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Internal Yoga for Sexual Vitality
   
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Breathe!
Breathing is the key ingredient in physical, emotional and mental health. It is a grossly underestimated source of life giving, healing and purifying .....
Breathing is the key ingredient in physical, emotional and mental health. It is a grossly underestimated source of life giving, healing and purifying .....
Internal Yoga for Sexual Vitality M.Javril,1998
originally published in the "Wet Set Gazette", Pasadena, CA -
Spring 1998 reprinting with permission granted
Your body's health is a complex system of mini-systems, just
like a global village of its own - there are hills and valleys,
eruptions and frozen areas, streams, oceans, and there are
sometimes swamps. These areas of stagnation don't need to be
treated with disdain - rather, they can be held as hidden
treasure lands able to give forth fertile, recoverable items
that are usable and actually add to the richness of the whole
system. The trapped energy in stored fat or tension can be
released thru deep breathing, allowing the normal cleansing
functions to harmonize themselves more quickly. With this
attitude, let's talk about your internal Riverway and the water
treatment process that your body performs.
Get friendly with your highways and byways - the lymphatic
system is responsible for transporting wastes, returning
filtered blood particles, and transporting the immune response
(lymphocytes). It is your internal shower - the ongoing action
of the liquidy part of blood (plasma) "leaking" into the spaces
in between the cells - like water permeating a sponge, the lymph
is meant to go everywhere - grabbing up and carrying along
extraneous or foreign particles and cells, flowing all the waste
products toward the main water filtration stations (lymph
nodes). The patrol brings the invaders to the station and a
battle may ensue. We may realize our immune system is responding
to an alarm because the warriors (lymphocytes) multiply and do
the body's main defending in the node areas, making them swell
when we fight a cold or other diseases.
The blood is pumped by the heart, but the lymph is pumped mostly
by muscle contraction, along with the respiratory diaphragm
movement. When we do deep, complete breathing, exercising and
sweating, we add to the body's ability to cleanse itself of
toxins and waste products - we pump the lymph along its
Riverway. The branch of yoga studying the breath is called
Pranayama, prana being the Sanskrit word for Life Force or Vital
Energy.
We all seem to realize it's important to take our cars in for
regular tune-ups, repairs, oil changes, radiator coolant
flushes, gas and air filter changes, etc. But what about our
bodies? Who changes the air filter in our lungs? and cleans out
the oil filter in our gall bladder? or flushes out the blood
cleaning mechanism in our spleen, kidneys and bladder? The
intelligence of the human body is so elegant that, merely using
our breath, we accomplish the minimum cleansing program. The
diaphragm is beautifully situated where all the filtering organs
are latticed into its movement, and they benefit greatly from
the repetitive squeezing and releasing of cellular elements.
Our global village is ecological, too, in that it will reuse
anything sitting around too long, So all the garbage (unused
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porch..?!) will be held in a hydro-culture (ground substance)
waiting to be sent out as waste or turned into useful calories.
If it sits too long in one spot, the sediment of the river's
flow is deposited in hard immobile impactions (colon) or soggy,
swampy pools (edema), making ripe ground for holding disease
pockets. The largest organ of elimination is the skin, so it's
important to perspire AND to exfoliate (dry skin brushing). We
also eliminate thru the colon, bladder, and the lungs. When one
organ isn't working efficiently or being given an opportunity to
contribute, the other organs have to take over the extra toxic
waste. This can, for example, lead to skin eruptions when the
colon is not moving at least 1-3 times a day. Most people need
to DRINK MORE WATER. Formula (your weight divided by two = how
many ounces per day you need)
It is important to always eliminate whatever we can no longer
use. Once we have assimilated and absorbed, transformed and
integrated something into ourselves, we are meant to
harmoniously and efficiently get rid of all the parts that are
not useful or no longer need to be held in reserve. Another
intrinsically elegant element in our design as human beings, is
the metaphor of our physical and emotional lives. Once we can
let go of our habits, grudges, or unneeded negative reactive
patterns, we can breath easier in our daily lives.
Your internal organs depend on your deep breathing and muscle
tone in order to be squeezed, re-oxygenated, flushed, and
efficient in their functions. They also depend on the muscles
that hold them up from gravity - the hammock or sling that is
the bottom or pelvic floor for the abdominal cavity - the PC
muscle group (pubococcygeus). Re-discovered in this century by
Doctor Kegel, the diamond-shaped area where this group of
muscles weaves the base sphincters together is also known in
ancient yogic studies as Muladhara, or the Root Chakra. Learning
how to hold or lock (Muladhara Bandha) and elevate the internal
hammock is a Pranayama technique developed for increasing Vital
Force. Once activated, it flows from the base of the spine up to
the crown, and charges up each one of the neural plexes
(chakras) as it moves. With this, the body has an abundance of
energy for cleansing, relaxing, and rejuvenating all the
internal organs. It creates a flow of electro-magnetic activity
that harmonizes and reconnects the breaks in the continuous
circuitry.
