
Explore how prana fuels awareness, liberates trapped energy through meditation and pranayamas, and releases samskaras to boost vitality and energy.
Develop awareness of prana by sensing body heat and breath, linking it to digestion, circulation, respiration, cognition, and action. Recognize that higher prana expands consciousness and joy, reducing depression.
Explore how prana appears across cultures, from Tibetan tummo and Japanese hara to qi in Taoism, and connect Manipura as the center of vital energy.
Explore prana as the universal energy and foundational principle of the body and nature in the Vedic tradition, with references across the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita.
Explore prana as a complex energy system—electrical, magnetic, photonic, ocular, thermal, and mental energies—and its parallels to plasma physics, a charged particle vapor directed by mind and fields.
Develop prana awareness through a guided meditation that aligns the spine, enhances breath, and senses bioenergy, inner space, and Manipura chakra to energize body and mind.
Learn pranayama techniques to access prana, purify nadis with nadi shodhana, and visualize ida and pingala across the six chakras to balance mind and energy.
Awaken prana shakti through the Adi Gayatri mantra, purifying nadis and chakras with daily practice. Chant 11 times to invite divine grace and illumine the intellect.
Identify and reduce prana depletion by examining mind-driven drain, sexual discipline, and lifestyle habits, then conserve prana through meditation, yoga, and ethical observances for spiritual evolution.
Explore five kleshas and how avidya drains prana, limiting awareness of atma; learn to loosen ego, move beyond pasubhav, balance raga and dvesha, and cultivate vidya through meditation and surrender.
Explore prana vidya to awaken self-awareness, recognize your true nature as sat-chit-ananda, dissolve ego, and merge your prana with maha prana for healing.
Eat according to the three gunas, choosing sattvic, nutrient-dense foods. Align meals with the sun: light breakfast, largest lunch, small dinner, and observe ekadashi fasting.
Engage in daily movement to maintain health and age gracefully through Pavana Muktasana and Surya Namaskar, boosting circulation and prana flow with targeted core and joint work.
Align your daily routine with the sun by waking at sunrise and eating at consistent times. Choose nutrient-dense sattvic foods, avoid overeating, eat seasonally, and practice prana through surya namaskara.
Develop sensitivity to prana and learn to conserve, build, and cultivate prana within your body while reducing depleting habits and cultivating awareness through mindful choices.
Refocus on lifestyle components to conserve and awaken prana, emphasizing the five prana values, activating the Manipura chakra, exploring the nadis, and practicing pranayama and agni mandala.
Adopt a regular yoga and pranayama routine daily, practicing abhyas to cultivate higher awareness; start with a few breaths to still the mind and transcend avidya maya to vidya maya.
Explore how chakras host prana and the five prana vayus—prana, apana, samana, udana, vyana. Understand how these energies merge to awaken Manipura and support pranic healing.
Explore how chakras represent levels of intelligence and states of mind, from instinct at muladhara and swadhisthana to gut-led intuition at manipura, heart-based intuition, and intellectual intelligence at Yashodian Agnya.
Awaken ajna first to trigger muladhara and sushumna, cultivate prana shakti, and purify lower chakras through vishuddhi, with manipura as the central reservoir for practice.
Explore bindu as the point where non-duality becomes duality and the source of the cosmos, where amrit, the nectar of immortality, is preserved through Vishuddhi awakening and self-realization.
Explore Sahasrara, the crown source of prana shakti and supreme consciousness, central to pranic healing. Direct maha prana toward the higher Ajna for healing and experience the universal life force.
Nadis are subtle pathways carrying prana shakti and spirit energy, linking the nervous system with conscious power. The three chief nadis (Pingala, Ida, and Sashumna) carry solar, lunar, and fire currents.
Tune your breath and awaken the chakras by tracing pingala and ida nadi flow from muladhara to ajna, practicing breath-aware meditation to channel prana shakti.
Cultivate daily five-minute full yogic breathing to retrain the diaphragm, synchronize mind and body, and gain conscious control over emotions by mapping breath patterns to emotional states.
Guide a full yogic breathing meditation from shavasana, practicing nadi shodhi with hand placements on the navel and chest to observe a natural, wave-like breath.
