Here is a guide to Kriya Yoga Techniques taught during Kriya Initiation. Techniques include Preliminary Life Force Arousal Technique, Kriya Pranayama and Jyoti Mudra.
Your being disrespectful to the lineage of kriya yoga and it's gurus that lived their lives through selfless action come on man gurus are nessesary because people could waste their entire life doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
I have been on a spiritual path for the last 20 years and after a long and often frustrating journey became determined to learn Kriya yoga. I quickly discovered however that finding information on the actual techniques was not easy. As an answer to my prayer I suppose, I found this channel and listened to several of your videos and immediately knew you were exactly what I was looking for. I bought your book Continuing the Lineage and The Eternal Way by Mr. Davis. You have helped me immeasurably and I just wanted you to know how truly grateful I am.
You have given hope to all those who GAVE up hope wanting to practice Kriya yoga but unable to get a teacher or initiation. Your instructions very clear precise and simple to understand. May GOD bless you SIR!
Ryan, As a fallen away 65 year old SRF-er, also somewhat cynical -- I "out-of-the-blue" did a RUclips search for Kriya yoga last October 2018, and finding your videos and your honest demeanor has reignited my meditation practice and lifted my seriousness to a new high. I have had Roy Davis' books at my bedside table and have found your video discussions with him also very inspirational. I honor his passing by messaging you about the help that your involvement in the lineage has provided me.
My experience is very similar Patrick! I was an SRF student around 1980. I left SRF and explored different paths, eventually landing in Shin Buddhism (which I still practice). I found this very video which introduced me to Roy Eugene Davis. I loved his books and a very Buddhistic and practical approach. I wrote to him and he sent my a DVD to consider as my initiation into Kriya, although in a very real way, this RUclips video by Ryan was my Kriya initiation and changed my life! Since Mr Davis's passing Ryan is my primary source for Kriya information and inspiration. I highly recommend Ryan's books as well.
Same here, Patrick. 69 and found Ryan several months ago. Refreshing, honest, knowledgeable, authentic teacher who inspires me to resume the practices. Also appreciated a newer more relaxed, flexible, intuitive, creative addition to the practices and lifestyle rather than a rigid by-the-book dogmatic one.
Thank you! Seeing those words visually, made me understand what I miss if I don't take this practice seriously! As have been said, all tools, you do the work as Creator your own unique way🙏🏻💯💜
Thank you! We indeed don't need to travel far to get the spiritual practice. Some say, the place you live in is the best place for you to rise you consciousness. Your Soul with Higher Beings have choosen this place in very deliberate way. Even if there are obstacles these are the divine steps for the consciousness and for cleansing the Soul.
Excellent. Yes. Keep it simple. I do plan on doing some extended meditation sequences in a few weeks. One will be a short 30 minute sequence using the above mentioned techniques. The other will be longer guided meditation for those interested in going deeper into the practice.
Ryan Kurzcak thank you so much. I loved your video and the way you have explained all the points. Thank you much. I pray that I am sincere in everything I do.
Thanks for the video, I appreciate the detail you go into describing the practices, as that is something that has always hampered me following less in-depth descriptions, wondering whether I am doing them exactly right, or whether there is something I am missing.
Thank you for this instruction on kriya yoga techniques. I just read Yogananda's autobiography and became intrigued about kriya yoga. I appreciate it when clear instructions are given and you did this very well, Ryan. I look forward to incorporating this into my life and trying to achieve a heightened awareness. The autobiography was amazing. I love how the masters and gurus (like Babaji) were appearing all over the place following their deaths. I thought only Jesus had done this.
And the fact that they can dematerialize and rematerialize at will at any number of locations through time is quite remarkable to those of us who know nothing about it.
For about the last 10 months I have been using the HeadSpace guided meditation app. It has helped me calm & quiet my mind - find peace and happiness. But I am beginning to out grow that app - as I’ve grown, the spoken guidance is becoming a distraction rather than the necessary aid it was in the beginning. Now I play quiet meditation back ground music - or nothing - but use the Insight Timer app to time/end my meditation. I greatly enjoyed this helpful video - I feel that I’ve gotten to a place where I can begin learning & practicing Kriya Yoga Meditation. Thank you Ryan 🙏
Namaste. I am deeply grateful for your videos. They are very clear and come from a very pure source, I think many more people would practice Kriya Yoga if it was more accessible, but the teachings seem to be quite obscure, preventing one from fully embracing this path. This is unfortunate because I feel it is ideal for many westerners as it is so systematic and straightforward. I thank you for your seva, for making these sacred techniques more accessible to the sincere seeker.
