COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

This Pranayama is explained in three short videos (poor editing on my behalf). Watch all three-- each one is no more than a couple minutes, and learn a new breathing technique accompanied with movement to sweep the stale energy out of your temple and bring fresh prana (vital energy) in. In the 3rd video, my hands move out of the video. Just so you are clear about what my hands are doing, I will give some explanation. Begin with your hands at your heart, (Anjali mudra), bring your hands up together through the midline on your inhale. Bring your hands down to your sides on your exhale. Inhale them back up above your head, inhale. Here, interlace your fingers without letting your palms touch, so opening your palms toward the floor, exhale as you press the prana gathered in. Straighten your arm at the bottom of your exhale and with fingers still interlaced, press your palm away from you. Sweep out all stale energy (apana) on your inhale. Release your fingers above your head and exhale

I antar kumbaka (1) with breath out American Style But as smooth as I can Muster in inhale in Breath and hands Of movement ethereal I lift aura Find I glow Fill God presence That throws red and white Flowers into me Touch my face and melt I exhale Antar Kumbaka A vision of walking on ground Of gray sponge Walk Strong Spring up to a firm Destiny ahead Through Antar Kumbaka Connections to the Ultimate Reality others would never underst -and And I have no need to justify It is mine Breath Natural I am  bright yellow and red I see me full to the temple Edges My eyes are closed But the scene viveka (1) My hands move through the dark Through mudra Not because I feel them I see bone of left arm Muscle Flat lines of spectrum color I draw across my eyelids With my palm sweep I step out I radiate To tears joy and back Proud. 1. Sanskrit phrase for pauses between the breaths. Many pranayama exercises emphasis the space between breath as where we meet G

Where is your drishti?  How much can you see? Not do you need glasses or contacts to see, but how much are you really consciously aware to see? And, what about your focus? Can you discern what is right in front of you as real or illusion and focus on what is truly real? The truth is most people only see with the eyes in their heads. We perceive just the minimum and stop there. We find a truth that sits well in front of us, that is beautiful or pleasing, and we decide that to be our reality. Or we see the cup half empty and pillage all of the negative thoughts we can find to describe what appears to be our reality, with only one perspective of the truth: that which is seen only with the eyes. Freedom, true liberation, is found in seeking and accepting what is real, what is seen through the one eye of truth. The focus on the internal eye is that which leads us to enlightenment or Bliss. This is a tall order but a process of seeing all that you are, that this is: that we are

Art by Courtney Rohan There are 50 million ways to do any one thing, if you consider it long enough. I’ve read and received training for at least a million of the existing 50 million meditations and still there are more ways to calm, energize, ground, uplift and love my spirit through meditation. Sitting meditations are the prime picture of meditation, however, depending on their intent, mediation can be done standing, walking and more importantly, constantly. Meditation is a practice that can be done anywhere and anytime. Life is your practice field. Sitting for artists, I hit a wall. Not literally but rather, I hit the kind of wall where I begin rocking slightly forward and back, side to side a little. I can’t stop blinking. I wonder if they are getting a good enough vision of me. Are they seeing my struggle? Are they painting it? I take a deep breath. It soothes me. I am able to sit through the next ten minutes, before the break, without shakes. I am able to fall into the spac