Suryayog is for penetrating darkness of gross materialism to find the enlightened domain of inner self. The healing powers of the Sun’s rays and love-energy bring about balance and harmony of body, mind and soul.
Surya Swami gives this interview to The Times of India on June 6, 2003. Surya Swami teaches Suryayog a yoga practice that includes gazing at the sun with naked eye, chanting mantras, deep breathing, a few yogic postures and bowing to Nature.
This Maharshi Ayurveda newsletter presents an Ayurvedic perspective on the body’s skin and sunlight. Read what The Council of Maharishi Ayurveda Physicians recommends for people of different dosha types. Learn unique natural skin care products that you can make from rose petals, herbs and spices, milk, and watermelon.
Vitamin D is vital in activating human defenses and low levels suffered by around half the world’s population may mean their immune systems’ killer T cells are poor at fighting infection. Scientists are now learning how crucial vitamin D is for actually activating the immune system.
Despite the Cancer Society’s claims that skin cancer is caused by sun exposure, increasing evidence shows that sun exposure reduces the risk of all forms of cancer and that skin cancer is more likely caused by a diet lacking omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Further more, no evidence exists that show that sunblock or sunscreen lotions prevent skin cancer.
Marla Hoover writes a concise, information-packed article explaining the 7 energy centers in the body called Chakras. Chakra is a Sanskrit word that translates into wheel or disk and refers to the psychic energy centers in the body that supply the energy for the body to function. Did you know that the energy for the chakras comes from sunlight?
Eyesight researcher and author of Secrets to Perfect Eyesight Robert Zuraw shares his single most important exercise you can do to correct and improve your eyesight.
The recent study of Prahlad Jani – an 82 year old breatharian yogi living in northern India – has concluded after 15 days of observation by India’s Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences. Medical doctors and scientists have proven that during his observation, Prahlad Jani did not eat, drink, urinate or defecate. This is medically unprecedented. Read the rest of this entry »
Read a short article on the six of the sun’s most important functions.
This article by The Times of India shares the connection between the Love and the Sun, as taught in India’s greatest spiritual texts. Connection are made in the teachings of Jesus, Tagore, and the Torah.
The assumption that vitamin D supplements will protect you against diseases associated with low vitamin D levels is incorrect, according to Australian researchers. The report found that vitamin D supplements are immunosuppressive and may actually make diseases worse.
Recently Scientific American magazine has published articles showing the new scientific research on vitamin D deficiency and austism. This artlce by New Autism Cure highlight this research to show how vitamin D deficiency is the most likely cause of this debilitating childhood developmental disease.
This article published by The Times of India writes of the spiritual power of the Sun (Surya) and the pracitce of Suryayog. Suryayog is a dynamic spiritual yoga which brings us in tune with nature and the inner self. We are drawn towards eternal light, from the human to the Supreme. Read the rest of this entry »
Project X: The Search for the Secrets of Immortality appeared in the December 1989 issue of East West Magazine. Gene Savoy – author, archaeologist, historian, and spiritualist – is the modern day Indiana Jones.
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?
Prostate cancer kills 31,000 American men every year, the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men. Did you know that sunlight has been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer? In addition, prostate cancer cells have Vitamin D receptors – leading scientists to believe that sunlight and Vitamin D can be used to fight cancer in the body.
This article has been removed from Sunlightenment.com at the request of the Vitamin D Council.
May we all one day learn to share our love, light, and knowledge as freely as the Sun, whom shares itself without restriction to all of life upon this planet.
The Times of India interviewed Swami Surya Jowel, one of India’s most famous sun gazers. Swami Surya Jowel was asked about to compare religion and spirituality, how to achieve spiritual realisation, the importance of Suryayog, and the naure of Surya or the Sun.
“We meditate upon the supreme effulgence of the Divine Creative Sun, that she may give impulse to our intelligence.” Wendell E. Wilkinson provides two meditations to connect more strongly to the powerful energy of the Sun – allowing the infinite intelligence of the Sun to illuminate your mind and heart.
Swami Nirmalananda Giri teaches us many ancient yoga secrets in his book Om Yoga – Its Theory and Practice. In the section called “Om is the essence of the evolutionary solar energies”, Swami Nirmalananda Giri references the ancient spiritual texts of Inida, the Upanishads, to teach us that “Sunlight is the radiant form of Om, so the sun initiates the entire solar system into Om. Human beings are solar creatures, therefore to intone Om is the most natural thing they can do. The japa and meditation of Om aligns us with the solar powers that are Om and thereby greatly increase our life force and the evolution of all the levels of our being.”
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 1 of this article in Yoga Journal magazine shares the History and Practice of Surya Namaskar.
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This website is dedicated to the free discemination of information on the healing powers of the Sun and the spiritual practices of Sun Gazing and Surya (Sun) Yoga. All information is given in the spirit of the Sun, whom shares its Light and Love without restriction. May all of humanity benefit from the enlightening energy of the Sun and the wisdom of all beings who share in this service of Sun Yoga.
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