opposite flow

[vishnu]

Hi all good looking One, I am new on this forum. Regarding the spinal breathing I feel quiet comfortable with Yogani's technique and he works wonder, after all it's a free world do what you feel good and happy.
The Guru is in you.
Vishnu

[Shanti]

Welcome to the forum Vishnu.
-Shanti.

[Richard]

Hi there

great to see more from the UK posting here welcome to the forum Vishnu

RICHARD

[weaver]

Hi Vishnu,

Welcome to the forum, and it's good to hear that spinal breathing is working well for you.

[Etherfish]

BluesFan wrote:
"Intuitively, going up the spine on the in-breath makes more sense to me."

I think that's because of the way we learned it, and the muscular movement seems to favor that direction. But some people who do it the other way imagine prana entering the nose and travelling down the spine and gathering at the bottom to nourish the kundalini. Then they think of driving out impurities on exhalation through the nose. So the opposite to ours would seem intuitive using that scenario.

[riptiz]

Dear Ether,
In KMY we simply visualise the energy coming into the crown and travelling to the root chakra down the spine on the inbreath. Slight hold and reverse the process.Nothing more, nothing less.
L&L
Dave

'the mind can see further than the eyes'

[alan]

That basically describes my spinal breathing practice[]

[Manipura]

In respone to Ether's post, I tried inhaling down the spine and nourishing shakti, then exhaling up the spine, releasing impurities.  After a short time it felt very natural, and I can understand why it might be done that way.  I'll stick to the AYP method, as I find it very effective, and don't care to jump ship.  Whatever gives the best results, I say.

[alan]

Hi Meg, thank you for your experiment, I think I'll try the other way to compare. I agree "Whatever gives the best results"

 When my spinal breathing takes my awareness to deep stillness there is no up, down, in or out. So I wonder really, what is the difference?

[Shanti]

quote:Alan Said: When my spinal breathing takes my awareness to deep stillness there is no up, down, in or out. So I wonder really, what is the difference?

Ummm Alan.. just one thing .. we don't meditate during spinal breathing.. so if your spinal breathing is taking your awareness to deep silence.. that is awesome.. but when you say "there is no up, down".. that worries me.. once we realize we are off our spinal breathing.. we go back to it.. doesn't matter whether you start moving your awareness from down to up.. or up to down.. you still need to go back to spinal breathing..

Check Lesson# 43 http://www.aypsite.com/plus/43.html
 

quote:
It will happen sometimes that we will find ourselves doing pranayama during meditation, or vise versa. When this happens, we just easily
go back to the practice we are supposed to be doing at that time. We
should not attempt to do both at once. Both rely on the simplicity of
attention, i.e., easily favoring the mantra in meditation, or easily
favoring spinal breathing in pranayama. If we try and favor both
procedures at once, we divide the attention and this detracts from
both practices. So, first we do pranayama, and then we do meditation.
This is the formula for maximum effect.

[alan]

Hi Shanti. Yes I automatically come back to spinal breathing. I know when I'm doing it correctly the awareness is there and the energy is flowing. But even in the midst of that the thought of up and down etc. kind of gets lost. Thanks for clarifying the difference[]

[Shanti]

Thats great Alan.. I had a feeling you knew about this already.. just wanted to make sure. Enjoy[]