Start with two to three minutes of daily practice, then gradually reach ten minutes by adding one minute each interval to retrain the diaphragm for deeper breaths, vitality, and prana.
Build breath awareness and purify the nadis with nadi shodhana pranayama, alternating nostrils with controlled counts, then practice prana shuddhi and extended exhalations in a safe, concise 15-minute routine.
Practice agni mandala dharana to awaken Manipura chakra by reversing prana and apana flows through pingala nadi, culminating in a fiery zone at the solar plexus.
Learn five prana vidya hand mudras to activate the five vayus, each paired with a mantra and focus region, guiding inhalation, exhalation, digestion, and self-expression.
Activate the pranic body with four mudras and pranayama, balancing prana and apana at samana vayu, directing energy to udana and vyana to revitalize the body through 108 breaths.
Activate the pranic body with guided meditation, ujjayi pranayama, and mudras including prana, samana, udana, vyana, chin, adi, brahma to balance prana vayu and cultivate inner steadiness.
Activate Manipura chakra by reversing prana and apana flows at the navel to cultivate digestion, willpower, confidence, and balanced energy through pancha prana and samana vayu.
Activates Manipura chakra through a full meditation, integrating ujjayi pranayama, prana mudras, box breathing, and mudra sequences to balance prana shakti and cultivate inner power.
Delve into the subtle body (sukshma sharir), the six chakras with bindu and sahasrar, nadis, and yogic breathing, including nadi shodhana and agni mandala kriya.
Develop awareness of prana, the prana vidya science, sense this bio electromagnetic energy, and see how it powers the body and mind while you focus on solutions.
Awaken and consciously manipulate prana by will to expand consciousness, perceive its nature, and attain higher awareness, leading to meditation and union with maha prana, the eternal living energy.
Explore foundations of hatha yoga to awaken Sushumna nadi and prana shakti through purification, asanas, and pranayama. Practice ujjayi breath, bandhas, and mudras to direct prana through chakras for healing.
Harness mantra meditation to amplify healing by pairing mantra power with prana, per tantra shastras and agamas. Choose a guru or bija mantra and practice japa for energy.
Learn ejapa japa and ejapa dharana, visualizing prana in inner space through chittakash dharana, while practicing Kayastherium to steady posture for focused prana work in pranic healing.
Explore higher sadhanas that purify and awaken chakras, elements, and prana shakti through chakra shuddhi, tattva shuddhi, and kriya yoga practices from Bihar School of Yoga and Babaji Kriya Yoga.
Develop awareness of prana and atma shakti, unlocking latent healing power and higher states of meditation. Learn to perceive prana, locate chakras and nadis, awaken ajna, and direct prana effectively.
Explore prana vidya healing through the therapeutic touch, an advanced technique of placing hands to channel prana for healing. A NYU study notes palm healing increasing hemoglobin, signaling prana’s potential.
Discover how inner being and soul define real health through yoga, meditation, and turning inward to access breath, presence, and bliss in harmony with nature.
Awaken the ajna, activating the third eye chakra to direct prana through pingala and sushumna, build prana at agya, and prepare for healing and kundalini awakening.
Guide students through a guided meditation to consciously direct prana, activating chakras from muladhara to ajna with ujjayi pranayama and visualized pingala pathways.
Experience the five vayus and prana-maya kosha, awaken ajna through pingala and sushumna, then wield prana for self and others via focused breath and visualization.
practitioners guide healing through a pranic healing method guided meditation, using ujjayi pranayama to channel prana from ajna to manipura and muladhara, healing a targeted body part or full body.
Become aware of energy, awaken prana and move prana shakti through pingala and sushumna to agya, send prana to a body part and return focus to agya and muladhara.
Harness the yogic science of prana to elevate your energy, calm your mind, and skillfully direct cosmic energy for healing yourself and other. Rooted in the Satyananda/Bihar School of Yoga tradition of Prana Vidya, this Level-1 training is a clear, practice-heavy path that turns subtle theory into embodied results.
What you’ll learn (measurable outcomes)
Perform Full Yogic Breathing and Nadi Shodhana correctly to purify nadis and settle the mind’s fluctuations, with step-by-step cues you can repeat on your own.
