Йога Леди Нигумы (2010, Феникс), занятие 1

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Okay, so we'll start. Everybody have a niguma chakra kit? If you don't, you may not have a niguma chakra kit.

Thank you. Okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Christine, come on.

[Говорящий 1]
Gee, all right. See if they can turn the air conditioning up. Try.

Tell them 68 is ideal. At 70, they fall asleep. Okay, here we go.

We should all have this paper here. Now it's time to unfold it. This is what you're going to take your notes on tonight.

So tonight we're going to talk about a special kind of yoga that was invented about a thousand years ago. It was created by a lady named Niguma. And she lived exactly a thousand years ago.

She lived in India. And her yoga series is the oldest one that we have any record of. So like yoga sutra is older, but it doesn't actually tell you to do any asanas, okay?

Any physical yoga. And Hatha Yoga Vedipika, which is also an older yoga text, it's about 500 years later. So really, Lady Niguma's yoga series is the oldest series we have anywhere.

And the only series that we have from ancient times that was designed by a woman. And what she did, she did an interesting kind of yoga. And maybe the guys were all thinking about getting strong and looking good, you know?

And then her yoga had a completely different feel to it. And her only goal in her yoga was to help people get over their negative emotions. So her yoga is designed to make you happy and make you love other people.

And it's not so much concentrating on exercise, or looking good, or anything like that. Her yoga, she called it Nyomonpanma Nyonjo, which means the yoga for getting rid of your negative emotions, and yoga for developing love for other people, kindness towards other people. So she had specific exercises for each kind of emotion that you would like.

So if you wanted compassion, you would do a certain twist. And if you wanted to get over jealousy, you would do a different twist. And if you had anxiety or depression, then you would do a different kind of exercise.

So her yoga, we've designed a yoga from it that we are teaching to people who... just working people. And the idea is that maybe if you learned her yoga and you learned how it worked, then you could do this yoga like in the morning before you go to work.

So it's not really so much for people who have all day to do nothing. It's more for people who are working, going to an office. And then they, you know, if you've ever worked in a barge office, which I did for 15 years, it's a lot of stress.

There's a lot of emotions going on. There's a lot of anger during the day. There's a lot of jealousy.

There's a lot of upset. You know, there's stress with other people, tension with other people, you know. So we thought, what we're trying to do is take Niguma's yoga and teach it to working people around the world.

So I think next month, for example, we're going to Vienna to teach it to people there. And we're going to Detroit before that to teach it to people who are stressed out. One third of the people in Detroit don't have a job.

Half the buildings are empty. And we're trying to, like, lower the stress level in Detroit a little bit with Niguma's yoga. And then after that, we go on to teach it in several countries in Asia, like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

So the idea is we would like to teach a yoga. Maybe it will take 45 minutes. Most yoga takes an hour and a half.

Some takes two hours. Nowadays in Tucson, everybody got lazy. They're doing whatever.

And we were thinking that it would be good if you had something that was a half hour or 45 minutes for someone who has to, you know, get up early and go to work, you know. So for real people. Because I think yoga has sort of passed those people, you know.

People who really have to support a family, have to really work hard. It would be nice if they were included in this yoga revolution, which makes you healthy. You know, they used to call me the Pillsbury Doughboy.

And I was like 210 pounds. A lot of you never saw me like that. But then I started yoga like 10 years ago.

And, you know, it keeps you healthy and young and strong. And we would like to see people around the world use that kind of yoga. And something easy for them to do in the morning before they go to work that doesn't take too...

The big thing for a working person is they don't have time. And then each kid you have, you have less time. So by three hours a day.

So if you have three children, you have nine hours less than other people. So this kind of yoga we kind of designed. And what I wanted to do tonight was first to tell you very briefly where it came from and the history of this yoga.

We say just so you'll respect it or you'll like it. And then after that, maybe I would like to explain to you how it works. How does this yoga help you get over stress at work?

If you do this yoga before you go to your job, why will this yoga help you? And how does it work? What does it really do?

Because that gets into what we call the diamond body or the rainbow body. You have an inner body which is invisible. And then if you can affect that body with yoga.

Yoga is meant to affect the inner body. And then you'll be a happier person. And during the day, if you do yoga on the inner body in the morning, you'll be a happier person during the day.

And in a way, if you can affect the inner body in the morning, it changes the reality of the day. So if you were going to have a fight with somebody at work that day, but if you did yoga in the morning, you would go to work and they would smile at you and say, you know, how are you? You see what I mean?

We believe that the inner body produces your outer world. So if you did a yoga which changed your inner body in the morning, then most of your days would go well and very sweetly. So we're just trying to, especially in these times of economic difficulty, a lot of people are really stressed out.

If you have a family and you have a mortgage, where I am, up north of Phoenix, half the houses are for sale, foreclosed. You know, people couldn't pay their mortgages. So there's a tremendous amount of stress in the world right now, especially in this country.

So if we can, if there's a kind of yoga that you can do, which doesn't take very much time, and you can do it in the morning before you go to work, and if it changes your life, and changes the world around you, then that would be nice to share with everybody. So I have this dream of sharing that with everybody. There's a kind of person who comes to yoga studios now, who's like 30 or 35, and, you know, they have a lot of money, and they can afford to take two hours off in one day, and, you know, they have time to fill around with headstands and handstands.

And then there's other people who would never come to a studio, because they don't have time. And they have children, and they have work to go through. So we would thought, what if you could open up those people's hearts?

And what if you could make those people happy? You know, what if you could teach a kind of yoga that would make them happy, and make them happy? Because also, just the problem with overweight in this country, and people's eating habits, when you do yoga correctly, then you don't feel like overeating, and you don't feel like...

you know, you just feel more healthy. So in this country, I think a lot of the reason why America is lagging now behind other countries, is that they're just not healthy. And they don't have any strength.

They don't have any physical energy. Because if you go... My Lama used to go to Circle K, and he'd walk in, and he'd turn around and look at me, and he said, there's nothing you can eat in this place.

There's not one thing in this place that's good for you. You know? And he wasn't a hippie, you know?

He was an old-fashioned Tibetan Lama. He just said he couldn't find anything in there to eat. You know?

So I'm hoping that tonight, partly, we're going to talk about this kind of yoga, but part of the idea is, could you teach it yourself? Could you pass it on to other people yourself? You know?

And I don't think you have to be a yoga teacher to teach this yoga. Okay? This is not a kind of yoga that you have to, you know, be able to do a headstand with no arms or something, to go out and teach it.

I think I would like you to learn the ideas behind it. And then there's no reason why you can't teach it to your friends, or your family, even your parents. My mom, I taught it to her a while back.

Now, I taught her basic Naropa's yoga in 19, around 1970, 1980. I saw her recently and I said, Are you doing yoga? She says, Well, yeah, I'm doing the yoga you taught me.

You know? And she's still doing it, like 30 years later, she's still, every day. You know?

And basic meditations that I taught her. So I'm thinking, it's a kind of yoga that you can teach to your friends and your family. Maybe we spread it that way.

You know, maybe it doesn't have to be in yoga studios, although you can come to yoga studios and do it. Okay. So you have a pen in your envelope, and you are going to take notes.

