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Loading ...Master Guang Qin was a renowned Buddhist monk, teacher and cultivator in China. In this video we learn how Master Guang Qin lived without eating food because of his Samadhi experience in meditation.
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...This article by Alternative Depression Therapy shares with us 3 simple solar meditations that connect us more fully with the Sun to improve our physical, mental, and emotional health. These solar meditations are easy to perform and help with depression and Seasonal Affective Disorders (SAD).
(3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Sungazing is a meditative practice that involves staring directly at the Sun for short periods of time during sunrise or sunset. Some practitioners ascribe a range of health and spiritual benefits from the practice, though it is controversial. This film is a meditation on Sungazing featuring Daniel Giel.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Swami Nirmalananda Giri authored a comprehensive book on the spiritual significance of the sacred sound OM. In the chapeter The Glories and Powers of Om, Swami Nirmalananda Giri cites many authoritative yoga texts and their teachings about the Om sound and the Sun. In this article we have included some excerpts from Swami Nirmalananda Giri’s book and links to read the complete text.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The book Om Yoga – Its Theory and Practice by Swami Nirmalananda Giri contains a section called “The Solar Path of Liberation”. This section shares knowledge from the inner yoga teachings and Upanishads about the significance of the Sun. “As the germinating seed struggles upward toward the sun and out into its life-giving rays, so all higher forms of life reach out for the sun, which acts as a metaphysical magnet, drawing them upward and outward toward ever-expanding consciousness. Sunlight is the radiant form of Om, so the sun initiates the entire solar system into Om.”
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...The great saint Kabir said ““The sun is the most immediate physical form of AUM we can experience, for it is really solidified, materialized AUM.” In this article by the Ananda Church of Self Realization, we learn about the relationship between the Sun and the spiritual sound AUM (OM). With quotes from Kabir, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Swami Kriyananda, we learn that the Sun is the form of Aum. By meditating on the AUM sound we connect with our Higher Guidance.
(7 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5) Loading ...Psychiatrist and spiritual teacher Mitchell Gibson, M.D. shares the story of David Steindl-Rast and Father Tiso in their search for the Tibetan masters who have demonstrated a spiritual phenomenon known as the “rainbow body”. This remarkable story forms the introduction to Mitchell Gibson’s book Your Immortal Body of Light which cites many historical examples of humans who have manifested the “light body”.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Swami Sivananda is one of the world’s most well known and respected yogis. He authored over 200 books on Yoga, Vedanta, and other subjects. In his book Mind – Its Mysteries and Control, Swami Sivananda teaches how the mind is created by the food that we eat through a process of pranic transformation and transportation. Swami Sivananda also states, “If you know the process of drawing the energy from the cosmic energy or solar energy, you can maintain the body with this energy alone for any length of time and can dispense with food.” Is sun gazing this secret method of yoga?
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutation) is one of the most ancient and respected Hatha Yoga practices. Surya Namaskar stretches and strengthens the entire body in one easy sequence of asanas (postures). More importantly, Surya Namaskara awakens and empowers the charkas (psychic energy centers) and nadhis (psychic energy pathways), while also deepening the breath and calming the mind. For thousands of years, Surya Namaskara was honored as one of the most sacred and powerful yoga practices.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Norma Gentile is a professional singer and musician, recording artist, meditation teacher, energy healer and channeler. In 2003, Norma Gentile worked with Elitom Ben Yisrael to record the 2 CD audioclass Breatharian Meditations. In this article, Norma shares her experience while working with Elitom Ben Yisrael – a breatharian shaman. This article provides important information about the process of becoming a breatharian – teaching that breatharianism is much more than simply not eating food.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...A breatharian since 2001, Elitom Ben Yisrael has released a 2 CD audioclass called Breatharian Meditations. In this audioclass, Elitom Ben Yisrael teaches about the breatharian state and leads guided meditations to help you discover the spiritual energies inside you and surrounding you. Better understand the process of living without eating physical food with the help of Elitom Ben Yisrael, a breatharian shaman and holistic healer.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, a well-known spiritual teacher and Sun gazer, teaches this sunrise meditation. Learn how connecting with the Sun, the centre of our solar system, reinforces our connection with our spirit, the centre of our own being.
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5) Loading ...In Japan, a modified version of the yoga technique Surya Namaskara – the Sun Salutation – has been created for the elderly who face physical limitations and find it difficult to practice the 12 postures of the traditional Surya Namaskar of Sun Salutation. This blog post created by Shreedhar shares the 7 stages of Simplified Surya Namaskara.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...This article by Floco Tausin takes a deeper look into the relationship of the physical eyes, spiritual eyes, and spiritual practices like meditation and yoga trataka. Spiritual practices that focus the eyes on material objects, like the sun, also affect and strenghten the “inner eye”, “spiritual eye”, the “third eye” or Ajna Chakra. This awakens the practitioner to experience of inner spiritual light and psychic perception. Learn the methods taught by Carlos Castenda and the Indian Yogis to train the eyes to gain spiritual sight.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Hatha Yoga practice of trataka is a simple technique that has a purifying, invigorating effect on the mind and improves concentration, paving the way for a deeper meditation practice. Trataka also nourishes the subtle flame at the navel center, promoting vitality and inner health. In its more advanced form, as the Himalayan master Swami Rama said, “The practice of trataka eventually merges into surya sadhana, meditation on the solar energy.” Learn more about this power solar energy technique taught by Swami Rama in this Yoga Plus article.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Nearly half a million Hindu devotees took a holy dip in a pond in Orissa’s temple town of Konark and offered prayers to the sun in the belief that they would be cured of all diseases. According to legend, Hindu god Krishna’s son Shamba was cured of leprosy after a holy dip at the site of the Chandrabhaga river.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Suryayog is a dynamic spiritual yoga. Surya Swami, the founder of this natural technique to meditate and attain self-realisation has answers for the inner selves. He says that Suryayog takes us from Saguna Swaroop towards Nirguna Swaroop, which is from the human form to that of God.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...“The human body is not mere flesh and bones but also has electromagnetic dust, where rays from the Sun (Surya) can cause positive vibrations to balance the body, mind and spirit naturally. [The] human body is a gigantic Atomic Reactor and a moving Power House. Brain is the Generator and heart is the Transmitter”.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The incredible story of a man who has overcome the need to take food or water by absorbing energy directly from the sun through a system that he is now teaching. Learn about the Sun Yogi Umashanka in this Life Positive magazine story.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...That most familiar of asana sequences, Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) is as rich in symbolic and mythic overtones as it is in physical benefits. Part 2 of this article in Yoga Journal magazine teaches the asana sequence of Surya Namaskar and offers tips to deepen your yoga experience.
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