set designing

[Guest guest]

Hi...

 

no my question is not about theatre despite the subject

hehe...

 

i was wondering if the sets in Kundalini Yoga were

VERY specific in the order you have to do the exercises.

 

I know in hatha (or at least it was never stressed) that

you can take any asanas and mix and match them to

do your own routine...

but i am under the impression

that certain poses, kriyas, etc in KY have to be done

according to Yogi B's original presentation.

 

Is this true? or can you make your own sets up

and still get the benefits?

are there certain things that should not be done

back to back, etc...

 

thanks for help...

i dont post too often but this group is VERY

helpful.... =)

 

Sat Nam

Akire

[Guest guest]

thanks Sadhant!

 

makes sense to me now... =)

 

asking mom for some of gururattan's books for x-mas

since i can never remember the entire sets i learn in class

hehe...

 

thanks again!

Sat Nam...

Akire

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Akire!

 

> i was wondering if the sets in Kundalini Yoga were

> VERY specific in the order you have to do the exercises.

 

Yes! This is one of the fundamental differences between kundalini

yoga and other forms. It is based on kriyas, not just postures, and

the benefits of kriyas are considerably greater than doing random

postures, which is one of the reasons that KY works much more quickly

and effectively than other forms - it is much more precise, and

allows you to target specific benefits and work on exactly those

aspects of yourself that need work at the current time.

 

You will not get the same benefits if you play around with the order

of postures or invent your own kriyas. There are thousands of

kriyas, so it is easy to find one (or many) that fit your exact

needs. In fact, each kriya tells you, by the title, what the overall

effect of the set is, so you know what you are getting when you do

it - which will not be the case if you mix'n'match.

 

Each asana provides a particular effect, but each kriya provides a

cumulative benefit from the specific combination and sequence of

asanas. If there are particular asanas that you want to do that are

not in the kriya you are working on, simply do it (them) as part of

your warm-up.

 

I usually do anywhere from 3-10 different asanas as part of my warm-

up. Then I work through a particular kriya, doing the same kriya

each day for at least 40 days, as it takes that long to get the full

benefit of a particular set (it takes 1,000 days to master a kriya!).

 

Love & blessings,

Sadhant

[Guest guest]

The Kundalini yoga sets were designed to be done as written. Variations can

be made in length of time, but order should remain as is. Mixing and

matching is also not recommended. The exception can be if some asanas are

done as warm-up before doing a set.

 

Sat Nam,

 

/Kewal Kaur

 

 

LadyOStars [LadyOStars]

Friday, December 15, 2000 9:58 AM

Kundaliniyoga

set designing

 

 

Hi...

 

no my question is not about theatre despite the subject

hehe...

 

i was wondering if the sets in Kundalini Yoga were

VERY specific in the order you have to do the exercises.

 

I know in hatha (or at least it was never stressed) that

you can take any asanas and mix and match them to

do your own routine...

but i am under the impression

that certain poses, kriyas, etc in KY have to be done

according to Yogi B's original presentation.

 

Is this true? or can you make your own sets up

and still get the benefits?

are there certain things that should not be done

back to back, etc...

 

thanks for help...

i dont post too often but this group is VERY

helpful.... =)

 

Sat Nam

Akire

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Sat Nam:

 

>The exception can be if some asanas are done as warm-up before doing

>a set.

 

I was taught that one might skip doing asanas for warm-up when they

are part of the set one plans to do, but not vice versa, the idea

being to preserve the effect of the kriya. That is, the benefits of

the kriya come from doing the particular sequence of asanas: doing

them as part of the warm-up would not mean that they can then be

skipped, as dropping an asana from a set is still altering the set.

 

How important is this precision? You be the judge: at teacher

training, a teacher told me the following story. She was at lunch

with YB (and others) somewhere on the East Coast (NYC, maybe?), and

he was talking, when all of a sudden, he simply stopped and "went

away" for several minutes. When he opened his eyes, someone asked

what had happened. He said that a teacher at the ashram in LA had

accidentally skipped an asana in a kriya, and that he had to go

adjust the students to make up for the skipped posture.

 

As it happened, she knew someone who was teaching at that ashram, and

she called him up after lunch to ask who had been teaching during

that time. As it happened, it was him, so she asked him if he had

missed a posture in the set he was teaching. He was utterly

surprised: "How did YOU know?".

 

All love surround us all,

Sadhant