Because maybe, someone you know would like to learn this. And then you can explain it to them. Okay?

Guess where you take the notes. There's little lines there. And they're blank now.

They won't be blank when you leave. Alright? And even if you think you'll never do it, try.

The first yoga class I went to was at Sixth Street Temple in New York. I think Pillai taught it? And I just fell asleep.

Halfway through, I fell asleep. And they woke me up. Everybody was already gone.

And I said, No, this is not for me. So you never know. Here we go.

So the first big picture you see there is Lady Nygma, who invented this kind of yoga. If she's wearing a dress like that, it must be pretty gentle, I think. And if you can read Tibetan, there's writing under her.

This is called a thangka, or a scroll painting, which is rolled up and carried on a horse. And you can see under it, I believe it says, Om Ah Nygma something. So that's a picture of Nygma.

We don't know a lot about her. Her original name was Immaculate. And a lot of you know the story.

To make it like a two-minute story. She was a village girl. She was born in a Hindu family, Brahmin family.

She became the wife of the prince of the country, whose name was Naropa. And if you know Naropa University, it was named from Naropa. So Naropa was a prince.

His parents forced him to marry a girl. And they picked this Nygma. She was born exactly a thousand years ago, so 1000 AD.

And at some point the marriage broke down. Naropa wanted to become a monk. He didn't want to live a family life.

He asked her, he told her one day, he's going to go become a monk. And she said, well, you know in India, you can't get a divorce that easily. And she said, so I'll help you.

Because she loved him. She really loved him. So she said, I'll go to your parents, and I'll tell them that I've been cheating on you.

You can tell them I've been cheating on you. And then they will approve the divorce. And then you can go and be a monk, but only one thing is I get to come with you.

Okay? So she made a deal like that. I think it's a pretty good deal.

And they did this whole plan, you know, he told the parents she's been cheating on me. And then they said, okay, it's all right for you to leave her. And then he said, by the way, I'm becoming a monk now.

And he left. And he went to Kashmir, a long way from his home. And there were great Buddhist universities in Kashmir at the time.

And he became a great scholar. Later on, if you know the story, he became the head of Nalanda Monastery, which is the most famous Buddhist monastery in India. He became the abbot of that.

One day he was out under a tree studying logic from a book. He met an old woman, a very ugly old woman, who challenged him and accused him of not knowing anything. And then he was very offended, but she proved to him that he didn't know anything.

And he said, I think you should go out in the forest and look for this guy named Tilopa. And he's a great yogi and he will teach you yoga. And you can, you can, then you can really get enlightened if you do that.

So Tilopa, you know, he went out in the forest looking for Tilopa. And he found him. And then Tilopa trained him.

And then he and Nygma lived happily ever after. Nygma became a great teacher in her own right. She lived on an island in the Ganges River called Sosa.

And then she had a community of women there. And they studied together and they did their yoga together and they meditated together. And then they, she became pretty famous.

And a Tibetan named Kyumpo Nyongyo heard about her and fell in love with her name. And he traveled to India, which was very difficult at the time. It was very dangerous.

It'd be like walking to Brazil or something from here. And he left and he went and he found her. And then he asked her to teach him yoga and meditation.

And then the story is that she carried him to a high mountain in the sky. She flew in the sky, took him to a high mountain and taught him all the practices. Partly awake and partly in a dream.

And then he came back to Tibet and started to teach this yoga. Later on, about, let me see, 400 years later, it was being practiced a lot by the second Dalai Lama whose name was Gendun Gyatso. And you can see him at the bottom, in the blue picture.

That's his name, the second Dalai Lama. His name is Gendun Gyatso. He was born in 1476 and he passed away in 1542.

During his life, he wasn't recognized as a Dalai Lama. At that time, they didn't have Dalai Lamas, okay? The first Dalai Lama was recognized before him.

And then he became a famous monk. He was the abbot of three great monasteries, Drebong, Sera, and Tashi Thumbo in his lifetime, which nowadays is impossible because they're all competing with each other. But he managed to become the abbot of all three.

And then after he died, they decided he was the second Dalai Lama, alright? So he didn't get all the credit until afterwards, alright? But he was a very devoted follower of Nygma's Yoga.

And that's one of the sources that we have is a book by him, which in Tibetan is called Gosablam Nibuchuduki Chiyik Yeshe Kandir Shebo which means The Words of the Angel from the Sky. He wrote a book called The Words of the Angel from the Sky on the six yogas of Nygma. So Nygma had six different practices.

And the second Dalai Lama was a very close follower of him. One of those practices is called Inner Fire. In Tibetan, they call it Tummo.

In Sanskrit, they call Kundalini or Chandali. And he became a devotee of the six practices of Nygma. Later on, there was a great yogi named Taranatta.

And he's the one in the red, on the front page. He was born in 1575 and he died in 1634. And he's most famous nowadays.

He wrote a history of India. So in the 1500s, he wrote a history of India, especially of Buddhism in India. So a lot of what we know about Buddhism in India came from Taranatta.

Like the circumstances of Lord Buddha himself and the early stages of India are in a book by him called The Religious History of India. It's called Gyagya Chungjung in Tibetan. He did an interesting thing.

He traveled to Mongolia, which in his time would have taken, I don't know, six months by horse? Something like that. And then he started teaching Mongolians about Buddhism and philosophy.

And then he lived there for 20 years. And he became known as Jetsun Dampa. Jetsun Dampa nowadays is the title for the Dalai Lama of Mongolia.

So Mongolians have their own Dalai Lama and they call him Jetsun Dampa. And that's considered to be the reincarnation of Taranatta. Jetsun Taranatta.

Taranatta was the first person to write down Niguma's asanas. So Taranatta wrote a book about the yoga exercises of Niguma. And that's why we have them.

So we have a project going in Mongolia with the government. And we were able to find these books by Taranatta, Jetsun Dampa Taranatta, that described the physical yogas of Niguma. And so we were able to locate the description of how to practice Niguma's yoga.

And then we translated it. And we've been teaching it. So what I wanted to do...

That's the history, okay? You see Naropa in the middle, okay? In the black and white.

And then behind him you see the exercises that Naropa used to teach. So we're lucky and we found in Russia a copy of a manuscript from the 1700s by Changu Bandita. He drew the exercises as they existed in his time of Naropa.

So what I wanted to do now was... We're not going to do asanas tonight. I thought we could come back and do it some other time.

You know? Maybe we could... My dream is that tonight you just learn how they work, okay?

And then we're going to be traveling around the world in Europe, Asia, South America and teaching the exercises. And they're not difficult. They're not fancy.

They're very basic exercises. They are very simple. They are not difficult to do.

And they're very powerful. And in 45 minutes they change how you experience your day at work, okay? So it's not a goal that a person can stand on their head for two hours or something.

It's a goal that in a minimum amount of time they can do something which is not difficult for them but which has a profound effect on their inner body and then changes their day, okay? Makes their day go... some kind of amazing day, okay?

And if you get good at this and if you try it you will find that if you do Nidguna's yoga in the morning just like half an hour or 45 minutes... I'm thinking working people, not yoga people, you know? I have this dream, I have this vision, you know?

