Nithya Dhyaan: the Universal Technique🔗

Nithya Dhyaan is a formula and technique that works on all the components of your being. Whatever your birth sign may be, it awakens the cosmic powers within you and makes them available to your being to excel in all spheres of life.

This is a five-step technique. Allow seven minutes for each step. Keep your eyes closed throughout the meditation.

Continue to sit in vajrāsana , form cin mudra with your fingers (with the thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched), and place your hands on your knees, palms facing upwards. In this posture, with your mouth closed, produce the sound ‘Mmmm...’ from inside your body, as loudly and lengthily as possible.

You may continue to sit in vajrāsana or sit crossed legged if you wish. Keep your fingers in cin mudra position. Now, bring your awareness to each cakra one after the other, from mūlādhāra cakra (root center) to sahasrāra cakra

(crown center). Feel each cakra completely as if your whole being has become that energy center.

pūja mantras and feel their vibration in you. Express your gratitude with reverence.

You will find further details on the benefits of Nithya Dhyaan; along with the meditation instructions, in the comprehensive booklet and audio CD called

Nithya Dhyaan- Experience bliss.

When the dynamism is low in the person, martial arts can be practiced to enhance the person's strength through the concentration this sport develops. Otherwise, gentle yoga postures which work on Ājñā cakra, as well as Sūrya Namaskār (the ancient Sun salutation), can be practiced by all natives!

Dhanurāsana

To blissfully enjoy the benefits of any āsanas, make sure your body is warmed up, the spine worked on and stretched out before entering the postures.

● Lie face down on the floor.

● Bend both of your knees behind you.

● Start with the right side. Take your right foot with your right hand from the outside.

● Then take your left foot with your left hand from the outside.

● Straighten both of your arms while continuing to hold onto the feet.

● Bring your Ājñā center (forehead) down on the ground.

● Inhale, start to gently kick your feet back behind you while continuing to hold the feet from the outside. Let your shoulders roll back. Lift your heart and open your chest.

● Exhale, slowly lower your thighs, chest and forehead back down the floor.

● Let go of your feet and relax the legs down. Rest your head on your hands and visualize this movement once. See your body lifting up with ease in this more challenging posture.

● Relax into a soft smile and open your eyes. Repeat this movement five more times.

Benefits:

Dhanurāsana means the posture of a bow. It massages and invigorates the internal organs, especially the digestive organs. It strengthens the abdominal muscles. It expands the chest muscles and benefits people suffering from asthma and other respiratory problems. Regular practice of this āsana helps to strengthen concentration and mental determination. It also increases your energy, vigor and youthful vitality.

Sūrya Namaskār (the Sun salutation) is called the king of asanas. It is a sequence of 12 postures, each symbolizing a sign of the zodiac. This sequence of asanas has the amazing ability to activate the best characteristics of your birth chart by bringing energy to your body, a clearer thinking through emotional balancing, and a restored health, thereby enabling you to express your intelligence and uniqueness. It is a technique to experience a conflict-free life, fulfillment and eternal bliss.

Its practice awakens the body's innate intelligence to produce energy from the sun. It is designed to access the etheric energy all around you. When performed facing the East in the first rays of the morning sun, along with the appropriate breathing technique and the mantra, the effect on the individual mind, body and spirit is incomparable.

It is said that the daily practice of Sūrya Namaskār is enough to work on the whole body organs, cakras and mindfor the whole day.

A mantra is a composition of syllables, words or sentences that, when repeated with awareness and visualization, has a powerful and penetrating influence on the mind. Before each repetition of Sūrya Namaskār, one chants the corresponding mantra, which is a glorification of the Sun. This simple method leads us to the experience that the outer Sun symbolizes the shining intelligence in our inner sky. We come to understand our connectivity to the cosmic energy that pervades all the grahas. The characteristics of our sign get activated to unfold its inherent potential.

● Auṁ hrāṁ mitrāya namaḥ Salutations to the friend of all

● Auṁ hrīṁ ravaye namaḥ Salutations to the shining one

● Auṁ hrūṁ sūryāya namaḥ Salutations to the one who induces activity

To blissfully enjoy the benefits of any āsana, make sure your body is warmed up, the spine limber and stretched out before entering the postures.

● Exhaling, push with your hands, raise your hips into the air and back and assume the downward dog pose. Push your heels towards the floor.

● Gently look forward at your hands and step the left foot forward as far as you can, close to the hands. Inhale, lift your heart.

● Step the right foot forward to meet the right hand. Bend your knees if you need, exhale, and bring the head in close to the legs.

● On an inhale, sweep your arms up over your head and gently arch the spine, saluting the Sun.

● Exhale, bring your arms down and your hands back into prayer position in front of your chest.

Nithya Yoga is Paramahamsa Nithyananda's unique offering to the world, helping the practitioner to be in the state of yoga every moment. You will find further details on the benefits of Sūrya Namaskār in the book titled: Nithya Yoga - The Ultimate Practice for Body Mind and Being.