Actualized.org Awakening Retreat Coming Soon

[Davino]

5 hours ago, Greatnestwithin said:

And I imagine for maybe Next year?

Easter would be ideal, as many countries have a full week off or at least a four-day break. Alternatively, other European bank holidays could work well.

For many people (myself included), attending a retreat during regular working days would require significant effort to arrange time off.

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Likely Netherlands.

It's probably the best option. Netherlands is Tier 1 in the psychedelic sense and has direct plane connection with almost all European capitals.

Tier 2 is Portugal, Spain and Czech Republic.

[Ash55]

guys please take videos/photos so i can be there in spirit
can't be there in person rn
 

[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura

Last night I practiced 30 minutes of Kriya Yoga pranayama as described in Kriya Yoga Exposed by Satana Gamana. The technique involves mentally chanting "Om" while focusing awareness on the third eye, traditionally 6 repetitions on the inhale and 6 on the exhale. I modified the pacing so that each breath cycle lasted approximately 30 seconds, slowly drawing the breath into a continuous Om vibration.

rather than one smooth pull, I found I could sip roughly 15 micro-breaths within a single inhale.

At some point the experience dissolved entirely. I fell into a deep void, not sleep though because there was no transition. Just pure empty awareness, I snapped back awake at 1:22 am. Shit was wild.

Edited 5 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Leo Gura]

@ExploringReality There is an advanced Kriya techique which has you pause the breath at every chakra. Sounds similar to what you are doing.

[Leo Gura]

We now have enough people for a full European retreat.

[ExploringReality]

52 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@ExploringReality There is an advanced Kriya techique which has you pause the breath at every chakra. Sounds similar to what you are doing.

How long are the pauses? Doing this tonight.

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

How long are the pauses? Doing this tonight.

Very brief, less than a second.

It's called Omkar kriya.

The pause is used to "knock" each chakra. You can visualize knocking the chakra as the breath passes up through it.

Edited 4 hours ago by Leo Gura

[ExploringReality]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Very brief, less than a second.

That is exactly what I was doing with each  micro sip of air within each cycle except I wasn't focusing on chakras, I was feeling each sip as a swirling vibration of energy. Each OM chant was one sip of air

I'm going to consciously focus on moving the breath through the chakras tonight

Edited 3 hours ago by ExploringReality

[ExploringReality]

17 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Very brief, less than a second.

It's called Omkar kriya.

The pause is used to "knock" each chakra. You can visualize knocking the chakra as the breath passes up through it.

What do you mean knock the chakras? I think I see you what mean, instead of just breathing through the chakras, the pause is like pressing each chakra, resonating it fully before moving through to the others 

Edited 3 hours ago by ExploringReality

[ExploringReality]

If you ever played the video game Spartan total warrior, when you go to the shrine to heal the character, you have to hold the x button until the meter above the shrine fully completes in order for your health to flood back, I intuitively thought about that in terms of pausing the breath at each chakra, except I'm not pausing to heal, I'm pausing to fully saturate that chakra with prana. Is that what you meant and is that a good analogy?

Edited 3 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, ExploringReality said:

What do you mean knock the chakras?

Imagine it's like hitting a tuning fork or a xylophone with a mallet.

Visualize yourself doing that with each chakra.

[Magnanimous]

2 hours ago, ExploringReality said:

@Leo Gura

Last night I practiced 30 minutes of Kriya Yoga pranayama as described in Kriya Yoga Exposed by Satana Gamana. The technique involves mentally chanting "Om" while focusing awareness on the third eye, traditionally 6 repetitions on the inhale and 6 on the exhale. I modified the pacing so that each breath cycle lasted approximately 30 seconds, slowly drawing the breath into a continuous Om vibration.

rather than one smooth pull, I found I could sip roughly 15 micro-breaths within a single inhale.

At some point the experience dissolved entirely. I fell into a deep void, not sleep though because there was no transition. Just pure empty awareness, I snapped back awake at 1:22 am. Shit was wild.

@ExploringReality that sounds so interesting.

I'm started kriya this year and I wanna switch to the Supreme Pranayama. Any chance we could talk about optimizng practices in PM?

[ExploringReality]

32 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Imagine it's like hitting a tuning fork or a xylophone with a mallet.

Visualize yourself doing that with each chakra.

Thank you. That's a cleaner way of putting it. Does the sound of each chakra being hit have its own frequency, sound and note while the other chakras are being hit having their own sound and ring. Is it like building itself into a full cord of activated energy by the time the breath completes it's journey? 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

Does the sound of each chakra being hit have its own frequency, sound and note while the other chakras are being hit having their own sound and ring.

I don't do that personally. But that is how it is traditionally taught.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura