Jeevan Tatva Asana's (Video)

Jeevan Tatva Sadhan is a combination of eight practices. There is no mention of these practices in Yogic literature. This Sadhan is an invention of Yogeshwar Maha Prabhu Ram Lal Ji Maharaj. These exercises are very easy and all can learn them within a day or two. These have been found most effective in keeping the body in perfect health. All the joints are exercised and the glands are rejuvenated. It improves digestion. In short, it develops the Life Force in the body. It has eight parts, namely:
1. Taan Asan
2. Pagchalan (Feet movements)
3. Antra Chalan
4. Ghutne Chalan (Knee movements)
5. Sansar Asan
6. Kandhe Chalan (Shoulder movements)
7. Narhi Sanchalan
8. Bal machalan (Child Movements)

These asans are useful for all age groups and are very effective on all the organs of the body such as liver, stomach, spleen, pancreas, bladder, kidneys, lungs, head, arms, leg and joints. So it overhauls all the organs in such a way that they can function nicely. A person, who does the Jeewan Tatva regularly, leads a healthy and long life. Please see the special instructions before performing any asan at the bottom of the page. Shav Asana should be performed after each asana.

Shav Asana (Dead Body Pose) (Video)

To lie down on the ground like a dead body is called Shav Asan. In this asana one feels relaxed and at ease.

Method:
Lie down on the ground, keeping your body straight. Keep your hands along the side of your body, facing upward. Feel at ease and relax. Breathe normally. Do not move your fingers or toes or any other part of the body unnecessarily. Now think of your Satguru Dev or any other God you believe in or concentrate your mind at heart level or at naval. Keep your tongue in touch with the palate. Shav asana is a must after each and every asana.

Advantages:
a. One feels happy mentally.
b. It is very useful in various heart ailments and in hypertensions.
c. Tension is relieved and one feels physically relaxed.

The procedure for the Jeevan tatva postures is described below:

1. Taan Asana (Video)
Method:
Spread a mat on the floor and lie down on it with a straight back. Now keeping both arms straight and above your abdomen, interlace the fingers of both hands so that palms are facing outward, the thumbs are touching the abdomen. Now keeping the legs straight and fingers interlaced, rotate the arms upward and then backwards till they touch the ground behind your head. Hold your breath, then exhale slowly and alongwith it raise both arms upward then forward to the starting position. Repeat it 8 to 10 times.
Advantages:
a. It makes your body alert and energetic.
b. It purifies lungs and heart.
c. It makes the shoulders strong.

2. Pag Chalan (Video)
Method:
Lie down on the mat, keeping your body straight. Arms should be straight and by the side of your body. Now keeping the legs straight keep the right foot over the left and try to touch the ground with your right toe and then rotate back and touch the ground on the other side. Do not move your neck and body. Repeat this asana 5-7 times. Now keep your left feet over your right (reverse) and repeat the same steps above.
Advantages:
1. It improves the blood circulation on the feet.
2. It relieves muscular spasms of the feet and lower leg.
3. It relieves knee joint and leg pain and makes them strong.

3. Antar Chalan (Video)
Method:
Lie down on the mat on your back. Now bring your right foot over your left thigh. Keep the left leg straight. Now hold the big toe of the right foot with left hand and the right knee should touch the ground. Now slowly raise the right knee so that it touches the abdomen. One can take the help of right hand for pressing the right knee so that it touches the ground. Do it 8 to 10 times. Now repeat the same asana with the other leg, keeping the right leg straight. While doing this asana exhale and inhale slowly and gradually.
Advantages:
a. It improves the circulation to the legs and makes them stronger.
b. Helps to remove the extra fat from each thigh.
c. It improves the functionality of stomach, spleen, liver and bladder etc.
d. Very useful in abdomen pain cases. (dharan)

4. Ghutne Chalan (Knee Movements) (Video)
Method:
Lie down on the mat on your back. Spread your arms, palms facing the ground. Flex your legs so that heels are touching the hips. Now rotate both the knees toward the right side so that right knee touches the ground. Meanwhile rotate your neck to the left side. Now rotate both the knee towards the left side and neck toward the right side. Now the left knee touches the ground. Repeat 10 to 15 times. Breathe normally while doing this asana.
Advantages:
a. This is a very useful asana for neck disease and for backbone problems.
b. It improves the flexibility of the back bone.
c. It is very useful for patients using a neck collar support.

5. Sansar Asan (Video)
It has two poses:
Method: (First part)
Lie down on the mat on your back. Spread your arms to a 45 degree angle, hands facing the ground. Keep your body straight. Now rotate your whole body below the neck to about 45 degree angle towards the left side. Now turn your body back to original position and then rotate your body to the right side making a 45 degree angle and then return to the original position. Continue doing it 8 to 10 times.
Method: (Second part)
Lie down on the mat in prone position, keeping your arms straight and stretched in front of your eyes. Join both hands together with palms facing inwards. It is like sashtang pranam position. Now in this position rotate your whole body, including your head and neck towards left side upto 45 degrees. Now come back to the original position. Now rotate your body towards right side upto 45 degrees and then come back to the original position. Repeat it continuously 8 to 10 times. While doing this asan breathe normally.
Advantages:
a. It improves digestion.
b. Improves appetite and digestion. You can digest raw vegetables, yoghurt, milk, fats etc. more easily.
c. It improves blood circulation to liver, spleen, abdominal organs and reproductive organs thus improving their function.
d. It helps in various gas problems of abdominal organs.