People, just plain working people. And before they go to work they brush their teeth, you know, they have their cereal, they read their newspaper and they do Nidguna's yoga, you know? And then they have a good day because they feel it changes the inner body which changes the reality around them, okay?

So how does that work? What I wanted tonight was that you really understand how it works. And then when we say, okay, we're going to have a Nidguna, we're going to teach you like the 40-minute Nidguna series which if you do it you'll have a great day at work and you'll lose weight and you'll feel great, like that.

And your family life will be better. When we say, okay, come, then you'll come because you'll know how it works. So tonight the goal is just to teach you how it works.

I believe that once you know how something works you're more likely to try it. If someone says, I'm going to teach you this special yoga but you don't know how it works, then it's just like voodoo, you know? Then I don't think you're so attracted to do it.

I think if you understand something you're more likely to want to try it. So that's on the back, all right? So turn your sheet over.

There are some basic things you have to know about how the inner body works, okay? And I'm going to explain just some basic things about how your your inner body works. And if you understand that then you'll have no problem with understanding why Nidguna yoga in like half an hour, 45 minutes in the morning, why would it work not to have a stressful day?

And why would it work to lower your jealousy, your anger, make you more compassionate at work, make you more cheerful, make you a more loving person? And in theory it's a whole group of people. I work in a company and we have 800 people in my division.

And it would be nice to have people, if all the people were doing Nidguna yoga in the morning they would come to work and they would feel like a kind of bond and a kind of harmony. So, you know, I did, partly I taught the 800 people some levels of Nidguna yoga, even 20 years ago. And we had a very interesting workplace.

It was very, very beautiful, very happy. And I tell the story often that I I had trouble getting people to go home at night. People would stay till 7, 8, 9 o'clock and I had a real problem to get them to go home because they didn't want to leave, you know.

And they said, I'll work for 2, 3 hours extra for no pay if I can stay, you know. And it was just a sweet feeling because they partly understood what we are going to talk about tonight. So, first we're going to talk about four things, which you'll see on your paper.

Number one, we're going to talk about the channels of the inner body. You know, like the pipeways of the inner body, how they work. You need to know that to understand how Nidguna yoga works.

Then we're going to talk about the grantis or knots, the knots that form in the inner channels. Because the goal of Nidguna's yoga is to untie those knots. Those knots prevent you from being happy and they prevent your body from being healthy.

And if you can loosen those knots, then your body becomes more healthy, more happy. So, the second thing to understand is where are the knots? What do they look like?

How do you loosen them? Third thing is chakras. Chakras are really choke points where the knots are in your inner body.

When you have... It's like if you take a garden hose and you coil it the wrong way, you bend it, then water spurts out. So, chakras are really a place where the water hose is tied up.

Okay? And then those are where the knots are. So, the knots cause the chakras.

So, we'll talk about that. It's good if you can learn about the chakras. The key behind Nidguna's yoga is how it opens the chakras in a certain order in the body.

That's the whole key behind her yoga. Okay? That's the whole...

The whole key behind Nidguna's yoga is loosening the knots in a certain order in the body. Actually, it's going up in the body. Okay?

And then it releases... If you work in a certain direction in the body, then it's much more powerful. So, it's...

The yoga starts at the bottom of the body and works up to the top of the body. So, that's just a basic principle about opening knots and opening chakras. Okay?

Then the last thing there is what Lady Nidguna says to do with them. Like four steps to opening your knots and opening the channels in the inner body. Getting the inner body open.

So, at each chakra, you would do four steps in her yoga, which we have from ancient manuscripts by Thayanatha. She gives you four steps in opening the chakras. How to make them healthy.

How to make them open. When the chakras are open, then you just feel happy. You feel loving.

You feel affection for others. And your world becomes more gentle and more beautiful. Okay?

So, that's what we're going to do in the next 45 minutes. Okay? We're going to go through these four subjects.

The channels that are in your body. The knots in the channels. The chakras that form from those knots.

And then how does Lady Nidguna say to open them.

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Okay?

[Говорящий 1]
Alright, so here we go. You have to open up your chakra kit, okay? And you'll find a central channel there.

That's the clear one, okay? That's the clear one. Got it?

That's your central channel. Christine Walsh did all this, okay? She did a really good job.

I think we should give her a hand. And Rob Haggerty spent all night last night cutting them, okay? So...

And I told her... She came back and forced the hardware store like five times. Look, what I want is the clear one, you know?

With the copper inside. And finally she got it, you know? So, your central channel starts here, okay?

Under the skull is the... Basically your central channel starts here. You can think of it starting here.

And then it goes under the skull, follows the inside of the skull, goes down your back, right inside of the spine, okay? Like the texts say, maybe a half inch inside the spine. So it's not the spine, it's not the spinal cord.

But they would say that the spinal cord has formed around it, okay? They say like ice on a twig. So then it comes down, it goes down to your perineum or your groin, and it comes up to the base of your sexual organ, whether you're a man or a woman, okay?

And that's called the central channel. The reason I got this is because it's pretty close to what it looks like. The central channel is translucent.

It looks like flame. It looks like a copper-colored flame. And it has some kind of crystalline quality to it, okay?

So it's not opaque. It's almost crystalline. And you can see into it, and you can see the fire.

You can see the golden red color inside the central channel, okay? So basically, if it were really the central channel, it would be like a campfire flame. The color would be of a campfire flame, and it would feel like that, and it would look like that, okay?

This is the closest I could get in Home Depot. So that's the central channel. In Sanskrit, it's called Sushumna, okay?

So I put there the name Sushumna, okay? And you have to think central channel. Su means good, okay?

In the old days, it was spelled E-S-U, Esu. And in Greek, the S dropped out, and it became U, like Eurythmics or Euthanasia, meaning good, okay? So S-U means good.

You repeat it when you want it to be stronger. Sushu means really good, okay? It used to be Susu, and it changed to Sushu because that's how Sanskrit acts act for you, okay?

And then Mana comes from the word Him, H-Y-M-N, the M-N in Him. And it means a holy song, sacred song. So Sushumna is the Indian word for central channel, and it means the beautiful song, okay?

The beautiful song, something like that. Okay, now you gotta pull out Pingala, okay? Pingala is the red one.

Everybody got your Pingala? That's your Pingala, okay? I think next time we'll try pipe cleaners, but anyway.

This is your Pingala. The word Pingala came into English as? Pink, okay?

And it means a reddish color. Pingala means a reddish color, okay? So this channel in Sanskrit is called the reddish channel.

It runs down the right side of your body, okay? Your right side. So it extends down to right about here.

It goes past the central channel and extends down to about here. And that's why you have two nostrils, okay? The right nostril has formed around the Pingala, okay?

That's why you have two sides to your nose and not just one hole in your nose, okay? Because there's gonna be another channel on the other side, okay? So Pingala comes down here.

And then it follows the... It stays on the right of the central channel. So if the central channel is here, you can try, okay?

Your Pingala is here. You have mirrors, that's why we brought you here. You thought it was just to watch yourself, right?

And then it follows the central channel down the right side, on your whole right side. And then it comes down into your perineum, down to your groin. And that's the Pingala.

