Connective tissue work, training the infamous fasciae, fills entire books in both conventional and yogic training circles. The reason is simple. The stronger, and more pliable, your connective tissue is, the more power you can issue and run through the…
Periodically, you come across martial arts that seems really complete and very much old school. Everything is there: the fighting part, the weapons work, the meditation aspect, the yogic practice, the medical practices, et al. And it clearly isn’t made…
Void awakening – this focuses on the throat and is the most uncommon of the four. Primarily seen in some Taoist schools and as a subset of Vajrayana Buddhist practice. Hermetic practitioners view this as the power of Daath, Binah…
Body training is almost entirely left out of Bardon’s first book Initiation into Hermetics aside from some introductory information on “asana.” The electric, and magnetic, lines of force are also poorly understood by most practitioners as well. These are meant…
The nature of practice changes as we age. When I was younger the practices linked to the power center in the lower abdomen, the lower dantien as espoused in Asian practice, made up the majority of what I did. The…
The electric current acts as the primary projective force in creation, splits into both fire and air energy, is called yang in Chinese Taoist theory, exists at all three levels of existence (material, astral and mental) and is primarily trained…
The magnetic current acts as the primary receptive force, splits into both water and air energy, is called yin in Chinese Taoist theory, exists at all three levels of existence (material, astral and mental) and is primarily trained via the…
The most physical of the four methods powering yogic practice is commonly known as Kundalini awakening. In this method the latent energy of the genitals is connected to the brain via the spine and this greatly enhances the energetic capacity…
After almost 30 years of looking, I’ve seen that most yogic/meditative phenomena are powered by one of four discrete methods: 1. Kundalini awakening – this is the connection of the latent energy of the genitals to the brain, the safer…
