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| What is a sequence of postures, breath and sound with a specific effect |
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| What are the channels in the body though which prana flows? |
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| What are the Tattwas (Tattvas)? |
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| Air Water Fire Earth Ether |
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| What is the law of cause and effect, and is removed when ignorance is removed? |
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| What is action aligned with one's Infinite Self, and the central organizing principle of the cosmos? |
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| What are the three conditions of matter? |
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The 3 Gunas:
1)Sattva - pure essence
2)Rajas - creative active energy
3)Tamas - inertia / decay |
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| What is the recording component of the mind, which receives impressions gathered by the senses from the outside world. |
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| What is the illusion of "reality" of sensory experience? |
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| What are the tendencies in the subconscious & unconscious mind - they define our character. |
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| What is life energy, conveyed in food, breath and thought? |
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| What must blend for the Kundalini to rise? |
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prana - sustaining energy that rises
apana - eliminating energy that descends |
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| What are the 3 most important Nadis? |
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| Ida Pingala and Shushmuna |
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| What is the nadi that brings cooling, soothing mind-expanding energy of the moon, and ends at the left nostril? |
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| What is the nadi that brings in stimulating, energizing, heating energy of the sun and ends at the right nostril. |
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| What is the central nadi, that originates at the base of the spine (where it meets Ida and Pingala) and travels up the center of the spine to the top of the head. |
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| Shushmuna Nadi / Silver cord |
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| What is the creative potential, energy of consciousness, energy of the soul itself? |
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| What are locks that are applied to the body to direct prana and apana? |
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| What is a hand position that locks or seals; guiding energy flow and relaxing the brain? |
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| What is the most commonly applied of the bandhas / locks; usually applied during chanting and pranayam and holding the breath in or out (unless instructed otherwise)? |
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Jalandhar Bandh ("neck lock")
(effect: contains moon center energy) |
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| Which Bandh is named after the rising energy of the lower abdomen and helps contain the energies of the solar center (at the solar plexus)? |
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| Uddiyana Bandh (diaphragm lock) |
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| Which Bandh coodinates, stimulates and balancese the energies involved with the rectum, sex organs, and navel point? It is also responsible for blending prana & apana at the navel center. |
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| What is the pathway of energy from the rectum to the vocal cord? |
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| What is the pathway from the Third Eye to the pineal gland (opened only under special circumstance)? |
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| What is the pathway of energy from the neck 1) over the top of the brain to the pituitary gland and 2) through the lower part of the brain. |
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| kundalini is coiled 3.5 times around _______ at the base of the spine and generally latent there due to a blockage(knot). |
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| Prana and Apana mix at the _________ at the 4th lumbar vertebra. |
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Nabhi chakra / Navel center
pg 21 |
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| Which lock brings apana up to the navel (4th Lumbar vertebra- the central seat of kundalini) where it can mix with prana? |
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| What lock takes the energy up the silver cord (shushumna nadi) to the neck? |
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| Uddiyana bandh (diaphragm lock) |
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| What lock takes the energy up through the passage and the Golden Cord? |
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| Jalandar Bandh (neck lock) |
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| This Knot is in the first chakra, and must be penetrated for the kundalini to flow freely. |
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Brahm Granthi / Knot of Brahman
(Before this knot is penetrated it's difficult to meditate or sit still. All meditations that stimulate the Navel Chakra open up the fires of that gate and eventually break through this first barrier to awakening.) |
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| This Knot is in the Heart chakra, and must be penetrated for the kundalini to flow freely. |
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Vishnu Granthi / Knot of Vishnu
(as this knot unties it adjusts the relationship to that which sustains (Vishnu=sustainer) one isn't so attached to the forms of the world, a sense of larger God dawns. It opens the ability to hear the subtle sounds / cosmic frequencies (anahat, naad, shrutis) |
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| Which Knot is as the Brow point? |
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Rudra Granthi / Knot of Shiva
(When it's untied, you go beyond a sense of lower identity and time. You act for all time. It's a challenging knot, people think they've opened it but they're attached to their new powers and entangled in it. When you transcend it, you establish yourself in non-dual openness and ecstasy, you say "Wahe Guru!" |
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| What is the stage of the apprentice? (when we begin doing the honest work to improve ourselves) |
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What is the stage of the expert?
(When we're at a stage of ease, balance, grace with life) |
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What is the stage of the novice?
(When we have left the pain of the past way and are happily feeling the freshness of our new way of life) |
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What is the stage of the craftsman?
(The most challenging stage: when we're distracted by satisfaction with ourself and our growth) |
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| Which is the stage of the Master, when we are in harmony with the universe? |
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