Now we got one more. Guess what? This is the white one, okay?

We tried to find one without electrical supply, put me on air or whatever. And we couldn't find one. But this is called Ida.

Say Ida. Ida means... Do you know Idli?

Yeah, Idli Dosa, right? Idli means a creamy white. And even in India, no.

So Ida actually is an old word for sheep. And it means white as a sheep, white as sheep's fleece. And that's what Ida means.

So Ida is on the left side of the central channel. It comes down here, almost to your nostril. It causes your nostril, right?

And then it goes under the skull, back, follows the inside of your spine, goes down, curves around, comes up at your sexual organs, okay? So if you wanted to... Like, this would be a rough model of your inner body.

There are 72,000 channels. These three are the most important. These are the only three you have to know about.

That's what the text says. Hatha Yoga Padipika says, the Hindu tradition and the Buddhist tradition both say, look, you only need to know about these three. Now, inside the central channel, inside the Sushumna, run your healthy thoughts, thoughts of kindness, thoughts of love, thoughts of concern for others, wisdom, understanding, empathy, sympathy, all the good ones, okay?

Bliss, happiness, joy. They all run through the central channel. Thoughts can't run on their own, they need to have a medium.

Thoughts are insubstantial, they can't ride on their own. They need to have something traveling, to connect to, to travel. So they run on a thing, on an energy called?

Prana, okay? The inner wind, okay? So that's your central channel.

Inside there's a very subtle physical thing, like light, that's called prana, that's flowing. And then on the prana are riding your thoughts. Got it?

Say, lung-sem, lung-sem, jupa-jipa, jupa-jipa, lung-sem, lung-sem, jupa-jipa, jupa-jipa, lung-sem means prana and your thoughts, jupa-jipa means they ride in tandem. Your thoughts ride on the prana through your body. If your prana is flowing through the sushumna, through the middle channel, then you have gentle thoughts, happy thoughts, kind thoughts, loving thoughts, okay?

But, if they are riding through the ping-a-lang, which is red, and opaque, we purposely made it opaque, it is opaque, it's a blood red. This is a little too bright. It should be a blood red.

If your thoughts, if your prana is running through this channel, you feel grumpy, angry, upset, uptight, okay? Things like that. Angry thoughts are running through the ping-a-lang, okay?

Then, in the white one, in the ida, in the shit channel, run your thoughts of wanting things. I want more ice cream. I only got one hamburger today.

I want two milkshakes. I want that job. I want that boy that you have, okay?

We distinguish, of course, between proper wanting and improper wanting. Proper wanting would be, you know, I want to help the poor, or I want to make people happy, you can even say, I want ice cream, but I'm going to get it by helping others to get their ice cream, okay? Like wisdom ice cream.

Ice cream wisdom. Okay? Where do you think, where do you think jealousy over someone else's boyfriend is traveling?

It's traveling in here, okay? That's traveling in here. How about pissed off at the weather or the traffic?

That's in the ping-a-lang, okay? What about wanting to have a nice dinner after the class tonight with my friends and celebrate a holy angel?

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Yes.

[Говорящий 1]
Central China. No problem. As long as you don't steal the money, as long as the restaurant is open, you know, as long as everything is clean and happy and pure, there's no problem with wanting things, okay?

That's not a problem. And as long as you get them by being kind to others, okay? So that's the condition of the three channels.

Now, here starts the bad part. At certain points in your body, the two side channels cross over the other one, okay? So here we go.

Let's drop the eta for a while because we're not that coordinated. All right? So you got the...

I got the central channel and I got the ping-a-lang running alongside it. You ready? So now, around about the middle, okay?

Let the ping-a-lang turn across. Okay, got it? Let it turn across the central channel.

Everybody has to do it. This is how I figured out... I think you're going to remember it better.

I hope. You know? Okay, we'll see.

So the ping-a-lang crosses over. Then it crosses back. Okay?

All right? Now, we're going to see how coordinated people are. It crosses over and then it comes back.

Got it? And it chokes the central channel. It chokes the Sushumna.

Okay? The red one is choking the middle one. That...

The worst place is at your heart. Okay? Right behind your heart.

The red one crosses over and then comes back. And it chokes the central... The Sushumna, the central channel.

What happens then? What happens if you choke this one? You were...

Yeah, you were being kind. You were being nice. You were happy when you woke up.

Okay? Then there was choking. Okay?

And... And more prana started moving in the ping-a-lang and it chokes the Sushumna. It choked it.

Then you get upset. Okay? Then you get angry.

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Alright?

[Говорящий 1]
Got it? Are you starting to sense the basis of Niguma's yoga? You see?

She's gonna teach us ways of... of dealing with this that don't choke the central channel. Got it?

That release the... release the knot on the central channel.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay?

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, now let's get this guy into the action. You got upset in traffic on the 101 North coming from Tucson. Because you were trying to drink your mint tea with agave and you weren't paying attention while you were driving.

Okay? That's running through the... Ida.

A desire which would hurt other people. A desire which would endanger the lives of other people so you could have a sip of your organic mint tea. Alright?

That's running through the ping-a-lang. This is crossing over at the same place and then what? Coming back.

Okay? It's hard, right? You can do it.

Listen, I'm gonna tell you something. If you can't do it with some wires you'll never be able to do it in real life.

[Говорящий 2]
I was just being serious.

[Говорящий 1]
I had some practice. We were thinking about doing it at home and sneaking him in and just point him out. Because it took us like a half hour or two.

Okay? So now you got two guys choking the middle channel. See?

Two guys are crossing over and coming back and choking the middle channel. Got it? Now do this.

I don't know if it works. Yeah, add another two. Just twist it to another two.

See? By dumb good luck I got it. Okay, see?

See that one? It's three twists around. Three twists of both channels around.

The middle channel. I think I should just call it time limit. Okay.

We have like a... By the way, so the only place in your body where the side channels twist around the middle channel three times is at your heart. Okay?

When I say heart, where am I talking? I'm talking the spine behind the heart. I'm talking right in front of the spine.

Okay? Where the central channel is coming down. So these...

There's a knot at your back of your... behind your heart in these three channels and it's a triple knot. It's the worst one.

Okay? Twist around three times.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay?

[Говорящий 1]
Let's try something cool. Well, I'll show you later. No, I'll show you now.

Okay. Get your balloon out. You have to study the physics of our inner channel.

Okay? Guess what you have to do now. Yeah, this is a test of your...

How do I do it? Fill up your head. Oh my god.

I can't do it. Can you do it? You're cheating me, Christine.

This is impossible.

[Говорящий 2]
Holy Christ. Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Everybody stop. I don't want you to sit. Just stop.

I'm sorry. But I'll show you something, okay? Look.

Go like this. Go like this. Just fill it with a little bit of air.

Don't blow it up. Hold the end. Okay, got it?

Now... Now... Squeeze...

Squeeze the... Squeeze it out like this. You see how the end gets flatter, right?

See, look what happened to mine. Okay? Like a little ball form, right?

Ball form. Like that. Got it?

You got your little ball? Okay, now let go. Now pick up this one again.