I decided to learn what kriya yoga is about and watched Corey’s video and KRS mentioning about it too. I got curious when I saw your video popped up. It is amazing process and looks like my journey started. Thank you very much for the video, this is helpful.
Great advice and details. I can't believe all this amazing stuff existed all this time and I never knew about it lol But happy to be here, nonetheless:-)
Thank you Ryan, I have just red Autobiografia di uno Yogi for the first time, thinking why I didn't read before... I will try to walk into this path. I have found an Italian not too far from where I live that has known and initiated by Rev Roy Davis. By the way I am 83 but perhaps it's not too late!🤗😉
extremely helpful...i have not been able to find anyone in cincinnati to initiate me so this is as close as it gets! I have been practicing many different meditations, yogas, and mantra chanting since 2015 so...this is the spark i need!
@@user-fd6tn8kz8m incidentally, I have travelled the country and came to see things that dispelled a lot of my need or desire for someone else to initiate me.
Thanks very much for sharing these "private techniques" from SRF. I did their at home lessons but did not get initiation into kriya yoga because they wanted a contract to only follow their methods where I prefer to take nuggets from multiple sources. Great and simple explanation.
Thank-you Thank-you This is really helpful as I just got initiated to kriya last weekend and I am feeling a bit confused about the sequence.. there was a lot to take in over the weekend and I am fearful that I might give up, I do not want to do that, I want to make this a part of my life as it is such a beautiful meditation practice
This stuff is very instinctual. Like I just now got interested in kriya and it's breathing so this is the first video I'm watching. I've been doing these techniques as a kid, just using energy... the breathing and constricting throat is used when I'm amassing energy. I call it Black Sun Breathing... like this is cool. I wonder how many of the techniques I was taught while meditating as a kid by my inner selves is actually forms of yoga
I just realized I was using the same breathing technique as a teenager to draw in energy from the Earth, then I'd hold it and release it suddenly out my head while visualizing broken/flickering streetlights turning on...and it worked. I'm sure the average person would think I'm nuts but I did it hundreds, if not thousands of times and I know what I experienced. I didn't have any structured way of working with energy so I did what somehow felt natural.
Yes, but you will not find it from among the followers of SRF or disciples of Yoganandaji. You need to search out the householder disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya in India, in particular the few who are authorised to teach it.
Hi, I’m glad I found this channel, so Thank You. Can you tell me why bring the cold energy only up to the third chackra in the beginning? I been looking for information about this currents. I’ve been able to pull the cold current for some years now. When I was initiated I asked the master about this current, first time someone acknowledged this current, and I was told that I needed to bring the energy down... Years later of practice and the downwards current is warm. Yet it is not easy to find information about the movement of this currents. Thanks for this videos. I will make sure to experiment with my practice with currents in the manner you explained.
Namaskaram 🙏🏽thank you for offering these techniques. I am a certified yoga instructor and i would like to add that the root, navel, and throat locks are Bandhas. The throat is more of a pulling back and tucking the chin slightly as if you’re holding a marble between the chin and throat. Also the breathing that you speak of is ujjayi breathing through the nostrils
I agree with Ryan that meditating with an 'organization' is not necessary. I did my initial Kriya training and initiation with Self Realization Fellowship, but there are many paths to Kriya. I don't have a problem with SRF, but after years of meditating alone, I attempted to join a local SRF group and meditate with them once per week. I really did not enjoy the experience - I would rather be a lone Yogi. Also, there are a bewildering array of Kriya techniques out there if you search YT videos. Take 2-3 and stick with them. It becomes way too confusing (at least for me) to do techniques that don't seem to jive with me. I do the basic Hang Sau and Kriya 1 - Kriya 1 being the basic technique that Ryan demos here in the video - inhale (Ha - cool air) to the 6th Chakra, then exhale ('eee' - warm air down to the base chakra). That's it. I don't need to make it more complicated than that - 20 - 30 min 2X per day -sometimes more if I have the time. The practice that works is the one that you do consistently.
