@primavera.yoga
Yoga teacher who travels around the globe and love to inspire others with yoga practice and healthy and mindful lifestyle.
I was first introduced to yoga and meditation at age 14 by my dancing teacher.
I received a 200-hour yoga teaching certification in India and since led empowering vinyasa workshops, retreats, and classes all over the world.
I use the platform to inspire, engage, and inform people about the emotional and physical benefits of a daily yoga lifestyle.
The bandhasare shrouded in mystery. And for good reason! Like the chakras, you can’t see them with the naked eye.
Mula bandha is one that we engage frequently in yoga if we bring our awareness and attention to do so. Otherwise, many yoga practices go by without ever giving Mula bandha any thought. But it’s an important energy center, and deserves attention on a daily basis. Wondering how to engage Mula bandha? Here’s how…
The Mula bandha is also referred to as the root lock. It resides in the area of the Muladhara chakra (the first chakra, watch the picture below), at the base of the spine at the perineum. In Sanskrit, Mula means root—as in the root of a tree. Bandha, in Sanskrit, refers to the word lock.
When we do the action of Mula bandha in yoga, we’re locking our root chakra, in a sense. To do this, we squeeze the pelvic floor. The action is similar to doing a kegel exercise (this can feel as though you are holding in the need to go to the toilet, for example when there is a long queue in the lady's bathroom!).
But, why do we pull up on the pelvic floor, engaging the perineum?
In yoga, Mula bandha is believed to enhance our powers of concentration, while also bringing in a state of greater calm and equanimity to the practitioner. These are all states of being we aim for during our yoga practice.
They’re necessary in order to perform the sometimes difficult practice of yoga and meditation day in and day out.
Plesure, Preformance and sexual Sensation
Toning your PC muscle can intensify your orgasm and give you a newfound strength where you can literally grip your man down there, giving him an out-of-this-world intimate experience too! Mastering Mula Bandha induces mind-blowing sex and that special connection with your partner.
Mula Bandha engagement helps with the problem of premature ejaculation by increasing muscular control of the pelvis. A strong pelvic floor also allows some men to achieve a form of orgasm without ejaculation, thereby reaching multiple ‘climaxes’ during sexual activity.
That means longer lovemaking, and perhaps even more exciting is that fabulous moment when you both connect and share your climax together.
If you’re still confused as to how to engage Mula bandha, here’s another way of describing the action. Start by squeezing the muscles around your perineum. Then, let them go. You’ll want to do this several times a day, in order to get to know your Mula bandha.
As you bring more awareness to this area, practice squeezing the perineal muscles and holding them, while you breathe in and out. Slowly release after several rounds of breath.
Now you might want to practice pulling up on the perineal muscles as you inhale, then releasing them as you exhale. Coordinating your breath with this squeezing and releasing of the perineum will help you become more familiar with the region of Mula bandha. (Learn more in How Conscious Breathing Can Boost Your Yoga Asana Practice.)
Once you become more familiar with Mula bandha, you’ll want to bring your awareness to the center of your perineum, where true Mula bandha resides. Practice engaging the center, without doing much of anything with the surrounding muscles.
Once you can hone in on the center of the perineum, you’re really doing the subtle action that is Mula bandha.
"Qi" (also pronounced as "Chi"),
the Chinese word for life energy, is the force within our bodies and within the
universe that engenders all life and all things. The word itself has many
translations, such as energy, air, breath, wind, or vital essence. There are 49
cultures around the world that understand the concept of Qi in one form or
another; examples include Ki (Japanese), Prana (Sanskrit), Lung (Tibetan),
Neyatoneyah (Lakota Sioux), Num (Kalahari Kung), and Ruach (Hebrew).
It is understood that Qigong ("energy
work") heals and purifies the physical, emotional, and spiritual energy
fields of our bodies. As such, it transforms the self from deeply ill to
radiantly healthy. Self-transformation then is a form of alchemy, where
something base is turned into something beautiful.
