This sadhana uses the following Sri Ganapati mantras:
Om Vighna Nashanaya Namaha
and the bija mantras Gum and Glaum
as well as the short three-part Tripura Bhairavi mantra, which will be given in person.

Laya Yoga is the yoga of deep absorptive awareness, unifying awareness with a mantra, yantra, anthropormorphized deity, smell, taste, touch placement, or other more subtle experience, first localized within the subtle body, and then universalized.

Tripura Bhairavi as a mantra, yantra, or anthropomorphized principle burns away everything back to primordial awareness… used with the correct pranayam in the appropriate individual, it can be profoundly liberating, burning away attachments in muladhara and elsewhere. Used incorrectly or at the wrong time, it can produce strongly uncomfortable physiological or psychological experiences and not the release of attachments and aversions that is desired. Therefore, Tao will tell students whether they individually should be doing this practice with a Ganapati mantra or a Tripura Bhairavi mantra… Ganapati mantras are extremely effective and should precede the application of the Bhairavi mantras. Tao will hold the student and only the student responsible if said student goes against his express recommendations and prematurely uses the Bhairavi Mantra in the pranayamas, mudras, and bandhas described in the sadhana.

Nadhi Shodhana is any practice of purifying the flow of the body’s nadhis (meridians of energy and consciousness), and through that, clarifying awareness and removing conditioned preconceptions and reactivity.

There are many versions of nadhi shodhana, many of which use alternate nostril breathing, often synchronized with internal use of mantra (the auditory tool of tantra used to focus or harness the mind)…

This three week sadhana, like its predecessor, includes a mantric practice of nadhi shodhana as well as Laya Yoga. On days when the weather is appropriate, students may choose to explore practicing covered in ash or clay to see the additional effects of such traditional practice.

Tao will be practicing and guiding the practice of this sadhana on the beach in Miami from May 7th through the 25th, 2012, every weekday morning starting at 6:15am, with locations tweeted by @TaoSemko daily…

The practice flows as follows:
1: Meet in calm quiet at the beach.
2: At 6:15am, do warming rotations of the joints and spine, with deep breathing,
3: then do ablutions in the ocean, intentionally purifying the subtle and physical bodies, then dry off and cover body as needed.
4: followed by warming kriyas, including suryanamaskar with Surya bijas, the nine clearing breaths, alternate nostril breathing with Aum Vighna Nashanaya Namaha, and cross-armed squats using Tripura Bhairavi bijas and tratak with Bhairavi Mudra.
5: kapalabhati alternated with uddiyana bandha or nauli kriya, three rounds using Tripura Bhairavi bijas and bhairavi mudra
6: bhastrika alternated with uddiyana bandha or nauli kriya, three rounds, two ways using Tripura Bhairavi bijas and bhairavi mudra
7: standing uddiyana bandha with Aum Vighna Nashanaya Namaha
8: standing nauli with Aum Vighna Nashanaya Namaha
9: loosening exercises, more suryanamaskar, spinal twisting
10: seated nauli with alternate nostril breathing and the Tripura Bhairavi bijas
11: Sushumna nadhi shodhana using seated uddiyana bandha and madyama (central) nauli, alternated with squatting ashwini mudra with Tripura Bhairavi Laya and Bhairavi Mudra
12: Suryanamaskar, squats, and loosening exercises, and final nyasa (relaxed placement of awareness) in shavasana, maintaining centeredness and mantric awareness

Finishing by 7:30am…

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In person guidance on the beach is just $21 per week (M-F practice), payable on Monday…

Additional Mantras for Suryanamaskar:
Solar Bija Mantras, for sun salutations:
One bija per asana for the twelve asanas of the sun salutation:
Om Hram
Om Hrim
Om Hroom
Om Hraim
Om Hraum
Om Hraha
Om Hram
Om Hrim
Om Hroom
Om Hraim
Om Hraum
Om Hraha

Or the bijas with individual attributes/fruits of the sun:
Om Hram Sri Mitraya Namaha
Om Hrim Sri Ravaye Namaha
Om Hroom Sri Suryaya Namaha
Om Hraim Sri Bhanave Namaha
Om Hraum Sri Khagaya Namaha
Om Hrah Sri Pooshne Namaha
Om Hram Sri Hiranyagarbhaya Namaha
Om Hrim Sri Marichaye Namaha
Om Hroom Sri Adityaya Namaha
Om Hraim Sri Savitre Namaha
Om Hraum Sri Arkaya Namaha
Om Hrah Sri Bhaskaraya Namaha
Om Sri Savitra Surya Narayanaya Namaha

For more on these mantras and their use in Suryanamaskar, please investigate the following two titles on Amazon: