Tejas Yog
Anand Practice
Duration - 40 minutes
When the mind is not in balance, the entire body feels fatigued and passive. This practice can help in making your mind more clear, and more relaxed through attending your body. The second stage of this practice uses music and helps in relaxing the mind. This is also useful for people with insomnia and those who feel brain fog or mental exhaustion.
This practice includes two stages which are 20 minutes each.
Note:
People often fall asleep during the second stage. If that happens, it's fine to keep sleeping. It means your brain is tired, and you deal with daily life with that tiredness. The music is designed to relax your mind and revitalise you. The stage two of the practice involves music. The audio is provided and is available for download. In a special case, you may continue with the basic methods without using any music.
Practice
Gesture
Stage One: 20 Minutes
Stand in a place, open enough for you to lie down in the second stage. In whichever direction your face points, mark that point as your original position. Now develop the pellet drum gesture. Take three of your centre fingers – hold them together – each along the other and bend them to a fist. The thumb and tiny finger rest in their position. Maintain this gesture with both the hands for the first layer. Hands should be kept in their normal waking position. Now gently close your eyes. Keep the eyes closed for the rest of the practice. Now standing in the same place, slowly take a clockwise turn and complete a rotation to your original position. Inhale slowly as you take the turn clockwise. Next, rotate slowly anti-clockwise making a bumble bee sound. Exhale as you rotate anti-clockwise. Ensure you remain fully aware of your movements and perform the rotations in the palace where you are standing and don’t go astray. Repeat the same movements for 20 minutes.
Stage Two: 20 Minutes
Now transition to stage two by gently laying down on the same palace. Music will start after the gong bells for stage two. Lay down straight, with legs slightly apart, arms at your sides and both palms facing upwards. Make sure the body does not feel any strain. Keep your eyes closed. As you listen gently to the music, begin by focusing your attention on the joint points of your body.. Start with the ankle joint in your left leg. Maintain your complete attention to the joint for a minute. Next, transit your attention to the right leg’s ankle joint. Maintain your attention here for a minute.
Now gradually come to the knee joint in your left leg. Then turn to the knee joint in the right leg. Next, slowly move ahead to the left side pivot and right-side pivot joints, left side and right-side wrist joints, left and right-side elbow joints. Then the left and right shoulder joints. Now come to the tip of your spinal cord, the place just back of your neck. One minute of attention has to be spent on all these 13 joints. At the end of this stage–in the same position rest yourself in meditation.
The length of meditation is 20 minutes. Try to be aware of your body and the music.
Audio