PRANA FLOW- LIVING IN RHYTHM
VITAL LIVING PROGRAM
MONTHLY PROGRAM
2022 FALL LIVING FLOW
BEGINS FIRST THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH OCT 6TH, NOV 3RD, DEC 1ST
WELCOME TO OUR LIVING IN RHYTHM LIVE JOURNEY
WITH YOUR GUIDE Shiva Rea
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– Offer
– Practice meditation (suggestion of in front of your home altar) e
– Listen to the natural rhythms
– Solar practice is
– Lunar Practice is best
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– Practice each sequence (solar or lunar) once or twice during the week integrated with your regular practice; notice the effect of the movement alchemy on the flow of your daily life. How do you feel with the solar practice? The lunar practice? What is the elemental influence?
– Practice meditation (suggestion of in front of your home altar) every day being consistent with morning or evening or both
– Listen to the natural rhythms of your body and life; the natural waxing (solar) and waning (lunar) of life provides a way of attuning of which practice to choose. Listen to allow yourself to move into harmony with whatever may be arising within you.
– Solar practice is best in the morning or late afternoon-evening Tuesday – Friday morning, Sat and Sunday mornings or anytime you are feeling strong and naturally dynamic.
– Lunar Practice is best on Monday and most evenings and anytime you are feeling low-energy, ungrounded or needing to regenerate your energy
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Samkalpa
At the beginning of each practice at the end of your meditation, reflection and writing, we will listen for the week’s samkalpa or dedication. This short sutra is an anchor for your transformational process is suggested to be placed on your altar in some form visible form or placed in a sacred container written on a small piece of paper or in creative ways that are simple to honor.
Sadhana or Sacred Practice
Every Monday and Tuesday there are three practice sessions to guide you that you can experience live or on video archive posted 24-36 hours later.
Monday’s lunar practices are just two waves and all prana flow floor-work, inversions and Meditation & Mantra for the week.
Tuesday’s solar practice includes arm balances and urdhva dhaurasana variations.
Give yourself to the simplicity of the practices which are intentionally embodying the qualities of each element-chakra.
Set-up a practice rhythm that is realistic as well as transformative for you during the week.
Sacred Practice Rhythm
The natural waxing and waning of life
We will work with the transformational map of the elemental body maps with each week. Try to create a rhythm of practice that is steady while responding to the changes in daily life. Create your rhythm daily and weekly optimal flow.
Sacred Space/Altar
Your life is a mandala that includes your body, home and life. Your personal home altar is a great nexus—a navel that connects your inner and outer worlds—a conduit for your prayers, and a reflection of the altar of your heart.
Every altar has a central focus—a primary symbol—which can take any form: an image, a sculpture, a natural object such as a stone or feather, or anything else that you find meaningful. Throughout our lifetimes, various symbols come to us; sometimes they are given to us, sometimes we find them, and sometimes we must search for them. Often, they come our way before we are fully ready to understand their meaning. Beneath this central symbol we may place an altar cloth made of any natural material of any color. Your central image and altar cloth can be changed every week on Sunday evening or Monday morning to initiate the next weeks activation of a different chakra.
Each week allow as much symbolism, imagery and meaning as your life allows to the altar for each week dedicated to a different element. Every altar can include symbols of all the elements – it is the process of emphasis that gives power to you during the week as you gaze at your altar.
Remove dust, wilted flowers, or ashes or wax left from burning. You may bathe sacred objects in water or dust them with special cloth that you only use for your altar. You can enjoy this as part of your weekly practice of renewal.Item description
Satsang/Community
We ask that every participant try to make one Facebook post during the week to be bold and vocalize your intentions, plant your seeds with the support of others, share your altar, your process or ask questions to Shiva or the group.
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The following five components are the anchors for the Living Yoga Sadhana group developed by Shiva for the teacher trainees and practioners over the past ten years. Our online group has been following the rhythms of the year for the past two years beginning with the new year cycle.
1. Samkalpa - Weekly sacred intention and alignment
2. Prana Flow Sadhana - Prana Flow Practice (daily or at least two times (solar-lunar) a week. Daily meditation practice.
3. Sacred Rhythm - Five Week Cycle and the conscious awareness of your solar-lunar rhythm during the day and week to harmonize any imbalances or enhance your natural rhythm.
