Kickin’ It Old-School, Sun Salutation Style - beYogi. The traditional Surya Namaskar, better known as Sun Salutation, is the perfect embodiment of a yoga practice.
It incorporates all of yoga’s core elements, weaving together asana, pranayama, mantra, and meditation to make a complete sadhana, or spiritual practice. If there was only one sequence I could teach to my students, this would be it. The Sun Salutation comes in many forms. Most of us are only exposed to the Surya Namaskar A and B series. It wasn’t until I studied yoga in India that I learned the classical hatha variation described below; and it’s since become my favorite to both practice and teach. For Those Who Love the Effects of Yoga. Did you make a yoga related new year’s resolution?
Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look — in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river — wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Chakra - Jnana Yoga. Yoga bandhas. For example, traditional jal basti, vamana dhauti, nauli kriya, and agni sara kriya can not be done without first mastering uddiyana bandha.
Thus these kriyas (along with the rest of the shat karmas) are taught at the very beginning of any traditional hatha yoga training. Unfortunately, it is not well known in the West that all the bandhas may be used very effectively during asana practice as well as well as pranayama and as a preparation for meditation. The average student in the West are not interested beyond these preliminary stages.
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