Hello AYP community
It has been quite a while since my last posts. I had to make a break with practises because of healthy reasons which is difficult for me and makes me sad and confused. About 2 years ago I was diagnosed with hiatal hernia - it is when your stomach pushes up through a diaphragm into cavity chest. It causes many difficult symptoms - pressure at diaphgram area, pain, burning ( heartburn, reflux). Drugs presribed by doctors help only little and only lessen symptoms also causing other symptoms like gases, bloating , diarrhea. Drugs also ausing that vitamins and minerals are not enough absorbed which causing domina effect for health and reently I had many other difficulties. Surgery is an option but only 20 % of people are satisified after and you get other symptoms and difficulties with digestive system so at this point it is not worthy a risk and it change anatomy of your stomach which cannot be reversed. Time BEFORE this hernia occured I had spent on healing my body from trauma - doing asanas, emotional work, body work, psychology work etc to relax my body , make it free of trauma, PTSD. I have alse opened extatic conductivity which was working through me. It is very difficult situation and it is easy to imagine how problems with hiatal hernia where whole body is under stress is just opposite for what I was working on. Hiatal hernia causes problems with vagus nerve and whole digestive track, it mimics problems with heart chakra causing anxiety ( heartburn) and other chakras below as chakras are going the same way as digestive track. Digestive track is where most serotonine receptors are placed so it has tremendous influence on your psyhology and also digestive track is where kundalini is going ( I believe that vagus nerve could be a main track for kundalini energy, but I don’t know). Also the kundalini energy is going up which is opposite to peristaltis of digestive track, so you can imagine the tension here. Also the sensitivity caused by kundalini makes dealing with hiatal hernia syndrome even harder. I was very passionate about yoga and searching for the truth but now I feel like I am in the trap, like I have to give up yoga with this ailment. Now I am trying to give up drugs and will try many natural therapies i found in the intenet. At some point I want also to go back to yoga practises but I am afraid and I don’t want to make things worse and more difficult. Some say that you have to spend many years of yoga and cleaning and purifiing your body , preparing your body so it is healthy before you start extatic conductvity - so is my yoga over? I am sorry for many details but I wanted to show you my situation. I am desperate and I am looking for any help so I will take anything. Please add me to samyama list if possible - I will appreciate this very much. I feel bad also that I was not enough helpful for others and looking only for help for myself.
Sorry to hear of your health difficulties. You have been added to the samyama healing list over here: Samyama List (Healing Recipients)
Regarding your yoga practice, you obviously should be careful about any physical practice, going with the doctor’s advice, but there should not be a problem with doing deep meditation, unless you are sensitive and it aggravates your inner energies (if so, see Lessons 69 and 367). If it doesn’t, then cultivating abiding inner silence in deep meditation can make dealing with your health challenges more tolerable, and even an evolutionary step on your path. No matter what happens, in stillness it is going to be alright.
Spinal breathing might not be off the table, it can disperse it from your center, if you are open to that. Try it and see for yourself. Personally my system releases trapped air during this part of my practice, so DM is uninterrupted. Silence can be found if you can dismiss thought, in order to attune to its ever presence. Being open and quiet moves you forward.
Thank you Yogani, Thank you Dogboy
for sure slowly introducing Dm and maybe SBP would be a good idea. There is always a possiblity to slow down or put aside some practises if they were causing problems. I will not know if I don’t try, right? I think I was hoping that maybe some users have the same problem and could give some tips or ideas how this works along with AYP practises. I was looking for some old posts that mentioned hiatal hernia and I found some of them. Kumar ul islam who is on this forum for quite a while mentioned that he had the same problem. It’s a pity he hasn’t visited forum lately. It would be nice to chat with someone who share similar experience. Yogani - thank you for adding me to samyama list. It is nice to see you one the forum recently. I hope that your health is all right now !
Hello everyone. Unfortunately I am still struggling with hiatal hernia and pain, tightness in my chest because of reflux. Motility of my esophagus is weak and my throat very thight. Active kundalini, energy going upward and change in functioning of digestive system ( weak motility, energy going upward instead of downward) is making this problem more difficult. I am after medical tests like esophagus manometry and 24h ph metry which proves that this motility is weak and there is gas reflux that comes with pressure from my stomach. Kundalini makes peristalsis weaker as energy is going up, right? Therefore my question about kundalini and digestive system in general: how is it with time and working with kundalini and asimilation - is digestive system going back to normal functioning ( downward ) after integration. How does it change with time. I also wonder how does it work with very experienced practitioners that integrated kundalini - is the energy going upward controlable, are there episodes that it is more active or less or you can control it more ( also in terms of digestive motility). Does digestive system ( in terms of motility and energy going down) coming back to normal ( the same as before K awakening)? This for sure will give me more motivation to work towards integration. Also medical test showed that my throat is extremy compressed and tight- how can I help with that? Right now I am slowly coming back to practises (just few days in after years of pause because of these problems). I tried every methods possible to heal this , but there is no change so the surgery is the only option I guess.Right now I am doing slowly 2x 5 min of DM. In my fantasies I see that with practises the tightness and pain is lower, but also I am freightened with some stories of people whos Kundalini is creating a lot of pain, so any advice will be very appreciated.
Of course Hiatal hernia is not casued by kundalini. I am sorry - my post was probably little chaotic :). I should have narrowed my question to digestive problems. Actually I found your quite fresh video about digestive problems on your YT channel and you talk about prana an apana which is exactly what I was talking about. Nevertheless I think kundalini is making my hiatal hernia more difficult because of this flow. So I think I just wanted some reassurence that it will settle in the future. Also I found your video “Is kundalini always painful and challenging” quite optimistic so thank you for that. I was wondering if there are methods and tips ( besides grounding practises and calming energy down) that help with increasing apana and reducing prana or to be more specific in this case - just to help with motility and peristalsis. Enema is one of them for sure, but I am thinking more of increasing motility of digestive track beggining from its upper part ( from the throat down).
My apologies. It sounded as if you were thinking that the hiatal hernia was caused by kundalini. But certainly if you are experiencing that and also have digestive issues brought on by kundalini that that will be a difficult thing to be dealing with.
I am glad to hear that you are finding the videos helpful.
I am afraid I don’t know any techniques for improving the movement of food in the upper part of the digestive system. Reducing spiritual practices, increasing grounding techniques, and using basti, and occasionally dhauti, was all I ever needed.