This is very random, but time/space isn't really linear anyway. I have been breathing kriya almost 30 years, and am a direct initiate into a kriya lineage that essentially makes me Ryan's spiritual cousin ( one of Yogananadaji's lone wolf students is my paramguru). I have not even bothered to google the world of Kriya outside of my own life until last week, and have been pleasantly surprised by how much the digital world has changed things. Albeit perhaps adding layers of confusion. But I am here to attest that what you describe ( and Ryan is teaching here) is what I was taught; these are the basics. Lovely, and true. I will add that I do use the mantra that can accompany kriya proper, and also, over the years I have taken to breathing kriya with my mouth closed. I was given the green light by the lineage to do so about six years ago. I have read that Yogananada was originally taught to breathe kriya with a closed mouth, but thought westerners would benefit from an open mouth technique as it reinforces the susumanic tube or tunnel ( ida) on a gross level, but who knows? Maybe some of his western sudents were unable to nostril breathe all the time? I have found this to be rather arbitrary, and have done both open and closed mouth inhalations depending on the moment at hand. Also arbitrary in my experience is the use of the mantra vs. aaa-eeee. Many blessings from one lone- wolf kriyaban to another.
I tend to get headaches after doing these exercises daily for a while, which I feel very sad about because other than that I love the soothing feeling in my spine. At the moment how I solve this problem is by attaching an inner chi-gong practice afterwards ( which is breathing up my back through my spine and exhaling down my front body and collecting my chi in my abdomen afterwards) which currently the only solution that elevates the headaches for me. I just wonder if anybody else experiences headaches after spinal breathing Kriya yoga and if there are some other specific Kriya Yoga explanations or/and solutions for this issue. Lots of love. keep up the good work Ryan
kriya-yoga.teachable.com/p/introduction-to-kriya-yoga-meditation-for-spiritual-growth
You are welcome. Practice every day, and then let your Self be your guru! You are the infinite spirit always. Live and meditate with that knowledge.
Excellent experience
Dear Ryan I have physical problem like back ache and piles ....I need your guidance how can I sit for longer and do also kriyas
@@hemzit2026 Hi there, you can either sit in a chair or do/learn some hatha yoga asanas/stretching which will strengthen/loosen your back
Thank you Ryan. Bless you.
Your being disrespectful to the lineage of kriya yoga and it's gurus that lived their lives through selfless action come on man gurus are nessesary because people could waste their entire life doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
I have been on a spiritual path for the last 20 years and after a long and often frustrating journey became determined to learn Kriya yoga. I quickly discovered however that finding information on the actual techniques was not easy. As an answer to my prayer I suppose, I found this channel and listened to several of your videos and immediately knew you were exactly what I was looking for. I bought your book Continuing the Lineage and The Eternal Way by Mr. Davis. You have helped me immeasurably and I just wanted you to know how truly grateful I am.
Good. Stay with it.
Plz maam give me this technique...
@@silence1739 the techniques are in the video
Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏❤❤
You have given hope to all those who GAVE up hope wanting to practice Kriya yoga but unable to get a teacher or initiation. Your instructions very clear precise and simple to understand. May GOD bless you SIR!
There are options. Om. Peace.
Ryan,
As a fallen away 65 year old SRF-er, also somewhat cynical -- I "out-of-the-blue" did a RUclips search for Kriya yoga last October 2018, and finding your videos and your honest demeanor has reignited my meditation practice and lifted my seriousness to a new high. I have had Roy Davis' books at my bedside table and have found your video discussions with him also very inspirational. I honor his passing by messaging you about the help that your involvement in the lineage has provided me.
I am 50 😊
That makes me smile.
My experience is very similar Patrick! I was an SRF student around 1980. I left SRF and explored different paths, eventually landing in Shin Buddhism (which I still practice). I found this very video which introduced me to Roy Eugene Davis. I loved his books and a very Buddhistic and practical approach. I wrote to him and he sent my a DVD to consider as my initiation into Kriya, although in a very real way, this RUclips video by Ryan was my Kriya initiation and changed my life! Since Mr Davis's passing Ryan is my primary source for Kriya information and inspiration. I highly recommend Ryan's books as well.
@@spidergoalie33 I do have Ryan's books. Thank you.
Same here, Patrick. 69 and found Ryan several months ago. Refreshing, honest, knowledgeable, authentic teacher who inspires me to resume the practices. Also appreciated a newer more relaxed, flexible, intuitive, creative addition to the practices and lifestyle rather than a rigid by-the-book dogmatic one.
life force arousal 2:21
Mahamudra 5:03
Kriya Pranayama 7:50
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Thank you! Seeing those words visually, made me understand what I miss if I don't take this practice seriously! As have been said, all tools, you do the work as Creator your own unique way🙏🏻💯💜
Mi sapresti dare un consiglio, io quando cerco di tirare su la corrente inspirando dal primo chakra a salire tiro in dentro l addome va bene?
thank you for generosity .. you are a gifted teacher .. your videos will help many sentient beings ...
