Hi Christi,
In my experience i started out DM with a different mantra last year and the effect was not the same as AYAM. I fell off the wagon and discontinued my practices. This year i wanted to try something different and picked up AYAM mantra. It has been 4 months since then and it is amazing. I changed a lot. My bhakti keeps growing and growing. My diet changed. I became more centered. Even then I felt something was missing from my practice. I read one of your posts that without love and heart the experience is not good. That rang a bell and I added Solar centering. That was the missing piece. I felt much better after that. I feel DM should be done with Solar centering only. My ecstatic experiences keep growing but still i crave for self-realization. I am not sure when i will get there but i feel that is the only worth while goal in life. Anyways i digress my point is that no doubt AYAM mantra has its magic and i think it is because it vibrates the sushumna nadi like yogani says. Like he says the proof is in the pudding and my own experience speaks for it. Thanks to Yogani for changing so many lives. I can’t thank him enough for changing mine for the better. Like all saints say even if you can change one soul than there is nothing like it. The reason for my earlier post was that since it is mentioned as sanskrit mantra just wanted to clarify the pronunciation. Personally i don’t care about the pronunciation as I can experience what all yogani wrote for the techniques i practiced so far. I look forward to meeting you in the NYC retreat next year.
Thank you,
Ram
Hi Shivdev,
Some people use the Solar Centering Enhancement and others don’t. It is mostly advised for people who have been using DM for a while, but find that they are getting stuck in thought processes. Locating the mantra in the solar plexus can help to reduce that tendency. The advantage with not using it, is that the mantra remains free to move around the body, purifying different areas according to what is needed. So there are pro’s and con’s to using/ not using the technique. Personally I don’t use it, but prefer to allow the mantra to move freely.
Looking forward to meeting you next year in the USA!
Christi
Hi Christi,
Sorry about my late response. For me i have too much energy in my head and that is the reason for me using solar centering enhancement. Siddhasana fills my head with too much energy. For now I am just sticking with mula bhanda and shambavi mudra in pranayama to balance things out. I am a sensitive meditator 
-Ram