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flowersofgaia: kundaliniyogini: Nabhi Kriya to Set The Navel Centre - Kundalini Yoga  this kriya changed me. when I first started my teacher training course, someone advised me that to be a good teacher, it’s important to practice nabhi kriya for 40 days. despite finding it absurdly difficult at the time, i wanted to be the best teacher i could possibly be so i went for it. this kriya built my confidence, helped me to assert and project myself, motivated and inspired me, built my personal power, helped me find balance within myself, gave me a greater knowing of my own personal identity (and of course it gave me a stomach of steel!). some people have gone as far as to say this kriya has saved their life! if need be, half time the exercises and build up to the full time. close your eyes, do your best, and take a walk to the sky. good luck sweet ones <3 Nabhi refers to the nerve plexus around the navel point. This set focuses on developing the strength of the navel point. Times indicated are for advanced students. To begin practice, start with 3 to 5 minutes for the longer exercises. Together, these exercises get the abdominal area in shape quickly and activate the power of the Third Chaka. 1) Alternate Leg Lifts. On back, inhale and lift right leg up to 90 degrees. Exhale and lower it. Repeat with left leg. Continue alternate leg lifts with deep powerful breathing for 10 minutes.This is for the lower digestive area. 2) Leg Lifts. Without pause lift both legs up to 90 degrees on inhale and lower them on exhale. For balance and energy, have the arms stretched straight up palms facing each other. 5 minutes.This is for the upper digestion and solar plexus. 3) Knees to chest. Bend knees and clasp them to chest with the arms, allowing the head to relax back. Rest in this position for 5 minutes.This eliminates gas and relaxes the heart. 4) Beginning in position 3, inhale, open the arms straight out to the sides on the ground and extend the legs straight out to 60 degrees. Exhale and return to original position. Repeat and continue for 15 minutes.This charges the magnetic field and opens the navel center. 5) Leg Lift. On back bring left knee to the chest, hold it there with both hands and rapidly raise the right leg up to 90 degrees and down, inhaling up, exhaling down, for 1 minute. Switch legs and repeat for 1 minute. Repeat the complete cycle once more.This sets the hips and lower spine. 6) Front Bends. Stand up straight, raising arms overhead, hugging ears and press fingers back so that palms face the sky or ceiling. Exhale as you bend forward to touch the ground, keeping the arms straight and hugging ears, and inhale up, very slowly with deep breathing. On exhale apply mulbandh. Continue at a slow pace for 2 minutes, then more rapidly for 1 more minute. This is for the entire spinal fluid and the aura. 7) Totally relax or meditate for l0 minutes. let all that hard work work for you x As soon as  am able to bend my knee normally I will be doing this every morning <3 Happy healing

flowersofgaia:

kundaliniyogini:

Nabhi Kriya to Set The Navel Centre - Kundalini Yoga 

this kriya changed me. when I first started my teacher training course, someone advised me that to be a good teacher, it’s important to practice nabhi kriya for 40 days. despite finding it absurdly difficult at the time, i wanted to be the best teacher i could possibly be so i went for it. this kriya built my confidence, helped me to assert and project myself, motivated and inspired me, built my personal power, helped me find balance within myself, gave me a greater knowing of my own personal identity (and of course it gave me a stomach of steel!). some people have gone as far as to say this kriya has saved their life! if need be, half time the exercises and build up to the full time. close your eyes, do your best, and take a walk to the sky. good luck sweet ones <3

Nabhi refers to the nerve plexus around the navel point. This set focuses on developing the strength of the navel point. Times indicated are for advanced students. To begin practice, start with 3 to 5 minutes for the longer exercises. Together, these exercises get the abdominal area in shape quickly and activate the power of the Third Chaka.

1) Alternate Leg Lifts. On back, inhale and lift right leg up to 90 degrees. Exhale and lower it. Repeat with left leg. Continue alternate leg lifts with deep powerful breathing for 10 minutes.
This is for the lower digestive area.

2) Leg Lifts. Without pause lift both legs up to 90 degrees on inhale and lower them on exhale. For balance and energy, have the arms stretched straight up palms facing each other. 5 minutes.
This is for the upper digestion and solar plexus.

3) Knees to chest. Bend knees and clasp them to chest with the arms, allowing the head to relax back. Rest in this position for 5 minutes.
This eliminates gas and relaxes the heart.

4) Beginning in position 3, inhale, open the arms straight out to the sides on the ground and extend the legs straight out to 60 degrees. Exhale and return to original position. Repeat and continue for 15 minutes.
This charges the magnetic field and opens the navel center.

5) Leg Lift. On back bring left knee to the chest, hold it there with both hands and rapidly raise the right leg up to 90 degrees and down, inhaling up, exhaling down, for 1 minute. Switch legs and repeat for 1 minute. Repeat the complete cycle once more.
This sets the hips and lower spine.

6) Front Bends. Stand up straight, raising arms overhead, hugging ears and press fingers back so that palms face the sky or ceiling. Exhale as you bend forward to touch the ground, keeping the arms straight and hugging ears, and inhale up, very slowly with deep breathing. On exhale apply mulbandh. Continue at a slow pace for 2 minutes, then more rapidly for 1 more minute.

This is for the entire spinal fluid and the aura.


7) Totally relax or meditate for l0 minutes.

let all that hard work work for you x

As soon as  am able to bend my knee normally I will be doing this every morning <3 Happy healing

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fuckyeahyoga:

What If Money Was No Object - Alan Watts

So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it’s so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say ‘Well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers’ But as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way! Another person says ‘Well I’d like to live an out-of-door’s life and ride horses.’ I said ‘You wanna teach in a riding school?’

Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him ‘You do that! And forget the money!’ Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living – that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of which you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing – it doesn’t really matter what it is – you can eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you’ll find others who are.

But it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like in order to go on spending things you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it’s all retch and no vomit – it never gets there! And so therefore it’s so important to consider this question:

What do I desire?

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Naturally Occuring DMT May Create Our Reality

samsaranmusing:

 A startling new theory suggests that endogenous (naturally occurring in the brain) dimethyltryptamine (DMT) which up until now had no known purpose is directly related to our perception of reality according to a 2008 medical study. This chemical widely used in native shamanic cultures in the western hemisphere as a “doorway” to the spirit realm and referred to in the west as the “spirit molecule” is thought to weave the input we perceive from our senses into what we experience as “waking consciousness”.

If this theory is correct then in essence what we perceive as reality is an elaborate hallucination. When this system malfunctions it produces altered states of “reality” which clash with our common experience. In one sense schizophrenics and others suffering from delusions are simply experiencing an altered reality which makes sense to them but seems delusional to us.

☯ Samsaran ☯ 

(The link goes to erowid.org because they have the full pdf of the medical study. The actual medical journal is behind a pay wall.)

(via jessgritter)