Thank you! We indeed don't need to travel far to get the spiritual practice. Some say, the place you live in is the best place for you to rise you consciousness. Your Soul with Higher Beings have choosen this place in very deliberate way. Even if there are obstacles these are the divine steps for the consciousness and for cleansing the Soul.
Great video, thank you for your positive energy.
Blessings and Love,
Dashama
om
That sounds great I will look forward to that Thank you
Excellent. Yes. Keep it simple. I do plan on doing some extended meditation sequences in a few weeks. One will be a short 30 minute sequence using the above mentioned techniques. The other will be longer guided meditation for those interested in going deeper into the practice.
Ryan Kurzcak thank you so much. I loved your video and the way you have explained all the points. Thank you much. I pray that I am sincere in everything I do.
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Thanks for the video, I appreciate the detail you go into describing the practices, as that is something that has always hampered me following less in-depth descriptions, wondering whether I am doing them exactly right, or whether there is something I am missing.
Thank you! You are awesome for putting this out there. I will check out more of your videos! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
thx
I cant thank you enough im so grateful for these leasons.
You are welcome.
Thank you for this!
Thank you, you speak and explain the kriyas very clearly and patiently, it's almost therapeutic to hear your advice.
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Thank you so very much. This has helped me understand the Kriya breathing.
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You don't know how thankful I am..lots of gratitude brother
So nice
Love the picture of your Guru in the background. I'm reading his book atm and it's changing my life.
Wonderful!
Thank you so much.🙏 I was searching for it desperately and I came across your video
You are welcome!
I am learning Kriya yoga through you slowly . Thank you so much!
You got this!
Thank you for putting this out online. Namaste
YW
I just wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart for teaching the kriyas.I know its very secret and no one teaches it.God bless you
You are most welcome
thank you Ryan! Blessings!
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Today I started Kriya yog study. Thank you for your guidance, support and help. Jai Gurudev🙏
And how is it 1 year later?
Thank you for this instruction on kriya yoga techniques. I just read Yogananda's autobiography and became intrigued about kriya yoga. I appreciate it when clear instructions are given and you did this very well, Ryan. I look forward to incorporating this into my life and trying to achieve a heightened awareness. The autobiography was amazing. I love how the masters and gurus (like Babaji) were appearing all over the place following their deaths. I thought only Jesus had done this.
How did it go?
And the fact that they can dematerialize and rematerialize at will at any number of locations through time is quite remarkable to those of us who know nothing about it.
Infinite thanks and gratitude for this video! You explained it very well, I truly can't thank you enough. Much love to you
This is NOT the authentic Kriya!!!
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oh no!
Absolutely serene and calm. ...Jai Guru jai....Thanks Ryan....Love and blessings from India....
Thank you.
YOU SIR ARE ABOVE WORDS, AND PRAISES, REALITY OF DEVINITY, GREAT TRUTHFUL, TOP WORLD SPIRITUAL MASTER , I THANK YOU AND DEVINITY AROUND 🌷🌷
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For about the last 10 months I have been using the HeadSpace guided meditation app. It has helped me calm & quiet my mind - find peace and happiness. But I am beginning to out grow that app - as I’ve grown, the spoken guidance is becoming a distraction rather than the necessary aid it was in the beginning. Now I play quiet meditation back ground music - or nothing - but use the Insight Timer app to time/end my meditation. I greatly enjoyed this helpful video - I feel that I’ve gotten to a place where I can begin learning & practicing Kriya Yoga Meditation. Thank you Ryan 🙏
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Great video! Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
I really appreciate the quality of instruction with this video thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the very welcoming, informed teaching!
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Namaste. I am deeply grateful for your videos. They are very clear and come from a very pure source, I think many more people would practice Kriya Yoga if it was more accessible, but the teachings seem to be quite obscure, preventing one from fully embracing this path. This is unfortunate because I feel it is ideal for many westerners as it is so systematic and straightforward. I thank you for your seva, for making these sacred techniques more accessible to the sincere seeker.
Om.
You are so young!! You are a young, realized soul. Many people are old and never have spirituality.
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I decided to learn what kriya yoga is about and watched Corey’s video and KRS mentioning about it too. I got curious when I saw your video popped up. It is amazing process and looks like my journey started. Thank you very much for the video, this is helpful.
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you so much and i consider as your my guru
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NEVER EVER SEEN TRUTHFUL SPIRITUAL TEACHER AS YOURSELF SIR, MORE THAN YOGANANDA I FEEL ❤
Om.
