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.
A. Be alert and active while doing sadhana (workout)
and don't let laziness take over you.
B. While doing shav asana after each sadhana, consider yourself as 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 while 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 depending upon 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 EAT NON-VEGETARIAN FOOD AND STOP GAMBLING.
Yoga means "union" in Sanskrit, the classical
language of our India. According to the yogis, true happiness, liberation
and enlightenment comes from union with the divine consciousness known
as Brahman, or with Atman, the transcendent Self. The various yoga practices
are a methodology for reaching that goal.
Surya Namaskar is a series of twelve movements which comprise an effective
way to activate and loosen every part of the body. It may be used as a
preparation for other asanas, or combined with relaxation as a complete
session in itself when time is limited.
Shav Asana (Dead Body Pose)
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 hand 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.
Jeevan Tatva Asana's
Jeevan Tatva Sadhan is a combination of nine 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 like 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.
These asans in detail are shown below:
1. Taan Asana
Method:
Spread a mat on the floor and lie down on it in straight on 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
Method:
Lie down on the mat, keeping your body straight. Arms should be straight
and by side of your body. Now keeping the legs straight keep right foot
over the left 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 spasm of feet and lower leg.
3. It relieves knee joint and leg pain and makes them strong.
3. Antar Chalan
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 right
foot with left hand and 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 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)
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
knee toward right side so that right knee touches the ground. Meanwhile
rotate your neck to the left side. Now rotate both the knee towards left
side and neck toward right side. Now 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. Very useful for patients using neck collar support.
5. Sansar Asan
It has two poses:
Method: (First part)
Lie down on the mat on your back. Spread your arms to 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 come back to 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 original position. Now rotate your body towards
right side upto 45 degrees and then come back to 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. easily.
c. It improves blood circulation to liver, spleen, abdominal organs and
sex organs thus improving their function.
d. It helps in various gas problems of abdominal organs.
6. Kandha Chalan (Shoulder Movements)
It has two parts:
Method: (First part)
Sit down on the mat in a simple comfortable pose or cross leg pose. 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, 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
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 little 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 sex organs.
c. It helps in centralization of Nabh (Dharan)
d. It helps in various disease of abdominal organs.
e. It reduces the abdominal girth.
f. It relieves the person from various gas problems
8. Bal Machalan
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 little 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 little raised above the ground. While doing this you
can make the fist and bring the left fist towards the right knee when
it comes near the abdomen and similarly bring 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.
A person, who does the Jeewan Tatva regularly, leads a healthy and long
life.
Surya Namaskar
Surya Namaskar is one of the excellent yogic asana. The advantages one
gets through this single yogic-asan is quite comparable to those, which
one gets through various Asans, Mudras and Pranayam.
Advantages:
With regular practice of this yogic exercise:
a. Chest becomes broad
b. Arms become longer
c. Reduces waist line
d. Is useful in various skin diseases
e. Is useful in various abdominal diseases.
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