working on one side of the body only?

[Guest guest]

I am hoping someone can answer my student's question.

 

We did a kriya focusing on the adrenals and kidneys for stress.

 

There was one exercise where we stretched out one hand while chanting " har, har,

har " - but we did not switch to the other hand. The kriya says that it works on

one side of the adrenals.

 

My student's specific question is: Why wouldn't we switch to the other hand to

work on the other side of the adrenals?

 

Also, he asked, in general, there are some sets where we only work on one side

of the body. Why is that?

 

Thanks for your answers. I find this group very helpful!

 

Sat nam,

 

Amy/Sat Prem

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam:

 

The easiest way to answer a student that seeks symmetry in a class is to tell

him/her that to balance the imbalanced we must apply asymmetry with Pranayam,

Asanas and Chant.   Otherwise, we will be sustaining the imbalance. 

 

Har is one aspect of God, the creative infinity, the unseen as it manifests. 

Then we have Hari.

 

Depending on which side of the body we are working on we may be strengthening,

balancing, flowing either Ida or Pingala which each will have a specific

vibratory effect.  All our purposes focus on balancing both of them so that our

creative energy may flow through the central channel, Shushmuna so that

Kundalini may ascend.  Remember one side represents the movement forward

towards regeneration, the heating energy of the Sun, while the other represents

the mind-expanding energy of the moon, receptive, motherly.  Through pranic

exercises and pranayam, as they flow through our Nadis we may obtain balance or

simply activate their movement.  Working a specific side of the body does not

imbalance the body but brings to balance an aspect that needs to be

strengthened or needs to be flowing and awaken a Center.  Remember the adrenal

glands represent the endocrine gland of survival, aligned in the Kundalini Yoga

school with the Third Chakra, although

most other schools relate them with the First one.  In balancing the

adrenals we need to slow them down in order to bring stress down.  This

balance may also imply activating them so that more cortisone and hormones flow

throw the body to revitalize survival energy.

 

Each Kriya has a specific function, target Center, and balancing point. 

Symmetry, as we know it, may not necessarily apply to energy work, specially

when we are working with the Nadis. 

 

Sat Nam

Hari Om Tat Sat (the unseen and the seen are both One).

Adi Singh

 

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, amysatprem <satpremkaur wrote:

 

 

amysatprem <satpremkaur

Kundalini Yoga working on one side of the body only?

Kundaliniyoga

Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 2:23 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am hoping someone can answer my student's question.

 

We did a kriya focusing on the adrenals and kidneys for stress.

 

There was one exercise where we stretched out one hand while chanting " har, har,

har " - but we did not switch to the other hand. The kriya says that it works on

one side of the adrenals.

 

My student's specific question is: Why wouldn't we switch to the other hand to

work on the other side of the adrenals?

 

Also, he asked, in general, there are some sets where we only work on one side

of the body. Why is that?

 

Thanks for your answers. I find this group very helpful!

 

Sat nam,

 

Amy/Sat Prem