A wonderful tool if you're clearing your Third eye

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I wanted to share this book with the community that I just finished. The title is Opening the Eye of Heaven. It’s by Dr. Baolin Wu and has a great set of extra prana/qi practices that can help clear Ajni without imbalance. What is wonderful to see in it is that at the end of the book it includes spinal breathing as one of the main practices to include with the additional exercises.

In my personal practice, I found this to make an immediate change and rapidly clear quite a few stray energetic issues within my third eye and I’ve been able to easily include it as part of the asana set leading up to the final spinal breathing and pranayama of an AYP practice.

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Hello jzatopa

Just to make it clear that in ayp we don’t work on chakras…not individual chakras like you mentioned ajna in the book you shared nor in group of chakras……in ayp we forget the chakras cause it is all under the hood with ayp efficient practices

The process is then safe and sound …and efficient

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While the Asana, pranayama mantra set covers all the chakras, we regularly do focus on chakras as needed for energetic clearings. Bastrika breath, specifically target bastrika breath, is very valuable for this. Cosmic samyama, lessons like 189 and so on all interact on this topic in different ways.

When you complete the process and are expanding into the further ways of living, this becomes more important to know. If you just started or aren’t quite experienced yet, the over focus on a single chakra can be a sadhana but the over all practice is better. Later on, you may find that you are called to do specific practice through the work. Personally as a teacher, this book is very useful but if you’re wanting only the beginner set of AYP, and aren’t using it as the DIY kit it is (meaning an entry point to the umbrella of tantra and yoga) what you mention might be best for you.

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Hi Jzatopa, Maha and all,

The core AYP practices of Deep Meditation and Spinal Breathing are both global purification practices, focussing on purifying the sushumna nadi and the first 6 major chakras in the subtle nervous system. Samyama also purifies the body in a balanced way, as do the AYP asana sequences which focus on purifying the first major six chakras.

Cosmic Samyama practice works in a similar way to this, working equally on all seven of the major chakras. The mudras and bandhas also work on purifying the central channel, allowing chakras to open and activate in the order that is right for each individual.

This is important, because we do not know which chakra should be activated in which order for any given individual. It could be anything, and will depend on that individual’s unique matrix of obstructions. Activating chakras in the wrong order can be harmful, and lead to an unbalanced state.

The practice of targeted spinal bhastrika is a practice that can be used by advanced practitioners for dealing with specific blockages in the subtle nervous system. Even then it should be used in a measured way, and only once certain pre-requisites have been met:

Now we are going to consider additional applications of bastrika as a discretionary targeted tool. Why?

Sometimes we may run into a really stubborn obstruction somewhere in the body, and with focused bastrika we can put a lot of pressure in a localized area and literally burn the karma away. It is like using laser surgery in a small area of the body. This is in great contrast to the “global” methods of meditation and spinal breathing we use as our core practices.

It is important that we have met the yoga practice and health-related prerequisites for spinal bastrika before we add targeted bastrika. This cannot be over-emphasized. Targeted bastrika is not a shortcut to enlightenment. In fact, it could land us in substantial discomfort if applied prematurely. If we are new to yoga, and try targeted bastrika without the prerequisite global cleansing provided by meditation and spinal breathing, we could create an unpleasant energy imbalance in our nervous system. [Yogani]

If people are mixing AYP practices with spiritual practices from other traditions and other schools of yoga, then it is basically their own experiment and we are not able to predict the long term results of that. See here for more on experimenting with mixing practices between systems:

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