4. Sacred Space/Altar - Awakening your home practice space and tending your inner and outer altar every day-week.
5. Satsang/Community - Joining our online community at least once a week about your altar, experience in practice or questions for the group.
WELCOME TO OUR CHAKRA PRANA FLOW LIVE JOURNEY
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– Practice each sequence (solar or lunar) once or twice during the week integrated with your regular practice; notice the effect of the movement alchemy on the flow of your daily life. How do you feel with the solar practice? The lunar practice? What is the elemental influence?
– Practice meditation (suggestion of in front of your home altar) every day being consistent with morning or evening or both
– Listen to the natural rhythms of your body and life; the natural waxing (solar) and waning (lunar) of life provides a way of attuning of which practice to choose. Listen to allow yourself to move into harmony with whatever may be arising within you.
– Solar practice is best in the morning or late afternoon-evening Tuesday – Friday morning, Sat and Sunday mornings or anytime you are feeling strong and naturally dynamic.
– Lunar Practice is best on Monday and most evenings and anytime you are feeling low-energy, ungrounded or needing to regenerate your energy
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Samkalpa
At the beginning of each practice at the end of your meditation, reflection and writing, we will listen for the week’s samkalpa or dedication. This short sutra is an anchor for your transformational process is suggested to be placed on your altar in some form visible form or placed in a sacred container written on a small piece of paper or in creative ways that are simple to honor.
Sadhana or Sacred Practice
Every Monday and Tuesday there are three practice sessions to guide you that you can experience live or on video archive posted 24-36 hours later.
Monday’s lunar practices are just two waves and all prana flow floor-work, inversions and Meditation & Mantra for the week.
Tuesday’s solar practice includes arm balances and urdhva dhaurasana variations.
Give yourself to the simplicity of the practices which are intentionally embodying the qualities of each element-chakra.
Set-up a practice rhythm that is realistic as well as transformative for you during the week.
Sacred Practice Rhythm
The natural waxing and waning of life
We will work with the transformational map of the elemental body maps with each week. Try to create a rhythm of practice that is steady while responding to the changes in daily life. Create your rhythm daily and weekly optimal flow.
Sacred Space/Altar
Your life is a mandala that includes your body, home and life. Your personal home altar is a great nexus—a navel that connects your inner and outer worlds—a conduit for your prayers, and a reflection of the altar of your heart.
Every altar has a central focus—a primary symbol—which can take any form: an image, a sculpture, a natural object such as a stone or feather, or anything else that you find meaningful. Throughout our lifetimes, various symbols come to us; sometimes they are given to us, sometimes we find them, and sometimes we must search for them. Often, they come our way before we are fully ready to understand their meaning. Beneath this central symbol we may place an altar cloth made of any natural material of any color. Your central image and altar cloth can be changed every week on Sunday evening or Monday morning to initiate the next weeks activation of a different chakra.
Each week allow as much symbolism, imagery and meaning as your life allows to the altar for each week dedicated to a different element. Every altar can include symbols of all the elements – it is the process of emphasis that gives power to you during the week as you gaze at your altar.
Remove dust, wilted flowers, or ashes or wax left from burning. You may bathe sacred objects in water or dust them with special cloth that you only use for your altar. You can enjoy this as part of your weekly practice of renewal.Item description
Satsang/Community
We ask that every participant try to make one Facebook post during the week to be bold and vocalize your intentions, plant your seeds with the support of others, share your altar, your process or ask questions to Shiva or the group.
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The following five components are the anchors our the Chakra Prana Flow Living Yoga Sadhana
1. Samkalpa - Weekly sacred intention and alignment
2. Meditation Sadhana - Prana Flow Practice (daily or at least two times (solar-lunar) a week. Daily meditation practice.
3. Movement Meditation - Weekly offering
4. Sacred Space/Altar - Awakening your home practice space and tending your inner and outer altar every day-week.
5. Satsang/Community - Refuge in our online community and sharing once a week about your experience in practice or questions for the group.
September Foundations in Soulful Vital Living + 10-day Navaratri -Ancestor Sadhana
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Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4
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Week 5
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Week 1 - earth (Bhumi)
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Oh Earth, impart to us those vitalizing forces that come from within your body, our central point, your navel; purify us wholly.