Yogis and the ancient Chinese have known that in order to be
self-sufficient and isolated in the mountains, the body needed
to be flexible, efficient, sensitive, and sturdy. They designed
physical techniques for internal cleansing that needed to be
done either manually or by one's own body's mechanisms. Using
the anal sphincter lock and upward draw, the indigenous
Polynesians and Egyptians drew sea water into the colon, for a
natural enema effect. In order to gain instead of losing energy
during love-making, tantric practitioners use these recycling
techniques for preserving sexual energy. Pumping the base chakra
with specific breathing and visualizations are meditative
techniques that can lead to full-blown spiritual visions and
inner blissful states. Most of us are not going to practice in
that way, nonetheless, we can learn a great deal from this
approach. Engaging the muscles of the Root or Base Chakra
physiologically creates pressure on the cerebral-spinal fluid
and repercusses along the dura mater and throughout the spinal
column to the brain. Thus, massaging the perineum with our
isometric exercise, we can affect the entire brain system. This
brings a profound state of heightened relaxation, and is the
basis for tantric yoga abilities - for the woman, to become full
body and multi-orgasmic, and experience the Valley orgasm more
easily - for the man, to sustain an erection all night long,
controlling ejaculation, and also to become full body and
multi-orgasmic. Extended states of bliss are said to be
youthening and harmonizing to the brain and hormones. (Shorter
periods of excitement and pleasure are equally as valuable, says
my housecat).
Here's an interesting and alternative way to massage your own
internal organs - Standing comfortably, let all the air out of
your lungs and belly, and while trying to keep it out, allow
your belly to move in and out - feel the swishing inside as you
move all the viscera around with your muscles during the exhale
(Uddhiyana Bandha & Nauli's). This kind of plunging action also
occurs when you activate the perineal area with the Kegel
contraction, known as an Upward Draw in Taoistic studies. First,
you have to find your Pelvic Floor. Since ultimately, you will
be elevating, or pulling the muscle more inward and up into the
torso, there are no outward signs that it is contracting. All
other muscles should be relaxed - isolate this group completely.
Find the urethral sphincter by starting and stopping the flow of
urine. Only do this initially to ensure you are using the right
muscles. For women, you could insert your finger slightly into
the vaginal opening, and squeeze as though you would pull it up
into the vaginal canal. For men, watching to see the reaction of
the penis moving slightly, you can determine if you are
activating the right group of muscles. At first, just "chewing
gum" style will suffice (clench, release, clench, release). But
that is only half of the fibers (short twitch). The endurance
and tensile strengthening (long twitch) comes from holding and
sustaining the clench, and actually increasing the grip force
and drawing the muscles upward.
Most people think that Kegels are for women after childbirth,
but they are actually FOR EVERYONE! MEN IN PARTICULAR can
benefit because of the increased circulation to the prostate
gland. Because men tend to be more yang, they are holding a
contracted sphincter, and women being more yin, will become more
and more flaccid. Thus, men need to use the exercise as a way to
elasticize and relax the area, bringing fresh blood, vigor and
sensitivity. And of course, women need to tone and strengthen,
activate and juice up the area, making more and more of the
cells alive and available.
Enjoy creating the inner fire you will begin to sense as you
develop your inner yoga - feel a surge of vital force moving
from a deep place, rising thru your body. This is simply your
own physiology responding to your intention to pump energy. It
WORKS!
Pelvic Floor Exercises for Women AND Men
Use abdominal breathing. Count to 10 for one cycle. As you
exhale (1,2,3,4,5), begin to squeeze the pelvic floor tight, and
as the exhale continues, increase your sense of drawing the base
upward inside the body (6,7,8,9,10) like a freight elevator,
slow and strong and weighted. Then slowly Inhale and release the
muscle, allowing it to slowly lower and fully relax. Allow the
sensation of a slight bulging out when you reach the "ground
floor", the way a freight elevator drops slightly lower and then
returns to neutral. The relaxation phase IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
FOR THE MAN. Attempt to fully isolate the pelvic floor and avoid
using any abdominal or buttox muscles. Do 15 cycles 3X a day to
improve tone.
Isometric and resistive exercises promote: circulation,
activation, elasticity, responsiveness, strength, and endurance.
These are sometimes called the Love muscles and will activate
all functions of this area. Any muscle that you exercise and put
your conscious intention into, will respond better, faster,
longer, stronger, and more often.
Perineal release thru massage or activation thru pelvic floor
exercises has been shown to have a dramatic effect on vaginal
tone after birth. It also affects the elasticity of the opening,
allowing for the possibility to avoid an episiotomy. After such
a procedure, sustaining one's Internal Yoga practice will have a
strong impact on recovery of all functions in this area.
Poor tone of the urogenital diaphragm has been shown to be
related to: incontinence, hemorrhoids, organ prolapse,
constipation, premature ejaculation, impotence, lower libido,
non-lubrication, prostate disease, PMS.
Marci Javril, Vital Energist, is a Certified Somatic Therapist,
spiritual counselor and movement therapist. She gives tutorials
in Lymphatic Clearing and Abdominal Integrity, including
internal organ release and detox. Ms. Javril also coaches
interested people in Pregnancy & Infant Massage, and
Post-Surgical Intervention. Her work focuses on the art &
science of rejuvenation, enriched by many years in the
performing arts and in depth studies in Kriya Tantra Yoga. Marci
has been in private practise since 1984 and can be reached for
consultations at (866)-551-0062 or (310)-306-9838. See
credentials on web site: http://VitalEnergyCenter.com or contact
by email: MJavril@VitalEnergyCenter.com
About the author:
Marci Javril, Vital Energist - expert bodyworker, ordained
minister, tantra yoga educator, movement therapist. Marci
combines her many talents as a performing artist and heealer, to
bring more vital energy awareness into every aspect of life.