Vayu
Air; vital energy; breath. Vayu also refers to practices related to pranayama.
Vedanta ...
Apana-Vayu is situated in the pelvic floor and its energy pervades the lower abdomen. The flow of Apana-Vayu is downwards and out and its energy nourishes the organs of digestion, reproduction and elimination.
vayu 1. wind, breath. 2. Vayu: the Wind-God who in the Vedic system is the Master of Life, inspirer of that Breath or dynamic energy called the prana. 3.
Vayu nishkasana (gas releasing pose)
Assume a squatting pose. Place the fingers under the feet from the inside so that the palms are under the arches with the elbows pressing against the inner sides of the knees. Inhale and raise the head.
Vayu Mandal. Region of Air
Akasa Mandal. Region of Ether
Avyakta Ahankara Manas Tattva. Region of Mind ...
Vayu
air; prana or energy flow as in pancha vayu: prana, apana, samana, udana, vyana
Vedanta ...
The Vayu cannot enter the Nadis if they are full of impurities. Therefore, first of all, they should be purified and then Pranayama should be practised. The Nadis are purified by two processes, viz., Samanu and Nirmanu.
Apan vayu is generally in the downward direction. With deliberate contraction of the anal muscles, the apan vayu is lifted upwards. This is known as mulbandh. The bandh is to be performed till the time the gas is forced upwards.
8. After knowing Vayu, the above-mentioned Bindu and the Sattva-Prakriti as well as the six Chakras, one should enter the sphere of happiness, Sahasrara or the Sukha-Mandala.
The Six Chakras ...
^ Vayu Purana 1. 31-2.
^ Majumdar & Pusalker 1951, p. 273
^ Pliny: Naturalis Historia 6:59; Arrian: Indica 9:9
^ Elst 1999, with reference to Bernard Sergent
^ Pargiter 1922, p. 177
^ P.L.
Yajnavalkya's technique, called vayu pratyahara (wind withdrawal) or prana pratyahara (life force withdrawal), involves fixing your awareness and your breath sequentially on 18 vital points, called marmans, in your body.
Using the mula bhanda will pull apana vayu (a major form of the life-force energy-prana) and the Saturn energy to the Ajna chakra (6th chakra-located between the eyebrows).
But the oxygen lying above the navel and the Apana Vayu lying under the navel both get together and awaken Samana Vayu. And the energy created thereby distributes any element found short in, any organ is known as "eeshta apoorte poorta".
Hanuman was the son of Vayu, the god of Wind, and Anjana. He was the friend and devoted servant of Rama, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu.
Vayu in the form of air (Prana) and pressure is responsible for the functions of various organs and Indra as light and sound is responsible for the activity of man on the mental plane.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika 2:3
As long as the vayu (air and prana) remains in the body, that is called life. Death is when it leaves the body. Therefore retain vayu.
the fourth of the seven primary Chakras; Lit. 'the centre (lotus) of unstruck sound'; it is associated with Vayu, the 'air' element; physically related to the heart region and associated with the cardiac plexus and the thymus glands.
Ananda ...
mula bandha: lit. "root lock," performed by contracting the muscles of the anus sphincter. It is used to redirect the downwards moving apana vayu and send it back upwards.
The nasal passages themselves are often closed off utilizing khechari mudra or Vishnu mudra, but here again be cautious that the closing of the vayu (winds) not be held at the nose, ...
deity in the Rig-Veda in connection with the three strides which he made as he stepped through the seven regions of the universe. "The first step he took on earth, in the form of Agni [God of fire]; the second in the atmosphere, in the form of Vayu, ...
 See also: Body, Yoga, Breath, Prana, Energy
|
