Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 4

I should have written this blog entry some time back. That time I got busy with some things and thought that this would be again repeating the great experience. Now I realised that the series should not be incomplete.

For those who want to read previous related entries : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3

The fourth day of the course started with some warm up exercises and yogasanas. Then we had a brief knowledge session. The knowledge session started with asking answers for 3 home work questions asked on day 3:

• When have you come to this planet?
• How long you propose to stay here?
• What do you intend to do in the time you stay here?

These were probably very tough questions for me. I could not answer these questions and was not convinced by the answers given. Hence the answers to these questions are still in search.

After this we all did Ujjayi Pranayama and Bhastrika Pranayama in Vajrasana. These were the prerequisites for Sudarshan Kriya. On fourth day they taught us the short version of sudarshan kriya. This was also a good experience. I should agree that I felt that short kriya was not as amazing as the long kriya on that day and was little disappointed. This is something that was taught so that we can practice daily. The long kriya has to be performed with Guruji's voice only and it should be performed only once per week under a guru. On fourth day we basically practiced what should be performed daily.

Sudarshan Kriya Course - Day 1

The Art of Living offered a course on Sudarshan Kriya near Sanjaynagar (Close to my residence). I had the desire of experiencing this from quite some time but couldn't make it to the course. This time I decided to attend this course. This course if for 6 days. It started from 13-07-2010 and will continue till 18-07-2010. Yesterday (13-07-2010) was my first day of course. This post outlines the first day's experience.

The course was offered during 3 time slots. One starts from 5.45AM in the morning, the second one starts from 10.30AM and the last one starts from 6.30PM. Each session lasts for 2.5 hours. I had decided to go for 5.45AM and got up at 5AM after loooong time and went to that place but couldn't find that place as it was somewhere interior. Spent some 20 minutes searching and finally got into place at 5.50AM and found that the classes got canceled as I was the only person in that batch :-(. I felt something like "ಪಾಪಿ ಸಮುದ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದ್ರೂ ಮೊಳಕಾಲುದ್ದ ನೀರು" and I came back home at 6AM. As I was almost ready I decided to leave to office having early breakfast but my nephew wanted me to play with him for sometime and finally left to office at 8.30AM and thought that I couldn't make the course this time. At 5.20PM in the evening I noticed in my office calender that I had no meetings after 5PM entire week and decided to try for the course for evening batch. I again reached that place at 6.25PM. The instructors were happy to see me back and the course started. Felt very happy that finally I started the course.

The course started with a unusual but good introduction to everyone. I was thought to introduce myself to everyone by saying "Sangachatvam (Lets go together). I belong to you. I am Adarsh". Everyone else introduced themselves in the similar way. Then the instructor told us the following ground rules:

• Should switch off mobile phones


• Should not miss even a single class


• No alcohol


• No cigarette


• No non-veg food


• No tea


• No coffee


• No Onion, Garlic, Brinjol


• Have limited food but enough


• Have good sleep but not more

These ground rules were not difficult for me to follow as I almost have that food habit. Then instructor gave us some introduction about the course, its benefits. She first demonstrated about the vajraasana. It was not easy in the first shot for me to sit in that posture but got adjusted to it. Then she demonstrated 2 different types of pranayamas and its benefits. The first one is Ujjayi Pranayama. You can read more about this here. The second one is Bhastrika Pranayama. Then we were thought about doing both and we practiced for 30 minutes. Got the feeling of some flowing energy in some parts of the body. It was a good experience. Even though I had got up at 5AM in the morning and had only 4.5 hours of sleep the previous night, I was not feeling tired instead had some more energy left to play with my nephew after going home :-). The session concluded with a good 20 minute meditation guided by guruji's cassette. Overall a good first day of course. Keep watching for my experience on the reminder of the course.