Raising energy with yoga

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 31 May 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Sulis	31 May 2003
Hi, I`ve been doing yoga for just over a year now. I`ve recently changed to a new yoga class and am now doing dynamic yoga. It`s a very strong type which flows from one posture to the next. My yoga teacher says that with experience we should be able to continue the sequence for up to about 2 hours, making it into a continuous meditation, the breath flowing from start to finish. This type of yoga definately generates a lot of energy and I`m thinking of encorporating it into my magical work as a way of raising energy. Do any of you raise energy by using yoga? If not, how do you raise energy? I use visualisation at the moment and have used a drum in the past but it disturbs everyone else in the house *LOL* Just me being a bit nosey. Love and light Crystal xx )O(

LittleWing	31 May 2003
hi crystal ......... yes i practise yoga, have done for a few years. i have recently started dynamic yoga (at home) ... but am recovering from illness - so even 1 hour like this is a bit much for me!! anyway ..... i find that because i practise yoga everyday ..... i am more in tune, and find it very easy to center myself before reading. i do not really do magic work. some tarot spells, but i just use visualisation and focus. yoga spills over into all areas of your life. im not sure how it all stands with magic. i know kundalini yoga is very powerful for this ...... have you heard of this??? ************************************ and to a fellow yogini, do you know of any tarot with yoga influence. maybe an idea for a future deck??? i am aware of OM cards, and in my cosmic tarot deck, the hermit is in yoga asana and it makes me love him more!

Alissa	31 May 2003
I've practiced yoga off and on, not dedicatedly I'm afraid, and I've practiced (and am currently practicing regularly) kundlaini mediation. And just this morning I spontaneously felt like doing some asanas after meditating, so I did, and *funny enough* my focus during the yoga was to direct energy into and through my chakras. The other way I've had fantastic luck raising energy in the past was with chanting, but it took me a while to get it really going. I felt silly a lot at first, and repetition finally got me in deeper to a point where it was actually raising and building my energy inside. Sometimes I would get very charged, that was an amazing experience. I often chanted mantras like "Om mani padme hum" as well. Conscious breathing and focusing prana into the chakras alone can be enough to get me pretty high a lot when I meditate, so my struggle is to keep grounded, mostly by bringing the energy down as well as up, so to speak.

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