When the channels... Side channels cross over the main channel, that's called a granti. Say granti.

Granti means a knot, okay? In Sanskrit it means a knot. So you...

Now we're going to come to the three knots, okay? Brahma granti is at your... Lower part of your body.

Okay, you can say... Below your navel. But in the...

Back. Okay, it's not your belly button. It's in the back.

Just in front of your spine, there's a knot like this. But it only has one... They only cross over once.

Like the... Brahma granti is not so bad. Alright?

The... These pass over... Once.

Okay? They pass over once. What happens is...

Let's say this is my central channel, okay? And... The...

The two side channels are choking it, right? So I have a good thought or something. And it doesn't have anywhere to go.

Because of the knot. And then out pops this thing. Okay?

What's that? Chakra. That's a chakra.

What's chakra mean? A wheel. Got it?

There you go. Okay? It's a wheel.

It's caused by a pressure build up. Okay? It spurts out as a wheel.

That's a chakra. So where do the chakras occur in the body? Where the knots are.

Okay? Like here, in our little thing here, a chakra would pop out here. Okay?

That's just the way it is. That's what a chakra is. Okay?

It's like a blister. Or, you know, choke point. Where the wind can't move.

The wind gets choked. That was your good thoughts, okay? That was your kindness to other drivers on the 101 this afternoon.

You know? I'm going to listen to yoga. I'm going to listen to a Buddhist monk.

I should be compassionate in driving today. Oh god damn, this guy cut me off. And then...

And then there's a block, you see? Then there's a block. Because then you have prana moving through the red channel, right?

It gets fatter. And it chokes the middle one. Got it?

When you get an angry thought, the red one gets fatter. And it chokes the middle channel. Worse.

More pressure. More pressure on the middle channel. Every time you have a god damn that guy thought in your mind, the pingala gets fatter.

And it chokes the central channel more. Okay? Then you have this thing where...

I want to get there. And I don't care what it takes. You know?

I know the speed limit is 50. I know they're starting at 7 o'clock on time. And I got to get there.

You know? I know the speed limit is 50, but I'm going to go 60. I want.

I want. Right? And I don't care what could happen.

I don't care if I could kill other people at that moment. Right? There's a reason why they put a speed limit on the road.

So you don't kill people. You know? But you want.

And you want in a bad way. Got it? To want it in a good way is okay.

I want to get to the place faster. I'm going to be nice to people. That's okay.

I want to get there faster. I'm going to go faster. I'm going to go over the speed limit.

I'm going to endanger other people on this highway. Then prana is moving to the iddha. Okay?

Because I want. In a way that I want. I'm willing to hurt other people to get what I want.

Okay? So what happens? You're in the car.

You're headed on your way to the yoga talk. First of all, you're angry that someone cut you off. You got prana moving to the red one.

Then you want. You want to get there. You want.

You're willing to go faster. Then you got prana moving to the white one. What happens to the simple channel?

Double choke. Double choke. Okay?

It's choked more. Okay? Then what happens?

Get this. And you understood the class. Get this and you can go home technically.

Although you can't. Okay? Get this.

In your desire to get to the yoga class. If you feel anger that other people are not moving fast enough. And if you are wanted so bad you're willing to break the speed limit and endanger other people, right?

It will choke the middle channel. And then you'll have a lousy class. You won't understand the class.

The class will be too hard. The people you want to see at the class won't come. You won't understand what the guy is talking about.

It'll be an unpleasant class. You'll go back to Tucson late. You'll feel unhappy.

You don't feel fulfilled. Why? Was it the class?

[Говорящий 2]
It couldn't be.

[Говорящий 1]
In your desire to get to the class. And in your anger to get to the class. You've ruined the class.

Because you can't perceive the class as a pleasant event if this knot is tight. And it's gonna be knot if you are knotty on the highway. Okay?

Got it? What I'm saying is profound. Because in how Niguma's yoga works, right?

If you can avoid knots. If you can untie these knots in the morning. What will happen at work?

Work itself will change. I'm not talking you feel better at work. I'm not saying...

Get this. I'm not saying bad things happen at work and you feel okay about them. I'm saying through this channel runs the reality of your job.

Through this channel runs all the people at work you don't like or you do like. If this channel can flow well the people you don't like will change. Or get fired.

And the people you do like will get promoted. You see what I mean? Your reality is coming from the central channel.

If you have some exercises in the morning that help loosen these knots then your work will be... Your work... The economy will change.

Got it? Why? Because you opened your knots.

You want to change the American economy? Just get people to open their knots. It's very cool.

It's a lot less work than all this Democrats and Republicans stuff. It's less work than a vote. You can change the economy.

What do you mean it can change the economy? If I do yoga in the morning and my knots are loose and the prana is flowing in my central channel and somebody else doesn't do it what do you have? Two economies running at the same time?

Yeah. That's why some people have a good job and some people don't. That is two economies.

Okay? I have a friend that went to Tucson. He went to a restaurant a couple weeks ago and they hired him.

I had another friend who spent six months walking around Tucson, couldn't get a job. Went to all the restaurants, couldn't get a job. My one friend went to one place, asked for a job, they said, come in tomorrow.

You know? What? There is two economies going on.

There is as many economies going on as there are some. Okay, but we're not going to go there. So, Brahma Granthi, down here.

You can fill it in on your page. Lower part of your body, you can say just below the navel, in the back. Just below the navel, in the back.

What does that make the Vishnu Granthi? The heart one. Okay?

Which is the hardest one because it's a triple turn. Triple turn. And then another one behind the neck.

Behind the neck. Alright? At the base of the neck.

Which is the Ishvara Granthi. In some books it's called Rudra Granthi. Okay?

But in the in our lineage of Niguma, it's called Ishvara Granthi. Okay, got it? Those are your three knots.

There's also a big knot here at the tip of your head. And there's a big knot at your groin. And there's a tiny knot here.

And there's a tiny knot at the tip of your dinger. Or your winger. Okay?

Alright. Now. Where was I?

We're going to talk about chakras, okay? That's the last part of the plumbing that you need to know about. Okay?

So here we're going to go through the chakras. I wrote the names down here for you. The little knot.

Well, it's not little. There's a major knot at the groin. Where your two legs meet.

Okay? Right where your two legs meet. Here.

At the joint. There. Is a knot.

And that's called Muladhara Chakra. Say, Muladhara? Muladhara Chakra.

The little ball that comes out there, right? Let me do it again. They did give us a pump, right?

We should have known. We didn't think they have raw gravity, so... Okay, see?

That's perfect, right? Watch what happens here. So there's nothing, right?

And there's a blockage. Come on, come on. Yeah, there you go.

And then it pops out, okay? So there's a little chakra in your groin called Muladhara Chakra. Muladhara, okay?

Say, Svadhishthana. Svadhishthana. That's...

By the way, Muladhara... Mula means root, dhara means holes, right? Muladhara means to hold the root.

And it just means the bottom one. The basic one, okay? Then Svadhishthana, which everybody in the younger world mispronounces, is basically right inside your tailbone.

Svadhishthana. It's very important in the Tibetan tradition because it means dak jingilak. Say, dak?