Earth (Pruthivi) is matter in its solid phase. Shape, form, and stability are in the nature of earth, thus earth forms the structure of things. Bones, cartilage, hair, nails, muscle, tendon, and ligament are earth-like, as are the walls of cells and the body’s covering: skin. Without the Earth element, our bodies would lack the necessary structure and resistance to the forces of nature forces of nature, just as the use of brick (Earth) houses protects us from excessive exposure to the Air (wind) , Fire (sun), and Water (rain) elements of nature. In essence, Pruthivi cradles and holds all living creatures of the planet, giving them food and shelter.
In Vinyasa, focusing on the earth element is important for urban yogis and yoginis for re-embodiment and connection to the natural rhythm of the earth beneath the concrete. Starting a practice with a pose of stillness and grounding (i.e. prostration, child’s pose) is honoring the earth element. The structural techniques of alignment (particulary through the bones) are also earth element and redistribute excess mental energy throughout the body. Allowing the body to yield to gravity in all asanas – from standing poses to shavasana – enhances the grounding, quality of Pruthivi.
Karma (action): Downward attractions, excretion/elimination
Type of Energy: Physical, mechanical energy
Vayu: Apana vayu
Sensory: Smell (Ganha) – nose
Intention: Grounding, building / stabilizing.
“The grounding, stabilizing, formative force; Giving structure and support; Coming home within one’s embodiment, connecting to living earth body; Mother of all elements.”
Dristi (gaze): Downward gaze
Chakra: Muladhara chakra
Kosha: Annamayakosha
Bija Mantra: lam
Dasha: kapha
Color/ Form: Red/yellow square
Psychology:
Groundedness, security, safety
Physical Attributes:
Muscles, bones, hair, teeth, connective tissue, organs
Lesson content
“The Earth is Mother, we are her sons and daughters.
Instill in me abundantly that fragrance,
which emanates from you and your plants and waters.
Peaceful, fragrant, gracious to the touch.
May Earth grant me her blessings.”
Week 2 - water (Jala)
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Water (Apas) is matter in its liquid phase and acts as both a carrier and agent of change. It represents our blood, carrier oxygen; our saliva and digestive fluids; our hormones; our sweat; and our urine. It is the mover of nutrients and the eliminator of waste products.
It is the sea of life with in us. In the body, Apas is necessary for assimilation and for maintaining electrolyte balance. The body is composed of more than 70% water, while the plasma in our blood is made of more than 90% water. The body’s lymphatic system is also governed by the Water element. Within the element of Water all the other elements maintain their function. Even Fire requires water to function (e.g. the digestive acids of the stomach).
In Vinyasa, the water element creates the connective flow between breath and movement akin to the current of a river.
Karma (action): procreation, cohesiveness, cleansing, adhesiveness, downward movement
Type of Energy: Chemical energy
Vayu: Apana vayu and vyana vayu
Sensory: Taste – tongue
Intention: Joy, contentment, love, graceful, adaptable.
“Carrier of life-energy, healing, cleansing fluid; tidal, lunar pull, the great vinyasa of a river – meandering, changing currents, powerful, collective flow.”
Dristi (gaze): Half-gaze, rasa dristi (watery eyes), ananda dristi (inward gaze)
Chakra: Svadhisthana chakra
Kosha: Pranamayakosha
Bija Mantra: Vam
Dosha: Kapha, pitta
Color/ Form: Orange, white crescent moon
Psychology: Pleasure, passion, self-nurturing, change, sexuality
Physical Attributes: bladder, kidneys, CSF, uterus, synovial fluid, interstitial fluid, digestive enzymes
Lesson content
“Oh friend, understand the body is an ocean,
rich with hidden treasures,
Within the body a lake of bliss,
on it the white soul swans take their joy.”
Week 3 - fire (Agni)
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Fire (Agni) is the energy of transformation or change. The exchange of energies, the conversion of matter from one phase to another: all are manifestations of Fire. In the body, the Fire element governs metabolism, body temperature, digestion(conversion of food into energy), and even thought (the assimilation and digestion of sensory impression into cognitive understanding, reason and memory).
Where there is movement there is friction and where there is friction there is Fire. Poor circulation results in cold hands and feet. The Fire element is radiant
energy and is present in the body as the flame of attention.
