Illuminating the unseen

Prana Moving from the Centre Outward

Moving prana from the centre outward allows us to enter the places where we are blocked.

When we are in resistance, we do not recognise these areas as blocked — they feel absent, unreachable, or simply not there.

But when awareness touches them, they begin to come alive. And as they awaken, the mental aspect that was held there also begins to move.

It is like shining a torch into dark, dormant spaces within us — places we may feel do not exist, or perhaps places we cannot show. When light reaches them, sensation returns, and with it, consciousness.

The mind, through its play of forces, creates an identity.

This identity is laid down in the pranic layer of our being, beneath the physical body.

The forces at play are known as the gunas — rajas, tamas, and sattva — and they are always in motion, constantly interacting and shaping both our physical form and our mental experience.

Rajas is movement, intensity, propulsion — a powerful activating force.

Tamas is dullness, heaviness, resistance — that which conceals and numbs.

Sattva is clarity, brightness, balance — the light of awareness itself.

These forces combine in countless ways. When we say, “Ouch, my hip,” or “my shoulder hurts,” this is often rajas expressing as sensation — energy taking form in the body because the mind has engaged with it.

Tamas, however, is harder to perceive.

It hides. It feels disconnected, lifeless, unseen. Yet it is present in those regions that feel blank or absent from our awareness.

This week, we will work with what is not being seen — the tamas within.

Through direct perception, and by using Ujjayi breath, we connect to the navel centre to activate prana — the life force.

From there, awareness is carried into those hidden places.

Once seen, they can be purified, drawn back toward the navel centre within the pranic body, and reintegrated into wholeness.

Om Shanti 🙏

Hatha Yoga Meditation (Raja Yoga)