Sat Kriya breathing

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Hi Debbie,Sat Naam

this is what we were taught at teachers training as

well (:

many blessings ~ Jiwan Shakti Kaur

 

I have been doing sat kriya every day for six years.

I agree with Guru

Gopal Kaur. Focus on the kriya and the breath will

find its own way.

Steve Porter

 

Sat Nam Debbie,

Let the breath find its own way.

Guru Gopal Kaur

 

 

 

 

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KUNDALINI YOGA - LIFE TRANSFORMING!Dear Debbie,

 

There are several ways in which you can do the breathing depending on whether

the Sat Kriya is done in a whisper or out loud, and if it is part of another

mantra chant, such a the introduction of Dya Singh to Japji, where there is a 31

minute remix available.

 

Here is one version.

Whispering:

You are sitting in rock pose on your heels, arms stretched upwards close to the

ears with the palms together or in Venus lock with the index fingers pointed up

and pressed together, shoulders pressed back. Now, with whispering you start the

sound Sat pressing the lower abdomen up and in with the tongue creating a

resistance to the air coming out. When the air pressure releases, because most

of the air is out, you also release the " Ssssss... " sound into a forced " at "

whereupon you will notice that the navel goes in forcefully and the root lock

comes up, which you hold for a split second, while stretching your shoulders up

and pressing palms together to let the energy come up through the spine. Now,

having squeezed the breath out, the air will naturally come back in, and as it

does, you inhale the whisper sound of " naaaam " again stretching the shoulders up

and again pressing the palms together, the air will fill the lungs. And you

repeat at the rhythmic speed you want. This is also a very powerful form of Sat

Kriya, as the whisper will take you deep into the awareness of the subtle flow

of energy that lead to jagrat-sushupti. Try it.

 

The other is with sound.

In this case again your arms are stretched up, palms together. Again, using

the pressure of the sound of " Sssss... " but faster so that you come to the

release of " at " sooner, with the root lock, etc as above, but when the air is

out, you sniff in air through your nostrils, stretching the shoulders up and

pressing palms together so that the air flows in. Then start the sound " Naaaam "

letting it vibrate all the way through you, until the air is half way out, then

shift into " Ssss...at " again, and continue at a slow, medium or faster rhythm

for different effects, which are also all quite powerful, because of the steady

interjections of breath Prana.

 

However, it can also be dome, as you mentioned, with a count of 8 times exhaling

Sat (rootlock) Nam in rapid succession, again each time shoulders go up and

palms press, until the breath is out, then inhaling and repeating.

 

What is the purpose of Sat Kriya? How does it work? What does it do? The

short answer is that there is a subtle nerve, which in Kundalini Yoga is the

" reverse channel " from the Kundal or nabhi chakra to the 4th vertebra. Yogis

also call this the Saraswati nadi. When you are doing Sat Kriya, you are

rhythmically beating on this nadi, bringing about its stimulation and

activation, which leads to a charge from the Kundal (between the navel and 4th

vertebra) to the 4th vertebra and a searing radiance at the base of the spine,

like a flash of lightning that remains, straightening your spine and entirely

riveting your attention, so that you have this same riveting effect in the

spiritual heart that pulls the spine forward, as well as all along the gold cord

from the ajna to the crown.. Attention disengages and you remain transfixed as

non-dual single spatial consciousness, breath suspended in a state of absorption

and overarching penetrative radiance

 

So, practice Sat Kriya in these several ways every day, and see what happens.

 

Pieter

 

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Sat Kriya breathing

Posted by: " dlm909 " dlm909 dlm909

Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:05 am (PST)

I have been doing the Sat kriya with various books and DVD classes, and

I still do not understand how the breathing is supposed to work. When I

watch yogis do it, it seems that they are not even taking a breath, and

when I do it myself, I take a breath after every 8th " sat nam. " Any

ideas?

 

Sat nam.

 

Debbie