6. Kandha Chalan (Shoulder Movements) (Video)
It has two parts:
Method: (First part)
Sit down on the mat in a simple comfortable pose or cross leg position. Now keep your left hand on left knee and right hand on right knee. Relax both shoulders. Now rotate the shoulders like the paddle of a cycle so that if you are turning right shoulder backward the left shoulder moves forward. Similarly if the right shoulder moves up the left shoulder moves down. Repeat this 10 to 15 times while keeping hands over the knees. Now stop and reverse the movement of shoulders.
Method: (Second part)
Sit in the above described position, keeping both the hands in your lap so that the right hand rests over the left hand. Now move your right hand and arm forward up, then around the left shoulder then above your head going towards the back of your head then along the right shoulder and back to your lap. As the right hand reaches the lap, the left hand moves up towards the right shoulder and right side of the neck around the head and going around the head towards left shoulder and then back to the original position. Repeat 10 to 15 times. Then reverse the position of hands in such a way that you start the movement of your hand from the back of your head and going to your lap. Repeat it 10 to 15 times.
Advantages:
a. It improves blood circulation in spleen, liver, stomach and sensory organs improving their functions,
b. Shoulders become more flexible and strong. Helps if you have shoulder pains.
c. Arms become stronger and muscle pains of arms are relieved.

7. Narhi Sanchalan (Video)
Method:
Sit down on the mat and spread your legs as far as possible. Distance between both feet should not be less than 3 inches. Now rotate your body at waste level, with both arms spread, so that you can hold the left big toe with your right hand. In this position your left arm and hand moves backward. You can bend slightly if needed. Now rotate back to original position and then towards right side without stopping so that now you can hold the right big toe with left hand and your right hand moves back automatically. Now do it continuously 20 to 25 times. It can be increased gradually later on.
Advantages:
a. Improves blood circulation of whole body from head to toe and helps proper discharge of wastes from the body.
b. It improves the quality of semen and improves function of reproductive organs.
c. It helps in centralization of Nabh (Dharan)
d. It helps in various diseases of the abdominal organs.
e. It reduces the abdominal girth.
f. It relieves the person from various gas problems

8. Bal Machalan (Video)
Method: Lie down on the mat on your back. Keep the arms along the side of your body. You are to imitate the movements of a small child. Now bend the right leg and bring the right knee toward the abdomen as far as possible. Meanwhile keep the left leg straight and slightly raised above the ground and also bend your neck forward. Now straighten the right leg and bend the left leg bringing it towards your abdomen. Meanwhile keep the right leg straight and a little raised above the ground. While doing this you can make a fist and bring the left fist towards the right knee when it comes near the abdomen and similarly bring the right fist towards left knee. Do it in continuous manner without stopping for 2 to 5 minutes. It can be done in the morning and also during evening time. Breathe normally while doing this asana.
Advantages:
a. It helps in painful conditions of knee joints.
b. It improves relieving the swelling of knee joints and to some extent in straightening the knee joints.
c. It improves the blood circulation of whole body from head to toes.
d. It makes the whole body stronger as whole body muscles work during this asan.
e. As this asana resembles the movement of small child, our body becomes light and flexible like a child's body.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

Purify and strengthen your body and mind with nutritionally balanced vegetarian food. Unlock the hidden powers of your mind through proper meditation, explore the benefits of positive thinking, and discover a broader sense of purpose. Yoga of Mind and Body is a positive guide to improve health, happiness, and spiritual well being while practicing:

A. Be alert and active while doing the sadhana (workout) and don't be lazy.
B. While doing shav asana after each sadhana, consider yourself like a child doing all these sadhana
C. All the time think of yourself being in good health and full of energy.
D. Keep your back straight all the times when walking, sitting, eating or doing sadhana's.
E. Every one should tie a belt around his/her abdomen below the naval when doing exercises.
F. Every sadhak(one who is doing yoga postures) should discuss daily with his guru (teacher) about how he is feeling physically.
G. While eating one should think that whatever one is taking is healthy food and it will make his body healthy and strong and will keep his mind in happy mood.
H. Each and every asana (posture) has its own effect. So each sadhak should do only those appropriate for the sadhak's age, occupation, nature and also depending upon the type of weather.
I. Each sadhak should follow bramhacharya until he is fully cured.

IF YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY AND HEALTHY: DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL, AVOID SMOKING AND EATING NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD AND STOP GAMBLING.

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