Guest guest Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hellooo one and all, Does anyone have any experience with Kriya Yoga? I've been looking at different yoga techniques and found myself reading up on Kriya Yoga. It seemed to feel right for me. I enjoy breathing exercises and my body responds well to them. I wondered if anyone practised or had practised this type of Yoga and could direct me to any useful websites etc. Or maybe new any initial techniques that they found beneficial? (or even whether they think I should leave it well alone..!) Thanks for any thoughts/responses Andy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Hi Andrew, As far as I know there is nothing on the internet about the actual initiation. It is a secret. The guru is suppose to give you a glimpse of the self during initiation. I practice the kriya pranayama breath and it is very effective in raising K energy. Depending on where you are there are teachers who can initiate you. Here are some websites that might help you: http://www.babajiskriyayoga.net/ http://www.csa-davis.org/ http://www.kriyayoga.com/english/download.htm The last website (www.kriyayoga.com) supposedly has a file somewhere on the website called god.zip which has a way you can initiate yourself. But you have to search for this file. (Let me know if you find it) Let me know how it goes. I am also very interested in this type of Yoga. With Love, Mike On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Andrew <andyrpreston wrote: > > > Hellooo one and all, > > Does anyone have any experience with Kriya Yoga? I've been looking at > different yoga techniques and found myself reading up on Kriya Yoga. It > seemed to feel right for me. I enjoy breathing exercises and my body > responds well to them. > > I wondered if anyone practised or had practised this type of Yoga and could > direct me to any useful websites etc. Or maybe new any initial techniques > that they found beneficial? (or even whether they think I should leave it > well alone..!) > > Thanks for any thoughts/responses > > Andy > x > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Thanks Mike, great help! I had a look through that website, its a bit confusing and you find yourself with dozens of pages open looking through them lol I did end up on this page which seemed to be the part that explained the initial practice. The downloadable file is everything off the website in a zip file, so I dont think theres anything extra on there. But I couldnt find the file anwyay lol Try reading this page; (mostly the part down the bottom) http://www.kriyayoga.com/english/on_your_wings/diksha.htm Blessings Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Andy, I have not formally studied Kriya Yoga, but I have read a number of books that I have found interesting and useful: Paramahansa Yogananda - first popularized Kriya Yoga in the west via his book, Autobiography of a Yogi; went on to write many useful books Sri Yukteswar - Yogananda's teacher - wrote The Holy Science Goswami Kriyananda - a student of a student of Yogananda - wrote The Spiritual Science of Kriya Yoga and other books Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) - a student of Yogananda, wrote a bunch of books Some of these authors I read a long time ago; I have not followed new developments - it would appear that many more people are teaching various forms of and variations on Kriya Yoga than there were when I first started looking at these authors/books. I have noticed a lot of people claiming to be personal students of Babaji, a several hundred year old, eternally young, semi-mythical yogi said to be the teacher of Sri Yukteswar. If you choose to pursue it, you will have to evaluate the veracity of these claims for yourself. You may run into some of this kind of stuff as you do web searches. The above books I think will give you a pretty good understanding of Kriya Yoga as originally taught to Yogananda by Sri Yukteswar and as subsequently expounded by Yogananda as he pursued his teaching mission. Kriya Yoga seems to me to be a pretty complete and all-encompassing approach to conditioning all the bodies for the kundalini. In many ways it is very similar to Raja Yoga. The Kriya Yoga authors describe in great detail some of the inner experiences one may experience, as well as providing detailed instructions for their many practices. Additionally, they emphasize that Kriya Yoga practice does not require that one retire from the world - many practitioners were householders with families and jobs. Blessings, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 Andy, Thank you for your initial post. It spurred me to look further. In particular, I spent a little time poking around on www.babajiskriyayoga.net. Here also is another source of info on Kriya Yoga, albeit a different strain. I have read books by a number of the authors mentioned in their bookstore, including some of the Tamil Siddhas they claim as part of their tradition. I notice from their FAQ that there is some " differentiation " they like to make between their lineage and Yogananda's. I tend to ignore such disputes - I take what is valuable to my spiritual journey, regardless the lineage. I would not discourage you from your investigations - follow your heart. Many here have come from different lineages and flavors of kundalini paths and many incorporate techniques drawn from various sources. This is inevitable - we each have found our way here, in many cases, after traveling through a variety of paths and practices in this and past incarnations. I would remind you (reminding myself too) that the system of love- and surrender- based safeties here taught by are a complete pathway to safe and joyous Kundalini awakening and transformation, despite their seeming " simplicity " compared with some other systems. Elektra once said in one of her posts: " I only do the safeties, nothing else is needed. " This is a powerful message - I am still working on it. I think it is one thing to read and incorporate into your practice techniques that you find useful. It is another thing to take initiation. Initiation often includes an energetic agreement with a lineage (and sometimes a teacher), and it may incur obligations. Not saying you shouldn't do it - just something to consider in your explorations. Much love, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 I absolutely agree Mark, the safeties are all that are needed and they serve all of us well. Especially a relative new comer like myself. My interest is a general one, I love finding out about new things, different techniques and the history and origins of all things. The more I do, the more I find a common ground which everything has come from. It seems to me that all things are aspects of a single idea, with different names and approaches. Not a new idea viewpoint of course. Im sure everyone here has noticed or read of the similarities within all religions and ideals. They are just differing through peoples conceptualization. Its when you wade through all of the webs and fog, that you find the base meaning and the truth. That's where my agreement lies, the safeties are the basic idea and promote all of the tenets promoted by these different schools of thought. Its reading through things that has helped me come to terms with the idea of God. I was highly non-religious no more than a couple of years ago. So I find it nigh on impossible to attach myself to a religion. But I have found great comfort, and so has my heart, in the idea of the divine in all of us. God for me is a golden light, my origin, where everything came from and goes back to. Im a golden hair on the back of the divine arm stretching our from the light, and I comfortable there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2009 Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 ....Apologies if that didn't make sense. I had to wait for that post to appear to reread it lol, I pressed send and realised I had no idea what the last part said. No idea what tangent I went off on at the end, or why I went there. I must be tired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 Hi Andy: The car in front of me yesterday had a bumper sticker that read " www.kriyayoga.org " . It defaults to http://www.kriyayogababaji.org/ By no means do I have an understanding of the website's contents and/ or guidance & instruction. Please discern if it is a resource for you, but I thought I would share. Love: Danielle , JiNN <jinnproduction wrote: >> > > > > Thanks for any thoughts/responses > > > > Andy > > x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Andrew, I am the reading the kundalini-tantra by swami sathyananda_saraswathi, and in there he describes how to do some of the kriyas from kriya yoga. You can find this book in the files section of the KAS-1 page. With love, Mike On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Andrew <andyrpreston wrote: > > > Hellooo one and all, > > Does anyone have any experience with Kriya Yoga? I've been looking at > different yoga techniques and found myself reading up on Kriya Yoga. It > seemed to feel right for me. I enjoy breathing exercises and my body > responds well to them. > > I wondered if anyone practised or had practised this type of Yoga and could > direct me to any useful websites etc. Or maybe new any initial techniques > that they found beneficial? (or even whether they think I should leave it > well alone..!) > > Thanks for any thoughts/responses > > Andy > x > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 Brilliant Mike, thanks for that. Strangely I never thought to look through the resources here! I shall get reading! Blessings and thanks Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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