Within our body, there are various natural energetic
forces for healing and spiritual growth. Sexual healing is an important and
profound aspect of healing and purifying that is almost completely neglected in
the West today.
The
Taoists view that sexual relations between male and female are the primary
earthly manifestation of the universal principles of Yin & Yang. As such, the Chinese regard sex to be as natural and
indispensable to human health and longevity as rain falling on the fields is to
plant life.
The
intense sense of guilt attached to sexual matters in Jewish-Christian tradition
is, in Chinese eyes, one of the most unpleasant and incomprehensible aspects of
Western culture. Sex was considered a natural part of life.
During
Qigong practice you use your concentration (based on your intention or desire)
and your breath to activate and move your internal energy so that blockages are
removed. These blockages cause pain on many levels, including the physical, emotional,
mental, and spiritual. Once the blockages are removed through regular Qigong
practice or via the direction of a Qigong healer, one can release great inner
tension and can begin to finally fully heal on all levels.
As you become better able to sense (increase your
awareness of) and move your Qi, you will also be able to move your sexual
energy, or Jing Qi, as well. The ability to expand and move your sexual
energy allows you to transform your sexual energy into Qi, or life force, which
will give you a great deal more energy as you live your life in the world.And
when your energy is strong and your intention is clear, your Qi is transformed
into spiritual energy, or Shen.
Taoist texts described many special sexual positions
that served to cure or prevent illness.
The Quan Zhen Pai'm ("Perfect Realization School") Taoist school
sought immortality through meditation, breathing exercises, bathing,
gymnastics, sexual arts, medicines, chemistry, and other means.
Fángzhong Shù, literally "Joining Energy"
or "The Joining of the Essences", is the Chinese name for the way
some Taoists practiced sex. An important concept of "The Joining of the
Essences" was that the union of a man and a woman would result in the
creation of jing, a type of sexual energy. When in the act of lovemaking,
jing would form, and one could transform some of this jing into qi, and
replenish the lifeforce. By having as much sex as possible, one had the
opportunity to transform more and more jing, and as a result would see many
health benefits. They believed that by performing these sexual arts as a
spiritual practice, one could stay in good health, and eventually, with some
other spiritual or alchemical practices, attain immortality.
Scientists say that regular
intercourse can cut the chance of a heart attack or stroke by 50%,
significantly reduce the risk of prostate cancer, and give your immune system a
boost. So both the ancient Taoists and modern experts agree that staying
sexually active can increase both the length and quality of your life.
The major Taoist sexual techniques include teaching
how to master the differences of sexual arousal of male and female, harmonizing
the sexual will and desire, and liberating and activating the female while
relaxing the male. These techniques can be used to prolong the sexual act and
contribute to the pleasure of both partners. Emphasis was placed on breathing
techniques (qigong) during sex to prolong a man's orgasm to make a woman orgasm
several times to gain her yin essence.
In all the ancient Chinese sex manuals, woman is
always depicted as the guardian of sexual arcana and the supreme source of
life-sustaining essence and energy. In these texts the woman plays the role of
the great initiator and teacher of sex, while the man is described as a
sexually ignorant bumbler (as most modern day men have become thanks to a lack
in education and the idea of sex being nothing but recreational entertainment,
where the woman is just a fantasy object). This condition may explain the deep
fear and resentment that many men harbor toward women.
Sexual practices help relax the nerves and increase
blood flow; the more relaxed you become, the more easily Qi begins to flow.
Sexual alchemy becomes possible as the body rejuvenates and transform one's
self into a younger and healthier person. It also allows you to increase your
physical pleasure and intensify your orgasms, especially for the woman in a
relationship. Healing Love practice offers a practical method to
access and integrate the two most powerful healing forces in the world: real
love and sexual energy. These practices can increase your feelings of love and
invigorate your body and soul.
