Rules & Practice

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#1

Does anyone observe any protocols, strict or soft, such as dietary etc when scheduling their daily practices and observing any practice protocols they may have?

Given that practicing and eating don’t mix.

I am currently focused on two practice sessions per day,ideally, but find if i snack in the evenings it can limit when i can fit in the second session.

I toyed with the idea of fasting but then i read somewhere Gerandha Smahita and elswhere that fasting may not work if we binge-eat at another time(i.e when we’re “allowed” to- hence why some enforced weight loss programmes never work). It also suggested moderation. Neither excess or too little.The path of moderation. I might still give fasting another go(especially as i have been trying to wake up manipuraka chakra recently). The GS said it was not good if you binged at another time. Also one should eat once every 3 hours meaning you can go the other way.

I think i can get just about away with an hour,just about mind you, that is tight because of course they say food and water affects our prana circulation,i.e has an inhibitory effect.By leaving the organs still engaged with business of digestion essential & useful energy to the head/brain it also being diverted.

#2

Why would you want to fast?

I call bologne on the food and water affects prana circultation in a [I]significant[/I] way…

I could eat a ginormous meal and then go sit just fine. I could eat a very spicy onions and garlic and go lie and shavasana and stare at the ceiling…no problem. If I lied down in shavasana after the nuclear meal and applied proper mula bandha. I wouldn’t like it.

After the hot spicy meal of onions and garlic and peppers and all this If i rolled over on the side though…I wouldn’t like it either.

#3

many different temperments. Don’t conform to the yoga. Don’t repress. Make the yoga conform to you. Experiment and test.

Eat a hot spicy meal then go do headstand. See what happens? You like it and it makes you feel good. No problem. You feel sick and hot and woozy. Not too good for you.

Fearlessness. Perseverance. Daring. Curiosity. Creativity.

#4

LOL…

I think i’m binding myself up in too much red tape.

Ill take your advice and try to be more creative.

I had some strawberries this morning after getting up and before my morning sit.It just felt the prana was stucker and the cauldrron involved in gnerating heat and digestion. Like i could feel the contents-,And i kind of used that as a cue to cut that session short.It was working on the first 3 chakras and a few rounds of spinal breathing.

I know what it is. I think my mind is inflexible.This makes me less creative,and spoontaneity goes out the window. Like you say i have had cups of coffee before practice and actually had a strenous practice,even though that’s not really the stylei practice.

Too religious about ‘rules’.

Like what bruce lee something like said be the water,free flowing, not the jug or the water like it is in the jug.That is just form. Form is perspective,therefore self-limiting

I am pretty creative and that has helped but i just need to push the envelope a number of times while still stable in routine.Like you say, step outside my own self-imposed box.My own limits are self-imposed, those of perspective, inflexible mind.

Great advice. Thanks. You posts brought an immediate chuckle… bolgnese and,a hot spicy & onions in headstand & savasana---- you are soo right.

P.s These days i mainly tend to alternate between tantric sadhana and hatha yoga- some basic postures etc, mainly.Or fit both in if there’s time.

You’re funny guy scales. I like your sense of humour.Alot of yoga dudes and teachers sometimes lack one.I think it’s good to have.Because it can stop us taking ourselves,and even our practice(without expectation right?), overly or too seriously.

#5

To me the corpus of hatha practices are tantrik.

I have expectations of practice i just don’t know preciesly when those expectations will be realized. The systems work undoubtely. They give results. cause effect. Undenyable i find.

Yes serious i find is no good. The yoga should be fun. It’s easy. cheery mind is good.

I’ve been serious. Serious didn’t work for me. Yoga is skill in action. - sri krishna. Sometimes my yoga not so good…

Lighten up francis! :slight_smile:

#6

Hi,

What do you think of tantric practice,like the ‘kundalini tantra’ method of bihar school,their hatha programme & ‘ayp’ style deep meditation when you combine them alltogether?

I find the deep mantra meditation loosens the nerves and can enable you to go deeper in ( all practices by cultivating the witness observer state) but not sure if it should be practiced before kundalini is sufficiently woken up.

#7

I think Hatha is prepatory foundation for so called tanrik stuff, and for the Raja Yoga.

Altough I don’t think hatha is a REQUIREMENT, as danielou says its so valuable why neglect it?

I’m not familiar with what you say by “avp”