Upon waking, be open to all energy flow in your body. Begin by feeling internally.
You must make sure your body is open everywhere in order to receive all the pranic energy that is available to you. Do this by moving every muscle from your centre. A seated or standing moving meditation may work for you, circling from the navel centre.
The point you must focus on is just below your navel and internally (lower dantian and svadhisthana chakra). If you concentrate on moving all your energy (chi or samana prana) from this area, then your muscles will be free to operate at their highest level of coordination. You may even invent your own fluid movements. Your body will know exactly how to move in order to loosen your individual blocks.
If you move freely from your centre and expect the energy of prana and samana prana to flow into and through you, you will move in a lighter manner. Of course, to perfect this, you must be able to open up to all the divine energy available all around you and within you. In truth, energy does not come so much from what surrounds us, although we can absorb energy from plants (soma) and some sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine, which is already within us. We live in an immense world of beauty, colour and form. Heaven itself is here.
Move from the centre, and feel the energy immediately. Expect it immediately, and it will be there. Learn to sustain this higher level of energy, always flowing through you.
Samana prana is the vital energy in the navel where our energy is centred and is where digestion primarily occurs. It governs tejas and all digestive fires of body and mind. It has other functions as well in the following areas:
* Gastrointestinal tract – to digest food
* Lungs – to digest air and absorb oxygen
* Mind – to digest experiences
Image by David Frawley – Yoga and Ayurveda
The spiritual aspects of samana prana are as follows.
It creates a one-pointedness of mind that leads to Samadhi and great peace. It aids us in our ability to both hold and contract.
As we practise yoga, the subtle aspects of all five pranas or vayus begin to awaken, including spontaneous movements and various kriyas. Samana prana is one of these five great pranas we can learn to master.
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