[Говорящий 2]
Dak.

[Говорящий 1]
Jingilak. Dak means sva, means me. I, okay?

Adhishthana, jingilak means to bless. To bless myself. Svadhishthana.

Sva-adhishthana means to bless myself. And this is a high tantric practice. And some people in this room have learned it in their Dzogchen meditations, but you don't remember.

Okay. It was in Naropa's six yogas. We learned it in Naropa's six yogas.

The blessing of yourself, which is a practice for opening the channels there, okay? Next one up is called? Nirmana chakra.

In the Hindu tradition, it's called Manipura. Okay, Manipura. But in the Buddhist tradition, which comes from India, it's called the Nirmana chakra.

Okay? Which means to emanate. That's also only a single twist.

Okay? The red and white ones go around, just a single twist. Is that your belly button?

Why not? It's in the back, okay? Just think back.

Right in front of your spine.

[Говорящий 2]
Inside or in front?

[Говорящий 1]
They say half an inch in front of the spine. Okay? Towards your belly button, half an inch from your spine.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay?

[Говорящий 1]
And then your spine has formed around it, like chocolate on a... You dip a chocolate ice cream in... You dip an ice cream in chocolate, and your spine has grown around your chakra in the same way that chocolate grows around the shape of the ice cream.

Okay, next one is... Oh, where are we? Dharma chakra.

Say Dharma chakra. Which in the Hindu tradition is called Anahata. Anahata means not struck.

A sound of a drum with no one beating the drum. Why? Because of the sound of your heart.

Going dum, dum, dum. Nobody is sitting there with a stick and beating your heart. Your heart is self-beating, which is Anahata.

Anahata. Okay? But in the Buddhist tradition, this chakra is called Dharma chakra.

Because all things emanate from this chakra. And Dharma means things. Dharma chakra.

Next... By the way, how many twists at the heart chakra? Triple twists, okay?

The nastiest one. What's the only part of your spine where major bones have come out to surround that area? It's the heart chakra.

The ribs are a reflection of the triple knot. Okay? The reason you have ribs is because of this knot.

If the knot at the navel had been tripled, you'd have ribs down there too. Got it? It's cool.

It's really cool. And why is the hardest thing to love people? Because that comes from the heart chakra.

Okay? It's the most shielded area because of the triple. It's the hardest place to open and the hardest thing to do is to really love other people and be concerned about other people.

So that's all coming from your Dharma chakra. What about the next chakra? Back here?

And it's called sambhoga chakra. Sambhoga means to experience. And in the scriptures they say it's called sambhoga chakra because that's where you eat.

That's where the food comes down. That's where you start to digest the food. It's here, right?

You swallow here. So it's called... Sambhoga means to enjoy or partake.

Partake of food, in this case. Next chakra. Say again?

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Mahasukha.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, Mahasukha. Dechengikola in Tibetan. Say Mahasukha.

[Говорящий 2]
Mahasukha.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, this is called Dechengikola because it is the seat of the white element which when it melts down you feel Mahasukha. You get bliss. So that's why it's called the ecstasy chakra.

Mahasukha chakra. In Hindu tradition? Sahasrara.

Sahasrara. Sahasrara means thousand. Ara means spokes.

So in the Hindu tradition it's called the thousand spokes. Sahasrara. And then there's a little chakra here that we're not going to worry about.

Now, last thing and we're almost done, okay? We're almost done. What do you think Niguma, who is very familiar with all this, it's in her text, what do you think her goal was with her yoga?

What was she trying to get happen? Yeah, release the pressure on the central channel. Let the central channel flow, let the Sushumna flow easily and then people will have a good day at work because work itself will change.

Okay? Not that you're having a bad day at work and you feel happy. It's that work itself will change because the work is being emanated from the heart chakra.

The office is being emanated from the heart chakra. What happens if you open up the heart chakra? First of all, how do you open the heart chakra?

Duh! What do you want to do? Let's untwist it.

So try, okay? Everybody untwist their thing. Untwist your thing, release.

I shall be released. Okay? It's released.

Okay, stop, don't go too far. Leave it crooked. Okay?

We have released the twist. We have released the twist. This is the first stage of all Niguma Asana poses.

Guess what? Granthi Mochinam means. Release the knot.

It's like Granthi Moksha. Okay? Release the knot.

First step, release the knot. Now, here's a profound thing. You ready?

What did you do to get the central channel Mochinam free? What did you just do? What did you do?

Who said? You twisted it. You untwisted it.

Okay? So all Granthi Mochinam poses are twists. Got it?

In her system. You attack the chakra first with a twist. Because you're trying to release the side channel.

This becomes cool right now. If I just stood up here and explained it without... You didn't have your wire.

You wouldn't appreciate it, right? Now, do it again, like twisted and untwisted. You see?

That's why you're doing a twist. Okay? Got it?

So where are the three Granthis? Where's the Brahma Granthi? Behind the navel.

Right? So if you wanted to open the Brahma Granthi, what would you do? Do a twist and concentrate on the lower back.

Got it? Do a twist and concentrate on the lower back. That would release the Brahma Granthi.

The lowest knot. How would you release the Vishnu Granthi? Do a twist and concentrate at the heart, somehow.

Which is the hardest place to twist because the ribs are there. Okay? And they lock your body.

It's hard to get a twist concentrating at the heart. Then what about the Isvara Granthi? How would you release that?

Yeah, something that would loosen your neck. Okay? Some kind of twist of the neck.

Now, the most important thing about her yoga. Okay? The most important thing about her yoga.

What if I do some release here, but these two are still blocked? It's difficult, you see? If you do a pose out of order, you have to start at the ends, you see?

You have to start the untwisting down here. You untwist the bottom one first. And then that frees the prana up to the middle one.

And then you untwist the middle one. And then that frees the prana up to the neck one. And then you unfree that one.

So there's an order, there has to be an order. She says, her system, there must be an order. You can't just do a little exercise that opens this one, and then do a little exercise that opens this one, and then go down here.

You should go in order, up. Okay? You can go down, it's also effective, but less powerful.

Up is more powerful. Okay? So where would you begin?

Which granti would you begin with? Brahma granti behind the navel. Okay?

Then you would go to the heart. And then you would go to the? Ishvara granti.

But we said you had grantis here. And we said you had a granti in your drawing. Forget the dinger ones, they're small.

What about those? What kind of twist are you going to do here? Yeah, you could say, it's not possible to twist this granti.

Okay? It's not possible. Just the skull is there in the way.

Okay? The end ones, cranial sacral, got it? The end ones cannot be affected so much by a twist.

So we use acupressure. We use pressure on the point. Okay?

If I had a twist here like this, right? And if I put pressure on it, it releases it. You see?

If I put pressure on that, it releases it. Because we can't twist it. We can't do anything inside the skull to twist it.

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Okay?

[Говорящий 1]
So you put pressure on it. So what's the most powerful pose for opening the? Mahasukha chakra.

It's a headstand where the skull is touching the ground. You know, where there's pressure here. Okay?

There has to be pressure here. Okay, got it? How would you put pressure on the groin?

You can do drops. You can do drops. And that's a tradition.

