Guest guest Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Sat Nam everyon, Rebbecca, I have been looking for a good hip opener, this sounds like a good one. I am interested in doing this hip opener, I just have a couple of questions. Do you only practice this hip opener on one side or do you the same thing on the other leg? Is the Camel pose part of the anasa? Any information would be helpful. Peace Love and All Light, Sadhana Seva Philadelphia,PA SWADJ- "MAY YOU FLOURISH AND THRIVE" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Sat Nam Rebecca! What we hold in our hips is our illusion of control...second chakra stuff abounds. It sounds as if the bridge pose(heart opener) with hip openers is working your 2nd and 4th Chakras. It also sounds as if you are unearthing some deep emotional cleansing. When our diet becomes more pure then the cleanse begins to work on emotional impurities. Try to watch and just observe, without judgment, whatever comes up. Remember to take the time to listen to what is arising in you. Use the energies of the planets at this time to help with that. Keep up the great work, be gentle with yourself and remember to send lots of love to yourself. Frog pose will also help move the energies up and out. Mantra is also an important way to cleanse and soothe the energies. Blessings on your path! Guru Ravi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Hello Rebecca. I recently read an excerpt from a book about Dahn yoga. The excerpt contained information regarding depression and the hips. What I gleaned from the reading was that a disruption in the alignment of one's hips can be linked to depression, which makes sense since poor alignment at the base of one's spine (the serpent in kundalini) would likely lead to poor alignment of the rest of the spine. I hypothesize that work at the hip level could open up the flow of cerebral spinal fluid and thereby improve the flow of fluid throughout one's central nervous system. Also releasing tension in the hips could open nerve channels and potentially up or down-regulate neuro-endocrine recptor activity. Anyway, it makes sense to me that hip work could result in emotional release. Sat nam, Ann >"Rebecca" <montana_diva >Kundaliniyoga >Kundaliniyoga >Kundalini Yoga What we hold in our Hips >Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:38:41 -0000 > >I was doing a hip opening excersize, I am unsure of the name, but you >sit in easy pose and then put one foot across your opposite knee and >hold that position for a minute or so, and then you go into bridge, >while keeping your foot on your knee. > >I have done this successfully for several months but the other day, as >I held the first position opening my hips up, I wanted to cry...not >cause it hurt but for some unknown reason, it made me feel scared and >I wanted to cry. > >Also, when I am going back into Camel Pose when you are at the lowest >point and it is really streatching across your pelvic area, I get the >same experience of fear. > >Recently I have started eating a cleansing diet, lots of raw fruits >and vegetables and juicing. I have almost completely stopped eating >meat and have not cooked anything other than tea or soup for about a >month and half know. I don't know if the diet is making me more >sensitive, or if my yoga work is getting to deeper muscles or what. > >So all this is to really ask, What do we, Men and Women, hold in our >hip areas. Are their other excersizes for the chakras you can >recommend to assist with working on this overwhelming feeling I have >to cry when opening my hips, and what mantras would you recommend to >help me find out the source of my pain (is it pain, sorrow, lose?), >and release it. > >Thanks, I love reading this list, you are all so helpful. > >Rebecca in Montana > > > > > > _______________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Dear Rebecca in Montana: It's so great to receive all these questions! It gives an opportunity for a lot of us to think and to let it out for everyone! What a blessing! Ann is right that hips hold depression. Yogi Bhajan gave kriyas to deal with this. What you are experiencing is all there is to experience. Feelings are feelings. They just want to be accepted, allowed, heard without judgments, without trying to make them better, different, easier, you know? So there are no exercises that are better than what you are doing! There was a time in my life when I was not doing yoga yet, I was just writing about my life. My quest was to ease the pain I was carrying. I realized that I needed to pay attention especially to the writing that was guiding me to feel something, anything. . . I had been numb too long! When I was introduced to yoga and meditation I realized that this process was much more efficient than the writing I was doing. So you have come to it. This is the place. Celebrate your feelings with attachment to them. Just experiencing and letting go. Giving any hardship to God. No processing. Instead allowing yourself to feel grateful for what you have until it all makes sense. Part of the healing process is to have faith that what you are doing is exactly right and to give it to God and trust that you are healed. Even though it often feels like the fear or the tears come from an endless well. I just went through something like this. I was looking at the photograph of a master. As an aside, I realized in that moment what it means when we are told that Yogi Bhajan can attend to different tantric events at the same time, or to all of us at the same time. When I looked at that photograph in the eyes of the master, he was looking straight at me. But he was also looking straight at anyone else who was looking at him at the same time. Do you see how we already have an experience of being able to all receive from the same person and yet very individually? In the following I'll use the word dis-ease with a hyphen because I mean more than measurable diseases, I also mean anything that makes us feel disconnected. This past weekend I was at a conference on healing. I was looking at the photograph of the man who had inspired this organization and I felt he was urging me to engage in looking at him. I felt like crying and I had a hard time holding my eyes up to him. He kept urging me and I kept crying. I thought it would be endless. Then the presenters of the program asked those of us who had had healings during the conference to come up on stage to share our experience with everyone. I could have kept crying had I continued to look at the master's eyes on the photograph. So I was not going to go up on stage. I did not feel complete. But the voice of the master within me said to go up there. I trusted the message but I wondered what I would share. The healings that others shared were measurable: no more arthritis, no more migraine headaches, no more back pain, etc. So I told them what I experienced and I finished by saying "I recognized how I needed to open up to the presence of the master in a way that I did not know I needed to and now I feel like my heart has opened". That seemed important enough for the others present. As I sat down I realized I had not felt worthy of holding up my eyes to looking at the master, and that's why he was urging me. I realized I had to have faith to go up on stage even though I did not know the nature of the healing I received. All this to tell you that at some point we just need to let go and once we give it to God, we need no doubt whatsoever, we need to accept that the healing has happened and then anything else we feel is just the body letting go of the habit or the toxins, but it is no longer the dis-ease. Otherwise we hold on to the dis-ease and it may very well come back because we don't know better and we hold on to it. Faith is a large dose of humility. The humility of letting God take care of it, the humility of not needing the dis-ease any more, the humility of receiving the healing and letting go of what was there before. When we find our self on the other side and share our experience with others somehow the healing makes sense and we understand at least in part what happened. The sharing helps others heal too. So if you feel something in your body as you read these lines, think of it as healing happening in you now. It is contagious! Something in you has opened up, so give the struggle to God and don't think of what you feel as illness or dis-ease anymore. Have faith! Best wishes and blessings! Awtar Singh Rochester, NY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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