What are the results of the consistent practice of spinal breathing. Should Yoni Mudra come right after spinal breathing.
Sumate 
hello Sumate 
, and welcome to the ayp forums.
itās best if youād hear it from the lionās mouth in the main lessons.
check the main lessons on the practice of pranayam and the q&as related to it:
http://www.aypsite.org/41.html
and yes yoni mudra should come second, but itās best advised to be stable in all the before introduced practices like spinal breathing and deep meditation b4 adding YMK plus self pace is much advised too.
i suggest strongly that you would read the main lessons from the beginning if you would like to have a complete understanding about the practices used on this web community and their benefits.
light and love,
Ananda
Hello Ananda;
I purchased the AYP text book six months ago and have been reading the book. I have been a practioner of meditation for about ten years and have been very consistent the past five years. The last two years I have been doing lessons with Self Realization Fellowship and considered to be a Kriyaban but have not been able to do the initiation.
I like the AYP text book because of the straight talk and not more spritual riddles to unlock.I have been practicing Pranayama (Spinal Breathing)for the past year daily with jyoti afterwards and just donāt seem to understand where it is taking me spiritually.
Thanks for your advice.
Sumate
I should have also mentioned that in conjunction with the spinal breathing and jyoti, I am doing the chin lock and then go into deep meditation for 30-45 minutes twice a day. Once into meditation I disappear into what appears as a deep sleep, but can feel myself coming back to conciousness periodically. Am I nodding off or am I meditating?
Sumate
I have no idea why, but when i tried the AYP spinal breathing method, compared with SRF kriya, it was much more powerful. You might find the same thing. I am not alone in my āpraiseā for AYP methods.
Are there any guided audio books on Correct Spinal Breathing practices. Reading out of a book and not having a teacher to coach you through can be difficult.
Thanks
Sumate
donāt worry about this kind of deep, itās the kind which has a lot of induces powerful purification in the nervous system.
but i would worry concerning your meditation time and routine a bit. (seems some self pacing is needed here)
have you read yoganiās main lessons.
plus could you share what are you practicing in order plus how many times a day and for how long.
and are you having any kind of symptoms that you think should be mentioned around here.
light and love,
Ananda
I am practicing Kriya Yoga with the Self Realization Fellowship. I am in year two with the Lessons. I practice daily Maha Mudra, Kriya Pranayama, Yoni Mudra with OM, Chin Lock, and then Meditation 30-45 minutes twice pr/dy.
Sumate
thatās a good set of practiceā¦
are you practicing meditation on chakras while using mantras for each one of them or soham orā¦?
a very effective method of meditation which might surprise you if you give it a shot is yoganiās method which is offered in the main lessons. (http://www.aypsite.org/MainDirectory.html)
plus spinal breathing is a kriya yoga practice as well, check it out here plus the other practices that exists in the main lessons.
i used to practice kriya yoga myself (well maybe not for too long, but stillā¦), anyways the techniques over here are optimized in a way which would give more results.
iām not saying that kriya is bad or doesnāt work or anything itās great actually.
all iām saying here is that yogani have improved the techniques used in the kriya yoga schools into being more effective and integrated them with other optimized advanced yoga practices from other schools as well. (and i can attest to the efficiency of them out of my own experience with the two practices)
Ananda
Ananda
Thank you and all suggestions and advice are much appreciated.
OM Shanti
Sumate
Ananda can you be more specific about which meditation (Yoganiās Method) you are recommending from the main Directory.
Sumate
Hi Sumate,
The lesson on meditation is Lesson #13. Best of luck.
Love,
Carson 
Carson said it ; howdie Carsonzi 
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Thanks again;This meditation sounds familiar to the So-Ham mantra practice. Yes I do practice chakra meditation also. Send more recommendations.
Thanks
Howdy Ananda, Sumate,
AYP Deep Meditation is similar to SoHam, except that we donāt connect the I AM mantra with the breath like with SoHam. This is so that when natural breath suspension happens there is still a mantra. Best of luck.
Love,
Carson
Here are a few lessons that discuss the AYP mantra strategy:
Mantra Particulars (shows the difference between soham mantra with breathing and iam mantra wothout breathing: http://www.aypsite.org/59.html
Mantra Design 101 (very important details, beautiful to read): http://www.aypsite.org/188.html
Also see other lessons under āmantraā in the topic index: http://www.aypsite.org/TopicIndex.html
the difference is that with soham mantra breath is used and that is a pranayama practice plus a mantra practice; which makes it different from deep meditation.
deep meditation is about letting go of the mantra (active surrender), that way it will lead us into inner silence.
here in ayp we do pranayama b4 deep meditation and each is done alone, we donāt mix the two together.
and concerning chakra meditation, itās a beautiful practice but itās a bit different from what we use here which is global cleansing of the nervous system during pranayama and deep meditation.
and the best recommendation that i can give is read the main lessons from the beginning.
oh! and donāt worry you donāt have to practice any of these lessons if you are good with the tradition you are following.
just consider these lessons as food for thought.
light and love,
Ananda
p.s: we do some direct work on the chakras later on with practices like targeted bastrikah and heart breathing.
Thanks again; It amazes me that this level of knowledge is handily available. It just goes back to the addage that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. I truly understand when Yogani says the Guru is in you.
This is a great forum
Sumate
Ever seen the movie the Ninth Gate? with jhonny depp?
Their are Nine Gates of the body.
eyes,ears,nostrils,mouth,anus,penis. those are the Nine.
Energy flows in and out with breathing.
Spinal breathing, though effecting the sexual organ, i believe may be more effective if seen as the energy flowing in and out of the anus.
As for chakras, make the life force vibrate.
Hi Avatar;
How do you make the chakras vibrate
Sumate