A pleasant side effect of radiating prana from the hands, the fingers and palms, are the deeper, subtle sensations, aroused through touch, a boost of a sort… Since most of purification as of late is mostly in this head; for this yogi, there is no better way to start and end a practice than to cleanse my face in my palms, and run fingers across the scalp, maybe press my palms to the neck and support the chin, and the favorite (having overcome cervical spine issues) pressing thumb tips into the base of the skull.
Then in silence, with palms now as a blindfold, there is a drishti in the black if I pause long enough.
I recently discovered a “new spot” and was I already considering to share it on this forum, after having searched the forum without having found any similar reports. And now, Dogboy, you just posted this experience that also involves the touch of fingers on the head. So I thought I share my discovery here 
This is what I found quite accidentally outside of meditation practice when my partner’s fingers lightly brushed my forehead: I suddenly experienced enormous bliss deep inside my head, but in addition also closer to the surface, probably in the sinuses. This sensation (which now after its discovery a few weeks ago I get treated to every day 
) is probably the most blissful thing (apart from some ayahuasca experiences) I’ve ever experienced.
The sweet spot is on my forehead along the center line about 1-1.5 inch above the brow ridge. I can’t really “do myself”: it’s still interesting if I touch the spot but far less bliss compared to when my partner touches it. The touch has to be light otherwise it doesn’t work, and a somewhat random mix of light brushing and very light tapping. It usually triggers the bliss within seconds.
The intensity of the bliss is maybe similar to getting close to an orgasm, but it’s much less ecstatic and much more bliss. And there is no “release”, but the bliss plateaus. There is also this sense of dejavu, that I know this sensation very well, that there was once a time when I was in this condition continuously while being bathed in love and warmth and light.
Hi Tensor,
This is the activation of the ajna chakra. The experiences associated with it will change over time.
Christi
A major component to a stable conductive life is grounding outdoors on a daily basis, and the reason my activity and health goals involves walking (to keep me disciplined, I track daily activity with a fitness tracker, and on a 300+ day streak of meeting my goals!). After ten years, with eyes closed in SBP, DM, and Samyama, silence and/or sensations come forth without effort. By dedicating time and effort beyond meditation to fostering inner silence and openness with the eyes open, I am discovering the path forward towards 24/7 bliss as outlined in the lessons by Yogani, the promise a gradually unfolding liberation, by exploring this body?s conductivity. The safest way to explore conductivity is in the great outdoors, grounding into Earth and air via radiance: out the palms and fingertips, through the pads of the feet, through the heart/solar center, through all open eyes, and mouth and throat on the exhale of breath.
One of the surprises discovered along the way is how solid this yogi has confirmed this radiant action over time, how this intention has become self fulfilling by its rote employment. Radiance has become a felt experience in conductivity, and daily proof to this yogi that attention to grounding has the added effect of confident inner guru. A study on Placebo Effect really needs only one subject; a theory will either work for them or it won?t they continue to explore the theory if it works or drop it altogether if it doesn?t. The belief that radiance is grounding this yogi seems to make it work. It is now beyond any doing on my part, and proof is in the daily pudding.
Sounds wonderful, Dogboy! Enjoy the Radaiance! 
For many years, until just recently, I used the solar center in DM to locate the mantra, and believe it has contributed to my spiritual stability. (https://www.aypsite.com/plus/368.html). In order to be open to silence and transcending the body, I found it helpful to reduce the body to a single point and gently place attention and the mantra there, experiencing excellent results.
Lately bliss and ecstasy have been daily visitors of mine. Recently in DM, inner guru had me move that attention point up, from the solar center to my tongue, the tip of it to be exact, while I am in ketchari (https://www.aypsite.com/T61.html). Daily, my tongue seems to be a lot more “alive”, in asana class, in the quiet moments of the day (driving, walking, watching a movie). My ketchari may be softer, thicker, cautious, or active, and upwardly erect, depending on the sensation within. By putting the mantra and gentle attention there, I am in the neighborhood of the throat, mouth, nostrils, all three eyes, the white noise, the pineal gland, and crown. There is expansiveness. After a few weeks of this, there have been no adverse consequences, though I always keep my antenna up.
The ability to be at a single point has strongly help in surrendering whatever is happening beyond that point. Having moved that point fifteen or so inches higher seems to have lifted me closer to “the source” and in my daily life, closer to my tongue.
