Dynamic Meditations
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1. Blissful Dancing
Rejuvenate with the tremendous energy within you. Relax with the deep peace within you. Duration: 31 minutes
Step 1:
Duration: 21 minutes
Close your eyes and begin to dance. Don't bother about the steps. Let your body loose. Don't be concerned about how you look, how your clothes are looking. No one is watching you; this is not a performance.
As you continue to dance in this fashion, more and more energy will surge inside you, and you will keep going.
Enter deeply into the dance. Dance as fast as possible, as freely as possible. Forget yourself totally. Just become the dance.
Step 2:
Duration: 10 minutes
At the end of 21 minutes, wherever you are, in whatever position you are, just drop down on the floor. Lie down. Be silent and still.
Watch the thoughts calmly. Don't fight with them. Just remain aware.
2. Whirling
Find the unmoving center in your being. Merge with the whole of Existence. Duration: 31 minutes
Whirling
Whirling is usually done in an anti-clockwise direction, with the right arm held higher, palm facing upwards, and the left arm lower, palm facing downwards.
If you are uncomfortable whirling anti-clockwise, switch to clockwise. Start with whirling slowly, let your whole body be soft and unresisting. As you whirl, the passing images will become blurred. Let them flow past. Don't try to focus on anything – it will make you dizzy or nauseous.
Slowly pick up speed – and become the whirling
Resting
When you are whirling so fast that you can't stay upright, your body will fall by itself. Don't plan the fall.
As soon as you fall, turn over onto your stomach so that your navel is in contact with the earth. Feel your body become one with the earth.
Keep your eyes closed. Remain in the same position, passive and silent, for at least 15 minutes.
After this meditation, remain silent and meditative for a few hours.
3. Shakti Dharana
Get in touch with the Existential energy. Revitalize your body, mind and spirit.
Duration: approximately 20 minutes
Shakti Dharana is best practiced at night, just before you go to sleep. If you do it during the day, be sure to rest for fifteen minutes afterwards to assimilate the energy.
Choose a cool, dark room with enough ventilation.
Kneel on the ground. Raise yourself up on your knees, and raise both your arms towards the sky, palms at a slant. Turn your face skyward.
In a moment, you will feel the energy of Existence flowing into you. Be unresisting. Let the energy enter into you. You might feel a trembling in your arms. Allow the movements.
When you feel completely saturated, bend down, place your hands and palms facing downward on the earth, and kiss the earth. Feel the energy flow out from your lips and your palms. Simply become an instrument carrying the divine energy into the earth.
Do this seven times. Once you have finished, fall into that energy, sleep into it.
4. Vatha-Pitta-Kapha Meditation
Balance the three vital energies in your body
These meditations are to be done on an empty stomach and hence preferably early in the morning.
Vatha meditation
Step 1:
Duration: 10 minutes
Sit in vajrasana (kneel down and sit with your bottom resting on your heels). Place your hands on your hip. Chant 'hoo' as lengthily as possible. Continue chanting for every breath.
Step 2:
Duration: 21 minutes
Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hips, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the 'hoo' sound in this position.
Pitha meditation
Total Duration: 31 minutes
Step 1:
Duration: 10 minutes
Sit in vajrasana. Place your hands on your hip. Chant the 'hoo' sound. As you chant, visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out of you from the top of the head and circling back into you to complete the circuit.
Step 2:
Duration: 21 minutes
Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hip, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the 'hoo' sound in this position. Continue to visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out of you from the top of the head and circling back into you to complete the circuit.
Kapha meditation
Keep a picture of the Master's eyes in front of you.
Total Duration: 41 minutes
Step 1:
Duration: 10 minutes Sit in vajrasana. Place your hands on your hip and chant the 'hoo' sound. Visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out of you from the top of the head and circling back into you to complete the circuit.
Step 2:
Duration: 21 minutes
Continue sitting in vajrasana. With the hands on the hip, bend down at the hip to touch the forehead to the ground. Continue to chant the 'hoo' sound in this position. Continue to visualize clearly a white light rising within you, going out of you from the top of the head and circling back into you to complete the circuit.
Step 3:
Duration: 10 minutes
Open your eyes. Through your third eye look at Master’s third eye in the picture. Clearly visualize a beam of light from Master’s third eye entering your third eye.
5. Balancing Pitta
Balance the fire and water elements in the body. Awaken the unused energy centers of the body.
Total Duration: 30 minutes
Do this meditation only after a gap of at least three hours after eating food.
Step 1:
Duration: 10 minutes
Be in a standing posture. Shake the whole body from head to foot as if shaking a tree from the root.
Step 2:
Duration: 10 minutes
Sit down wherever you are. Whatever sound appears in your mind, just create that sound. It should be like gibberish. It may be hidden irritation, worry, or anger. If you carry these in your system it may imbalance your pitta, so let it out completely.
Step 3:
Duration: 10 minutes Sit silently and just be a witness – don’t create, sustain, destroy or judge anything that rises in your mind.
6. Awareness of the Neutral Space while Moving the Body
Total Duration: 30 minutes
Sit straight, preferably on the ground. Close your eyes. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible, as deeply as possible.
Step 1:
Duration: 3 minutes
Slowly, very slowly, put your attention only on the incoming breath. Be aware of the incoming breath.
Step 2:
Duration: 3 minutes
Now, slowly, put your attention only on the outgoing breath.
Step 3:
Duration: 3 minutes
Now forget about the incoming breath and the outgoing breath. Slowly, very slowly, put your attention between the two breaths. Just be aware of the gap, the neutral space between the breaths.
Step 4:
Duration: 3 minutes
Relax in the neutral space. While you are in this space, try to move any one hand. While moving, if you feel you have come out of that neutral space awareness, bring yourself back to the neutral space and move the hand again.
Step 5:
Duration: 3 minutes
Being in the same neutral space, try to stand up. If you feel you are losing the neutral space, sit down. Come back to the neutral space again. Now, without missing the awareness, try to stand up.
Once you stand up, continue to be aware of the gap between the breaths.
Step 6: Duration: 3 minutes
Without missing the awareness, try to move both the hands very slowly. The important thing is to not miss the awareness.
Step 7:
Duration: 3 minutes
Without missing the awareness, slowly move your head. If you feel you have lost the awareness, come back, bring the awareness back and then move the head.
Step 8:
Duration: 3 minutes
Without losing the awareness, try to move your feet. Be completely centered on the neutral space.
Step 9:
Duration: 3 minutes
Without losing the awareness, slowly, try to open your eyes. If you feel you are losing your awareness, close your eyes and bring back the awareness.
Step 10:
Duration: 3 minutes
Be in that same awareness and sit wherever you are. If you feel you are missing the awareness, come back, slow down, and center yourself in the awareness. Be aware. Keep your attention between the two breaths and try to sit again.
7. Vipassana
Sitting
Total Duration: 60 minutes
Sit in a comfortable position, spine erect, facing straight ahead. Keep your eyes closed and breathe normally.
Watch the rise and fall of the belly when breathing in and out. Don't concentrate on the breath, just watch it. If you find other thoughts, feelings or physical sensations coming up, allow them. Witness them also momentarily and return to watching the breath.
Do this for 45 minutes and rest for 15 minutes.
Walking
Total Duration: 30 minutes
Here your awareness is totally on your feet as they touch the ground.
You can walk in a circle or in a straight line of about 15 steps, going back or forth.
The eyes should be lowered and focused on the ground on the feet. Just as you watch the belly in sitting meditation, watch and be aware here of the contact of each foot with the ground.