Sit with your buttocks resting on the edge of a seat, keeping your hands on your kneecaps. That way your spine will stay erect, and you won’t just fall asleep. Or, if you have a back problem, you can rest your back against a wall with a pillow for support. Either posture will allow you to forget your body and connect to the Sahasrāra Chakra, the wheel of power located at the crown of your head.
An alternate posture you may want to try sometime is the following:
If you are a woman of light build, sit with your right or left heel pressing lightly into your vagina. You will probably experience mild sexual pleasure, which is desirable and not to be worried about. If you are of a heavier build and unable to attain this posture, ball up a cloth and sit on it in such a way that it has a similar effect.
Men can adapt this posture by sitting with their heel pressing lightly between the base of the penis and the testes, in such a way that a light erection takes place. Again, if you cannot attain this position, just use a balled-up cloth and sit so that it presses on the ejaculatory sphincter muscle between the testes and the anus. As with the female version, this posture will impart a light sexual pleasure, but will not allow ejaculation to occur. Technically it is the easiest alternative to siddhāsana.
7 times — Aśvinī Mudrā
7 times — Śakti Calana Mudrā
Having settled into your chosen sitting posture, you will practice two mudras and two bandhās, seven times each. The first is called the aśvinī mudrā, and it involves repeatedly tightening, holding and releasing the anal muscles. The second is the śakti calana mudrā, which involves repeatedly engaging the muscles used when you pass urine and then suddenly cause the flow to stop. One effect of both mudras is, again, to arouse sexual desire but not satisfy it through a typical, physical orgasm. Instead, this desire is channeled and transmuted into a “spiritual orgasm,” as further discussed below.
7 times — Mūla Bandha
7 times — Uḍḍīyana Bandha
After completing each of these mudras seven times, perform the two bandhās—mūla bandha and uḍḍīyana bandha—again seven times each. For the mūla bandha, take a deep breath, filling your belly outward like a woman in late pregnancy. Contract both the urinary and anal muscles, hold them for as long as is comfortable, and then release the breath with a hissing “sssss” sound, your curled tongue projecting slightly out of your mouth (this technique was called Cobra Breath by the ancient yogis).
Finally, perform the uḍḍīyana bandha by exhaling fully, then pulling the tummy inward and upward like a lion, thereby exerting a pull on the muscles surrounding the genitals.
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