Thank you this is amazing.
Walking the way to Self-realization.
atman = brahman.
Thank you brother you’re helping me on my journey
om
Thank you so much. I began SRF Lessons last month, you made it feel just beautiful.
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Pranam guruji
Hi. I had just started to research kriya yoga after reading Yogananda's book. Thanks for the content. Very informative.
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Thank you for these videos Ryan life changing for me
Glad to hear it
I like this...! Great teacher!
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thank you for this. deeply appreciated OM
You're very welcome
Salutations to Angel Soul Ryan,
Your teaching is very simple to understand and helpful.
Grateful thank you. :)
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Thank you so much! Found this when I was ready ❤
Wonderful!
WOWOWOW... Must read the book. Thank you
Hope you like it!
Wonderful ! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you too!
Thank you very much for teaching us about kriya yoga ,found a Yoga teacher after a long time .
Wonderful!
Thank you very much. You were very clear in explanation. 🙏🙏🙏
Welcome 😊
Hello Ryan,
I purchased your book Kriya Yoga Vichara: kindle version, Friday. It is very well written.
Thank you very much!
Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🙏🙏🌸🧡
You are so welcome
AUM. Amen. I am. Lovely thank you for being gentle and not mental x
Om.
Om.
Great advice and details. I can't believe all this amazing stuff existed all this time and I never knew about it lol But happy to be here, nonetheless:-)
Happy new year!
Thanks Ryan. Very useful and helpful!
Very welcome!
Thank you very much!
Om.
Thank you Ryan, I have just red Autobiografia di uno Yogi for the first time, thinking why I didn't read before... I will try to walk into this path. I have found an Italian not too far from where I live that has known and initiated by Rev Roy Davis. By the way I am 83 but perhaps it's not too late!🤗😉
Om
I am so thankful to you
om
I have been practising kroya yoga since 6 months.. it helped me to cure deepression
good
Thank you Ryan!
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extremely helpful...i have not been able to find anyone in cincinnati to initiate me so this is as close as it gets! I have been practicing many different meditations, yogas, and mantra chanting since 2015 so...this is the spark i need!
Glad it was helpful! Feel free to stay tuned for any of our retreats. kriyayogaonline.com/kriya-yoga-events/
Well then go outside of Cincinnati
@@user-fd6tn8kz8m incidentally, I have travelled the country and came to see things that dispelled a lot of my need or desire for someone else to initiate me.
I love you. Thank you.
om
Thanks very much for sharing these "private techniques" from SRF. I did their at home lessons but did not get initiation into kriya yoga because they wanted a contract to only follow their methods where I prefer to take nuggets from multiple sources. Great and simple explanation.
See the video coming out March 9 2021
@@KriyaYogaOnline did this video ever come out?
Thank you very much 🙏🏽💕🕉
Any time!
thank you deeply
Thanks Ryan u r very true
Thank You.
Thank you! Peace & Love )))
Om.
Thank you so much !!!!!!
om
Very nice video. Thank you.
Thank you too
Thank-you Thank-you This is really helpful as I just got initiated to kriya last weekend and I am feeling a bit confused about the sequence.. there was a lot to take in over the weekend and I am fearful that I might give up, I do not want to do that, I want to make this a part of my life as it is such a beautiful meditation practice
Check in with the teacher that initiated you for support.
Thank you very much ❣️
You’re welcome 😊
This stuff is very instinctual. Like I just now got interested in kriya and it's breathing so this is the first video I'm watching. I've been doing these techniques as a kid, just using energy... the breathing and constricting throat is used when I'm amassing energy. I call it Black Sun Breathing... like this is cool.
I wonder how many of the techniques I was taught while meditating as a kid by my inner selves is actually forms of yoga
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I just realized I was using the same breathing technique as a teenager to draw in energy from the Earth, then I'd hold it and release it suddenly out my head while visualizing broken/flickering streetlights turning on...and it worked. I'm sure the average person would think I'm nuts but I did it hundreds, if not thousands of times and I know what I experienced. I didn't have any structured way of working with energy so I did what somehow felt natural.
@@allanshpeley4284 it’s very much a thing… we have powers…
Thank you!!!
om
Awesome. :)
I Do kriya yoga six months ago hare Krishna 🙏🙏💐💐
Wonderful
Thank you!
You bet!
Thank you, Ryan.
Welcome!
Thank you❤️❤️
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Superb explanation 🙏🙏
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Thank You !!!
