Guest guest Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 Laya Yoga Meditation Sat Nam Guru Gopal Kaur No difference in the 2 presentations of the Laya Yoga meditations is intended, the second one is probably a better explanation. The clearer second explanation works like this: You're sitting cross legged. Then on the "ah" sound, you lean forward with the spine straight, so that the front of the chest is coming over the shins of the crossed legs. As the breath squeezes out on "ah" sound, your arms are straight pushing with your hands down on knees. This automatically causes the diaphragm to lift up and under the ribcage. At the same time the root lock will come up. After each "ah" sound, you naturally relax the abdomen and come straight, so the air sips back into the lungs. One addition to this that I forgot to mention, is that after you have repeated the mantra several times, you may feel the urge to bring the tone up. This is natural, as the Laya Yoga chant has a certan shakti inherent in it. The way we used to do it some 30 years back was to bring the tone up, ater repeating several times, 3 or 4 times, with each upward intonation the sound and speed increase somewhat. Then on the last series to bring it back to the original tone and speed. Sometimes it takes a bit of thinking to properly explain a kriya, breathing technique or meditation, but when done properly the extraordinary claims that are often mentioned with them actually happen. They are not "hype" as some say. All this to say, again, that the second version you found in "The Aquarian Teacher Level One Training Manual" is a clearer explanation of the mechanics of the first version yopu found in "Owner's Manual for the Human Body." Try it and see for yourself. Sometimes people forget that in the early years, Yogi Bhajan was teaching many times a day and week for years, steadily sending people off to various parts of the US and Europe. But, at the same time there was an ever increasing new volume of material, sets, kriyas, meditations. The techniques and explanations of techniques also increased in volume. Yogi Bhajan himself commented from time to time that techniques and knowledge about how to practice that he thought were obvious were not so apparent to his students, and this also increased the depth of the presentations of information. However, as the years went by people tended to cast these sets in stone - maybe now more so than ever before. Then as people would get into another 3ho group, they would feel that the other teachers and students were doing the techniques wrong, let alone that the passage from teacher to student and so on over the years distorted the original teaching technique. One might be surprised to know that many teachers teach Kapalabati or a light version of it as Breath of fire, with several books already describing it that way, as well. Probably the most accurate explanation in a book of how breath of fire is actually practiced and how that practice should feel as you do it is found in Shakti Parwa's book, "The Flow of Eternal Power" Google: Shakti Parwha - Kundalini Yoga. Hopefully there will be more clarifications to breathing and techniques coming from KRI in the future, because quite often it seems that practices that were taught in a certain way 30 years ago are now taught in some rigid interpretation that is actually mistaken, like the story of a group of people sitting in a circle and one person starts the whisper of a certain phase to the next and it goes around the circle coming out differently than originally intended to the person that originated the first phrase. In 3ho, one can go to different locations and find techniques taught rigidly in completely different ways, yet not resembling the first whisper at all. Pieter http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com http://www.adityahrdayam.com Wattana Heights - suite 29A 143/39 Soi Wattana Sukhumvit, Soi 19 (Wattana) North Klongtoey, Wattana Bangkok 10110, Thailand tel: ++ (66-2) 661-6597/8 fax: ++ (66-2) 261-6848 tel: ++ (66-1) 987-1435 mobile -- Laya Yoga Meditation Posted by: "joan richards" joancarol (AT) mac (DOT) com Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:15 pm (PST) Sat Nam All, I have two different manuals, Owner's Manual for the Human Body and The Aquarian Teacher Level One Training Manual, with slightly different instructions for the Laya Yoga Meditation at the end of Awakening Yourself to your Ten Bodies. One states the following: Ek Ong Kar-a, Sat(a) Nam-a, Siri Wah-a Hay Guru, with the instructions to pull Mulbhand at each underlined ah sound. The other has these directions: Ek Ong Kar-a, Sa-Ta-Na-Ma-a, Siri Wha-a Hay Guru, with the instructions to pull the navel on Ek, lift diaphragm on each of the underlined ah sounds and to relax the navel and abdomen on Hay Guru. There are a different type and number of 'pulls' with each version. Are both correct? I feel the difference between the two, but neither feels particularly more effective than the other. Both are marvelous. I appreciate anyone's input. Its a grand day! Guru Gopal Kaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Sat Nam and Thank you, The question remains, though, what is the number of times root lock is engaged on the AH sound? One version shows 3, the other 4. Ek Ong Kar-AH, Sat-AH, Na-MAH, Siri Wa-AH, Hay Guru Ek Ong Kar AH, Sat-a, Na-MAH, Siri Wa-AH, Hay Guru The AH after Sat is shown in one and not the other. Guru Gopal On Sunday, December 17, 2006, at 04:16 AM, pieter wrote: > Laya Yoga Meditation > Sat Nam Guru Gopal Kaur > > No difference in the 2 presentations of the Laya Yoga meditations is > intended, the second one is probably a better explanation. > The clearer second explanation works like this: You're sitting cross > legged. Then on the "ah" sound, you lean forward with the spine > straight, so that the front of the chest is coming over the shins of > the crossed legs. As the breath squeezes out on "ah" sound, your arms > are straight pushing with your hands down on knees. This automatically > causes the diaphragm to lift up and under the ribcage. At the same > time the root lock will come up. After each "ah" sound, you naturally > relax the abdomen and come straight, so the air sips back into the > lungs. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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