One invigorating sexual practice is called Tantric
Sex. In China, Tantric Buddhism developed that called for engagement with the
natural processes within the world and shared much with Taoism. Tantra
challenged the acetic beliefs of that time, purporting that sexuality was a
doorway to the divine, and that earthly pleasures, such as eating, dancing, and
creative expression were sacred acts. Tantra is over 1600 years old, and
like yoga, it originated in India. The word Tantra means "tools for
expansion. or "to manifest, to expand, to show and to weave." It is a
set of teachings and practices that are specifically designed to help us feel
more, to increase our awareness of our own energy, and the energy around us.
One path that Tantra uses to these ends is the exploration of sexual energy. Tantra
uses such techniques as keeping one's eyes open during sex; prolonging foreplay
slowly; sharing each other's breath, and creating an intimate space to interact
in.
The goal of Tantric sex is to allow us to experience
more depth and breadth in our sexuality. The goal is not necessarily to orgasm,
but rather enriching the whole sexual experience. In Tantra, like Taoism, there is the idea that the smooth flow
of energy in our bodies can get stuck somewhere in the system, becoming blocked
from moving freely or depleted for a variety of reasons. The tantric practice works
toward keeping the energy flowing through us smoothly and naturally.
BECOMING ONE
So
how does all this Taoist wisdom translate into advice for modern people?
Cultivate
your own sexual energy. Take time to breathe into your pelvic area filing your
lower abdomen with qi down to your pelvic floor.
See
sex as an energetic exchange with your partner. Sometimes this is lively and
sometimes it is peaceful. Take the pressure to perform off yourself by seeing
sex as one more way you and your loved one connect.
Pursue
the kind of holistic health practices that bring balance to your body such as
acupuncture, massage, and meditation.
Have
sex. Make time to connect with your partner in this way. It’s good for your
relationship, it’s good for your health, and if the Taoists are to be believed
it’s good for your spirit.
@primavera.yoga“Sex essence is the source of all energy available for creative and thinking processes (shien).”
Genuine trust develops that brings long term love,
affection, and devotion. A couple can then finally become intimate with each
other in the true sense of the word; each one connecting more fully and
trusting that one is in complete support of the other. The result is
complete joy and gratitude with oneself, one's partner, and the world.Tantric
sex brings one on a spiritual path that is devoted and dedicated to the
challenge of becoming aware, in every moment of our embodied lives, of the
supreme flow of the sacred lifeforce itself—the Sacred Unity of Love.
When I first heard about the chakras they felt a little esoteric. But once I began to learn about them, as well as the concept of energy and energetic pathways running through the human body, the chakra system began to make a lot of sense.
Chakras and chakra system – 7 energy centers that live in certain areas of our bodies and relate to certain life experiences:
• 1st chakra – sex center: pelvis, genitals, legs, feet, buttocks
• 2nd chakra – lower belly: beneath the navel and sacrum area on the back
• 3rd chakra – solar plexus: center of the body between the belly button and end of Sternum and center of the back.
• 4th chakra – heart: center of the chest between the nipples, breasts, armpits, arms, and hands, back between the shoulder blades.
• 5th chakra – throat: neck, Adam’s apple.
• 6th chakra – third eye: center of the brow, between the two eyebrows, end of nose and back of the head opposite the brow, linked to the Pineal gland in the center of the brain.
• 7th chakra – crown: top of the head and above the head.
Today, I’d like to touch upon the inner workings of the fifth chakra, the throat chakra. This is the chakra that’s found in the subtle body near the throat. In Sanskrit, it’s known as visuddha.
It’s an important chakra to learn how to balance—especially for those of us who have a hard time speaking our innermost truth. If you have a difficult time expressing yourself, pay attention. The fifth chakra attributes include listening, speaking, writing, chanting, telepathy, and any of the arts- especially those related to sound and language.
In this article, we’re going to explore how to develop and balance our throat chakra, in order to find and express truth.
The fifth Chakras
Each chakra corresponds to various parts of the body. Your throat chakra is said to govern the vocal cords, upper lungs, ears, mouth, and throat, as well as the thyroid and parathyroid glands, the neck, jaw, tongue, and larynx.
