Peace and Harmony 
[OM]
Week of 5/4
Nothing major to report this week. The clicking sound in my throat returned along with the strong temple pulse. I still can’t figure out how my throat can make that noise or why it wants to happen specifically during meditation…
My calf and foot have been going to sleep during meditation so I feel the pins and needles effect which is a bit of a distraction to meditation, yet I welcome that as really I have a pretty cushy situation in which to meditate in the first place.
Ecstatic conductivity makes itself known at some funny times. For example I was randomly watching the latest Transformers movie on Netflix and getting energy surges and goosebumps whenever Optimus Prime would say something impassioned lol. Rather absurd yet rather cool at the same time. 
Next week I am on a 10 day business trip to Las Vegas which will be my first travel since starting AYP. Will be interesting to have to do the sits in a hotel room shared with my wife. Most likely she will be doing her hair or whatever in the morning while I sit there with an eye mask on in Siddhasana… AYP road warrior I will become…
Earlier on I would meditate only when I could be undisturbed, but as of late I don’t cloak my practice from my family as much; the other week my teenaged daughter was calling out for me while I was in samyama. I remained with the practice and heard her stumble into the room with an “oh!” and leave again. She apologized later (an apology, wow!) and I thanked her for not interrupting me at the time. It was a great moment for both of us, and maybe someday she will ask me more about why I do it.
Glad you mentioned that. Goosebumps during movies especially are quite common for me these days, and I feel them all over (lower body and legs included). It’s like they’re surges of inspiration that flush out residual staleness, doubt, lack of engagement, and so on. A nice symptom of P&O.
Thank you.
Exciting times technoyogi!
I hope she does 
Yes, when my yoga became serious, I practiced in hotel rooms, while my husband was in the bathroom.
It took some time (read years :)) but I can practice everywhere nowadays, also my asanas. When not at home like on a vacation, I go up early take my yogamat and go out. I look out for a nice quiet place, but there is no distraction anymore. First there where all kind of feelings if people where staring (at least I thought they did), but not anymore. Getting up early, I feel the fresh air, the silence of the new day, the birds, sun rise…all included.
When starting yoga practice, everything has to be in order before one can start, later you practice independently of circumstances. That gives so much freedom.
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@ Dogboy,
My husband has his own yoga teacher and practice these days. My son is interested more and more in yoga…
Thanks for the comments everyone
I’ve been slack on the journal front recently. A long trip out of country was partly to blame, yet there is also the fact that I just got busy in general.
I still have managed to keep up daily practice but especially during the business trip I had to drop down to doing practice just once a day.
The good news as I see it is that I have not missed a day of practice, even if it was under the worst conditions.
Not much in the way of new things to report, pretty much my experiences continue to track what I have reported before and I am in a holding pattern where I am not adding anything new and just trying to settle in to everything
Welcome back Techno, we missed you dearly.
No worries about the one-a-days; guru has had me on that schedule for months and I’m still purifying like the dickens. The quality of the sits has sharpened considerably, samyama is other worldly. (Insert disclaimer: Yogani recommends two sits daily. Consult Guru Inyou)
Settling In = Surrender. Good work
Hi Technoyogi, happy to read you again! In fact, yesterday I was thnking about writing a post in this thread, asking for news about you since you did not update your journal. Keep up the good work, sounds very good. 
…Holding pattern…
Have been remiss with this journal…
Well, as a 3 month update, got busy and often only practiced once per day, but felt glad about keeping the habit.
Some interesting little pilgrimages in the last month, attended burning man for the first time, and then had 3 separate days of pilgrimage to SRF sites in California, all unplanned. Infused with a nice vibration as a result of these and today logged a 40 minute meditation which was the longest in weeks.
Also led my first lucid dreaming and dream yoga class about 2 weeks ago, it went well and may do more classes as feedback was very positive. Taught it from both a scientific and spiritual perspective so there was something for everyone in the audience.
So, all is well and progress continues to be made, even if painstakingly Wonderful to touch back in here and know that this resource continues to be available. Namaste!
Welcome back Technoyogi.
Ditto
Hi Technoyogi, nice to read you again - and glad that you are doing well!
I was missing your posts, as sure do other members. Actually I was thinking about posting a post here to ask if you were still around.
[Kechari Mudra and internal Nadi Shodhana]
So after having backed off about 6 months ago on Kechari, recently started back up with it. It just felt right and so I added it back in.
In the process I have also learned a lot more about the anatomy and chamber that is the nasal pharynx.
My tongue has come to feel how one nostril or the other tends to have a flap or membrane that covers it causing this natural constriction - thus the flow of our roughly 2 hour cycle throughout the day - right nostril - left nostril dominant and back again, etc.
I find this fascinating… having previously assumed that it was mucous buildup or something… nay! There is something like a natural valve system. I will see if I can dig up a picture of this. Or better yet, a video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnUwvR9x6I
So at 17 seconds in labels pop up, and the upper right has a bean looking thing labeled IT. Well, notice the bean thing is not in the left side of the screen. That thing is what naturally blocks the nose, and it alternates every 90 minutes to 2 hours or so. Though, I guess in a fully enlightened human it might never block them as the winds would always be in the central channel? Hmmmm…
So now I will even outside of formal sitting time, occasionally take the time to re-balance the winds a bit by doing nadi shodhana internally. I often start by doing just one nostril to sort of balance vs the one that was closed, then go to doing both. This is also nice when awakening in the morning… I need not even move my hands or body position, but can begin balancing the winds in such a sensual and calming way.
The crown is activated a lot more than usual by this practice, and ecstatic conductivity has risen. Meditation goes deeper. Breath is less necessary (supposedly something to do with cutting off the nerves in the back of the throat in a way that mimics when we are babies having fluid in our mouth… interesting if so…)
This Kechari is such a wonderful mudra… it is something I share with people in conversation selectively at times with the hope they will someday use it as well… as it happened 2 years ago to the typist, the curiosity behind which was actually the impetus for finding AYP if memory serves.
Hi Technoyogi,
Interesting words, this is what I am wondering about for some time, I see the symbols and nadi’s Ida and Pingala as dualism and time bound. Sushumna the central channel as non dualism, so if breath is alway’s in sushumna’s Brahma nadi there is no dualism anymore, eternity is. In other words, ego is transformed completely.
Just only my wonderings…thanks for sharing the physical side, and your journal [OM]
Techno Kechari!
Great comments everyone! And Bodhi I had a big laugh about Techno Kechari lol
Excellent video it took me a second to realize it is upside down but this is exactly what I thought it would look like from Kechari.
On the topic if anyone here has access to medical equipment or is part of some sort of a grant for medical researching to do with reading brain waves and nervous system changes from Yoga related activities etc…
I would love to volunteer to take part in a study even if it includes MRI and other scans to document the changes the human nervous system undergoes during practices involving Kechari forming as a result of the practice.
Subjectively there is a huge change for me as the practitioner.
Have to put this out there who knows if there is a person doing a doctorate or something or may choose to some day and comes across a willing volunteer.
Please do contact me would like to contibute to humanities knowledge base, as well as satisfy my own curisity also.