Kriya Yoga Mega-Thread

[TheSelf]

57 minutes ago, Salvijus said:

Well I would fit into this category probably. I've done energy work with semen retention for 5+ years. That's kinda the main reason I feel confident to speak about this subject. I don't know many people outside of me who would fit that category on a personal level. Maybe one yogi I know who practices hatha yoga and kriya for 12+ years. I never bothered asking him but I'm confident he's on semen retention aswell. Basically if you encounter anyone who follows a good system (such as Isha or Adam Mizner's HME) for 3-5 years, it's 90% chance they're on semen retention imo. It's just inevitable. The practice just takes you there. 

5 years and Kriya Yoga?

I guess this represents your state then:

[Salvijus]

42 minutes ago, TheSelf said:

5 years and Kriya Yoga?

I guess this represents your state then:

Haha, my practice is more like a combination of daoist alchemy, kabbalah and agni yoga than kriya yoga. 

Love the picture. Gets me hyped up every time, lol. 

Edited yesterday at 06:31 PM by Salvijus

[TheSelf]

1 hour ago, Salvijus said:

Haha, my practice is more like a combination of daoist alchemy, kabbalah and agni yoga than kriya yoga. 

Tell me about your experience with these systems, 

I'd love to know

1 hour ago, Salvijus said:

Love the picture. Gets me hyped up every time, lol. 

[TheSelf]

I did some interesting energy experiment today which I wanna share with you guys.

As usuall in the morning I did kriya pranayama, nadi shodhana

And AUM chanting (don't underestimate this, this is extremely useful practice for purification of the system)

But in the afternoon 

I laid down in ny couch, I put myself into a meditative state (energy responds best when you are deep in the zone)

And I did suck the prana from space around me in through my hands, the more I kept receiving the energy the more I could intensity the amount I could receive, visualization plays important rule.

It reaches a point in which my Ajna chakra pulsates like crazy, the light of consciousness goes crazy swirling (this is the light you see as result of activities of ajna chakra).

The energy kept flowing in the whole body and I felt amazing!

Then I directed the flowing energy to each chakra imagining each gets energized and then I directed all the energy to ajna chakra, I felt so so good, like you feel so amazing and conscious and powerful, the mind is absolutely still and you feel you are in total conscious control of your energy which was amazing.

Then I did some Cat-Cow asana and discharged the energy to the earth in child pose and felt super charged after.

I did similiar energy work before but I didn't try to direct the energy at will to the chakras after receiving, this was hands one of the most intense and potent energy experience I've had.

 

Edited 22 hours ago by TheSelf

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, TheSelf said:

Tell me about your experience with these systems, 

I'd love to know

Agni yoga is about alining yourself with the universal principles. Developing deeper intuition. Learning to turn to the heart for every decision and allowing it to lead the way for you. It's an entire Way of living based on the heart. 

Agni yoga also comes with a practice of invoking and receiving Great Rays of light. The descending fire that befalls on those who make themselves available through sincere connection to the masters or a lineage and have purified their act sufficiently through the first phase of the practice. 

Once you're able to receive this decending heavenly light into your system, now you can work with this energy. Just bathing in that energy of glory and love alone is transformational and complete. But it also leads to many possibilities aswell. You can learn to direct that energy to others to serve in various ways. You can work on developing psychic abilities. You can use that energy to open various channels. You can become a medium, etc. The realm of possibilities is big here. 

This decending light is also an important ingredient, among many, in developing the light body and a sacred embryo (that's the daoist alchemy part) It grows as it feeds on the energy you absorb by bathing in the fire and rays of devine love. Conserving sexual energy is important for this part aswell. 

That's the gist of it I guess. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Salvijus

[TheSelf]

1 minute ago, Salvijus said:

Agni yoga is about alining yourself with the universal principles. Developing deeper intuition. Learning to turn to the heart in for every decision and allowing it to lead the way for you. It's an entire Way of living based on the heart. 

Agni yoga also comes with a practice of invoking and receiving Great Rays of light. The descending fire that befalls on those who make themselves available through sincere connection to the masters or a lineage and have purified their act sufficiently through the first phase of the practice. 

Once you're able to receive this decending heavenly light into your system, now you can work with this energy. Just bathing in that energy of glory and love alone is transformational and complete. But it also leads to many possibilities aswell. You can learn to direct that energy to others to serve in various ways. You can work on developing psychic abilities. You can use that energy to open various channels. You can become a medium, etc. The realm of possibilities are big here. 

This decending light is also an important ingredient, among many, in developing the light body and a sacred embryo (that's the daoist alchemy part) It grows as it feeds on the energy you absorb by bathing in the decending fire of devine rays. 

That's the gist of it I guess. 

Beautiful!

[Salvijus]

@TheSelf :) 

[Jowblob]

@TheSelf

 

Whats your diet like? Do you follow vegan , or sattvic diet for prana. Or just carnivorous diet?

 

Also im not sure if you're fully in non duality or  not but can you taste the food ftom a video or manifest the dish infront of you?

Edited 14 hours ago by Jowblob

[TheSelf]

5 hours ago, Jowblob said:

@TheSelf 

Whats your diet like? 

 

Mostly proteins like chicken and eggs and some carbs like a bit of rice as I'm into bodybuilding too, I don't consume red meat.

5 hours ago, Jowblob said:

Do you follow vegan , or sattvic diet for prana.

No.

5 hours ago, Jowblob said:

Also im not sure if you're fully in non duality

I did a lot of self-enquiry in the past, brought all the unconscious egoic patterns and subtle mental layers of the mind into consciousness, working to fully stabilize the pure presence of consciousness I-Am ness dissolving all appearing, disappearing ripples of unconsciousness. This is real super power.

