by Gregor Maehle | Apr 7, 2023 | Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
Today reports have become common of strange, intense body sensations, sometimes involving loss of consciousness, intense surges of energy, burning sensations accompanied by emotional highs, and emotional discharges and catharses. Some of these experiences are...
by Gregor Maehle | Jul 22, 2022 | Kundalini, Mudras, Pranayama, Society/ civilisation
Granthi means knot or blockage and granthis refer to pranic obstacles in the course of the central pranic channel, Sushumna, that prevent Kundalini from rising beyond a certain level. Due to this, insights and revelations beyond that level cannot be gained. Granthis...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 13, 2021 | Kundalini, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
I am hereby presenting the eight volume or my series of yoga text books, Mudras – Seals of Yoga. I started to write this book over ten years ago, and it was to be the first volume in a Mudra, Pranayama, Meditation trilogy. Instead I changed course and focussed on...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 12, 2021 | Audio/Video, Kundalini, Pranayama
Lovers of technical yoga talk rejoice! In this extraordinarily geeky interview Nathan from Escaping Samsara asks me about nuances of pranayama and meditation practices. We also talk about my Map of Transformative States in my most recent book and get a glimpse into...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Aug 3, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video, Pranayama
It is very common for people to have a restricted, tight diaphragm muscle. The reasons it becomes tight and dysfunctional are just as common: stress, pain, anxiety, shock and emotion upsets. And yet the function of this muscle is vitally important for our mental,...
by Gregor Maehle | Jan 7, 2021 | Audio/Video, Meditation and Samadhi, Pranayama
On this Thrivers Podcast episode Donny gets me to answer all of my least favourite questions such as “To what extent am I self-taught and to what extent do I follow the path of my teachers?” and “What are the biggest misunderstandings that I resolved over time?”. He...