You bet!
very informative for those who know nothing of this like me., Thank you
very misleading
I'm glad.
Om.
Thank you ! Please explain pulling up the current
Watch the video.
I hear that the one taught by Lahiri Mahasaya is still authentic in it's form.
Yes, but you will not find it from among the followers of SRF or disciples of Yoganandaji. You need to search out the householder disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya in India, in particular the few who are authorised to teach it.
@@sadaavedan Go on...
Rangin Mukherjee from L.M's lineage put out a book series 'original kriya yoga' . Its available for free on the z library website;)
That's what they say
@@chadlyblomme thank you so much!
Om Shanti....
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Hi, I’m glad I found this channel, so Thank You.
Can you tell me why bring the cold energy only up to the third chackra in the beginning?
I been looking for information about this currents. I’ve been able to pull the cold current for some years now. When I was initiated I asked the master about this current, first time someone acknowledged this current, and I was told that I needed to bring the energy down... Years later of practice and the downwards current is warm. Yet it is not easy to find information about the movement of this currents.
Thanks for this videos. I will make sure to experiment with my practice with currents in the manner you explained.
Doing is more important
Thank you so nice
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Thankyou 🙏
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Namaskaram 🙏🏽thank you for offering these techniques. I am a certified yoga instructor and i would like to add that the root, navel, and throat locks are Bandhas. The throat is more of a pulling back and tucking the chin slightly as if you’re holding a marble between the chin and throat. Also the breathing that you speak of is ujjayi breathing through the nostrils
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you 🕉💚🙏
Welcome!
Thank you 😊🙏🙏🙏
om
I agree with Ryan that meditating with an 'organization' is not necessary. I did my initial Kriya training and initiation with Self Realization Fellowship, but there are many paths to Kriya. I don't have a problem with SRF, but after years of meditating alone, I attempted to join a local SRF group and meditate with them once per week. I really did not enjoy the experience - I would rather be a lone Yogi. Also, there are a bewildering array of Kriya techniques out there if you search YT videos. Take 2-3 and stick with them. It becomes way too confusing (at least for me) to do techniques that don't seem to jive with me. I do the basic Hang Sau and Kriya 1 - Kriya 1 being the basic technique that Ryan demos here in the video - inhale (Ha - cool air) to the 6th Chakra, then exhale ('eee' - warm air down to the base chakra). That's it. I don't need to make it more complicated than that - 20 - 30 min 2X per day -sometimes more if I have the time. The practice that works is the one that you do consistently.
indeed
This is very random, but time/space isn't really linear anyway. I have been breathing kriya almost 30 years, and am a direct initiate into a kriya lineage that essentially makes me Ryan's spiritual cousin ( one of Yogananadaji's lone wolf students is my paramguru). I have not even bothered to google the world of Kriya outside of my own life until last week, and have been pleasantly surprised by how much the digital world has changed things. Albeit perhaps adding layers of confusion. But I am here to attest that what you describe ( and Ryan is teaching here) is what I was taught; these are the basics. Lovely, and true.
I will add that I do use the mantra that can accompany kriya proper, and also, over the years I have taken to breathing kriya with my mouth closed. I was given the green light by the lineage to do so about six years ago. I have read that Yogananada was originally taught to breathe kriya with a closed mouth, but thought westerners would benefit from an open mouth technique as it reinforces the susumanic tube or tunnel ( ida) on a gross level, but who knows? Maybe some of his western sudents were unable to nostril breathe all the time? I have found this to be rather arbitrary, and have done both open and closed mouth inhalations depending on the moment at hand. Also arbitrary in my experience is the use of the mantra vs. aaa-eeee. Many blessings from one lone- wolf kriyaban to another.
His energy shows up on his videos. You can see the distortions in the air.
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I became Kriya Bond in 1973. Your instructions are legit. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
thx
I tend to get headaches after doing these exercises daily for a while, which I feel very sad about because other than that I love the soothing feeling in my spine. At the moment how I solve this problem is by attaching an inner chi-gong practice afterwards ( which is breathing up my back through my spine and exhaling down my front body and collecting my chi in my abdomen afterwards) which currently the only solution that elevates the headaches for me. I just wonder if anybody else experiences headaches after spinal breathing Kriya yoga and if there are some other specific Kriya Yoga explanations or/and solutions for this issue. Lots of love. keep up the good work Ryan
Working with a bodyworker to help the core relax yet get stronger can help
or do chanting through the chakras for a few years first.
Thank you.. 🙏
Welcome!!
So true.🙏🙌
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