Yogic Kriya

Yogic Kriya©Nand Kumar Menon is a sequence of breathing exercise, based on deep breathing, chakras, colours, mantras, visualisation and sound, rhythmically arranged for you to keep you fit all day long, helping you to increase your mental power to get rid of ailments like sinus, cough and cold, memory lapses, head aches, migranes, body aches, allergies, asthmatic attacks, hyper-tension, etc. and to recharge you with self confidence and creativity.

It will also help you to release 80% toxins from your body and help you in positive thinking.

Warning :

If you are a BP patient or a heart patient, please refrain from doing this exercise without consulting a medical practioner. Yogic Kriya should be performed very religiously on an empty stomach in a dust/smoke free environment and in normal temperature. Incorrect doing may give you negative results.

1. Deep Breath - Position Sukhasan - 12 sets X 2

Take a deep breath in from your nose to your navel chord. Inflate your stomach as much as possible while breathing in. Now breathe out slowly through your month, deflate your stomach as you breathe out.

2. Centralising yourself - Position Sukhasan - 12 sets X 2

Take a deep breath in from your nose to your navel chord to the count of 4. Inflate your stomach as much as possible while breathing in. Breathe in to the count of 4 . Hold your breath to the count of 4. Now breathe out slowly through your mouth, deflate your stomach as you breathe out.

While breathing out, visualise that all your toxins, garbages, and negativity flows out of our body to the mother earth. Hold your breath to the count of 4. (1st set, while breathing-in visualise white light, 2nd set, while breathing-in visualise vilot light.)

3 Anuloma viloma Pranayama - Position Sukhasan, left palm on your lap, facing the sky by connecting your index finger to the thumb - 12 sets X 2

4. SO HAM meditation techniqueue - 3 cycles of 12

The first sound we heard when we were in our mothers' womb was the sound of her breath, and this sound has been with us ever since we drew our first breath. In the Bible, when GOD was asked what his name is, He answered "I Am That I Am'. In Sanskrit, the sound of the inhalation is termed SO, and the exhalation is HAM.

Close your ears by putting your thumbs in them to intensify the sound of your breath. Focus on the sound of your breath coming in. Associate it with the word SO. As your breath leaves, listen to the sound and associate it with the word HAM. To pronounce SO and HAM correctly, listen to how they sound.

5. Bhastrika - position Vajrasan - 12 sets X 3

Raise your hands up...breath-in through your nose while raising your hands up with full force….drop both the hands down together at the shoulder level by closing the fist during exhalation through your nose with full force.

After every set of breathing, inhale through your nose as much as you can so that your lower abdomen is like a balloon, close both your fists with your thumbs engulfed by your fist held tightly against the lower abdomen and hold your breath as much as you can. After this, exhale slowly through your mouth.

6. Shavasan - Position - Lying down position, both the palms facing the sky with legs apart (guided meditation-visualisation on chakras, colors and mantras)

The root chakra (color-red, mantra-LAAMM), the sacral chakra (color-orange, mantra-VUMMM), the solar plexuus chakra (color-yellow, mantra-RUMMM), the heart chakra (color-green, mantra-YUMMM), the throat chakra (color-blue, mantra-HUMMM), the third eye chakra (color-indigo, mantra-AAAUMM) and the crown chakra (color-vilot, mantra-AAUMM).

Please visualise the colors on each chakras and chant the mantras corresponding to each chakras. This visualisation is done first in ascending and then in descending order.

Now slowly get up and sit in Sukhasan, visualise the symbol of AUM and chant AUM 3 times by generating vibration throughout your body, rub your palms vigorously, then cup against your eye balls and slowly open your eyes with a few blinks.