Babaji’s Amrita Asana
Babaji’s Amrita Asana refers to the practice of yoga postures as taught by Amrita Baba. Based on Baba's 35 years of experience in yoga asanas, martial arts, meditation, and tantric yoga practice, Babaji’s Amrita Asana is unique both in its form as well as its results.
The practice can be learned and practiced by people of all sizes, shapes, and ages because it is taught according to principles, instead of strict form. These principles can be applied to beginners, intermediate, or advanced yoga postures depending on one's physical capability. The practice is easy to learn and quickly brings about health, strength, vitality, and brightness of mind.
Having and cultivating good health is important because it is the foundation of a joyful life. Being healthy also enables us to practice the dharma. The practice of yoga postures as taught in Babaji’s Amrita Asana is especially beneficial for those who are working to align their physical bodies with the already enlightened mind.
Like other practices taught in Amrita Mandala, Babaji’s Amrita Asana can be learned on retreats and courses when requested.
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Quotes From Practitioners:
“Babaji’s Amrita Asana quite literally wakes up the nervous system, and each individual muscle in a way that I have not found other practices to do as effectively and completely. Because one is flexing the muscles in all kinds of postures one would not normally flex in, and the posture affects different muscles differently, it is very easy to explore each muscle/muscle group from a new perspective. For example, while flexing all muscles in forward bends, you can really go deep into the back muscles, extending the back and squeezing the muscles fully. And in backward bends, you can really explore the relationship between the anterior and posterior chains. It feels absolutely amazing to reconnect with the body in this way.
It goes further than just back vs. front, though. This practice allows you to explore all dimensions, all directions of push and pull, and how they all work and fit perfectly together.
Also, this reconnection seems to have a great effect on the nervous system's ability to regulate itself (so-called vagal toning for those familiar with the term) as well. Because the practice is not only about contracting muscles but also relaxing them completely, the nervous system's ability to relax after hard physical exertion is trained tens, if not hundreds of times each session. I've already noticed a spill-over effect in my newly adopted practice of weight-lifting, and I'm certain this will show itself more and more as I continue my Amrita Asana practice.
Babaji’s Amrita Asana reintegrates the various body parts, muscle groups, and individual muscles, into one whole working together. And it goes further than that in that the dynamic concentration at the heart of the practice not only reveals emptiness clearly but also reawakens the inherent joy of having a physical body in the first place."
Amrita Simha
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"I was doing quite a bit of asana practice late last year through the summer of this year but none of it really hit the spot. Going to a pose and just staying there without anything else feels similar to doing shamatha meditation. Sure, it might make you good at staying in a pose for a long time, but it doesn't really accomplish anything.
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Amrita Asana is the opposite. The main thing I have noticed improving so far is my ability to actually activate all my muscles evenly, and noticing parts of my body that were almost you could say sleeping. Particularly in my lower body but also in the core. Like I couldn't actually activate them properly. But the activation is becoming more, I would say, more active and more embodied. So it is kind of like encouraging my awareness to fully occupy those parts of my body where it wasn't before. Even though this involves activating muscles it strangely seems to be a kind of surrender. The muscles not being able to activate was actually due to an unconscious tightened holding. I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise but it is interesting to see it show up in this way."
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"I do love it! The concept of strengthening one's muscles in a stretched position makes so much sense it almost seems silly to never have practiced it before. In a month's practice, I progressed from barely being able to touch my toes before asanas to now reaching all fingers to the floor. If I'm really warmed up, I can place my inner knuckles on the ground. Such fast progress with Amrita Asanas!"
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"I've always struggled to feel bhumis, charges, or even tensions. Babaji's Amrita Asana practice is definitely helping me to "get in my body" more. It's translating to my sitting practice very nicely where lately I've noticed I'm able to really feel the charge after each Rainbow Body Yoga session."
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"All I would say about Babaji's Amrita Asanas, for now, is that it has been a surprisingly enjoyable practice to do. Feels really good so it's naturally something I want to do every day. Feeling the good kind of pain from it and getting places I'd never felt before. The body is loosening up in those areas for the first time ever it seems."
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"The more I do the Babaji's Amrita Asanas the more they contract in a natural manner without being forced in a way that feels contrived. They contract exactly as they need to. The Asanas also really improved Vajra Body during Rainbow Body Yoga. The contraction is much clearer and less forced all around. The relaxation between contractions is also clearer and the reminder to keep the tantric connection during the Asanas also applies to Vajra Body. Overall I look forward to where the practice goes. When I started Rainbow Body Yoga for the first time I felt so out of my element and clunky. Over time it became refined, and an ever so subtle dance that is quite profoundly beautiful."