Every chakra is also related to an element. The throat chakra is ruled by the element of ether, or space. (The element ether, called “akasha” in Sanskrit is the first of the five great elements -earth, water, air, and fire-. It comes first because it is the most subtle of the elements. Often referred to as “space,” (or spirit) it is the essence of emptiness. It is the space the other elements fill. The element ether represents a world of vibrations- the emanations of living things that we experience as the aura, as sound, and as subtle plane of whispered impressions on the mind into which our more solid realities are enfolded))
There are also various seed, or bija, mantras related to each of the seven chakras. The one that enhances throat chakra healing is HAM.
When your throat chakra is working optimally, your ability to express yourself and communicate freely and clearly comes naturally. You find it important and easy to speak from your highest truth.
When the energy within this chakra is flowing freely, you also have a way of listening deeply in order to understand the truths of your loved ones.
When your throat chakra is blocked or unbalanced, communication problems arise. You may find it difficult to speak up or have problems listening to others. When we notice these issues, it is best to spend some time healing and balancing your throat chakra.
Pranayama for Visuddha Chakra
To help open visuddha chakra, you’ll want to commit to a regular pranayama practice, and preferably one that’s geared specifically to the throat chakra. Some of the best ways to open this chakra are to practice the lion’s breath and ujjayi breath. Both of these techniques warm the throat area and stimulate energy around the throat chakra.
Bumblebee breath is yet another technique to work on. Notice how your throat is stimulated when you practice bumblebee breath. Choose one or two of these techniques—whichever ones resonate with you. Then practice them daily, perhaps before or after your asana practice or before your meditation.
Yoga Asana to Open Visuddha Chakra
Every yoga posture helps open certain chakra centers within the body. As such, you can craft entire yoga sequences around a specific chakra. The best postures for vishuddha chakra focus on the throat and include:
•Bridge pose (setu bandha sarvangasana)
•Camel pose (ustrasana)
•Plow pose (halasana)
•Supported shoulder stand (salamba sarvangasana)
Even simple neck rolls are great for the throat chakra. The neck much of the time acts as a filter between the abundant flow of energy between the mind and the body. This causes it to be extremely subject to tension and stiffness. Loosening the neck is an essential beginning for any work on the fifth chakra. You can also massage it with your fingers.
Head lifts help to stimulate the thyroid gland and helps strengthen the neck. Lie flat on your back and relax. Slowly lift your head, leaving your shoulders on the floor, so that you are looking at your toes. Hold this position until you feel the energy move into the beck.
Use your own knowledge and intuitive powers to work this area of the subtle body.
Listening is an essential and too often overlooked component of communication. Yogis often take vows of silence for extended periods of time to purify their vibrations of audible sound and better tune into subtle sounds. By avoiding verbal communication, one can open up other avenues of communication, namely communication with higher consciousness. You can try a Vipassana retreat.
Consider How You Might Find Your Truth Through Visuddha Chakra
Knowing what you know now, consider how you might better find, and then speak your truth through visuddha chakra healing.
You’d be surprised how listening to yourself brings forth answers you never thought were there. The practices of journaling and meditation help you get in touch with your own intuitive powers.
You may want to use a journal to brainstorm the following questions:
•Where am I holding back in terms of speaking authentically?
•Is there a particular relationship that needs healthier and more truthful communication?
•Do I always speak my truth? If not, in what areas of my life and with whom can I work on this?
You may also want to bring mindfulness to every word you speak. You can do this by pausing before you open your mouth to say something. During the pause, ask yourself, is what I’m about to say really true? If the answer is no, don’t say it. If the answer is yes, carry on.
You’d be amazed how bringing a sense of mindfulness to your speech really opens up your communicative skills, helping you better speak the truth in any and every situation.