Edited 9 hours ago by TheSelf

[UnbornTao]

@Protein Thank you.

On 11/2/2025 at 3:10 PM, TheSelf said:

@UnbornTao You act like it's a supernatural power thou in reality a lot of men practice this in order to bring more sexual satisfaction for themselves and their partner.

It's simply about how long it's practiced continuously.

On 11/2/2025 at 3:11 PM, Leo Gura said:

Even if you knew of such a case you couldn't draw any broad conclusions from it.

You can't assume it will work the same way for you. This is very individual stuff.

Sex drive varies greatly across people and age. You cannot assume everyone has the same sex drive. That's a big mistake.

I see. My initial point was that there wouldn't be many "documented" cases like that in the first place.

On 11/2/2025 at 4:50 PM, Salvijus said:

Well I would fit into this category probably. I've done energy work with semen retention for 5+ years. That's kinda the main reason I feel confident to speak about this subject. I don't know many people outside of me who would fit that category on a personal level. Maybe one yogi I know who practices hatha yoga and kriya for 12+ years. I never bothered asking him but I'm confident he's on semen retention aswell. Basically if you encounter anyone who follows a good system (such as Isha or Adam Mizner's HME) for 3-5 years, it's 90% chance they're on semen retention imo. It's just inevitable. The practice just takes you there. 

Got it, thank you. 

@Ishanga What remains when all the fantasy is set aside?

Edited 1 hour ago by UnbornTao

[TheSelf]

A note about purification practices.

So the more prana flows to your body freely the more consciousness you energetic system will support to sustain for you.

But one cannot forcefully do it without being prepared, here comes the important role of purification practices like nadi shodhana, AUM chanting etc, that allows the nadis and energetic channels to get rid of knots and impurities to allow the expansion of ones spiritual energy.

Often here people disregard these practices to be not so important.

But as I'm progressing in my practices, I'm understanding more and more how these simple practices are very important to prepare the body to handle extreme levels of spiritual energy.

Will do more research about it and will share the results here.

[Ishanga]

4 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

@Protein Thank you.

It's simply about how long it's practiced continuously.

I see. My initial point was that there wouldn't be many "documented" cases like that in the first place.

Got it, thank you. 

@Ishanga What remains when all the fantasy is set aside?

 

[Ishanga]

4 minutes ago, TheSelf said:

A note about purification practices.

So the more prana flows to your body freely the more consciousness you energetic system will support to sustain for you.

But one cannot forcefully do it without being prepared, here comes the important role of purification practices like nadi shodhana, AUM chanting etc, that allows the nadis and energetic channels to get rid of knots and impurities to allow the expansion of ones spiritual energy.

Often here people disregard these practices to be not so important.

But as I'm progressing in my practices, I'm understanding more and more how these simple practices are very important to prepare the body to handle extreme levels of spiritual energy.

Will do more research about it and will share the results here.

This is where Hatha Yoga comes into play, it prepares the Body and Mind for higher Energy Intensities...  This whole process has already been laid out by the Guru's and Yogi's of the past, the 8 limb process is very safe and basically makes it so one can have liberation within this lifetime.  Kriya Yoga is a more advanced form, as it just doesn't allow Liberation/Enlightenment, it also allows one Knowing, Knowing of all it all works and such, which is a sort of different path too, some just want liberation, some want to know, its all available for any Human Being to have!

[UnbornTao]

@Ishanga I meant after the fantasy is set aside. That video is purely fantasy-based.

Edited 50 minutes ago by UnbornTao

[Ishanga]

1 minute ago, UnbornTao said:

@Ishanga I meant after the fantasy is set aside. That video doubles down on it.

What fantasy? 

[TheSelf]

5 minutes ago, Ishanga said:

This is where Hatha Yoga comes into play, it prepares the Body and Mind for higher Energy Intensities...  This whole process has already been laid out by the Guru's and Yogi's of the past, the 8 limb process is very safe and basically makes it so one can have liberation within this lifetime.  Kriya Yoga is a more advanced form, as it just doesn't allow Liberation/Enlightenment, it also allows one Knowing, Knowing of all it all works and such, which is a sort of different path too, some just want liberation, some want to know, its all available for any Human Being to have!

Yes!

I'm glad I've dropped the Kriya Yoga practices to do Hatha yoga for almost a year and half and still doing it cause it feels amazing!

Now that I'm into the Kriya again, my experience of working with my energy is just amazing! Before it was full of pressure and painfull most of the time! And at that time I didn't care about prepation practices at all. Silly of me.

Edited 47 minutes ago by TheSelf

[UnbornTao]

22 minutes ago, Ishanga said:

What fantasy? 

I thought it'd be obvious: the entire video, the notion of mahasamadhi.

It boils down to: "He dead."

Edited 27 minutes ago by UnbornTao

[Ishanga]

15 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

I thought it'd be obvious: the entire video, the notion of mahasamadhi.

It boils down to: "He dead."

Well You say mahasamadhi is fantasy, others say it is not, whom to believe? 

I think when we term things as fantasy it can be misleading, our bodies and mind are not fantasy, non existent things, they exist but they are not what we are, but we still have to deal with it all, if You don't then trouble awaits, You have a grand experience either naturally or psychedelics and then come back from it, if You deny what is, "I have a Body and Mind" then it will rule You.,

So the process as described in the video, is how to deal with the Body, Mind, Emotions, Energy to get to a point of choosing to be here Embodied or not!

It doesn't boil down to "He's dead", it boils down to imo that You choose how to do it, as with all things in life, are You doing it consciously or unconsciously, dying consciously is wiser imo...