Activate Manipura (solar plexus) and practice “Reversing Prana & Apana” to kindle samana vayu—often experienced as improved digestion, steadier afternoon energy, better core stability/posture, and calmer mood reactivity.
Sense, circulate, expand, and re-collect prana through guided meditations (Prana Nidra & pranic body activation), so you can feel and manage energy in real time.
Follow the traditional, systematic arc of Prana Vidya—awakening, raising/storing, expanding/distributing—so your practice progresses safely and clearly.
Apply the “Eight Stages of Pranic Healing” and guide a basic self-healing session; then advance to a full, instructor-led session.
Use mudras for the five vayus and mantra to sharpen pranic sensitivity and influence.
Build a sustainable daily sadhana (breath, movement, mantra, meditation) you can keep up in 10–20 minutes a day.
Who this course is for:
Yogis, meditators, coaches, and wellness practitioners seeking reliable, lineage-based energy skills.
Beginners who want safe, guided entry into subtle practices—no prior experience required.
Teachers/therapists who wish to add pranic awareness and self-regulation tools to client work.
Why this tradition? Authenticity you can trust
The Satyananda/Bihar system codified Prana Vidya as a complete sadhana—with clearly defined stages that lead from awakening energy to conscious distribution and healing.
You’ll learn why tantra emphasizes “liberation of energy” as the key to mental transformation—and how pranayama, mudra, bandha, mantra, visualization, and Yoga Nidra work together to do exactly that.
The course also bridges classical insight with modern language: prana is presented as a multidimensional energy (electrical, magnetic, photonic, thermal, mental), making the practices tangible and testable in your body.
Guided, practice-first curriculum (4 weeks)
Week 1 – Awareness of Prana: Vedic & cross-cultural context, “prana = constant motion,” breath & body sensing, Prana Awareness Meditation, lifestyle for high prana, Week-1 assignment.
Week 2 – Awakening Prana: Chakras, nadis, Full Yogic Breathing, Nadi Shodhana, Agni Mandala, mudras for the five vayus, pranic body activation, Week-2 assignment.
Week 3 – Directing Prana: Transmission of prana, therapeutic touch basics, Yoga Nidra as an aid to Prana Vidya, mantra, visualization & concentration for pranic direction, Ajna activation.
Week 4 – Healing With Prana: The Eight Stages of Pranic Healing + a complete, guided self-healing session; review & integration.
Real-world benefits you can notice
Energy & mood: Feel more “on” during the day and reduce afternoon crashes as samana refines and redistributes vitality.
Digestion & core: Many experience warmer, steadier digestion and improved posture as awareness collects around the navel center.
Focus & resilience: Calm, lengthened breathing plus Manipura work often brings steadier concentration and less reactivity to stress.
Sleep & restoration: Pranic practices support deeper replenishment—vital for sustaining higher awareness.
Skillful self-regulation: Pranayama trains you to supply and balance prana where it’s needed—an invaluable daily life skill.
Inside the practices
Nadi Shodhana: Learn exact hand positions, visualizations for ida/pingala, and pacing so you can repeat it safely and effectively.
Agni Mandala & Manipura Activation: Breath-led visualization to kindle inner fire, charge willpower, and cultivate grounded confidence.
Prana Nidra & Pranic Body Activation: Progressive sensing, expanding, and recollecting of prana—complete scripts included.
Mudras for the Five Vayus: Build discernment of prana/apana/samana/udana/vyana to “feel before you direct.”
Instructor & lineage
Devatma Saraswati was initiated into Prana Vidya in 2008 under the guidance of Swami Satyananda by the senior swamis of the Bihar School of Yoga and has been practicing and teaching Prana Vidya for 17+ years.
This course follows the structured approach presented in Prana Vidya (Satyananda/Niranjanananda)—awakening, raising, storing, expanding and distributing prana.
This course includes
Guided practices (including Prana Nidra) you can download and repeat for personal transformation.
Clear weekly assignments and a sadhana plan you’ll tailor to your schedule.
Practical frameworks that make subtle work concrete—linking energy, breath, posture, and attention into one skillset.
If you’re ready to experience prana as a living, usable force—and to turn timeless teachings into daily, measurable benefits—this training is your starting point.