Life + Yoga = Yogantastic

                                                                          Pratyahara Pratyahara is the fifth part of Yoga and an essential component of Hathayoga and RajYoga and impossible a worthwhile spiritual achievement to be attained without it. Pratyahara means to turn five senses inward, set our five senses inward; most of the time, our perceptions are sustained by deceptive temptation and remain extroverted and become uncontrolled. The mind never rests or stay on a single point for minutes. So, here need arises to tame the mind first for higher spiritual growth. Our five senses are eyes, ears, tongues, noses and skin: Eye...

  Reiki is as old as Earth, Sun and Stars. It is as old as a Galaxy and from unicellular and insects. Plants to human and animals are all associated to cosmic energy. Each object of nature is bring together with cosmic energy, and bathed in it, and we cannot survive sans of it. It is not a new concept, but the name has changed. When you feel or observe during meditation sensations around your body, transport into the realm of ecstasy that only means that you are connecting well with nature within that having soothing and ennobling effects upon the mind;   and nobody can take the smite away from you.   Dr Mikao Usui was a Japanese Buddhist monk born in Kyoto, Japan. He rediscovered the long-forgotten art of instant healing, practised by both Jesus Christ and Gautam Buddha. After intensive interrogation with Christian leaders and Buddhist monk both in Japan, Europe, the USA and Tibet, Dr Usui met the Zen abbot of Kyoto, who guided him with a technique with some sym...

Everyone wants good health and at least to work out of their daily routine without any complications. Sarp asana keeps flexible spinal cord, the body muscles and helps keep the flow of prana energy balanced. Sarp asana stimulates the glands and keeps the oxygen does reach the innermost parts. Sedentary lifestyle led one sans sufficient exercise; hence, hormones, body muscles, and organs of the body would not coordinate each other. Hormones increase the metabolic rate of the body and increase heat production and maintain basal metabolic rate, and thyroxin affects the physiology of excretion. Sarap asana keeps fresh and more energetic all day long. Sarap asana backward bend is a good exercise for backbone, muscles and hormones. All organs of the body have got sufficient prana energy after doing it. Cobra pose or sarp asana The posture of the body resembles a snake, hence, that it is called or named after as Bujangasana asana or cobra pose or sarap asana. While doing Sarp asan...

The secret to good health remains in living in the present moment earnestly, to be present by being observant in every activity minutely of your day, being aware of all the things you have to do is mindfulness. Whereas, when you are mingled in past and future events all the time and stuck in incidents of the past, and ignore present pursuit altogether then uneasy, tension, anxiety and worries arise that bring fear. The fear of uncertainty of the future and always pondering over past only bring disequilibrium mindfulness. Mindfulness is the trait of staying aware of paying attention to around and within you. Mindfulness is a tool that de-clutters your mind and helps one to choose the best action in the worst situation. Being present is where you are going; whatever you are doing, eating mindfully, walking mindfully, taking into consideration every morsel sans distracted, being aware of your surroundings are just a few examples of the mindfulness. By doing Yoga, asanas, m...

Novel COVID-19 is triggering the re-emergence of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Coronavirus is an infectious disease, and since December 2019 spread globally. The World Health Organization declared the Covid -19 outbreak a pandemic. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced an official name for the virus, causes the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak that first identified in Wuhan China, as abbreviated Covid-19; devastating pandemics that have devoured thousands of lives within three months. There are a large family of viruses with some causing less severe disease such as cold, MERS and SARS. Covid -19 appears to inhabit both the upper and lower respiratory tracts (causes SARS-COV-2), but in SARS- causes infections in the lower respiratory tract which result in pneumonia. Time from exposure to onset of symptoms of Covid-19 is generally 2 and 14 day, average of 5 days. The lungs are the organ most affected by the virus. Coronavirus Common symptoms o...

