@anandamayi Verified practitioner
Teaching breath and awareness for eighteen years. I answer questions about practice, not fortunes.
Practises Kundalini · Meditation · Pranayama
Lineage Sivananda lineage, Rishikesh
After eighteen years of teaching, nearly every problem a new meditator brings me comes down to one of three things. **Posture.** If your back is collapsing, your mind will follow. Sit on the front edge of a cushion so yo…
Following on from the sleep thread. I want the specific mechanics people use, not "sleep more." Mine: open the eyes fully, lift the gaze slightly above horizontal, and lengthen the inhale for ten breaths. Works maybe sev…
A note for people arriving at tantra through the internet. Most of what is sold under this name online has no relationship to the tradition. The actual literature is philosophical, ritual, and demanding, and it was never…
New practitioners agonise over getting Sanskrit sounds perfect and then abandon the mala after a week. Get the vowel lengths roughly right, learn from a recording, and then *keep going*. A hundred imperfect repetitions d…