Allowing and not controlling the inner Light to shine through

In ancient yoga, the masters didn’t use mind and body to do the yoga practise but overcame mind and body, as they were the obstacles to experiencing their inner Being.

Their physical bodies became open and mind, wise from the detachment.

In yoga there is the importance to detach and allow the ancient teachings to do the undoing.

Pranayama is the expansion of prana; life force in the pranic body, a subtle inner body where tensions originate from.

Pranayama shares the rhythm of breath but it is not breath.

We cannot use the mind to undo those obstacles sitting in a subtle aspect of our being.

The yogis found that by allowing the three phases of pranayama to occur naturally and we stay just witnessing; the expansion outwards and back to the centre where it originates, then we are in the centre of awareness and not in the head space where thoughts are.

There is a fourth phase of pranayama and this is when there is a natural phase of no breath, ‘kevala kumbhaka.’

Mind and body are transcended and there is an experience of an inner light and it is the light of Self, Atman, Purusha, pure consciousness.

All are names of the same Reality.

When this occurs the attachments that we feel as tensions are then released or weakened.

The mind creates a loop of repeating patterns otherwise, if we don’t step out of the way.

Om Shanti 🙏