Tapas (तपस्) - inner fire!

my salutations to the Tapas (तपस्) - inner fire, which drives me with passion in every aspect of my life....

so graceful!

Gomukhasana / Cow Face Pose - Anatomy!

Gomukhasana Cow-Faced Pose Yoga Anatomy B E N E F I T S 

— Stretches the ankles, hips and thighs, shoulders, armpits and triceps, and chest
— Improves posture
 — Tones abdomen
 — Raises prana and increases energy levels in the torso
 — Aids digestion (due to the torso being unrestricted, the spine being straight and the increased energy levels)
 — Allows you to come into the present moment helping to clear and focus the mind.

src:Leslie Kaminoff’s yoga anatomy.

sleep wonders!

posture + breathe + life......

mystical moment!

Recovery is the key for sound mind n body!

yoga n awareness!

life n days...

a thought!

Halasana / Plow Pose - Anatomy!

Halasana / Plow Pose - Yoga Anatomy.

 B E N E F I T S — 

• Stretches all muscles and ligament in your calves and thighs, resulting in greater leg      flexibility 
• Therapeutic for leg cramps
• Stimulates your thyroid, parathyroid, throat, lungs and abdominal organs 
• Helps relieve gas and upper/lower back pain or discomfort
• Promotes good digestion
•  Stretches your shoulders and spine
•  Therapeutic for menopause, infertility, insomnia, headache and sinusitis
•  Relieves stress and fatigue .

src:Leslie Kaminoff’s yoga anatomy.

my current feeling....

The Yoga of Tantra!

Tantra is not just the yoga of sex. Tantra is the yoga of everything.

On some yogic and spiritual paths, the attitude to life is via negative, and the world is seen as a cause for suffering, as giving us a sense of false identity when we are attached to it. So the yogi’s task becomes to disengage, to free ourselves from suffering or from the attachment, to become a witness to it all.But that is not the attitude of Tantra. In Tantra we actually want to get engaged, tangled up in the world with our spirit still shining.

The attitude of Tantra is that even our suffering, even our attachment is our yoga, our spirituality. In Tantra all problems are potential friends, allies, a support system for deeper understanding, deeper love.

The key to being a Tantric yogi or yogini is to embrace duality and then go deep into and beyond it. Why? Because duality is just another expression of nonduality. In other words, there is, according to Tantra, Spirit, God, Awareness, Consciousness in everything. Even in suffering. Even in pleasure.

This knowledge, this wisdom is called Madhuvidya, or honey knowledge, the idea that the bees of Sprit can turn everything we do and feel, even failure, into nectar.

“The real knowledge issues from the mystic unification of Shiva and Shakti. It is the cause of liberation.”

–Tantraloka

Via Ramesh Bjonnes 

so up...as down!!!

spinal Nerve Function!

Spinal Nerve, in vertebrates, any one of many paired peripheral nerves that arise from the spinal cord. In humans there are 31 pairs: 8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 1 coccygeal. Each pair connects the spinal cord with a specific region of the body. Near the spinal cord each spinal nerve branches into two roots. One, composed of sensory fibres, enters the spinal cord via the dorsal root; its cell bodies lie in a spinal ganglion that is outside the spinal cord. The other, composed of motor fibres, leaves the spinal cord via the ventral root; its cell bodies lie in specific areas of the spinal cord itself.

ha n tha of hatha yoga!

themythofthejaguarphoenix:

HA                                   THA

RIGHT (side body)    LEFT (side body)

SOLAR                             LUNAR

MASCULINE                FEMININE

ACTIVE                            PASSIVE

EMISSIVE                      RECEPTIVE

GOLD                               SILVER

TULERIC                        COSMIC

SUN                                  MOON                                     

+                                        -              =  0

*Moon receives Light from Sun»

*The side of the body you are more flexible on = your polarity (Lunar <> Solar)

*wear jewelry of the OPPOSING polarity (Silver <> Gold)

YOGA = HA+THA=balance (positive + negative = zero {balance})

Tantric Meditation!

An author talks about the effects of the Yogi Tantric meditation:
"Meditation helps us relax, become a genius, have exceptional spiritual states, etc. The ones who practice meditation do not go further from this world. On the contrary, they become wiser and can thus understand the others better, feel compassion to those who are in pain, be stronger and of more help to the others."(Robert Jungle, PARI SUR L"HOMME)

The efficiency secret in Tantra Yoga:
Generally speaking the secret of meditation and of yoga practice is the subtle energetic RESONANCE. By focusing on the mental level, the practitioner manages to initiate and amplify gradually RESONANCE processes between his own system called the MICROCOSM and the exterior, the MACROCOSM.

