semen. And if it was all you would have to do is breath to get more. Vitality perhaps. But not prana.

In regards to Bindu. Bindu is not “really” semen.

I’d also like to think that observance of Bhramacharya means teaching.