Have fun finding your truth, and remember to be patient with yourself. Chakra balancing is a process and should be treated as such.
yogasm requires not a specific position but a state of mind – it may take weeks, months or years of physical workouts to achieve it. But it is most often achieved during a deep meditative yoga designed to lead to spiritual awakening. It is not just a physical orgasm, but far beyond it. It feels like a huge release of energy. I get involuntary spasms and a ripple of energy through me and experience the most intense ecstasy. How to get it? keep reading :)
I am not talking about classes in the US with flowers and sensual music. I am talking about feeling kind of orgasm while practicing Asanas (Ashtanga, Vinyasa are more effective for me), it exists but it can be a little embracing when it happens next to others (especially when it happens in front of your Indian teacher during my TTC when then he asks me to try to be quite hahaha.. oops). No one needs to touch you, you just go so deep into the practice and using deep breathing (Ujjay breath with a deep sound while using your belly- inhale blow your stomach and when you exhale pull it in as much as you can, slow and deep ;)).
A yogasm does not always feel the same as a
physical orgasm, rather, it is experienced all over the body. Some
people do have a genital orgasm at the same time, though, and spontaneous
orgasms can definitely happen, too.
Anyone can achieve yogasm, even men (but I am still waiting for it to happen during my classes :).
I teach
people just to breath a bit more fully and deeply and to try to really feel the parts of the body wich the asana refers to, and then try to breathe and get deeper. I ask
them to use their imagination and move this energy through their body. It’s a
bit like mindfulness, a bit like meditation. But as a normal orgasm, it should come naturally :).
The main thing about yoga is that it gets
people to have a better relationship with themselves. It’s about bringing
people back to understand their own bodies in the best way that they can.
People will sometimes text me saying that they felt euphoric after a class or
that they have had better sex because of it.
The other thing is that it helps them to feel
better physically and emotionally, so they feel more alive in their
relationships, and from that, they might have a better sex life. I guess it is even more important then yogasm ;).
The quarantine makes me interested
in more and more areas that I have not touched on yet or it was not the right time
to touch them.
I heard about Human Design many
years ago, but I didn't research in depth, I knew I was a generator and that's
it. About two weeks ago, I came across a free course that explains everything
(it is in Hebrew, if someone want, I can send him a link). And I discovered
something new that can teach me more about myself and my purpose in this life,
and then you don't look for changing yourself. sometimes to grow is just to
except who you really, but really are J
What is Human Design?
The
Human Design System is an empirical science. It is a synthesis of ancient
wisdom and modern science. It combines astrology, the I Ching, the
Kabbalah´s Tree of Life, the Indian chakra system, genetics and quantum
physics. Using a person´s birth data a so-called rave chart or body graph
is created. In the body graph you can see a person´s unique potential and
challenges in amazing depth and detail. This blueprint allows people to
realign with their very own and unique life path and purpose.
Conscious
and unconscious traits, personal interactions, and challenges in all
human experiential fields (i.e. psychology, nutrition, communication,
politics, marketing, business world, economy, human resource management,
relationships, sex, family life, parenting, etc.) can be explained mechanically
so creative solutions can be found.
Human
Design does not tell us to live by new rules and believes in order to get a
better life, quite to the contrary it states that any statement can be
challenged and tested. The knowledge is validated through experience,
through experimenting with it in life…
Ra Uru Hu (born
Alan Robert Krakauer) is the founder of the Human Design Systems.
The BodyGraph is a map of genetic code that shows how our
energy is here to correctly engage in the world. Have you ever wondered if you
are using your energy, your life force correctly? When you look at your
BodyGraph, you see how your energy is designed to “mechanically” navigate the
world.
What is the intent of Human Design?
Ra Uru Hu, the founder of Human Design, says: At the very least people will
get a sense of relief when they understand their design. Say someone
comes for a reading and they are beating themselves up because they like to
spend a lot of time alone. Maybe their friends and family think there’s
something wrong with them, that they’re anti-social. When I look at their
design, I see that they have ten lines of the Hermit and some gates of
aloneness (in other words, they are designed to spend a lot of time alone). We
have all of these mental stories about how we cannot be ourselves. Just .simply
understanding how you are hardwired is so helpful. We are not designed to be
alike!