There are numerous benefic energies in the macrocosm. Here are some examples: the vital energies and erotic energies, the universal love, the purity energies, the harmonious energies of beauty, who modulate Nature permanently, the energetic sphere of macrocosm mental and even the supreme energies of the Divine Transcendence.

A meditation becomes a journey in these invisible spheres but which are not less real than the physical world we live in. With each meditation we increase our benefice sphere of energy and become, in time, real gods out of common people.

Subtle body!

In the Yogic treaty "Shiva Samhita", a clear explanation of the nature of the Subtle Body:

"In this body, the Great Central Axe (which is Meru Mountain, i.e. the spine) is surrounded by seven islands (the vital force, blood, flesh, fat, bones, marrow and sperm/eggs). There are "rivers" and "seas" over there, as well as prophets, wise men, gods, goddesses, intelligent beings, all the stars and planets, the sacred places of pilgrimage, altars and guardian deities.

There are also the Sun and the Moon, the factors of creation and destruction, the five Great Elements: space, air, fire, water and earth. In the Great Central Axe there are all creatures, of all universes.

In this body, called Brahmanda (Brahma's "egg" or "aura") we find an entire macrocosm and the "Moon" from which springs the divine nectar. It lies at the upper top of the spine facing down, allowing the nectar to spring night and day.

The ambrosia of the "Moon" has two "branches", from a subtle point of view: the first nourishes the body and keeps it alive, descending through the left side of the spine, resembling the River Ganges.

The other, shining as the purest milk, comes in through the right channel of the spine maintaining and refreshing the "Moon" placed on top of the Great Axe.

The "Sun" is situated in the inferior region of the spine. From this inner "Sun", placed in the area of the navel, springs a subtle channel, which leads the solar (Yang) energy up, through the force itself of these rays, in the right side of the body.

This channel on the right side is another form of the "Sun" and it goes through the entire body, uplifting the vital emanations and leading the soul to the Ultimate state of Freedom.

The human body is made up of about a few hundred thousands of subtle channels, but of these, only 14 are of great importance. And of these 14, 3 are of utmost importance. They are: Ida (on the left side), Pingala (on the right side) and Sushumna (on the centre).

Sushumna is the most important subtle channel. Ida is on the left side of the body and it "wraps" around Sushumna, in a spiral like movement, until it goes in through the right nostril.

Pingala is on the right side of the body and it "wraps" around Sushumna until it goes in through the left nostril. The one who gets to know the microcosm of the body mysteries will undoubtedly experience the highest state of conscience."

"The Subtle Body connects this universe to the subtle ones. No object or doctrine equals in importance the teaching of the Subtle Body - a door opened towards Ultimate Freedom."

Prana / Chi!

Vital energy (Prāṇa-shakti / Chi) is the vital life sustaining energy of both the individual body and the Universe.

There are five types in relation to a person:

• Energy for the activity of inhalation (prāṇa).
• Energy for the activity of exhalation and speech (udan).
• Energy for the activity of the stomach and intestines (saman).
• Energy for the voluntary and involuntary movements of the body (vyān).
• Energy for urination, excretion, ejaculation, childbirth, etc. (apan).

full body workout!!!

it's time 2 focus!

Shoulderstand Pose: Salamba Sarvangasana!

An inverted pose, with your body resting on your shoulders.

Sarvangasana, the Sanskrit name for the Shoulderstand, comes from the word "sarva", meaning whole. This Asana strengthens, stimulates and rejuvenates the entire body, relaxes the tension in well-known stress areas like the neck, shoulders and the lower back. The muscles of your lower back get stronger, the chest and shoulders can move more freely and the back gets straighter. The Shoulder Stand also stimulates the thyroid gland and is good for blood circulation in the chest, shoulders, upper back and the neck. 

In Shoulderstand, the Chin Lock regulates the flow of energy in the head, throat, and heart.

   

Benefits

·         Stretches your shoulders and improves flexibility of your upper spine.

·         Calms the brain and nervous system therefore helps to relieve stress.

·         Improves digestion and massages and stimulates the thyroid and prostate glands.

·         Flushes mucous from your lungs.

·         Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause.

Cautions

·         Neck or back problems

·         Heavy period of menstruation

·         High blood pressure

·         Eye or inner ear infection

·         Pregnancy

·         Diarrhea