Yoga for Better Sleep ~ Full Class 35 min ~ Insomnia Relief, Relaxation,...

Can't sleep? This sequence is the ideal remedy for insomnia and late night tension. Teacher Andrea MacDonald guides you gently through this hatha yoga flow that soothes your mind and nervous system to ensure a restful night of sleep. Duration: 35 min. I fell asleep before the end of the flow!!! Give it a try there is also a free downloadable version of the set.
Benefits: stress release, eases tension in the back, hips and neck, improved sleep

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Kapalbhati Pranayama - Yoga For Weight Loss

AFTER BHASTRIKA PRANAYAM KAPALBHATI BREATHING( BREATH OF FIRE) IS GREAT....

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Demonstration of Bhastrika

Medical and Scientific Basis of Pranayama by Acharya Balkrishna Published on 10-19-2011

Yoga is a devotion, which makes the mind calm and gives knowledge. Pranayam results in good health. Good health is achieved with changes in daily routine and habits instead of medicines or blessings of somebody. Life is the balance of breaths and basis of vital life energy. Pranayam maintains this balance and energizes vital life energy, which gives long life and healthy body.

Happiness and unhappiness originate from the body, which are believed to be god’s wish. God resides within us, a person who makes his body a temple and the god living inside becomes happy experiences happiness. On the other hand, a person who pollutes his body with different things annoys god living inside, becomes unhappy. Prana or vital life energy is also a form of god, whose basis is respiration. Pranayam maintains the balance of these breaths, which strengthens both mind and body. This is the Yoga devotion, which Swami Ramdev propagates.

He is showing the magic to the whole world with Yoga devotion.

Practice of seven pranayam and their effect on curing diseases was not easily acceptable by everybody. But, the residential camps organized at Patanjali Yogpeeth Ayurveda medical and research institute at Hardwar showed excellent results and when medical science itself proved through its reports that seven-step pranayam overcomes incurable diseases, it created a new kind of enthusiasm towards Yoga in the whole world.

Revered Swami Ramdev Ji experimented this on human body from 1995 onwards but he decided to make the results public in 2002 after getting positive results of his scientific research. He started organizing Yoga camps from 2003 onwards and residential camps from 2004, which proved that changes in daily routine and food along with Yoga devotion has lot of importance. A practitioner practices pranayam with complete dedication in residential camp. A residential camp is organized between 5 and 8 a.m. and the participants wake up at 4 a.m. Prana vayu or vital life energy circulates during this time and the amount of oxygen is highest before sunrise. Oxygen is the vital life energy, which enters inside the body through breath and increases resistance power of the body. The remaining processes of curing disease depends on the nature of pranayam, which are done in a systematic way. This sequence of pranayam is Swami Ramdev’s research. Synchronized and rhythmic breathing maintains the equilibrium of hormones. Disequilibrium of hormones causes different diseases, which is balanced with pranayam. It cures various incurable diseases along with hereditary problems.

Human body is made up with five elements, which are obtained automatically from nature, but when the man starts acting contrary to the nature then the five elements get imbalanced. It affects the nervous system of the body and generates disorders or diseases. Medical science has presented these disorders in a very dangerous manner and we consider that the hormonal imbalance is incurable. Swami Ramdev Ji’s seven-step pranayam has proved that now almost all the diseases are curable. The disease, which occurs due to internal imbalance, is overcome with maintaining the balance. This physical balance is known as Yoga devotion, which cures several dangerous diseases.

Yoga camp begins after prayers. Bhastrika pranayam involves deep breathing in and out, it strengthens the heart, makes the body active, and improves the functioning of respiratory system. Kapalbhati is very effective; this involves exhaling with full force. Breathing out with full force throws out disorders and increases oxygen in blood; it strengthens the life energy of the whole body. Contracting the stomach to exhale reduces weight and fat. It overcomes constipation and painful problem like piles. Breathing out forcefully opens heart blockage, and also avoids the need for bypass surgery. Polluted air goes out and pure oxygen enters the body, which purifies blood, cures skin ailments, eczema, and allergy. It increases internal energy and wipes out allergy. It removes stomach disorders and gives natural glow on face.

