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These
insights applied in our daily yoga practice enables
the benefit of wellbeing, alignment with Source and
an empowered mind.
2. Every
insect, animal and living being has a specialty that
none other has. i.e, an ant's ability to carry
weight, speed of a cheetah, etc. Likewise, every
human alive has a special talent that yogis call
siddhis, waiting to wake up when woken up.
Each
hatha yoga postures replicates a unique life force.
When going into each posture in yoga, with patience
and calm, reach out to harmonize the breath, i.e,
long and relaxed breath. Siddhis, the special powers
each of us have wakes up in the inner calm that is
delved into through each posture.
3. Light
a lamp at the start of our yoga practice to invoke
the Divine. To protect ourselves against injuries
through our hatha yoga, it is important to invoke
the Divine Presence in the form of our Guru or
Favorite Deity (Ganesh, Siva, Jesus, Allah, the
Goddesses etc) through our awareness that enables us
to experience the Presence through each breath. AUM
as mantra helps the experience. For the mind however
to latch on to the Source energies, it helps to
cling on to the invoked Presence within the AUM or
the mantra. Mantras while doing yoga makes our yoga
practice a bathing in sacred energies.
"Yoga"
without awareness of breath and mantra is crude
gymnastics and stretching that often results in
reminders of the physical through injuries.
4. Our
body is a shrine and yoga enables us to worship the
Deity within our body shrine. Utilize this precious
moment of yoga to do the highest prayer- awaken our
favorite Deity and feel ourselves the immense Spirit
that is enjoying the postures.
5. As we
progress through our hatha yoga, recognize the shift
of energy to being that of a Spirit having the human
experience and feel the 72000 nadis, the energy
centers, lit within us. When the each of the 72000
little point are lit, Source Presence dances as our
own Being!
6.
Meditate for a moment just after our hatha yoga. The
fruits of our daily hatha yoga practice ending with
meditation enables our mind to climb a notch higher
above consciousness, the body to transform to the
state of intense love & joy we experience even as
the rejuvenative post yoga energy flows and our
awareness shifted into the Now moment with ease.
After hatha yoga, Source celebrates the sacred space
we have created when we meditate.
7. Know
our daily yoga as tantra- weaving the Spirit with
the body and experiencing the awake root chakra
connect with the third eye even as the body is
dissolved into the mind that has been subdued by the
Spirit joys to be the Spirit making love to the
body. The yogic stimulation of the root chakra, the
mulabandha, causes rejuvenative energies. When the
root chakra is awake in the fires, all the chakras
above ignite even as the fire flows upwards to the
crown chakra, the Sahasrara. To focus on the third
eye in the exhale and the root chakra in the inhale
enables the tantric grace through our hatha yoga.
8. The
single most important chakra, so far ignored by the
intellectual yoga world is the energy center above
the navel called the Guru chakra. Recognized in
martial arts as the power point, the Guru chakra
consciousness through yoga postures enable the
awakening of subtle energies that command the gross.
i.e, the ability of a yogi to go beyond heat and
cold, hunger, mind and body consciousness is in the
awareness of the ascended seat above the navel. It
is easy to recognize, ignite and flow with the navel
energies especially through Sun Salutation. It is
from the navel chakra that the third eye wakes up
with ease.
9. To be
a yogi, is to be aware of every breath that in turn
allows the flow of thoughts as wisdom, i.e, Source.
This joy of sublime experience enables us to build
the discipline of wanting to have this joy all the
time. To want to then be in the orgasmic state of
joy that is freedom then enables the discipline of
doing yoga/meditation at least once a day. The most
simple form of yoga sequence that can be done by
anyone every day is Sun Salutation. Sun Salutation
holds a large extent of all the thousands of yogic
postures. Doing just a few rounds of Sun Salutation
each day holds the vital space. The important
discipline is to do yoga everyday!
Tapasyogi Kalathi Adiyen Aadi Nandhi
with folded hands and love! anbe sivam
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