Understanding Pranayama

UDDIYANA KRIYA – MULADHARA KRIYA includes the ASHWINI KRIYA- JALANDHARA KRIYA

The breath is a gift you don’t own the breath but you very much own the breath, yogis used to measure their lives in breaths. Use the diaphragm, slightly pulls down in inhalation, relaxes on exhalation

LANGUAGE OF YOGA- COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BODY AND MIND AND BREATH

For UNDERSTANDING SUBJECTIVE AND PERCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE Brings us into the now
Chompsky —Generative transformational grammar

Simple set of grammar rules you can create  a limitless amount of sentences

Similarly, with a simple set of yoga instructions, you can create a limitless amount of asanas

A sequence of understanding – progressive sequences through intelligence and understanding

Not robotic, not dogmatic but with awareness and brain-mind to create perceptual intelligence – consciousness through a practise culture

1 SAMASTHITI- 2 Convergent rivers

2 UTTHITA HASTA PADASANA 2 Divergent rivers

3 UTTHITA PARSVA HASTA PADASANA Asymmetrical One river resisting one diverging

4 UTTHITA PARIVRITTA HASTA PADASANA Asymmetrical 2 opposing rivers

EQUAL AND OPPOSITE

THE DIRECTIONS ( PLANES OF THE BODY, DIMENSIONS, FORM)

LEFT AND RIGHT AND CENTRE PLUM OF GRAVITY- TRISHUL ENERGY IDA PINGALA SASHUMNA YING YANG

BACK= WEST- PASCHIMMA

FRONT-EAST-PURVA

NORTH – SOUTH UTTARA-DAKSHINA

THE 5 GREAT  ELEMENTS ( PANCHA MAHA BHUTAS )

EARTH WATER FIRE AIR SPACE

THE 3 UNSEEN FORCES (GUNAS)

SATTVIC RAJASIC TAMASIC

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY  NUCLEAR FUSION  GRAVITY

The STHITIS – Please study the all the Sthitis, you will find them on the front of the Preliminary Coursebook after the Prayer and the Preface in the Contents page.

The Hip Girdle and the Shoulder Girdle. The 4 major joints of movement, the ball sockets of the legs and arms

The 5 Organs of Action – KARMENDRIYAS

The 5 Great Elements – PANCHA MAHA BHUTAS & The 3 GUNAS (unseen forces-sattvic rajasic, tamasic-electromagnetic energy nuclear fusion gravity)

The 5 Sheaths (5 bodies) KOSHAS- Physical Physiological Psychological Mental Bliss

JOINTS get LOOSE MUSCLES Overused eg Frozen shoulder or Dislocated shoulder

SEQUENCING, Why and what are the benefits:  Like a machine needs right sequencing so it keeps oiled and doesn’t get clogged up

EVERY ACTION has a REACTION ( law of karma and understanding our consciousness growing, evolving)

When you create an ACTION IN AN ASANA WHAT DO YOU LISTEN TO THE REACTION

SOMETIMES NO ACTION SHAVASANA OR UN ACTION

For example, I turn my right foot out 90 % what reaction does it have to my left foot

There are different types of ACTION AACTION or AAACTION

There is an order and reason to what we do, there is a natural sequence

But what are their reactions to the actions one needs intelligence reasoning awareness?

FIVE VAYUS – SAMANA VAYU – slightly pull in your abdomen in a soft way- feel the Transverse abdominal muscle the band around  from the back, the inner and outer obliques

THE LATS – back of the Infraspinatus’ and teres minor-major, how we hold that area with the pectoral region

THE 3 DIRECTIONS-OF SPACE AND TIME_2 SIDES OF A COIN-THE CENTER -PIT_3 DIMENSIONAL CENTRE- SACRED GEOMETRY

WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES YOU GO INTO THE 4^th DIMENSION, but it DOES’NT MEAN YOU LOOSE YOUR 3 DIMENSIONAL SKELETON, PHYSICS BODY HELPS US TO HOLD THE FRAME OF THE BODY

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBIS AND PELVIS

THE THIGH PINNING- LIKE A PROSPHETICH LEG – PINNING SHOULD BE FELT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE PELVIS- PELVIC HEADS ALWAYS IN-SUPPORTS WATR ELEMENT- WATER ELEMENT SOFT SPREADING- THEN STARTS- LOWER ABDOMEN- MIDDLE ABDOMEN (NAVEL) UPPER ABDOMEN 9SMOOTH MUSCLE_ ASCENDING AND DESCENDING COLON
PIN SOUTH AND NORTH THEN EAST AND WEST THEN LEFT AND RIGHT TO SCREW PIN ON (PIT)

SHOULDER PINS HORIZONTAL LEFT TO RIGHT- NORTH AND SOUTHWEST TO EAST

PLUM LINE FROM CROWN OF THE HEAD TO THE CENTRE OF THE PERENIUM

1. TADASANA – SAMASTHITI

SAMA EVEN – STHITI

2 Rivers running parallel to each other

PHYSICHAL  CHARACTARISTICS

CLOSED , Grounding UNIFIED, CONTAINER ( bringing all the parts coming together for the container to hold the content) PHYSIOLOGOCAL CHARACTARISTICS; CREATING SPACE WITHIN – BALANCED

MENTAL CHARACTARISTICS

Focused, attentive, one pointedness, many pointedness, mindfulness peaceful. EACH ASANA IS SUBJECTED FROM THE FORCES OF NATURE 5 GREAT ELEMENTS  EARTH WATER FIRE AIR SPACE WORKING WITH THE 3 GUNAS, SANSKRIT  RAJASIC TAMASIC SATTVIC (EG GRAVITY ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY AND NUCLEAR ENERGY.

