Your Sadhana Purpose & Goals
List a few reasons and purpose for your sadhana. Choose one of the following Sadhana’s and commit to your goals or purpose of your practice.
- Hatha Sadhana: Harmonizing & Balancing
- Vira Sadhana: Energizing & Positively Challenging
- Shaniti Sadhana: Grounding, Stress-Reducing & Rejuvenating
- Health Regeneration Sadhana: Ayurveda-Physical Therapy based program
- Bhakti Sadhana: Power of Love
- Creativity Sadhana: Cultivating your Inherent Creative Flow
Reflection of Realistic Goals
Hatha Sadhana: Harmonizing & Balancing
- Altar-Symbols: Shiva-Shakti, Sun-Moon, your own reflection of the union of polarity.
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama: Choose both solar and lunar peak poses. Shiva lingam mudra, Chandra and Surya bhedana, Nadi Shodhana pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice: 2-3 days hatha sadhana, 1 day shanti sadhana, 1-2 days vira sadhana; 1 rest day.
- Meditation and Mantra: So Hum, Ham Sa meditation
- Mental-Emotional Patterns: Fertilizing opposites, balancing extremes, harmonizing “thinking mind”
- Relationships/Family Patterns: Creating time for play, communication, and mutual support in relationships
- Health Cultivation: Energy management; developing and balancing daily rhythm, balancing of extremes
Vira Sadhana: Energizing & Positively Challenging
- Altar-Symbols: Fire colours, candles, Shiva Durga, Kali, hanuman, Inspiration
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama: Solar peak poses, uddiyana bandha kriya, vira mudra, agni mudra, prana mudra, kapalabhati, bhastrika pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice: 5 days virasadhana, 1 day hatha sadhana, 1 day rest
- Meditation and Mantra: Om Namaha Shivaya, Om dum durgaye namah
- Mental-Emotional Patterns: purification with love; waking up foundation and empowerment
- Relationships/Family Patterns: purification of unhealthy relationships, clarity, and boundaries
- Health Cultivation: purification of regressive, tamasic foods and addictions
Stirring the inner fire of transformation, burn away stagnation from the past to release old patterns of being and thinking that no longer serve. Exploring pinca mayurasana, eka pada bakasana, and galavasana as peak poses for my personal practice during this cycle.
Shaniti Sadhana: Grounding, Stress-Reducing & Rejuvenating
- Altar-Symbols
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice
- Meditation and Mantra
- Mental-Emotional Patterns
- Relationships/Family Patterns
- Health Cultivation
Health Regeneration Sadhana: Ayurveda-Physical Therapy based program
- Altar-Symbols
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice
- Meditation and Mantra
- Mental-Emotional Patterns
- Relationships/Family Patterns
- Health Cultivation
Bhakti Sadhana: Power of Love
- Altar-Symbols
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice
- Meditation and Mantra
- Mental-Emotional Patterns
- Relationships/Family Patterns
- Health Cultivation
Bhakti Sadhana
Bhakti is an ancient Sanskrit word which means Pure Love and Devotion. “Pure” implies that there is no adulteration or mixture of anything else. Love in its highest and most perfect state must be entirely pure and devoid of any other desire than to give happiness and benefit to the beloved, the object of one’s love.
Creativity Sadhana: Cultivating your Inherent Creative Flow
- Altar-Symbols
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice
- Meditation and Mantra
- Mental-Emotional Patterns
- Relationships/Family Patterns
- Health Cultivation
Creativity Sadhana
- Performing Day: Any Friday
- Time: Early Morning,, Before Sunrise
- Requirements: White cloth or mat, Rice, Incense, Vermillon, Wooden table, Some fruits, Oil lamp, white hakikl Rosary, Silver plated copper Sukra yantra.
Planet Venus signifies joy, success and peasures and that removes the boredom and ugliness and heralds beauty and creative energy. If the planet is strong and benefic in one’s natal chart then sure enough a perosn takes to a field that involves creativity and imagination. And throught such work the person surely attains to success and fame. But even if Venus is not benefic one could make it so by powerful sadhanas. Following are benefits of Venus Sadhana.
Your Practice, Intention and Commitment
- Altar-Symbols
- Asana-Krya-Mudra/Pranayama
- Rhythm of Practice
- Meditation and Mantra
- Mental-Emotional Patterns
- Relationships/Family Patterns
- Health Cultivation