Consideration of the way in which Sets are practiced to experience Radiance

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One of the student teachers asked about the sets we used to practice for radiance. We always used to do these very progressively powerful sets. The main intent is to gradually bring about full body radiance, through every cell of the body until the voltage suddenly links with the voltage of the pervasive spirit and there is a simultaneous absorption dissolution expansion - abiding as and in self-realization and pervading pervailing perfect love.

 

It's not something that one forces upon the body. It's more that by proper practice, the body will conscopusly let go of tensions that are barriers to the awareness of the Radiance that is always filling and penetrating us from within.

 

Many of the e-mails I get from people that used to practice with me are about the radiance they feel, and what to do about areas where they don't feel it. So, it's a matter of understanding the radiance and how to give up and release tensions during practice so that the areas that have no feeling become full, expansive and pervasive.

 

One of the sets we did was the one in the article "A Proper Understanding of the Active and Passive Aspects of Kundalini Yoga Practice."

http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/worddocuments/Pieters_Articles/AProperUnderstandingTheActive-PassiveAspectsofKundaliniYogaPractice6.pdf

 

Anyway, it's really a matter of how one breaths, and how one is able to relax and let go even while practicing, holding the breath and in the passive period. There's also the matter of how to sit to maximize the flow, penetration and expansion of radiance throughout the spine and also throughout the frontal passages of the body. Articles about breathing in the Radiant series: http://www.kundalini-matashakti.com/radiant.html

 

As an example, let's say you are holding yourself in platform pose, with the head dropped back and you're at the end of 5 minutes of breath of fire. During the practice, you can feel the gradual suffusing of radiance throughout the body, also balancing evenly through the shoulders, neck and head, and now you inhale and hold the breath. There is often a tendancy to constrict the body while blocking the throuat so the air doesn't get out. Rather, while blocking the throua, just become aware of the penetration of the ratdiance trough the bodt and feel it and let it penetrate through the nerves and capitaries of the upper back, shoulders, neck and head, which will happen anyway, if you let it go. If you practice in this manner during both the active and passive aspects of each KY exercise, Kriya and Laya Mantra, you will discover the full meaning of letting go.

 

With the radiance comes a deepening and penetrative stillness that drives the mind to reflect the source of consciousness, the "me" without a "mine." - the sense of nothing to cling to, a complate abayance of the need to grasp or define the idea or thought of identity. With this recognition, a sense of singular recollection arises, and you remain abiding in and as that sun of radiance, transfixed, transfigured.

 

When you do flexes or twists, there needs to be an entering into or watching of the process and then an adding of the breath and letting the breath and the synchronicity to the movement and the awareness of the whole process become unified and automatic. Then the breath and the movement will become automatically more and more flowing and powerful, while you just passively watch, at ease. This passive watching also causes tensions you didn't know were there to spontaneously release, and radiance flows penetrates and expands, as though the whole body is blowing outwardly living light from behind the atoms and molecules that make up the body and mind structure.

 

This type of experience comes with a daily practice, so the orientation of the teaching of all sets should ultimately be to get the students to do some sadhana every day. This in turn will make the classes much easier and naturally more powerful. Eventually the sadhana will also feel powerful, and radiance will flow and widen whether the students attending a class or not, as many of you probably know.

 

The 10 body set is also good. It's mostly spinal flexes and twists, so remember what I said above about them. You should also consider selecting one or 2 of the exercises to go on for a long time, so that the student gets into all the phases of rhythm and release and experiences the emergence of the automatic and effortless movement and how the breath and unified movement of the navel, solar plexus and diaphragm becomes more and more powerful effortlessly. And again how one sits with straight spine, to bring about a more natural root lock, diaphragm lock and neck lock, which in turn cause the radiance to penetrate out through the heart and chest area and then throughout the whole front part of the body up to the crown, while streaming up through the spine and out the top of the head. Again with each exercise there is the active part and the passive part. The passive aspect is the period during which the glands will secrete to chemically store the voltage, so that gradually you begin to feel this inherent radiance all the time. It becomes part of the emergence of hearing, rememberance and Self-abiding. And finally, at the end of the set, the long deep relaxation, during which period the body and mind shut down and reboot to the new experience of radiance and voltage.