Anulom-Vilom pranayam balances the respiratory system and changes the entire biochemistry. Breathing in from left nostril and breathing out from right nostril generates rhythm and cures eyes, ears and nose problems. It controls high blood pressure and the person does not have the necessity to use spectacles. This pranayam cures white, black cataract, enlarged bone inside ear and improves cerebral diseases. It maintains the balance of oxygen in lungs and increases the pure oxygen, which removes eczema, ringworm, itching and white and black spots. It gives natural glow. Bhastrika, Kapalbhati and Anulom-Vilom pranayam are like sure shots for diabetes, cancer, asthma and other serious diseases. Medical research and experiments conducted on Yoga and experiences gained through weekly Yoga camps proved that diseases are caused due to irregular life style; wrong eating habits and physical processes can itself cure those diseases. Man is responsible for happiness, unhappiness, diseases and good health. If he falls ill and becomes unhappy due to ignorance then he can get well with practice of Yog and pranayam. Swami Ramdev believes that a person who reduces one hour of his sleep remains healthy and disease free with longevity. This is the result of Yoga camps that changes disappointment into enthusiasm.

The mission of Swami Ramdev Ji Maharaj for the welfare of sick, suffering, diseased people is indeed commendable. Swami Ji gives various tips for the practice of Yoga and pranayam in the camps, which is more effective when compared to the results obtained from Yoga done at home without proper guidance. In Yoga camps, thousands of people breathe in oxygen at the same time, therefore it reduces the density of oxygen from the atmosphere in that particular area. This process continues for long time. The oxygen increases digestive power, activates thousands of inactive cells in lungs and purifies blood. The additional oxygen burns out excess fat and makes the body energetic. The body weight reduces and becomes light just like a person who feels light after putting down 20 kilos weight from his body. The amount of oxygen is limited inside homes and density of apana increases due to the presence of family members. This is the reason that practice of pranayam inside the house has lesser effects. Therefore,practice it n open area or balcony for getting complete benefit.

Exercise and pranayam generate carbon dioxide, and rest is necessary to remove the foreign particles from the body as it causes tiredness. Stop when you are tired, or breath normally.

Tiredness is caused due to carbon dioxide and therefore a person has to take rest and proper sleep. If any such process were developed, which could replace carbon dioxide with oxygen then nobody would ever get tired and the body would always remain active. The human being along with other creatures would get rid of serious diseases. The muscles never become old, they come back to normal position on getting pure blood just like a frog lying inactively without consciousness or activeness in cold atmosphere but becomes active on getting warm climate. In other words, a person can feel young with pure blood supply.

Brahmari and Udgeeth pranayam create divine vibrations in Yoga camps. This vibration is created due to\ mass practice; this reaches the optimum level and enters the practitioner’s ears. This has immense strength,which creates vibration in blood veins and nerves, which removes heart blockage, lung disorders and activates the digestive system.

These vibrations have same effect as the following:

Just like the sound of huge bell hanging from the ceiling of a large dome in a temple, which vibrates the hearts and minds of devotees and removes toxicity from blood.

Just like the butter that separates from buttermilk on churning it.

Just like the old practice where in four or five men used to beat a bronze plate and create loud noise near a person who has been bitten by a snake. This creates special vibration in the patient’s blood and the poison is removed.

In Yoga camps devotees practice pranayam in a group with devotion, dedication, faith and fight to overcome diseases. Pranayam done at home does not give expected results; it could be explained like the situation of a child who does not feel like eating when he is alone but eats well in company.

Yoga is practiced in camps by inculcating the feeling of faith, positive attitude with concentration, dedication and punctuality. Oh lord! I have faced lot of pain and now I am in your shelter. Oh almighty, omnipotent god please bless me and relieve my problems. I have come into your shelter. Pranayam done in this manner arouses consciousness and nationality. Pranayam is done with free mind without any inhibitions and doubts. It gives lot of benefit to the devotee. Yoga is a complete medical science. Yoga overcomes stiffness of mind and body.

Bhramari Pranayam

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Yoga Mudras Of The Human Body - Body Talk

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Heavy Weights and Devotion

In order from left to right:
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche and Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

"Even if we have met a teacher and received instructions, however, we will never be able to receive his blessings if we do not have fervent devotion and complete confidence in him and his teachings. And without his blessings we will not progress along the path. First of all, therefore, we need to generate devotion."

- Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche -

Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche(short version) by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

༄༅། །ར་&ོན་གསོལ་འདེབས།
བ"ང་ཡས་བ'ལ་པར་ཐ,གས་བ.ེད་དམ་བཅའི་མཐ,ས། །
!ུས་འདིར་ཡོངས་,ོགས་༧/ལ་བན་གསལ་མཛད་པའི། །
གསམ་&ན་འ)ུལ་འཛ-ན་དམ་པར་གསོལ་འདེབས་ན། །
ཡང་$%ལ་གཞོན་+ུའི་གཟགས་ར་འཆར་གསོལ།
ཅེས་པ་དམ་པ་གང་གི་ཞལ་-ོབ་འི་དགེ་ང་བན་འཛ8ན་་མཚ;ས་བོད་ལ་ལོ་ ༢༡༣༨ རབ་གནས་'གས་ཡོས་
་ ༧ ས་ ༡༨ ་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༡་ ༩ ་ ༡༥ ཉིན་ཨར་ཇེན་ཊི་ནའི་གནམ་ཐང་/ུ་ཤར་མར་ས་པ་དགེ། །།

Drang yé kalpar tuk kyé tamchai tü
By the power of your bodhicitta vow for numberless kalpas,
Tü dir yong dzok gyalten sel dzépai
To you, venerable vinaya master and upholder of the three vows,
Sumden düldzin tampar söldep na
Who in these times has illuminated the whole of the conquerors’ teachings, we pray:
Yang trül zhönnu’i zuk ku nyur char söl
Appear again swiftly as a youthful rūpakāya emanation!

Written just as it came to him by a disciple of the sublime master, the Buddhist monk Tenzin Gyatso, in an airport in Argentina on the 18th day of the 7th month in the Tibetan royal year 2138, year of the Iron Rabbit, 15 September 2011.
Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, 2011

Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Prayer for the Swift Rebirth of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Ku zhi’i danyi namdren nyimai nyen
Our Teacher, the Buddha who embodies the four kāyas, sun-like spiritual friend;
Tsokyé dorjé jebang nyer ngai zhap
Lake-born Vajra with his twenty-five disciples, king and subjects;
Dorjé zhonnu arya taré sok
Vajra Kumāra, Noble Tāra, and all the other deities of the Three Roots,
Tsasum zhitro tengdir gelek tsöl
Peaceful and wrathful—bestow your happiness and wellbeing, here and now!
Tupten chi tang ngagyur zapsang söl
Lord, Vinaya holder, master of the treasury of all the Buddhist teachings in general,
Longchen gongchü dzö nga düldzin jé
And of the Ancient Translation tradition, profound and secret, Longchenpa’s
quintessential wisdom,
Gyurmé ngawang chökyi lodrö zhap
Gyurme Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö,
Dren chok pelden lamar sölwa dep
Sublime guide and glorious teacher, at your feet I pray.
Tongdröl tsen péi zuk ku kyedro yi
That you, who were present, as the protector of beings, in the body of form with all the
marks and signs
Göntu zhuk té shé tang drub pa yi
Bringing liberation on seeing and, through practice and teaching, disseminating
Lungtok gyalten chok tar pel zhintu
In every direction the scriptures and realization of the conqueror’s teachings,
Lobur zhiwar nel di kyema hü
Have suddenly passed into nirvāṇa—alas, how sad!
Nyikma nga yi güpa cher dowé
As the ravages of the five degenerations intensify in strength,
Kyegu’i pendéi tsalak gyalwai ten
The conqueror’s teachings—root and branch of all beings’ benefit and happiness—
Lung nang marmé zhintu gyurpa di
Are like a candle in the wind;
Gongla chok ki yangtrül lar chön söl
Heed me, and return, I pray; reappear as a sublime emanation!2
Pöyül takop münpai ling chenmor
Before, when the land of Tibet was a great continent of barbarous darkness,
Yangdak chökyi nangwa tokma ru
You established there the illuminating light of the true Dharma;
Trang dzé bairo’i tuk kyé ma nyelwar
Do not forget the vows you made then as Vairotsana—
Yangtrül kangjong gyalten peltu chön
Emanate again; for the glory of the conqueror’s teaching in the Land of Snows, return!
Zhidül ngurmik changwai tsangchö kyi
Peaceful and disciplined, with the pure conduct of those who wear the saffron robes,
Tenpai tsawa sosor tarpai tsül
Holding, and learned in, the prātimokṣa tradition, the very root of the teachings,
Dzin khé chok ki yangtrül sarpai pel
In all the splendor of a sublime emanation appearing anew,
Tubpai dungtsop nyitu nyur chön söl
Return swiftly, I pray, as the very successor of the Muni!
Chiktu changchen zhiwai gyatso ru
The non-sectarian teachings of the conquerors flow down
Zhölzhing bap pai rimé gyalwai ten
As one, leading to the peaceful ocean of great enlightenment;
Dzokpar nyamsu zhepai namchö kyi
With the discernment of practicing them in their entirety,
Yangtrül rimé tenpai peltu chön
Emanate again; for the glory of the non-sectarian teachings, return!
Kadak dzokpa chenmo’i zapsang né
Rich in the profound and secret crucial points of the Great Perfection of primordial
purity,
Namdak termai men ngak tumé chuk
And the many pith-instructions of the pure concealed treasures,
Ngagyur rang ten tekpai yangtsé chok
Learned upholder of the very summit of all the vehicles of the ancient translations’ own
teachings,
Kyong khé yangtrül dazhön nyur chön söl
Return swiftly, I pray; emanate again, like the full moon!3
Ku yi trengwar namkha jisi bar
In a series of embodiments, for as long as space exists,
Drangyé drowa drölwai tuk kyé kyi
Through your vow to liberate all, innumerable beings,
Chigö gyalten pel la damé pai
Peerless in disseminating the conqueror’s teachings, both general and particular,
Yangtrül nyinché wangpo nyur chön söl
Return swiftly, I pray; emanate again, like the mighty sun!
Chöying nampar dakpai den top tang
Through the power of truth of the utterly pure expanse of reality,
Tenching dreljung luwa mepa tang
Through the infallibility of interdependent arising,
Choksum gyalwa gyatso’i chinlap kyi
And through the blessings of the Three Jewels and the infinite conquerors,
Jitar mönpai tön kün nyur drup sho
May these prayers, for the benefit of all, swiftly be accomplished!