Hi Dogboy,
I am so impressed with how far you have come in your spiritual development through AYP practices for 11 years. I have been on the spiritual path for about as long as you, and I still feel like I’m at the beginning of the journey. The difference between us is that you stick to one set of practices, while I jumped from one system to another for the last few years and also drank alcohol for the first 10 years. So you and other long-time AYP practitioners remain my inspiration to finally, after several years of instability, settle permanently into AYP practices while maintaining abstinence from alcohol.
Hello again, Parsifal 
Thank you for your kind words. Discipline and desire indeed are key elements to bringing yourself to daily meditation. Although I had a decade of asana practice before AYP, I never meditated before stumbling across the site in search of tantra techniques. I remember reading through all the lessons, first the main ones and then the tantra, in probably two weeks, and learned that finding inner silence was the missing piece of the yoga puzzle. Perhaps not knowing multiple systems saved me from wanderlust. It does speak well of the system that Yogani designed. It was hard at the beginning to devote an hour of my daily time (as a father of two youngsters at the time), but stuck with it because some early purification episodes clearly demonstrated that my neurobiology was indeed changing.
Good luck with your sobriety. The whole of my wife’s family has been touched negatively by alcoholism, and as a result it affected our family too. She is many years sober after multiple attempts, and I am so proud of her (and she, of herself) to have the discipline and desire to get to this side of it. It isn’t easy but have faith in yourself and your meditation practice to find your strength and stability
Thank you Dogboy for your wise comment . I’m glad your wife has maintained her long-term sobriety. For me, it is now 16 months of sobriety, and although it was extremely difficult in the first months, now it is easy. And I have already started to feel better effects of AYP practices. So I think I’m on the right track.
It has been five weeks, and I find it is good to keep the solar center in the base practice, and to move the focus to the tongue tip only when it clearly wants it. Too much attention in the head reduces stability.
Once a yogi finds a conductive body and/or experiences samadhi regularly, Christi explains how that leads to liberation from duality. (10 minutes run time)
https://youtu.be/zrRG58b4-0A?si=HMhP78SU9BXvqYYl
I have been having a bit of fun with lidded eyes lately. It has become a yoga practice to challenge duality. I rarely walk or exercise with headphones or music, honoring the opportunity for active yoga. Either in asanas, or on the elliptical, walking the neighborhood or woods, the eyelids become lazy as the white noise grows, inviting silence forth. The world has become black and white, inside and outside, dark and light, and becomes the in-between on my breath, before my very eyes. All I have to do is be there and imagine non duality; if done with sambhavi mudra, the eyelids flutter and blur visual perception.
Tracing the spine during SBP early in my AYP journey was difficult, and Christi gave advice to simply be at the third eye on the top of the inhale, at the root at the bottom of the exhale, and let the middle be for now. This helped a lot; by placing the attention at two (actively important) places instead of the length of the shushumna seemingly trained my inner attention to sync with my purifying body. After conductivity, tracing and syncing both the body and the breath became automatic; entering silence and surrender by sweeping the shushumna during SBP up and down, correcting the spine and neck, quieting the mind, dissolving into silence.
If tracing is hard for you, take Christi’s advice. You may find it automatically, when you are open enough for it.
Conductivity is a turbo charger for your practices; lesson 429:
This yogi’s experience is that silence can easily “step forth” with gentle attention, and from that silence, sensations arise, and there is pleasure to acknowledge and radiate/surrender on the breath. Any time of the day or night, the eyes open or closed, there is the possibility of 24/7 bliss with effort, and the knowing the body is not yet ready to be that automatically. Silence is noticed in stillness or action with the promise of becoming stillness in action. Change is now.
I will conclude this discussion on this seven-year conductive body by noting I am (AYAM) in a race with death to achieve liberation; if it happens before death, the fruits of that experience can be shared with those in my orbit, ripples in a still pond. At death we are liberated, so this race is win-win I guess. I am mid-sixties and retired and have the time and bhakti currently to devote to this endeavor. Thus I am outside, active, quiet, open, loving, patient, playful, curious, respectful, helpful. I have taken on some community volunteering to improve my karma 
, and use the eight limbs as scaffolding.