An asana needs a sense of direction working with it’s gravitational force (in Tadasana centre of Hips) North, South East West Left IDA right PINGALA and Centre Chanel SHUSHUNMA ( The Great SPACE) represented by our Central nervous system canal

The deficiency is in the outer foot 4th & 5th metatarsal, Fibula bone

The ARM deficiency thumb side, align more from index finger base, to the inner armpit eg Handstands, all poses. Gravity falls from armpits and groins. Fingers drop out of hand, stretch phalanges and bring back to metacarpals. Deficiency in leg is Fibula, rotate it forward on side on knee and activate 4 and 5^th metatarsal. Big toe back, little toe forward , rotate thighs in to come to the pit of the groin. Hold the 4 major ball sockets at groin and armpit. Gravity falls from there like a waterfall to the ground, keep soft. Toes should stretch forward, metatarsals down and back to the ankle and heel, keep thumb soft

ROLL YOUR LEGS IN INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE IN

SPREAD YOUR FEET- SPREAD THE SKIN WEIGHT SHOULD BE DISTRIBIUTED EVENLY ON THE FEET

LIKE 4 WHEELS OF A CAR OR THE TRIPOD from THE BALL OF THE FOOD TO THE OUTER BLADE OF THE FOOT AND TO THE INNER HEEL Find the INNER ARCH ON THE OTER 4&5^th Metatarsals

Base of ULNA align base of index finger with INNER ARMPIT

BE SOFT IN THE SHOULDERS DECEND DOWN, but don’t collapse, keep them down away from ears

Shoulder blades down and in to LIFT THE CHEST or else the lungs will collapse and drop

Open COLLAR BONES-DASHBOARD from inside, roll back, shoulders back, but SIDE RIBS Forward

TAILBONE IN AND DOWN

PLUM LINE FROM CROWN OF THE HEAD TO THE CENTRE OF THE PERENIUM

TOP FRONT OF BODY FALLS FORWARDS AND DOWN, Lift from fingers arms to shoulder tips

Outer elbows in to inner etc

BACK BODY OF THE LEGS FALLS BACK Extend from crease of the buttocks to the crease of the ankle, stretch a line there and, hamstrings and quadriceps holding thigh bone, calve muscles and shin bones, press the 4 wheels of the base of foot and centre heal, FRONT KNEE IN

THE NECK SHOULD BE SOFT AND IN LINE ON THE BACK OF CREASE OF BUTOCK AND ANKLE LINE

C7 above the sacrum  – Press the feet -Ground the pubis- Ground the heart- Ground the ankles

HEAD OF THE STERNUM IN LINE WITH T2, HOOK DOWN AND UP THE UPPER THICK VERTEBRAES OF THE THORACIC, TRAPEZIUIS DOWN AND LIFT THE UPPER CHEST STERNUM

2. UTTHITA HASTA PADASANA

SAMA

Contained but in a wide pose- even pose Symmetrical 2 Rivers flowing away from each other from the source

Open WIDE open hips open shoulders blades down and in trapezius down – HORIZONTAL FRAME

Stable grounded Resistance should be even on both feet eg press evenly both feet

Inner thighs opening

Mind attentive broad horizontal expansive dual focused on Left and Right, East and West North and South

EYES the PELVIS open

Ping the little toe out

ZIP ZIP ZIP

3. UTTHITA PARSVA HASTA PADASANA

PARSVA

Turn to the side- LATERAL POSES

NOT SAMA but has similar characteristics but Asymmetrical so need to do both sides

Mental energy is more than wide PANORAMIC LATERAL

Stretching from left to right etc. One river flows at 90 degrees away from the other

MOBILITY VERSUS STABILITY – RESISTANNCE in the BACK FOOT for mobility of front leg hip

ANCHOR the BACK LEG, DRIVE the FRONT LEG

CRISS CROSS HIPS AND BUTTOCKS, drive the fornt hip to the back hip PIN THE HIPS eg TRIKONASANA

STANDING POSES; STRNGHTEN THE LEGS – STABILIZE THE PELIS which includes the base of the spine

4. UTTHITA PARIVRITTA HASTA PADASANA

REVOLVING

SCISSOR ACTION- TWIST

TWO OPPOSING FORCES Scissor action  RESTISTANCE between the front and back leg

ANCHOR the BACK LEG, DRIVE the FRONT LEG

PATRIPRAKSHAHA two forces flowing into each other 2 Opposing forces

Reference YOGA SUTRAS 2^nd PADA- SADHANA PADA

Beginning of twists action torque at the hip sacrum region to align the spine