What Is Bandha in Yoga ? Moolbandha, Udiyana, Jalandhar and Maha bandha I The School of Breath

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welcome to the school of breath and meditate with avi the topic for today is relevant to both these channels if you're new to this channel my name is abi dugal and i help you create the life by design in today's video we'll talk about a yoga technique which is considered superior than any other yoga modalities present in the yoga literature that includes yoga postures which is called asana pranayama the breathing techniques and mudras the hand gestures so this technique we're going to talk about is superior and effective in all respects and it's going to position you on your spiritual journey more effectively any guesses will be talking about well stick around [Music] so what is this mysterious technique which is considered more superior and effective than all the other yoga modalities put together well in short the answer is bandas yoga bandas what is a bandha if you look at the sanskrit definition of bandas it could mean stop it could mean obstruction close or lock but for the sake of simplicity we'll go with laks so bandas are locks so what are these bundles or locks well these are the locks we perform with our body which takes our yoga journey or spiritual progress to a totally different level to a higher level let's talk about the science behind these locks anything you understand in yoga you should make your mind understand it first then you can do those techniques more effectively and you actually know what you're doing then so that's why the whole purpose of this channel is to bring this knowledge the esoteric knowledge from eastern cultures into a very scientific left brain perspective so we can engage both our left and the right brain so let's understand these bandas in a very scientific way now let's take a look at this hose the water running through the hose when the water is running through the hose and there is no pressure applied to it it simply falls down but if you want the hose to throw the water at a long distance you have to constrict the hose with your thumb so you can put a lot of pressure on it and with this high pressure applied to the mouth of the hose you can shoot the water further so before you understand the concept of locks and bandas you have to really understand how the energy flows through the body and we're not just talking about the physical body we're talking about the subtle bodies too so we have seven different bodies and i've done a video on these seven bodies so if you want to get more information please check out that video but not right now stick around and then later on you can go check that video so let's talk about the chakra knowledge in nutshell so the chakras are energy vortexes in the body there are seven chakras starting from the bottom of the spine all the way towards the crown of your head three chakras are on the physical preservation level which is the root chakra sacral chakra solar plexus then comes the heart chakra which is the transition between your physical and metaphysical beyond physical and then comes the throat chakra third eye and the crown chakra so in this knowledge you have to understand that by default the energy flows downwards because of gravity not being on our side it pulls the energy downwards and the energy can flow in two different directions one is downward and one is upward but to go upward the energy has to defy the laws of gravity which means we have to really put an effort through pranayama yoga techniques or meditation to have this energy go up towards different centers which we haven't explored as a human being so these centers are really called the higher level of our consciousness more we can rise the energy up then we can explore these different dimensions of our existence but for now let's talk about the basic concept for the energy to rise up through the spine we need some pressure which can push the energy and defy the laws of gravity that's why we use bandas and if you remember the example of the hose we talked about what we did is on the end of the hose we put pressure with our thumb so the water can go further so same thing we're going to apply pressure from our root chakra which is called mula banda second pressure we apply is from our solar plexus which is called udhyana banda and then the third one is called jalandhar bandha which is the neck lock and then the fourth one the most effective is the combination of all these bandage which is called maha banda and how do these locks actually work consider this spine as a tube like we said initially in the video the first banda which is the most important one is called the root chakrabanda which is mullabanda so as you pull your anus as you pull your pin or near muscles as you tighten it you basically do one thing that you prevent the energy escape the energy cannot go down anymore because you've locked the bottom of the spine that's the kundalini energy so the only place direction energy can go is go up but of course there's not much momentum there's not much force for the energy to go up so normally in our day-to-day life the energy doesn't even flow up it probably goes to sacral and then there's probably a blockage in solar plexus and goes down so that's our day-to-day life but in yoga practices through meditation and breathing we can literally take these this energy the dormant kundalini energy up through all these different centers of our existence and these centers our chakras and they really exist in our subtle bodies which means that you cannot see them with the naked eye but you can practice and you can train your self to see these subtle bodies and think about this subtle body the first subtle body as a exact replica of your physical bodies so just like in your physical bodies we talked about this in a different video you have veins and arteries and capillaries which take the blood from the heart all the way to different organs of the body and vice versa and they take the blood back to the heart so that's the physical body and if you compare this physical body to your subtle body you have the same veins invisible veins called nardis and there is 72 000 of them but the main ones are ida pingala and the three nadis but the idea of these nadis is it takes instead of blood it takes prana praana is the energy the vital energy into different parts of your subtle body so you can rejuvenate you can go towards the higher levels of your expression so now these bandas really help the nadis to take this energy vital energy prana to all the parts of the body where this energy was not reaching before and how do we do this so i'm gonna really talk about the bandhas the locks in detail in the coming videos because this video is not enough to discuss the intricacies of all these pandas but to just to give you a nutshell and to help you decide whether you want to go on this journey or not let's talk about these benefits of these pandas and how does the bandha effectively work so in these bandas you're effectively locking your root chakra like we said pulling the perineum and anus muscles so the energy cannot escape downwards and then second thing you do is you go on top and lock from jalandhar right here so now the energy is stuck between these two locks in the tube and then you exert the third bandai in the middle the solar plexus the udiana banda and you pull the diaphragm in and continue exerting and putting high pressure on this energy and the energy has no other option but to go up and now when you let go of these bandages the locks then your energy the prana is flushed all throughout your whole body physical body your prana body your energy body your mental body all the way to your causal body so it's really healing so once you start practicing these bandas um it would expedite your spiritual progress so in this video we just wanted to give you an introduction about what these bandages are what these locks are and how you can perform and details of it will cover in the next videos coming videos but if you have any questions as of now please put them in the comment and i would love to answer those comments until next time my name is abby dugal and i help you create the life by design namaste peace