Continuing the personal transformation
Now that you’ve left Island Yoga for home or further travels, we know it can be sometimes be difficult to maintain a regular yoga schedule. The purpose of Pearls of Wisdom is to help you create a personalized take home yoga and spiritual awakening practice that allows you to consciously evolve far beyond this retreat experience. This document does not address asana yoga practices as these are readily available to most students. Instead we focus on the more esoteric themes such as Meditation, Tai Chi, Pranayama, Mantra, Chanting & Music.
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How your brain is wired from childhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQ9BeI5ibM
Defining clear Intention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1yPCLJ6_s
How your thoughts are connected to your future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5reo3dXOicU&t=3s
Everyone must know this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDShGBA-p7k
Stress is killing you…This is how…and what you can do about it..
Continuing the personal transformation
Now that you’ve left Island Yoga for home or further travels, we know it can be sometimes be difficult to maintain a regular yoga schedule. The purpose of Pearls of Wisdom is to help you create a personalized take home yoga and spiritual awakening practice that allows you to consciously evolve far beyond this retreat experience. This document does not address asana yoga practices as these are readily available to most students. Instead we focus on the more esoteric themes such as Meditation, Tai Chi, Pranayama, Mantra, Chanting & Music.
1. Choose a Time
Commit to a regular time each day for your practice. This may be the most important discipline because maintaining a daily practice allows you to stay connected to the Divine aspect of yourself.
2. Pick a Space
Create a sacred space within your home. This is your temple. Keep it spotless and adorn it with sacred objects of your own choosing.
3. Rise Early!
Rising with the dawn is a great time for Tai Chi, Yoga & Meditation. Morning practice expands your mind, raises your vibration and opens you to the unlimited potentials which each day brings.
4. Be Creative
Create a “Yoga fusion” from the practices of asana, Tai Chi, pranayama, mantra and meditation. If you stay inventive, you will stay interested!
5. Energy Flows Where Attention Goes
Be sure to always direct your attention and intentions towards the positive aspects in life!
Meditation
Meditation is at the heart of spiritual practice. It is the journey of going beyond the mental constructs of the mind in order to access to the wisdom of our soul. The silent realm that lies beyond mental chatter is the abode of our spirit/soul nature or higher intelligence.
Meditation Resources
Most Powerful Yoga Breathing Meditation Exercise
Sodarshan Chakra Kriya from the Kundalini tradition is one of the most powerful breathing meditations using the mantra “Wa Hey Guru. It is the simplest kriya, but at the same time the hardest. It cuts through all barriers of the neurotic or psychotic inside-nature and is truly transformational. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvtx62lUho0
Tai Chi Resources
I like to think of Tai Chi as Oriental Yoga and as such, it is a practice that allows you to get in touch with and to develop your bio magnetic energy fields. Used principally as a means to gain increased health and vitality, the form also quickly becomes an exquisitely graceful moving meditation which is best practiced early morning.
As well as the health benefits of Tai Chi, many practitioners are also drawn into the healing arts; Japanese Reiki and Sei Ki are just 2 examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJy0EDoYK0&t=137s 8 Brocade Qi Gong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6PjN55Lb4 Yang style Tai Chi 24 routine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2DXdFYDXCk Energy Bubble Demonstration
The Most Common & Popular Breathing Exercises
Ujjayi breathing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwEdfOuhoY4
Bhasrika (bellows breathing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZE5ctNBaY
Kapalabhati
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UURgA8Rf7E
In this video Michaël will guide you step by step through this wonderful breathing practice of Kapalbhati or Shining Skull Pranayama. It has a great number of benefits for mind and body. Only do this on empty stomach ( 3 hrs after eating at least) Don´t do this if you suffer from heart problems.
Bhramari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GepGmj5sTjs
Bhramari (Bee Breath) is a very effective pranayama (breathing exercise) for meditation. Performing this breathing exercise helps to induce a calming effect on the mind almost immediately. Practicing Bhramari pranayama benefits in reducing high blood pressure, fatigue, and mental stress.
Nadi Shodhana alternate nostril breathing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11qFpRqhIQ
Nadis are subtle energy channels in the human body that can get blocked due to several reasons. The Nadi Shodhana Pranayama is a breathing technique that helps clear and purify these blocked energy channels, thus allowing the life-force (prana) to flow freely. Clearing mental clutter and calming the mind, this practice also lowers one’s heart rate and helps harmonise the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Kumbhaka ( breath retention)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgdwixtsFvU
Bandha Locks- there are 3 main locks that act as “seals” to retain the prana/chi within the torso:
Jalandhara (throat lock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynz3fZW203k
Uddiyana (abdominal lock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYWF9L8eww
Mula Bandha (anal/root lock) lock).
The Most Common & Popular Breathing Exercises
Manas stands for mind and trayate is a verb that means to liberate or set free. Thus the complete meaning would be “that which liberates the mind from material captivity” All the artists below are masters in the use of mantra through the medium of sacred chanting.
Deva Premal
Deva Premal Albums: Embrace, Love Is Space, Moolamantra, The Essence, Soul In Wonder
Krishna Das
- Krishna Das can be regarded as the western Godfather of devotional Indian chants. He has performed with some of the world’s top musicians and has an impressive catalogue of cd’s to his name.
- A premier selection would be: Flow Of Grace, All One, One Track Heart
Snatam Kaur
- Snatam Kaur Khalsa is another recommended chant artist performing Indian devotional music and touring the world as a peace activist.
- Recommended CD: Shanti
Steve Gold
Steve Gold is a singer, musician, and songwriter whose contemplative music has become a mainstay in the global yoga culture
Recommended Album So Much Magnificence
Spiritual Literature: My top 5 spiritual books would be;
Deepak Chopra 7 Spiritual Laws of Yoga
Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now
David Hawkins Power vs Force
Stuart Wilde Infinite Self
Gary Zukav Seat of the Soul
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