What are the different types and their Strategies?
Strategy
types:
Generators
Generators represent about 70
percent of the population. They are the life force of the planet, the builders.
They have a defined Sacral center (more on centers below) and an open and
enveloping aura that is constantly pulling life to them. Their Strategy is to
respond, as opposed to initiating. It’s a sacral response (this can be sacral
sounds, body movement, etc.) that lets them know if they are available to give
their energy to something or not. When Generators initiate from a mental place
(instead of waiting for this response), they can end up feeling deeply
frustrated and degenerated rather than regenerated and satisfied in their life
and work.
Projectors
Projectors represent about 20
percent of the population. The strategy is to wait for recognition and
invitation. Their focused and penetrating aura gives them the ability to see
deeply into others. When invited and recognized (i.e. they feel appreciated and
seen), Projectors are here to be our most gifted guides. Their openness leaves
them vulnerable to conditioning (more on this below). If Projectors are
focusing on the wrong people and have not been really recognized, this can lead
to exhaustion and bitterness. Projectors need to learn to be very discerning
about engaging their energy. They are natural at mastering systems, and when
they use their energy correctly, will experience success in their life and
relationships.
Manifestors
Manifestors represent about 9
percent of the population. As natural initiators, their Strategy is to inform
those around them of their decisions before they take action. Manifestors have
a powerful impact; their closed and repelling aura can make others feel off-balance and want to control the Manifestor. When a Manifestor shares with
others, this naturally relaxes those around them and removes energetic
resistance, allowing them to initiate in peace. Manifestors can be an
initiating catalyst for the other types, too. When they are moving through life
without informing others, Manifestors can end up feeling angry as a result of
the resistance they experience.
Reflectors
Reflectors represent about 1
percent of the population. If you have all of your centers open then you are a
Reflector. You have a resilient aura that samples the energies around you and
reflects them. The way in which the Reflectors process experience is very different
from the other types. Because their chemistry magnifies everything and
everyone, Reflectors have the potential to see what is happening in a way that
no one else can. Their greatest gift is to read others and their environments.
When they are healthy and in the right place, Reflectors experience the wonder
and surprise of life. If, however, Reflectors end up identifying with what they
are mirroring, they can become exhausted and disappointed.
What open centers are?
We are always putting out energy and we are always taking in
energy. The nine centers of the body are energy hubs that transform or
transmute our life force. When a center on your BodyGraph is defined or colored
in, it is fixed and reliable in the way in which it functions and operates. The
centers on your chart that are white are open. These undefined centers are not
broken or empty, and they do not need to be fixed, but they are the places
where we are most vulnerable to outside influences. We can learn from them and
gather wisdom, but we shouldn’t make decisions from these centers. We’re
constantly conditioned through our open centers as we engage with life.
Conditioning is not something that needs to be
avoided, but it can become an
issue if we take action based on it.
For example, For example, an open root center: The
root center is a pressure center associated with the adrenal system and the
production of stress hormones. It is a source of fuel or a physical pressure.
The Not-Self question (asking it shows the opposite of your true self) for the
open root center is: Am I still in a hurry to get
rid of the pressure?When I am being run by my open root center, I am
rushing around at Mach speed, maybe talking too fast or driving too fast, or
completing a six-week deadline in six days. The amplified pressure in my body
is very uncomfortable, so I want to get rid of it as fast as possible. My mind
will make up a story that says if I move faster and get that thing done, the
pressure will go away. It’s such a joke because the pressure always comes back!
The pressure in and of itself is not a problem, but when I attach mental
stories to it and believe those stories, my energy is all over the place. Constantly
acting on this amplified pressure can result in accidents, serious energetic
burnout (adrenal fatigue, anyone?), and
overall poor decision making.
That is something that Generator with a close (colored) Spleen center can say, but not everyone is supposed to make decisions based on their own intuition. Because it is their part that is influenced by others and change consistently.