It's 6 A.M.: Do you know where your bandhas are? · 24 March 2008

Ways to wake up your uddiyana bandha before practice:

1. Nauli kriya
2. Ahem----
3. Forward fold on pointe; fingertips to floor; bend the knees; straighten; light up the arches of the feet all the way to the pit of the belly.
4. Sing something wicked, bluesy, bassy and/or loud. The way Jack White inflects the word hips in the third line of The Denial Twist will take you there, for example. Don't hold back.  

 

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Categories: astanga yoga , esoteric shit , evolution , having a body

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1. why I do believe that you’re recommending a little Bikram Yoga with #3 (and perhaps with #2, as well!)

   Posted by: cody · Mar 24, 06:10 PM · #

2. is ahem a good poo? because if it is a different kind of ahem…can you do that before practice?

   Posted by: cranky housefrau · Mar 25, 02:48 AM · #

3. I find that the poo-ahem works better as a bandhas-enhancer than the kapow-ahem does; the latter ahem tends to cash in my bandhas, something like a prana version of the refractory period (if I read you right, cranky).

   As I adore uddiyana:

   1) Stand, sit, or otherwise exist in space and time.
   2) Imagine shalabhasana; spinal flexors light up.
   3) Inhale, ribs big, belly sinks.
   4) Exhale, maintain that shape and that energy.
   5) Hi, uddiyana bandha.

   Posted by: patrick · Mar 25, 04:03 AM · #

4. this discussion is actually very interesting to me because i have become very aware lately of how i neglect my uddiyana. mostly just when sitting i will notice that i become lordotic and lazy. my shoulders are down and back but i stick out my ribcage and arch my back. lazy.

   Posted by: cranky housefrau · Mar 25, 04:27 AM · #

5. Oh!!!!

   C.H.: 1. No. 2. Yes.

   Patrick: Might be a gender difference here, or I am a weird case. The tantra I’ve seen would say the former, I seem to recall.

   Nice UB list. Ever since I re-started collecting words, I am all about lists. This too shall pass.

   Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 25, 04:32 AM · #

6. C.H. Try sitting in lotus for 5 minutes every 30, if that is ok for your bum leg. Sets the slate for spinal awareness.

   ALSO: Shit! I’m channeling Mister Bikram?! Exactly what I get for making shit up. Works though….

   Posted by: (0v0) · Mar 25, 04:35 AM · #

7. Can somebody help me find my bandhas? They are still on vacation. Somewhere classy, I think, Paris perhaps?

   Posted by: Anna · Mar 25, 10:50 AM · #

8. Is that like when Vanessa’s bandhas apparently stayed in London while she was at Tim’s place?

   Posted by: patrick · Mar 25, 12:39 PM · #

9. Do I HAVE bandhas?!?

   Posted by: V · Mar 26, 03:14 AM · #

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