 The mind and body correlate and influence each other. Exercising lessens and stops the decay of tissues, and meditation synchronizes the entire body by stimulating the Pranic energy flow, and fuels the body with adequate energy that is sufficient to sustain one cope with the day’s issues/obstacles.   To attain a perfect state of happiness, one has to remain mentally- emotionally calm, composed, steady and mindful. Pranayama helps to promote good health. Breathing plays an important role in prolonging human life and allows better functioning of all the organs in the body, reinvigorating them with fresh energy and providing mindfulness, so that one can better perform day to day activities. Ujjayi pranayama  Sit in comfortable asana. Close your mouth and breathe in from both the nostrils in a consistent manner. Expand your chest. Hold the breath as long as you can do it efficiently. Exhale slowly through the left nostril by closing the rig...

Mudra and Bandha are specific poses of yoga to which can be completed in the firm positions by the aspirant for desired goals. The Gheranda Samhita has described 25 mudras and bandhas that are important to balancing the pranic energy flow in the body. The pranic energy is indispensable fuel to sustain life. The most important among them are  Mula bandha, Jalandhar bandha, uddiyan bandha; mudras-   khichari mudra, manduki mudra, Ashwini mudra, kaki mudra, matangini   mudra, bhujangini mudra, viparitkari mudra and tadagi mudra . All of these mudras are beneficial for good health; considered as the essentials for the advanced mudras that comes in the second group which refine and direct the prana energy in the body in the more precise way. The mudras, which come in the second group are advanced in nature and used for specific objectives or for advance practising of yoga. Advanced group of mudras that comprises of thirteen mudras.  Advanced mudras which...

The three bandhas are Mula bandha, uddiyan bandha and Jalandhar bandha; their purpose is to attain stability and adapted to conserve and make use of the vast reserves of prana energy which generated by the advanced breathing pranayamas and enable to regulate pranic energy flow for advanced yoga technique. Mula bandha and Jalandhar bandh are to perform concurrently during the retention to unite Prana and Apana Vayu, around abdominal or navel area. Applying the uddiyan bandh is only aimed to push up both pranas Vayu (Prana and Apana) into the Sushumna Nadi. Mula bandha : Sit in Padam asana or Siddha asana and breathe easily and when you want to do advanced pranayamas. Mula bandha practice during advanced pranayama exercises as pulling up the Apana Vayu by contracting anal sphincter muscles and then abdominal muscles.  Uddiyan bandha : After exhaling, pull the stomach up and then back towards the spine and keep sitting in the Siddha asana with both bandhas ( Mula ba...

Padahast asana is a bending forward posture which helps digestion and aids in increasing height and supports the vertebral column to align itself. Padahast- is a Sanskrit word ‘pada’ meaning foot and ‘hast’ meaning hand. In Padahast asana the hands are brought close to the feet in a forward bend posture. Padahast asana is known as a balancing of the Paran energy in the body as this asana propitiate the sun to improve aspirant’s digestion through energy channels that are opened when bending forward in the posture and whilst the earth helps to remove the impurities. The sun and earth helps each and every object of nature whether it is tiny or big organism to sustain their life in here by balancing them. Padahast and tad asana, two posture definitely help digestion and balancing prana energy in the entire the body. The hand to feet pose or pada asana restores prana energy and flexibility to the spine; and stretching the ligaments of the legs, and hamstrings gives more flex...

In the previous article we have learned about ‘Apana-Vayu’ and its working and benefits. Apana-Vayu, when it is strong and balanced provides the foundation for a healthy body and mind, in turn providing the way to Samana-vayu to keep the body in balanced state. In this article we will talk about Samana-vayu. Samna Vayu (balancing air) is one of the five prana Vayu in the body among Parana, Udana, Vyana, Samana and Apana. Samna Vayu is a centralizing force of energy that draws from the boundary of stomach to the navel and of spiralling movements around the navel area or Manipuri chakra/solar plexus in a clockwise direction to maintain the processing and assimilation of all that is taken in the body, whether it be food or emotions. Samana Vayu unites both prana Vayu and Apana Vayu of two energies together in the navel/ Manipur chakras which is then used to purify Agni/fire within the body. Here, three energy forces are working together to uplift the kundalini Shakti/energy towar...