KRIYA FOR THE CIRCUMVENT FORCE (EIGHTH CHAKRA)

(Shiva Singh Khalsa Notes, Summer 2001)

  1. Get on Hands & Knees. Extend the left leg up and back at a 45 degree angle. Keep the head up. Breath of Fire for 2 minutes. Reverse legs and repeat.

  1. Sit Down With Your Legs Extended Out in Front. Stretch both legs out in front 12 to 18 inches apart. Grasp the toes (if you can) with the hands. Begin bouncing up and down from the base of the spine, gently pulling with the arms and loosening up. (If you can’t grasp your toes, grasp whatever you can reach — your thighs, your knees, your calves--while still keeping your spine straight.) Increase the intensity of the movement and of the breath until you are touching the third eye to the floor each time, letting your neck loose so your head bounces right up each time. (If you cannot touch your third eye to the floor, then imagine you are doing so.) Inhale “WHA-HAY,” exhale “GU-RU,” meditating on a glowing field of energy building up around your body. Continue for 7 ½ minutes, optimum time, 15 minutes.

  1. Lie on Your Back in Corpse Pose. Lie back, relax, meditate on “SAT,” inhaling and concentrating at the base of the spine. Exhale “NAM,” projecting from the third eye, feeling the magnetic field grow stronger. 3 minutes.

  1. Bridge Pose. Sitting down, raise the buttocks up high, pressing the navel point into the sky. Let the head fall back, arms straight. Breath of Fire for 3 minutes. Inhale, hold, close the rectum and spiral the pranas up the spine out the top of the head. Exhale, come down, sit in Easy Pose with your hands in Gyan Mudra.

  1. Sit in Easy Pose. Hands in Gyan Mudra. Sitali Pranayam (Beak Breath). Roll the tongue into a “U” with the tip just outside your lips. (If you can’t roll your tongue, then just extend the tip of your tongue outside your lips, resting on the lower lip.) Inhale deeply and powerfully through the mouth, making a hissing, whistling sound — inhale more in little breaths, then exhale through the nose. Continue for ten minutes. There will be a pressure build-up in the ears, you will want to stop, but keep up. (This is a soothing breath. If ever an exercise brings more energy than a person can handle, this will smooth it out!)

  1. Still in Easy Pose. Bring the palms together at the mind nerve, thumbs pressing the sternum, other fingers extended out together at 60 degrees. Look with open eyes down past the tip of the nose at the ends of your middle fingers. Breathe long and deep and chant:

AAD GURAY NAMEH (I bow to the primal wisdom, I bow)

JUGAD GURAY NAMEH (to the wisdom which has prevailed throughout history, I bow)

SAT GURAY NAMEH (to the true teacher, true even now, I bow)

SIRI GURU DEVAY NAMEH

(to the great transparent Teacher, present everywhere, I bow.). 

Comments: This kriya is for the eighth center, not generally recognized in yoga texts. Kundalini Yoga works on eight centers — the seven chakras and the one engulfing aura / electromagnetic field / eighth center. Lots of Kundalini Yoga masters have been taught about the chakras. They have not been taught about the arc line (Sixth Body) and the aura / eighth center. Therefore the science is not complete with them. That is why for centuries it has been told that Kundalini Yoga should not be taught because it is dangerous. It is only dangerous if you open up your chakras without the controlling connection of the aura and the arc line. (There are ten bodies and they all have to be in balance.)

Since the whole universe is defined by patterns of magnetic fields, the magnetic field of the individual is important. When this field is strong and clear, it can be allowed to resonate in harmony with the environment, thus bringing physical health, mental peace and spiritual communion to the individual.

Exercise 5, Sitali Pranayam (Beak Breath), gives strength, power and vitality. (Initially, the tongue may taste bitter, but it will eventually become sweet.) It can be done by itself for 3 minutes, or 26 times in the morning and 26 times in the evening. 108 repetitions is a deep meditation and a powerful healer for the body and digestive system.