Sentences with word «sushumna»

When awakened, it rises through a central energy channel called sushumna nadi, pierces and purifies each of the chakras or energy centers on its way until it reaches the sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head where it explodes into a thousand petalled lotus of radiant light.

Classical Hatha Yoga focuses on shifting the Sun and Moon Energy by use of physical asanas into the core, where it can flow into Sushumna Nadi (channel) thereby rousing the Kundalini Energy.

This initiates the practice of establishing sushumna breathing.

The practice of Pranayama is geared towards purifying the Nadis — all the nerve patterns, so that the Prana can ultimately pass through the central channel of Sushumna, and then awaken the practitioner to his / her true identity — which is beyond name and form.

Andrea Jensen: I studied at Sushumna Yoga School in Goa, India, specializing in Vinyasa Flow and Ashtanga, with additional training in Restorative and Hatha.

I studied at Sushumna Yoga School in Goa, India, specializing in Vinyasa Flow and Ashtanga, with additional training in Restorative and Hatha.

Both nadi shodhanam and sushumna breathing can have far - reaching effects, coordinating the two great modes of energy within the body / mind and focusing the attention on the central stream of the breath.

When either ida or pingala reigns, we engage with the world, but during the short periods when they flow equally, sushumna draws awareness inward, creating a quiet inner joy.

With attention anchored in sushumna, a feeling of deep joy illumines the mind.

Ida, as it is known, ends in the left nostril, pingala terminates in the right, and sushumna ends at the base of the nose between the two nostrils.

In fact, some yoga teachings hold that as long as either ida or pingala predominates, sushumna stays closed and the power of kundalini lies dormant.

If you visualize the caduceus, the symbol of modern medicine, you'll get a rough idea of the relationships among the ida, pingala, and sushumna nadis.

Ideally, upon establishing sushumna, the two nostrils will follow the lead of the mind and begin to flow equally, but this often proves difficult to achieve in practice.

Pingala, the solar nadi, begins and ends to the right of sushumna.

That is why it is essential to purify and open the Sushumna Nadi, before awakening the Kundalini.

When the serpent like power un-coils, it straightens up and tries to enter the base of the central channel or Sushumna.

Once the awakening has happened, the energy has to be taken up the spine along the central channel or Sushumna.

Ida Nadi (left channel along the spine) and the Pingala Nadi (Right Channel along the spine) are activated and finally the central meridian or Sushumna is purified and opened up.

Using verses from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika we discuss the theory of awakening the dormant kundalini and how it flows upwards through the sushumna nadi.

Ujjayi means «victoriously uprising» which refers to the upward movement of pranic energy through the central channel running along the front of the spine known as the sushumna nadi.

In between these Nadis, there is a Sushumna Nadi belonging to the «central channel».

The central channel is called the Sushumna and is known as the fire, the seat of knowledge.

Hatha yogis believed that in most people, the sushumna was «blocked» so to speak, with no vital force flowing through it.

The vital life force then stops circulating throughout the body and is redirected into the main energy channel called the sushumna, within which the chakra system resides.

When the energies of the right and left channels, HA and THA, are united and brought together into the Sushumna, the doors of divine perception open, allowing the prana to flow in a way that facilitates spiritual awakening to the practitioner, leaving him with absolute bliss and infinite peace.

When the middle channel (Sushumna) becomes the main pathway for Prana it is said that the mind becomes free from all the connections with its objects of enjoyment which results in complete awareness of the self, or self - realization.

Ida, Pingala and Sushumna.

Even though this is the last chakra up the sushumna, its hardly an ending.

Adepts have called this process «establishing sushumna.»

No, especially if you remember that establishing sushumna has as much to do with the ability to remain focused on the sensation of breath as it does with actual changes in nostril dominance.

Like the eye of a hurricane, sushumna — the channel of energy flowing along the core of the spine — is said to be unaffected by the powerful energies of ida and pingala swirling around it.

In subtle body terms, the sushumna nadi is the path to enlightenment.

The ida (comfort) and pingala (tawny) nadis spiral around the sushumna nadi like the double helix of our DNA, crossing each other at every chakra.

The ida nadi begins and ends on the left side of sushumna.

The sushumna (most gracious) nadi is the body's great river, running from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, passing through each of the seven chakras in its course.