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Complimentary Practices for Yogasanas

There is much to be said for the practices outside of yogasanas that support & enrich the practice we have on the mat.

During my time at Atmavikasa my teachers have gradually introduced us to ‘complimentary practices’ which can all combined deepen our practice, allow for detox (Physical, Mentally & Emotionally), give reverence to the traditional Hatha yoga system & philosophies, and last but not least further our spiritual work.

They can give you the energy to reflect upon yourself. Build the good intentions from the inside - easier with high energy( Water, Fruits/Veg, Barefoot Walking, Chanting, Pranayama, Meditation, Philosophy & Sungazing).

The most simple yet effective practices are given first:

Drinking Water

4 Litres of water minimum per day is needed for our bodies to function properly.

2 Litres per day (1 litre at a time, 2 separate times)

First one in morning after Asana, Pranayama & Kriya Practice

Second litre drank after mediation/class late afternoon 5:30pm

Temperature preferably room temperature/warm water allows your body to maintain homeostasis, optimally flushing out toxins and replenishing the cells.

We drink at once continuously to:

Rehydrate: After seven or eight hours of sleep, your body becomes dehydrated. Drinking water upon waking helps increase the flow of oxygen, and aids in the production of muscle and blood cells.

Jumpstart your metabolism: Drinking water in the morning can boost your body’s metabolism by about 24%, which can aid in maintaining a healthy weight.

Flush out your toxins: When you drink water in the morning before eating, you help to purify your colon, allowing nutrients to be absorbed more easily. Your kidneys also function better when you’re getting enough fluids.

Energise your brain: When you’re dehydrated, your brain is operating on low fuel. This can cause you to feel tired, drained, may lead to headaches, and you may even experience mood fluctuations.

Prevents & cures diseases: While you sleep your body repairs itself, replenishes energy and balances hormones. The result is toxins and other waste materials being released and waiting to be flushed out.

Be mindful that drinking water is one thing, however absorption & retaining is another.

Depending on nutrition & lifestyle factors, will govern the % of the water you drink that is being absorbed.

Salt intake, sugar, stress, coffee which will excite your nerves will have a connection to absorption. Along with your sleep regularity/patterns and of course the amount of toxins that you have in your body.

When you are constipated, this will not allow you to absorb the water.

Ironically the main cause of constipation is dehydration.

Drinking water when you wake up will not only cure dehydration but it will help relieve constipation, help to keep you regular and promote a morning bowel movement.

To check levels of dehydration, firstly you can watch the dryness of the mouth, if your lips are dry then you need more water. Also your urine if not clear/odourless it means you need more water to not only hydrate your body and cells but also to help your organs detoxify the waste you are holding onto.

Fruits and Vegetables

So here we come to the key aspect of healing, removing the impurities of the mind & deep connection to your true nature, which of course will allow much space for a pure practice.

Its a huge topic, massive industry, everybody has ‘the diet’ or ’the nutritional answer’ etc, so sometimes it can be difficult knowing what information to trust & how to discern.

It can be difficult to jump transition into a raw diet, so it must be taken slowly.

My teacher described the analogy that if you put a child into a room, with all different types of food, it will go for the natural food like fruits & vegetables that you can eat straight away without cooking/processed foods etc.

My teacher has recommended to read books/works by Dr T.C Fry & Herbert M. Shelton who champion the ideas of the Natural Hygiene health system. Would be worth having a look at for further research

(https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/natural-hygiene)

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Our digestive systems have got so conditioned to cooked food, let along sugary, spicy & salty foods.

With each food there will be 3 elements stored in the body: gross, middle and subtle elements. The gross will become manifested in our body to excrement, the middle part is transformed into flesh, and the subtlest part goes to form the mind.

So it would be fair to say (but perhaps not verifiable other than from direct experience itself which requires discipline) that certain foods carry specific energies that will affect your body on all of these 3 levels.

Almost like a code or vibrational frequency that has been inbuilt from the cosmic intelligence contained with each matter. Reading on the Yoga Sutras & other Yogic philosophies will help cement these ideas on mind, matter & energy.

