OJO CALIENTE – DAY THREE

Sitting and breathing Once you are all seated, see if for ten minutes you can not disturb the body, because we do need to go back to the posture and how to sit. In all the postures we need to find a very fine balance between having certain integrity in the posture,...

OJO CALIENTE – DAY TWO

Sitting and breathing Place the blindfold over your eyes and do not disturb. First find your sitting position. Take one or two minutes to find your balance. Yesterday we brought the attention to the spinal column. The center of your body, in this position, starts in...

OJO CALIENTE – DAY ONE

Sitting with awareness Use the blindfold, so that you screen out the rest of the universe. You are going to sit for ten minutes and I want you to keep the body still for ten minutes, because we do not want an interruption. If you do need to stretch your legs and...

ESSAY ON CLASSICAL SAVASANA

In this article I would like to show how the body functions. Many people do a lot of positions, and often they damage the body in the process. If you understand, however, how the body functions, you can do all the positions without damaging the body. It is an...

ESSAYS ON PRANAYAMA

PART ONE Sit in Padmasana or half Padmasana. Close the eyes and keep the head up, keeping the hands loosely on the knees with the palms facing upwards (savasana rotation of the arms). This helps to keep the shoulder blades down. We have to find the gravitational...
Mula Bandha breathing with Jalandhara Bandha

Mula Bandha breathing with Jalandhara Bandha

The following essay is drawn from old pranayama classes that I held in Holland in the eighties Sit in Padmasana or Siddhasana Bring the head down in Jalandhara Bandha. Close the eyes and follow the movement internally. The teacher can only say things, show things, but...