You do drops, which you do in Niguma. Or you can... You can put your heel there.

You can press against it with your heel. So in the Niguma series that we'll be teaching you, the half hour to 45 minutes in the morning, we do it with the heel and with some gentle drops. Why?

Why gentle? We're talking working people. We're not talking...

We're talking people who have been overheating for 20 years, been sitting at a desk for 20 years, been crouched over their computer for 20 years. We want to help people who are sedentary and have never done any exercise. You know, we want something powerful for them.

We want to help the people who need it the most. You see? So you make a series that's gentle and that they can access.

And that probably involves putting your heel there for now. Okay? Or gentle...

You know, keeping your knees on the ground and just gently tapping it. Okay? So, we're almost done, all right?

We untwisted the knots. Okay? We untwisted...

We did Grandi Mochna. What's the next thing she said to do? Nabi Pranidhaya.

Pranidhaya means straighten them up. Straighten them up. Look.

Look here. What happened after you untwisted them? They're all like...

They're still blockages, you see? So then you've got to sit here, work on it, okay? Work on your thing, all right?

You've got to do yours. I'm not doing the only one I'm doing. Like it takes some work, right?

Where it was twisted, it's still knotted. Where it was twisted, it's still crooked, right? And you work on it.

Okay? Got it? Like, fairly straight, right?

Fairly straightened up. And if you keep working, you straighten them up. If a twist is what loosens the knot, what straightens the area of the knot?

A stretch. So in her yoga, first you start with a twist at that chakras position. And then you go to a stretch.

What would be... If... What do you call this thing?

Matsyendrasana or Matsyendrasana?

[Говорящий 2]
Matsyendrasana.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, let's call it Matsyendrasana. Let's say I finish doing Matsyendrasana to open the knot slightly. By the way, she does all four steps at one chakra and then moves on to the next one.

So what would I do to straighten it? What would I do to straighten the area? Who said Parsimodhi?

Somebody said Parsimodhi. Yeah, do Parsimodhi. Which is a forward bend.

Seated forward bend. You're sitting on the ground, your feet are stuck out in front of you, and you're just bending over. And the area of the brahma granti is being opened.

Got it? In theory, if you had... How would you straighten them at the groin?

Yeah, you could do some kind of seated split bend or something. Or you could do Parikonasana. We like...

Which is just feet to feet, right? Like this. Like this, right?

I can't do it, that's weird. Let me get the point. Or you could do a split if the person wasn't a sedentary office worker, because they'll kill themselves.

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Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
So I would say Parikonasana or a... What do you call it?

[Говорящий 2]
Upavistha Konasana.

[Говорящий 1]
Upavistha Konasana, just exactly right.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
You spread your legs and you bend over. In a seated position. That's a stretch.

But we're talking the brahma granti, so you would do a Parsimodhi Nasana. After you straighten them up. What's next?

What do you do after you straighten them?

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Sushumni.

[Говорящий 1]
Which means into the Sushumna. Sushumni means... It's not Sushumna, got it?

Sushumni means into the Sushumna. The I means into. In the paper, on the paper here.

And then Sangraha means collect or gather. What's that mean? The winds are now flowing freely through the Pingala and the Ida.

But you want them into the central channel. This is the joy channel. This is the ecstasy channel.

When you have an orgasm, all the wind moves from the red and white into the central channel. That's why you have an orgasm. And that's why you get that feeling.

And it's a highly addictive. The entire world wants it. Really.

It's like the ultimate drug or something. Everybody wants it. That's why the web is 90% pornography or something.

People want it. Because it's so profound. So profoundly...

The only other time you get all the wind into the central channel is when you die. So people... It's a powerful force.

It's a powerful desire. How do you direct... How do you think you direct extra wind...

Now you don't want the wind flowing in these two ones, right? You got it untwisted. Number one.

You got it straightened. Number two. Now you want to redirect the wind out of them into the central channel.

How are you going to do it? Let's do some plumbing.

[Говорящий 2]
Turn it under.

[Говорящий 1]
Turn it under. See? Turn them both under.

And let them feed the... Let them feed the middle channel. Let all that prana come out of the side channel.

Out of anger. If all the prana is coming out of God damn, the guy cut me off. All the prana is coming out of I'm willing to drive 20 miles over the speed limit and endanger anybody else's life to get there on time.

And then all that prana is released into the central channel. Okay? Got it?

See? There's a Tibetan letter. Like ABC, right?

There's a letter called cha. And when they teach this in Tibetan, they say, just think cha. So guess what I did on your paper?

I gave you a cha. Alright? That's a cha letter.

And that's how you want the channels to look. At the bottom. Now all the prana is flowing into the central channel.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay?

[Говорящий 1]
This is a process of constriction. This is a process of some kind of sucking in. Okay?

This is a sucking in motion. In Niguma's asana design, this is any kind of sucking into the central channel from the side channels. So, how would you get that sucking?

Feeling. Feeling. Like a sucking or sucking in feeling at the brahma gandha.

You could do a mula bandha at the mula dhara. You could do a contraction. You could do an asvini mudra.

You're doing contractions at the groin. Contractions at the groin. How would you get a contraction at the navel?

All those breath exercises where you're sucking in, right? You could say uddiyana panda. This extends to what they call core work, okay?

What you'll find is that all those modern terms have a basis in ancient history. When you say core work, you're talking about strengthening the abdominal muscles and strengthening the ability of the body to constrict in the abdominal area. The ability of the body to...

What do you call it? Contract. Up and in.

So, you could do navasana here. You could do leg raises for a person who is working all day in an office. You see?

You could do simple... You could do kapalabhati. So, you're strengthening the capacity of the body to...

What do you call it? Contract. Contract.

The ability of the body to contract. Or you can just... If you're starting at the bottom chakra, you just do an asvini towards the perineum.

You know, that's like a... You're like contracting the muscles at the groin. And that would induce...

Why are you doing that? I open the twist. I straighten the channels.

What do I gotta do now? Yeah, I gotta get the wind into the central channel. I gotta suck it in.

[Говорящий 2]
Does the wind go in a particular location? Or at each chakra, you can get the wind inside?

[Говорящий 1]
It's a great question. He said, is it that you can only get the... Do you only have a chant going on at the bottom?

Or can you get winds in at the other chakras? And the First Panchen Lama, in the last Tantra reading, had a very unique presentation that said... You can do it at any chakra.

You can do it at any chakra. So, a part of her yoga, which you will learn, is that you pretend you are breathing through the chakra. You don't breathe through your nostrils.

So, while you're in Paschimottanasana, and you're kind of hanging out there for five breaths, right? You don't think... You think...

You think it's good. You think you're breathing through that chakra. When you get to the Hatha chakra, you think you're breathing through this chakra.

There's no breath coming here. You're breathing like this. And that you imagine the air is coming from here.

And that helps open the chakra.

[Говорящий 2]
And so, theoretically, you could get anywhere in the central channel?

[Говорящий 1]
You have to move up. You have to start low and move up. My question is, the central channel has...

Yeah, side channels.

[Говорящий 2]
Has openings to get inside?

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Yeah, those are the chakras. Those are the spokes of the chakras. They pierce the side channels.

