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Discover the three steps of kriya yoga—tapa (self-discipline), svadhyaya (self-study), and ishvara pranidhana (surrender to the higher self)—as a practical sequence that uses breath, body, and mind for inner transformation.
Identify key terms before Bandhu Kriya, such as aware relaxation, and explore awareness, seven major chakras, and the dhyana mudra that balance the mind for meditation.
Explore spinal breathing along the sushumna, using ujjayi or abdominal breathing to cultivate equanimity, focus, and emotional resilience, then practice samyama across brow and crown chakras for oneness.
Explore the four Bandhu Kriya steps: aware relaxation two minutes, spinal breathing two minutes, elongated outbreath four minutes, and samyama three minutes.
Perform Bandhu Kriya to guide your practice through aware relaxation, final breathing with ujjayi, elongated outbreath, and samyama visualization at the brow and crown chakras, cultivating breath control and concentration.
Explore yoga as an ancient spiritual science that raises mind capacity, aligns the jivatma with paramatma through physical and mental practices, and reveals the self.
Explains the doctrine of three bodies surrounding the soul and the three gunas—sattva, rajesh, tamas—along with the physical, subtle, and causal bodies and the doshas vata, pitta, and kapha.
Explores the three vital essences: prana, stages, and odgers, and their relation to doshas, with practices like pranayama, kapalbhati, breathing, meditation, tapas, and sattvic living to cultivate spiritual vitality.
Explore the four key nadis—the sushumna, ida, pingala, and gita nadi—and how balanced prana through them fosters higher mind, awakening kundalini, non-attachment, and oneness.
Explore mudras within Bandhu Kriya to boost concentration and meditation through specific hand positions, including Gyan mudra, Prana mudra, Dhyana mudra, and others.
Explore how Ayurveda uses herbs to awaken higher faculties and support pranayama, linking body and mind through prana, with herbs like turmeric, ashwagandha, brahmi, shatavari, and gotu kola.
Explore wellness and nutrition through sankalpa, establishing firm determination and perseverance through deep contemplation to connect with your higher self and purpose, aided by Mandukya.
Explore the path to wellness by practicing bandhu kriya at each stage to stay connected with your purpose, balancing health, nutrition, and personality development through yoga and nishkam karma.
Explore how intermittent fasting triggers metabolic switching from glucose to ketones and offers health benefits for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers, and neurological disorders.
Develop flexibility and balance by building range of motion through yoga asanas. Explore standing, seated, and reclining poses like uttanasana, virabhadrasana i, and paschimottanasana.
Kriya Yoga refers to a specific path of yoga outlined by the sage Patanjali in his foundational text on yoga philosophy - Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are a collection of aphorisms that provide guidance on the practice of yoga and the path to spiritual realization.
The practice of Kriya Yoga typically involves techniques of controlling the life force or prana within the body through breath control and specific meditation practices in a sequence. Kriya Yoga in general is a quick method to achieve results hence it is also called Practical Yoga.
This Kriya Yoga technique helps any individual to improve the mediation and develop harmony and awareness to get balance in life. This helps on multiple fronts, controlling your emotions and habitual patterns, improve your learning ability, concentration and overall success in any endeavors. Additionally, this course shares knowledge about the role and support of Ayurveda for Yoga. The path to wellness through nutrition, exercise and fasting approach is also discussed that makes this course complete from all angles for improving general wellness.
The training topics are as below:
1. Introduction and Context
2. Bandhu Kriya Steps
3. Performing Bandhu Kriya
4. Yoga Knowledge Bits
5. Support of Ayurveda for Yoga
6. Nutrition and wellness