“When the food is pure, the mind becomes pure. When the mind becomes pure, memory becomes firm. And, when a man is in possession of firm memory, all the bonds which tie him down to the world are loosed.” Swami Budhananda

Our systems are not used to the prana that comes in from Yogasanas (Mediation, Pranayama, and all other complimentary practices). Sometimes are unable to handle the nerve energy that comes in, unless your body & mind knows how to handle this energy then there will be wastage along with misdirection of prana spent. So the importance is clearly there that we need foods that can keep the prana balanced & stabilised.

Prana = the energy that flows in the nerves. Comes out both as physical + mental energy.

Work from a policy of inclusion & exclusion; gradually start noticing the differences in your mind fluctuations, nerve energy, calmness & physical effects on the body.

My teachers greatly approve of Bananas - this fruit will give you great nutritional benefits along with sufficient calories for fruit, but furthermore to this it will disturb you the least out of all the foods(your mind & body).

Here is a blog that I written on the wonder of bananas, please feel free to read further here:

https://lucycates-anythingispossible.tumblr.com/post/179040307667/a-banana-can-help-but-only-you-do-the-final-break

Sungazing

The Science of Staring at the Sun - The sun is the bringer of life to all existence on this planet.

The theory is that the sun is the force of all life, and staring at it can infuse the body with large amounts of energy.

Our ancestors understood the relation between the sun and health. From the Aztecs to the ancient Egyptians, many past societies revered sungazing as an esoteric practice for high-ranking priests and shamans.

Here are important instructions for sungazing that must be followed strictly.

Timing: For beginners 5-10 minutes per day. In 2-3 months of daily practice, you can increase to 15 minutes

Types:

Active - Directly looking at the sun

Passive - Face to sun (eyes closed) feeling 3rd eye.

Conditions

Well Hydrated

Barefoot ( Grounded - Circuit complete)

2 hours after sunrise in the morning / 2 hours before sunset early evening.

10-30 seconds look directly at the sun

Stand on the mud - then you can go for barefoot

Benefits for sungazing

Nerves get more strength

Helps with hormonal issues

Improves digestion

Biggest Anti-Depressant (Boosts production of melatonin & serotonin)

Rise in energy levels

Increased the actual size of the pineal gland

Not all bodies can absorb the same way, it depends upon the condition of your nerves.

Side related issue - B12

Non- absorption of vitamins (+B12) into the blood, if you don’t get enough sun.

Increase your gut health - to increase also absorption of vitamin B12. We produce it inside our gut - Organic Veggies can help with this if you eat unwashed due to bacteria present in soil.

Also eating with hands ( Indian traditional method), and growing your own herbs / veg at home.

Hira Ratan Manekun(more commonly known as HRM) is a true sungazer and brought it to our Western world. He has founded the Solar Healing centers, and website.

http://solarhealing.com

He is a man who lives off of the energy that the sun provides and water only.

(Sometimes HRM will have tea, coffee or buttermilk for social purposes)

Here is a trailer to a documentary “Eat the sun” where HRM features & discusses his experience with sungazing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM9iDdkKZ7M

In his own words, HRM states that the sun can be used to heal the mind, body and spirit. He also claims that as a result of sun gazing you will have better physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

HRM has gone through three strict long term fasts and during those he was under the supervision and observation of various medical and scientific teams.

Personal Experiences

I have been drinking 4 litres of water per day now for 8 weeks, physically my skin is really clear, I have less appetite than I had previously ( I was dehydrated before). My body feels much lighter & fresher. It’s hard to describe exactly the feeling other than I feel good, fresh and that I can actually feel my body is being cleaned out from past toxins.

I have experienced a deep detox which initially started in the first 2 weeks as physical digestive detox. Some unexplainable things have been happening for example, never ending diahorrea despite fasting with the old rotten meat coming out of my intestines ( that’s what the smell was like anyway - putrid !) it’s key to note that I haven’t eaten meat for over 12 years now. All sorts of junk that has been stored in my intestines for years.

Next was the emotional detox / neurological / psychological  (it’s still in process - I must have a lot of karma to resolve) which has been continuing now for 3-4 weeks. I can say since I have never detoxed in this way before, it’s hard to understand what is going on & why; the deeper spiritual reasons behind it. I know in the long run its worth it, to purify & clear out all the impurities of the body & mind once & for all.