They pass through the side channels. When a chakra forms, which looks like a wagon wheel, they pierce the side channels. So, yeah, you can get on it in there.

But the point is, don't do it here. If you start here, and you don't take care of this first, or this first, what will happen? You'll get who?

You'll be shaking. You'll get a headache. You'll feel unhappy.

You'll feel nervous. You'll be crazy all day to everybody. Because if you release them...

There are yoga... I find some yoga asanas series to increase my attention. I think they are not designed wisely.

And I don't want to say which ones, but you can check yourself. Some asana series, you go to a studio, you say, what kind of asanas are you doing today? And they say, you know, system number 33.

And then you try it, and you come out, and you feel... you feel tense, you know? You feel more tense than when you got in there.

That's because they're opening them in the wrong order, or they're just opening them at random. They didn't... There's no plan to the series.

They're just opening a little bit here, then open a little bit here, and then suddenly you have all this prana here, and you feel... you come out and you feel angry. There's certain yoga series that when I do, I feel angry afterwards, you know?

If you do a proper niguma series, half hour, 45 minutes, if you do these steps on each knot, you come out feeling so happy. You just feel relaxed and happy, and it's not like something, you're sweating, and you know, it's designed in an intelligent way, in a proper way, and then you just feel... you just feel sort of blissful, just from about 45 minutes of yoga, you know?

And then you go to work, and the whole day is like... it's weird, because your day is coming out of your heart chakra. You see what I mean?

If you build up a lot of prana there, and release these two, and build up prana here, you'll have a worse day. You'll go to work after the yoga, and you'll feel worse, because a lower reality will be projected from your heart. It's really weird.

Okay. But there's another step there. What is that?

Bindu avakirana. Say bindu.

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Bindu avakirana.

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And then you're done, okay? Bindu.

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Avakirana. Avakirana.

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In Tibetan, tigle jemba. Say tigle jemba.

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Tigle jemba.

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Tigle jemba means distribute the drops. It means you... In the Tibetan system, the last stage should be some kind of distribution.

You get everything shaken up. Dhanamitra's into this thing nowadays. He does jumping jacks.

If any other yoga teacher tried it, they would yell at them. But Dhanamitra gets up and says, we're doing jumping jacks. Everybody says, okay, Dharma.

And then he does jumping jacks like the Marines, you know. And that's tigle jemba. And it's perfect.

And it's very wise. It's very good. If you do a vinyasa between each pose, you're doing a tigle jemba.

And that's why it's nice to have a vinyasa between each pose. But there's other ways to do it. The best tigle jemba in the world is horse roll, which is what?

You're just rolling on your back and coming up again if you go the whole way. Because that's affecting all the chakras. Because the chakras are on the back, right?

The chakras are in the back. Okay? So that's the best tigle jemba.

There's another secret method involving coffee and some other thing. But I can't tell you about that. But that's all tigle jemba.

Okay? So she says, go through those four steps. You know, we were joking today in the car.

We were trying to remember the four steps. And somebody said, to see God. T-S-G-D.

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See?

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To see God. Which is what? Twist.

Stretch. Then what was G for?

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Gather.

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And then D? Distribute. You distribute that.

To see God. T-S-G-D. Okay?

Those are the four steps in nirvana. Okay? Then you would repeat it for the groin.

You would repeat it for the swadhisthana, if you care. In some systems, the swadhisthana is not separate from the groin and the navel. In the Tibetan system, they don't have swadhisthana.

Then you would do the navel. Then you would do the heart. Then you would do the neck.

And then you would do the headstand. And then you would go to shavasana. You see what I mean?

Then you would go to shavasana. And what I say is, don't take my word for it. Try it.

Just try it in your own yoga. Work up the chakras. Do these four steps on each one.

You know, do a twist or acupressure. Or a heel, right? To loosen the nerve.

Then straighten it in some way with a stretch. What's the main stretches for the heart chakra? Back bend.

And that's the most important chakra. That's the most important chakra. But you can bend it both ways.

What's the best way to bend it the other way?

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Shoulder stand?

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Like a shoulder stand or halasana? Both of them. That's great.

You got it. So a forward bend and a back bend. You might...

What chakra would you want to spend the most time on? The heart chakra. The triple knot there.

And that's where love comes from. And when you open the heart chakra, you truly love all the people around you. You really, really love them.

You know, there's not some blah, blah. When you open it a little bit, you get this really sweet... You've got a crush on everything.

And that's such a nice thing. What would happen if all the working people had a crush on everyone else? There might be all these lawsuits.

But I mean, imagine a world where, you know, everyone was just really... You've had places you've worked or people you've worked with or friends, and you get together and there's this feeling of... I don't know.

There's a sweet feeling. Just call it a sweet feeling, right? It's a sweet feeling with certain people.

And then that would get bigger and bigger. If you did this yoga, any situation in a restaurant, in a yoga class, at your work, you would begin to expand this feeling of camaraderie and harmony and love. Some kind of sweet feeling with the people around you, okay?

The more you do this, then the more the sweetness is spreading between people. And isn't that what the point is, right? Wouldn't that be the reason to do yoga anyway, okay?

Got it? That's the theory. Then, you know, you can pretty much work on your own aspects.

I like to take them and base them on hers, but I don't think it's totally necessary. I think you can work on the theory and then sometime we'll get together. We'll send you some announcement.

We'll try to do it here or someplace else in Phoenix, right? And we'll teach you the actual series. Which, again, there's nothing magical.

You're not going to do no arm headstands or anything. It's going to be the classical, available poses for normal people that would have the best effect on opening that chakra, okay? It's not...

The goal is not the yoga class. The goal is what happens after the yoga class. You see?

So, it's not like a thing of, oh, you look good in the yoga class, or you look... or you can do this and you can do that. The awesomeness for doing these things are available.

Everybody can do that. And that's... And then their day will change.

And what will happen then? What if yoga came out of the yoga studios, went home, was part of breakfast for all Americans? What if it was just what you do?

You brush your teeth. You make your bed. You...

You... You know, you read your newspaper and you do your niguma. And then you have a good day.

And then... That's what I dream of. You can go to yoga studios, okay.

But that would be my dream. Okay. So, we have a custom in the monastery, which most of you know, that we made a good karma today.

Like, in theory, we're talking about changing the whole culture of the world. Something like that. Like, if everybody did this, everybody would be happy, right?

So, what we do is, we pray for a few minutes. And you just close your eyes. And...

Imagine that everybody in this room or everybody in this city is doing this kind of practice. And they just feel sweet towards each other. Everyone feels sweet towards each other.

So, just close your eyes and imagine for a minute, two minutes. And dedicate the power of what we did. We did karma tonight.

Dedicate the karma tonight. Send the karma to a sweet feeling that envelops all of things. That's good.

So... Oh, maybe... Who has the...

Who's doing the email now? Somebody? Okay.

So, please, if I don't know you, please leave your email with this guy. And then, what I'm thinking is, we can actually do a series in the next few weeks, this month, couple months. So, if you'd like to learn the series, then that would be actually alright.

But now you understand how it works. Okay? So, have a good night.

Thank you for coming.