This week’s class is focussed on pranic balance with a wonderful kriya for balancing the pranic overall health in the body. Prana is the ultimate life force and affects your wellbeing and emotional balance in every way. Huge self healing!

Warm greetings to you!

Let’s get straight into it.. so what exactly is prana?

” Prana is the basic life force of consciousness in the air we breathe and the food we eat, assimilated effortlessly, and Kundalini yoga practice enhances its absorption.

Apana is the eliminating energy stored in the lower chakras. When it is raised and united with Prana (by breath retention & body contractions or locks), psychic heat is generated which raises Kundalini through the chakras.”
Pranayam: is the science of breath ~ consciously controlling the  movement of Prana through the use of specific breath signatures/styles/techniques.

The breath is both gross and subtle: The gross part is the blend of oxygen, nitrogen and many other elements that are found within air. The subtle part is the prana, also called life force, vital force, Chi, and other labels .. it basically is the essence that gives us, & everything on the planet: LIFE!!  .. it energises the mind, body, consciousness, existence itself!

Yogically we are aware of the gift of the breath also in this way: within it is the conscious and unconscious connection. The breath happens naturally, unconsciously .. since birth, every day, every night. And YET! When we become conscious of this usually unconscious breathing, we, at the same time, become more conscious about life, thoughts, habits, that so far have been unconscious. It is like a bridge, and a union also!

The breath is both ‘mine’ and ‘not mine’. Automatic and conscious.

As Yogi Bhajan would say: “The breath shares the nature of both the earthly and heavenly views of things. The breath and the world interact to create the matrix of our life and consciousness. Breath and the world are intimately intertwined.” 

Throughout the ages the sages have told us:

“To ascend to the heavens (this is a metaphor), to become subtle in our perception, and in command of the creation of our destiny (conscious and present), we must first cultivate the breath and then value each word we speak aloud or mentally. 

The easiest way to achieve this is to practise breath awareness and to direct it consciously.
This will then lead to command of the words and emotions.
Then we can create a subtle stillness in the prana of the mind, which opens our senstitivity to the world, which shapes the greater play of life and consciousness. ”

Balancing prana and apana creates:

• greater health and vitality
• controlling and awareness of moods
• developing deeper  concentration
• a feeling of connectedness, peace
• balancing emotion
• increasing range of creative expression
• overall integration and processing is improved