To be able stop & remove any future disease from manifesting surely seems like a small temporary pain/discomfort price to pay. I’ll be completely transparent in saying that it really is not easy. Thank you to my Acharya for all her support, energy & guidance.

Aligning your body with nature - instinct.

http://www.atmavikasayoga.in

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Alashkert 0-Three Celtic

Alashkert 0-Three Celtic

Alashkert 0-Three Celtic

Celtic took a giant step in direction of the second spherical of Champions League qualifying with a 3-Zero win over Alashkert in Yerevan

Objectives from Odsonne Edouard, James Forrest and Callum McGregor gave Celtic victory within the first leg of the Champions League first qualifying spherical tie towards Alashkert.

Of their first aggressive outing of the season, Brendan Rodgers’ aspect had been examined within the searing Yerevan warmth.

Celtic’s superior ending proved the distinction as Edouard and Forrest struck both aspect of the break.

McGregor’s purpose on the loss of life turned a very good win into an emphatic one.

The second leg takes place at Celtic Park on Wednesday, 18 July.

Scotland’s champions should negotiate an additional qualifying spherical if they’re to make the Champions League group stage this season, with this the primary of 4 potential ties.

Probably the most intriguing side of the Celtic beginning line-up was the choice of supervisor Rodgers, who so usually deploys a lone striker, to pair French duo Moussa Dembele and Edouard in assault.

Dembele twice got here near discovering the scoring contact within the opening minutes, nearly intercepting a unfastened backpass after which simply failing to use the mandatory contact to an outstanding Kieran Tierney cross.

Odsonne Edouard slots house the opener for Celtic

A double scare quickly got here on the different finish. Uros Nenadovic skipped away from Jozo Simunovic and his rasping drive needed to be overwhelmed away by Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon. Moments later, the Serbian striker tried his luck from the nook of the penalty space however his strike sailed over the bar.

Dembele drew a very good save from Ognjen Cancarevic within the Alashkert purpose as Celtic looked for the opener, whereas James Forrest discovered area and drove in direction of the field however couldn’t preserve his shot down.

Tierney was working Alashkert right-back Artak Yedigaryan ragged, with most of Celtic’s pleasure emanating from that flank.

McGregor flashed a shot throughout purpose and whereas the Scottish champions had been effectively on prime, they got common reminders of the house aspect’s threats.

Artak Dashyan fed Nenadovic contained in the Celtic penalty field and solely a well-timed intervention from Simunovic prevented Gordon being known as into motion. Artur Yedigaryan then tried his luck from the sting of the field however the captain’s shot was off-target.

Scott Brown shook off a knee damage to captain Celtic in Yerevan

Dembele was denied by Cancarevic after getting in behind the house defence however, simply because it regarded just like the Armenian champions had made it to the break intact, Celtic struck in first-half stoppage time.

Edouard, who signed a everlasting deal in the summertime after a profitable mortgage spell from Paris St-Germain final season, turned the ball house from 12 yards after assembly Forrest’s mishit shot first time.

That ought to have settled any nerves within the Celtic ranks, however early within the second half defender Jack Hendry was robbed of possession by Jefferson Reis, who ought to have achieved a lot better than to tamely stab the ball straight at Gordon from 12 yards.

Cancarevic nearly contrived to reward Celtic a second purpose. The keeper raced from his purpose to mop up a unfastened ball solely to be dispossessed by Dembele, however managed to scrub up his personal mess earlier than any injury was achieved.

Common water breaks had been permitted within the searing warmth of Yerevan

With the temperature round 30C, and with early-season rust little question enjoying an element, Celtic weren’t exerting their superiority. Artak Yedigaryan stung the palms of Gordon with a fierce 22-yard strike as Alashkert threatened to degree issues up.

Cesar Romero and Reis noticed probabilities come and go because the guests started to sit down in, seemingly content material to take a one-goal combination lead again to Glasgow.

Nonetheless, after a goalmouth scramble the ball dropped to Forrest to lash house Celtic’s second 11 minutes from the tip.

And with nearly the final kick of the sport, McGregor fired a measured low end into the online to all however assure subsequent week’s second leg is nothing greater than a formality.

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