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cecerem
USA
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 Posted - Mar 01 2011 : 6:19:09 PM
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My apologies if this has been asked before. Is it considered acceptable or beneficial to practice Spinal Breathing while jogging or running?
Thanks for oyur time. |
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faileforever
USA
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Posted - Mar 01 2011 : 7:55:29 PM
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Spinal breathing and deep meditation compliment each other, so I would say no. From my own experience, doing only spinal breathing leaves me feeling irritable, frazzled and definitely not as good as following it with some DM |
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cosmic
USA
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Posted - Mar 01 2011 : 8:22:03 PM
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Hello and welcome, cecerem
Mixing sitting practices with physical activity is not recommended. Sitting practices require concentration and withdrawal of the attention/senses inward, while jogging takes your attention outward. Also, jogging exerts energy which spinal breathing is attempting to cultivate and move up/down the spine.
Like faileforever alluded to, spinal breathing is a preparation for meditation.
Jogging would be a fantastic thing to do after sitting practices. Physical activity outside of practices is actually needed, to ground your energies and bring inner silence into your daily life.
Best of luck to you
With Love
cosmic |
Edited by - cosmic on Mar 01 2011 8:22:23 PM |
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jeff
USA
971 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2011 : 09:15:03 AM
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I know this is different then the AYP way, but I believe it depends on the person and how grounded they are. Spinal breathing (or moving the energy) during any activity can help being present in the moment or think of it as "instant meditation". The key is not to do too much too fast. Being in the zone running, walking or just listening to music can be a powerful mediation.
Peace & Love.
p.s. Don't flame me too much |
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Victor
USA
910 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2011 : 12:49:58 PM
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| Not disagreeing with you Jeff, but that is different than AYP. Nothing wrong with what you are describing but pranayama is a practice that involves stillness and deep relaxation. Its just a different mode is all, not bad. |
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jeff
USA
971 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2011 : 2:24:41 PM
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Victor,
I completely agree that it is a departure from standard AYP. But Meditation can come in various forms, many runners find great stillness and mental relaxation in their running.
Peace & Love, Jeff |
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cosmic
USA
821 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2011 : 3:08:30 PM
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Yes, Life itself becomes meditation at some point.
Love [img]icon_heart.gif[/img] |
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Victor
USA
910 Posts |
Posted - Mar 02 2011 : 6:58:53 PM
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| I certainly agree on that one, I often feel very meditative driving or riding a motorcycle because you can get into adeep relaxed zone without distractions. Its not the same though, not as deep and transformative. |
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cecerem
USA
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Posted - Mar 02 2011 : 6:59:02 PM
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| Thanks for all the responses! Jeff thank you for your input, I believe I will begin augmenting my jogging pratice by visualizing the soul center to perenium breathing path and see what it brings. Yogani, feel free to comment @ your leisure.... |
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Chrisk
USA
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Posted - Mar 14 2011 : 6:04:40 PM
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For advanced practicioners, it is no problem to move energy while doing physical activity. But for neophytes whose channels are really clogged up, you are really looking for kundalini symptoms if you do pranayama while doing pyshical activity. It is a well known fact actually.
Also, pranayama trully prepares someone for falling into deep meditation, not the opposite unless the person is advanced in meditation practices, then they are said to prossess a deep meditation state all the time, so it is no problem to them, because it makes no difference whether walking, or sitting down doing mantra. But again, this is for adnvaced practicioners only who are adept at having all kinds of mental activity at the same time, i.e. deep meditation together with heightened thinking. For us newbies, we can only enter into one mental mode each time and even that we need concious effort.
Chris.
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