Because Dzarong Trulshik Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö Rinpoche—holder of the treasury of the Old
Translation teachings, vajra-holder with all the three vows, who insatiably received the nectar of the Buddhist teachings, both sūtra and tantra, from many venerable non-sectarian masters, filling the excellent vessel of his mind to the brim, and who in particular was the inheritor of Vajradhara Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Gyurme Tenpai Gyaltsen—has recently displayed the dissolving of his intention in the expanse of reality, several great disciples of the lord, born from his speech and of all traditions, have felt the need for and requested a prayer that he be reborn swiftly as another emanation; at their request, and having myself received from that venerable master so many profound empowerments, explanations and transmissions, remembering the way he gave them with his smiling face, his fascinating words, and his caring, affectionate mind, as his respectful disciple, I, the Buddhist monk Tenzin Gyatso, on the auspicious date of the third day of the eighth month of the iron hare year of the seventeenth Rabjung cycle, 30 September 2011, wrote this prayer imploring him to return swiftly as another emanation. Virtue!
Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group 2011

Shantideva's Bodhisattva Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara): Buddhist Chant ...

Lyrics -( this is sooooooooo beautiful, may people who listen to it, benefit!)

taccittaratnagrahaṇāya samyakpūjāṃ karomy eṣa tathāgatānām |

saddharmaratnasya ca nirmalasya buddhātmajānāṃ ca guṇodadhīnām ||1||

yāvanti puṣpāṇi phalāni caiva bhaiṣajyajātāni ca yāni santi |

ratnāni yāvanti ca santi loke jalāni ca svacchamanoramāṇi ||2||

mahīdharā ratnamayās tathānye vanapradeśāś ca vivekaramyāḥ |

latāḥ supuṣpābharaṇojjvalāś ca drumāś ca ye satphalanamraśākhāḥ ||3||

Shanti Mantra by Ravi Shankar

Shanti, shanti, shanti.....om shanti.

Footsteps of the Enlightened Ones (Chapter 1: Introduction)

There are altogether 12 chapters in this video covering an exclusive interview with His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa during the year 2002 pilgrimage. In this first chapter, the holy pilgrimage sites of Lord Buddha are briefly introduced.
May many be able to follow the footsteps of the Buddha as well as go to India for a pilgrimage.

May the precious guru live long and healthy so as to guide many, mangalam!!!

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"

On this day exactly 142 years ago, Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi was born . Today Gandhi's birthday is commemorated as a national holiday in India and as the International Day of Non-Violence 'round the world.

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