The following practices (siddhasana, yoni mudra kumbhaka, uddiyana bandha – navi kriya – nauli kriya, kechari mudra) are intense advanced yoga practices. Allow for at least some months (or years) of practice routine before you introduce any of these new practices. Each of us has a unique timeline of introducing practices. Make sure you are stable with your practice of meditation, pranayama, and the rest, before you take on any new practice.
Note: Introducing any advanced yoga practice without a stable regulate practice of meditation is unlikely to lead to any positive results.
SIDDHASANA = ”seat of the perfected ones”
-Make sure that you are stable in your practices before you take on siddhasana. It is advised to learn and practice meditation and spinal breathing pranayama for a while deep before you add siddhasana to your sitting routine.
-How you feel during the day, outside yoga practice, is the best measure of how you progress on the spiritual path.
-A certain degree of purification is required for an effective use of siddhasana.
-It would be good to become comfortable to sit cross-legged in meditation, with the toes under the opposite legs and the soles of the feet partially facing up.
Technique: While sitting comfortably on a soft surface (e.g., bed, two big pillows, a big soft blanket), bring the inner foot further under you, with the heel under the perineum. Sit on the heel, with the top of the foot lying flat on the bed. Adjust your position and your back support, so you put some pressure on the perineum, but not too much and not too little. The second leg can be on top of the first leg in half-lotus, or with the toes tucked under the first leg, or out straight on the bed.
Find a comfortable position that you could maintain for 10 seconds. Increase its duration with practice to a couple of minutes and more, until you can maintain this posture during spinal breathing and meditation.
-Either foot can be underneath, or you can switch feet, as necessary.
-If you can’t sit cross-legged, put a pair of socks of a rubber ball under perineum.
-It takes some practice to get comfortable – weeks, months, or years.
-Once you can sit in siddhasana for a couple of minutes, try it during pranayama.
-Wait to be comfortable in the siddhasana before you sit in it during meditation – we want to keep the meditation as simple as possible, and not interfere with it in any way.
-If there is too much stimulation, back off and try again another day.
More lessons of Advanced Yoga Practices at www.aypsite.com
Good habits: Give yourself and everyone else a gift: Express gratitude for the people and the things in your life. Express gratitude for your life and who you are. This is a healing habit and increases our happiness.
Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
Note: Introducing any advanced yoga practice without a stable regulate practice of meditation is unlikely to lead to any positive results.
SIDDHASANA = ”seat of the perfected ones”
-Make sure that you are stable in your practices before you take on siddhasana. It is advised to learn and practice meditation and spinal breathing pranayama for a while deep before you add siddhasana to your sitting routine.
-How you feel during the day, outside yoga practice, is the best measure of how you progress on the spiritual path.
-A certain degree of purification is required for an effective use of siddhasana.
-It would be good to become comfortable to sit cross-legged in meditation, with the toes under the opposite legs and the soles of the feet partially facing up.
Technique: While sitting comfortably on a soft surface (e.g., bed, two big pillows, a big soft blanket), bring the inner foot further under you, with the heel under the perineum. Sit on the heel, with the top of the foot lying flat on the bed. Adjust your position and your back support, so you put some pressure on the perineum, but not too much and not too little. The second leg can be on top of the first leg in half-lotus, or with the toes tucked under the first leg, or out straight on the bed.
Find a comfortable position that you could maintain for 10 seconds. Increase its duration with practice to a couple of minutes and more, until you can maintain this posture during spinal breathing and meditation.
-Either foot can be underneath, or you can switch feet, as necessary.
-If you can’t sit cross-legged, put a pair of socks of a rubber ball under perineum.
-It takes some practice to get comfortable – weeks, months, or years.
-Once you can sit in siddhasana for a couple of minutes, try it during pranayama.
-Wait to be comfortable in the siddhasana before you sit in it during meditation – we want to keep the meditation as simple as possible, and not interfere with it in any way.
-If there is too much stimulation, back off and try again another day.
More lessons of Advanced Yoga Practices at www.aypsite.com
Good habits: Give yourself and everyone else a gift: Express gratitude for the people and the things in your life. Express gratitude for your life and who you are. This is a healing habit and increases our happiness.
Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell