pranayama – Your Presence Heals

Granthis: the three knots that bind us

By Ma Durga on May 15, 2021 / Life Solutions

Do you know that, in each one of us, there are three knots called granthis?

The inspiration for this article happened during my 28-day fasting called Pachai-pattini vathram (PPV) in 7^th March – 3^rd Apr 2021. This was my second year taking up this fasting after the inspiration by my Guru, HDH Bhagawan Nithyananda Paramashivam, and I must say the experience had been so amazing. Pachai-pattini Vathram is an annual fasting by Devi Mahamari Amman where she would herself fast for four weeks in order to safeguard the interests of her countless devotees. It was during this period of penance (tapas), so many extraordinary insights about body and yoga got revealed to me that I was inspired to design an 8-part series of Tantra Yoga module. The feedback and breakthroughs the students shared, have been extremely encouraging. Hence, I decided to share about the yogic understanding about the three granthis.

Seven tips to a strong nervous system during tapas

By Ma Durga on September 15, 2020 / Health

In the past two and half months, I have been volunteering in a global digital project assigned by my Guru, HDH Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam (fondly known as Swamiji) in preparation for the launch of the world’s first digital nation – ShriKailasa!

To me, this project has been an intense spiritual training ground to evolve each disciple in various dimensions such as leadership consciousness, completion of conflict-resolution, will persistence and mental strength, a real test to one’s nervous system as we undergo the demand of the workload and volunteering for long hours in different time zone.

Science of Pranayama

By Ma Durga on August 30, 2019 / My personal journey

For the first time, I am going to share the science of Pranayama in the second module of Mothers Love Kids Yoga Teachers Training next month. The content is not confined to what I have learned in my yoga teachers training but I will also be transmitting the experiences in my muscle memory and bio memory from the initiation I received from my Guru, Bhagawan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam (fondly known as Swamiji).

What is pranayama?

The word pranayama comprises of two roots: prana plus ayama. ‘Prana’ means ‘vital energy’ or ‘life force’. ‘Ayama’is defined as ‘extension’ or ‘expansion’. Therefore, the word ‘Pranayama’ means ‘extension and expansion of prana’.