The 12-day “Rhythm of Life” programme, at Sanjeev Krishna Yoga is a stellar program that focuses on breathing, stretching, along with understanding and guidance on the right meditation techniques and nutrition, aiming to improve your health and general wellbeing and teaching you to manage your own health better. Yogalife undertakes the program and tells you all about its life changing benefits…
Day 4
Day 4 began with an introduction to Chakra breathing. The chakra breathing technique is all about bringing awareness to a chakra. The prana or energy from the breath is guided to that chakra. When we direct the inhale to a chakra it becomes the energetic anchor that allows us to energise the body and focus the mind. This breathing enables you to become aware of and experience the seven chakras in the body. The important energy channels are ida and pingala. They cross each other several times down along the spinal column creating intense energy within. If the system is out of balance, energy can be blocked in the chakras, and it is important to avoid this by cleaning the energy channels and to take care of the body and mind through breath control.
Yoga mudras are symbolic gestures practiced with the hands and fingers. They facilitate the flow of energy in the subtle body. Five elements (space, air, fire, water, and earth) are present in the human body. Our hands hold energetic points (thumb-space, index finger-air, middle finger-fore, ring finger-water, small finger-earth) for these elements and the use of mudras is a way of manipulating these elements. The session initiated us into 5 kinds of mudra breathing, vital for our overall wellbeing.
Did you know that non-vegetarian food takes 72 hours to digest, cooked food takes 24 hours to digest and raw food takes 13 hours to digest? Vegetarian food takes less time to digest compared to non-vegetarian food. Why is this so? Vegetarians consume more fibre because plant-based foods make up a greater part of the vegetarian diet. Fibre digests faster as compared to other non-vegetarian foods. Fatty foods send signals to your stomach to slow emptying. This is because fat is a relatively complex molecule that requires larger periods to digest than, for example, carbohydrates. Animal products such as meat, dairy and eggs typically contain higher amounts of fats than fruits, vegetables, and grains. Guruji explained the process of digestion and the benefits and harmful effects of different foods for us to be able to understand better management of our bodies.
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Day 5
Carnivores, secrete ten times more hydrochloric acid than humans do. Their digestive tracts are short and smooth for the rapid eviction of fibreless flesh. They possess sharp canines for ripping flesh, all which humans do not have. Our digestive tract is long, the same as in those creatures who digest plant foods. Therefore, it is important to also eat high-fibre foods like a raw salad or steamed vegetables even when eating meat.
We are literally ‘what we eat’. Our bodies are made up of food. Our cells, our bones, our tissues, and organs are built from the nourishment that we provide our body through the food that we eat. Hence the importance of a proper diet.
Prana exists in all living things. Yoga, breathing and food are three ways to build and develop one’s prana. The pranic energy of the foods you choose directly impacts your own prana, influencing your health, vitality, and overall wellbeing
The logical and scientific explanation of all of the above enables us to understand ourselves better in a holistic manner!
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Day 6
Today’s session was on the characteristics of leader and follower personality types and the difference between an attitude of freedom and slavery in life. One is about saying ‘I will’ and the other is all about ‘I have to’. Your attitude in life makes you who you are. Leadership and followership are attitudes. They’re different ways of looking at the world.
An interesting session was on the Management Principles of day to day life that are hidden within the symbolic Ganesh image. Ganesh is much more than a potbellied god with an elephant head; but behind this imaginative symbolism is, a philosophy, a moral, a management principle and a lesson for everybody to learn in life. Guruji explains the symbolism in detail and reiterates that the celebration of the Annual Ganesh Chaturthi festival is an affirmation of all those values and principles. We have to re-enforce those thoughts year after year to be able to live a healthy, harmonious and happy life!
This session teaches us to re-examine our goals, priorities and desires in life and implement the necessary changes to bring about positive changes on a permanent basis.
Written by Viki Shah
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