Karma (action): Brilliance, luminosity, penetration, locomotion
Type of Energy: Radiant energy
Vayu: Samanavayu
Sensory: Eyes – feet
Intention & Inspiration: Focus, linear, intensity, clarity, courage. “Sacred fire, the ancient absorption, purifying, luminous, dynamic dance of change.”
Dristi (gaze): One-pointed, fixed, eyes open
Chakra: Manipura, focus on the light behind the eyes, ekagrrata (one pointed), broomadya (ajna chakra)
Kosha: Manomayakosha
Bija Mantra: Ram
Dasha: Pitta
Color / Form: Yellow / downward-pointing triangle
Psychology: Inner power and strength, vitality, strength, intention, honor
Physical Atributes: Digestive enzymes, body temperature, luster of skin and eyes, gray matter of brain
Lesson content
“Fire is not seen until one fire stick rubs against another, though the fire remains hidden in the fire stick.
Let your body be the lower fire stick; Let the mantra be the upper.
Rub them against each other in meditation and realize the Lord.”
Week 4 - air - breath of the heart (Vayu)
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Air/Wind (Vayu) is matter in its gaseous phase. It is movement, fluidity, formlessness. It can be compressed or rarefied. It can be a gentle breeze, or a forceful gale. Air manifests itself in the body as movement, pulsation, expansion, and contraction. Air, like wind, can not be smelled, tasted, or even seen, it can only be felt through the sense of touch. Prana is the basic principle of Air element. Prana is the flow of Consciousness from cell to cell in the form of intelligence. It is the Vital Life Force.
Karma (action): Movement in a particular direction, giving and receiving
Type of Energy: Electrical energy
Vayu: Vyanavayuandudanavayu
Sensory: Skin, touch, hands
Intention & Inspiration: Connection to life force, movement, seeing and feeling in all directions. “Breath of life, pranic rhythm, the Great mystery, the unseen moving through all of creation.
Jai Hanuman!”
Dristi (gaze): Circulation of eyes in all directions
Chakra: Anahata chakra
Kosha: Vijnanamayakosha
Bija Mantra: Yam
Dasha: Vata
Color / Form: Green / hexagon (two superimposed triangles)
Psychology: Love, acceptance, compassion, trust
Physical Attributes: Lung, heart, circulation, muscle contraction, nervous system
Lesson content
“Breath is the life of beings;
therefore it is called the life of all.
Those who venerate the breath as brahman
live life to its full span.”
Week 5 - space (akash)
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Known as the Space element, Ether (akasha) is a mystical concept meaning all-enclosing, all pervasive, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent. Akasha is the emptiness in which all other elements exist. Quantum mechanics defines ether as “the field.” It represents the nature of the void, or the “home” in which all other elements interact. To grasp the concept of Akasha, consider a doorway or the empty space within a vase. There is nothing there, yet therein lays its usefulness. Similarly, the spaces in your body- lungs, the nostrils, the mouth, the stomach – are useful because of the space within them. Space implies receptivity, distance and location. In the body, Ether is the first expression of Consciousness, and the basic need of the bodily cells. In the development of matter, Ether comes first. Ether is expansive, empty and has no resistance. Ether provides freedom in which to move.
Without Ether there is no love or freedom.
Karma (action): Vibration, expansion, freedom, speaking
Type of Energy: Nuclear energy
Vayu: Prana vayu and udana vayu
Sensory: Sound, ears, hearing
Intention & Inspiration: Freedom, emptiness, spacious, transcending
“all pervading space-hosting life, aplha and omega, the stillness within movement, the great return.”.
Dristi (gaze): Pranava dristi (gaze at the eternal OM)
Chakra: Vishuddha chakra
Kosha: Anandamayakosha
Bija Mantra: Ham
Dosha: Vata
Color / Form: Blue (sky or bright) / white circle
Psychology: Communication, personal expression, speaking truth, manifesting
Physical Atributes: Throat, mouth, ears, joints, space inside organs
Lesson content
“As great as the infinite space beyond
is the space within the lotus of the heart.
Both fire and earth are contained in that inner space,
both fire and air, sun and moon, lightening and stars.
Whether we know it in this world or not,
everything is contained in that inner space.”