By twice-daily DM and bringing silence, openness, and radiance to the body and the breath, yoga infuses whatever is in the moment that attention lands upon. I am working for the day when 24/7 bliss is not an intentional action. As this body matures it is apparent that natural vajroli is well established and felt, more proof that these practices are preparing me spiritually. It is apparent when silence is felt, the shushumna is expanded, and if one becomes a receiver in that state, then there is communion. The introduction of an ishta has opened my heart in unexpected ways and has made me seem inwardly lighter, in weight and presence.
Some new fun expressions: when alone I talk aloud to myself sometimes, there is something subtly arousing to vocalizing, to talking myself through something, encouraging myself, coming to a realization, or simply having fun. Another thing, upon seeing my reflection in a mirror, or when rubbing lotion on my body (or any touch for that matter) the intention is to think of myself as my lover, thinking of, and treating myself, manifesting myself as an object of desire. The mirror is a great place to contemplate inside/outside and squaring the separation; it is a place to address yourself, to inquire, to make faces, to have a good laugh, and discovering great pleasure in that loving moment.
Although I yearn for liberation, there is no expectation, no disappointment, no regrets if it does not come to pass, because this is a journey of daily expansiveness, of loving intentions, of pleasures, bliss, ecstasy, and deep deep silence. This is a journey of curiosity and the desire to know. These practices have opened the shushumna and powered my attention, and promise to make me my best self in the rest of my time here.
Hi Dogboy,
Thanks a lot for allowing us these very private insights into your ecstatic conductivity and how it has changed over the years. It certainly helped me a lot in building the necessary initial trust to start a daily AYP routine two years ago.
I only recently started with adding asana before my sitting practice. And it certainly helps in discovering new aspects of ecstatic conductivity. My current favorite is the heart centering warm-up. Gently caressing myself that way feels at the same very good and very odd. It reminded me of your description of looking into the mirror and soaping. I’m wondering what’s going, but probably nothing to worry about and just something to have fun with innocently 
I hope you reach your goal and continue keeping us posted about any cool things happening along the way
Will do.
There have been pleasant developments in this conductive body, for instance the practice of yin yoga. Hold a pose as quietly open as possible leads directly to samadhi on occasion. I am required only to observe, and then break the spell when guru says enough is enough already.
Also facial expressions: a practice of gently favoring a flare of the nostrils on the inhale and gently pursing on the exhale. A gentle lift of the brow connects all three eyes. A gentle smile brings the best out of you and others. All of this is subtle arousal piled atop one another, a path to 24/7??
Now that I believe in the grounding qualities of being outside, sun or not, taking the full array of yoga practices outdoors has brought yoga into my everyday. What a blessing to be in communion.
Reporting back and expanding on solar centering, the practice seems to support stability in this bodys highly pliable shushumna; the idea of reducing the physical body to a center point, thus becoming an anchor in DM and samhadi states. Assigning the mantra and sutras to the solar center allows the gentle favoring of the mantra to be felt and grounded. Attention has influence in a conductive body, and there is a spill over of sensation up and down from the center; because the skull/brain is beyond the heart and throat chakras, sensation is absorbed/radiated there first, reducing now ever present head pressure and purification in the crown. It is quite apparent the third eye is open already, so averting attention from Ajna allows radiance to become more global in this body.
In my everyday life, I am currently blessed with a lot of time on my hands to promote a healthy lifestyle, and to spill yoga into all corners of the day. Solar centering enters there too. One of my intentions is to strengthen my core throughout the day, via asana, exercise, nauli mudra, intentional breathing/gentle attention at the diaphragm/solar center, and simple engagement of the muscularity while driving, on a device, waiting in line, et al.
In the beginning it happened only a couple of moments in the day; over months bhakti, remembering/honoring intentions, repetition and discipline are showing results; asanas (balance poses in particular) are easier with an engaged core. I have come to believe one reason a dad bod happens is our interior organs droop down after decades of gravity and inactivity, my own body included. Strengthening and giving my center/core the gentle attention it deserves means my posture is improved (another intention) and has accelerated my conductivity with the ongoing cycle of stimulating, integrating, and radiating (surrendering) sensation. By gently placing attention at my center (and ongoing grounding) this body seems spared of becoming overwhelmed, especially in the active upper chackras.
One last note, never underestimate gently favoring in all of your yoga actions and practices, it is brilliant advice by Yogani. Stability in a conductive body relies on a state of silence, openness, and radiance; clinging, gripping, focusing becomes a hindrance to flow.