Corpse Pose & Yoga Nidra Course

7 months ago By Yogi Anoop

Corpse Pose & Yoga Nidra Course - Teacher Training Course

   In this teacher training course, Yogi Anoop provides a comprehensive practical, experiential, and philosophical explanation of Shavasana and Yoga Nidra meditation. This course is for everyone who wishes to delve deeply into yoga and for yoga instructors. It teaches how to coordinate oneself with the sensory and motor organs before entering into meditation. Generally, this practice involves learning how to connect with these organs, but in my practice, we learn how to loosen the excessive connections that have been formed through these organs. 

One muscle (the brain) holds all other muscles in the body, and all the muscles in the body hold the muscles of the brain. They hold each other. This is fine to a certain extent, but when these muscles start pulling each other too much out of habit or compulsion, problems and diseases begin to arise. 

Note that the brain muscles hold the body muscles involuntarily, and likewise, the body muscles hold the brain muscles involuntarily. This connection is a natural process. However, mental and physical problems and diseases begin to occur when they start interfering with each other excessively and voluntarily.

To understand and resolve this, Shavasana, Yoga Nidra, and Chakra meditation were discovered. Yogis and sages have not only resolved mental and physical diseases through this practice but also attained self-knowledge through it.

Try to understand it this way: experiencing your muscles, relaxing them through that experience to allow natural healing, and simultaneously experiencing oneself based on the experience of the muscles. 

In this teacher training, we will attempt to understand this profundity through practice and philosophy.

1. Shavasana | Sleep of 5 Karmedriya Organs

5 Karmendriya 

5 Karmendriya include the legs (with the primary muscles being the calf, thigh, and hip muscles), the arms (all muscles), the jaws and tongue muscles in the mouth, and the fine 5 Karmendriya Senses like the urinary tract and anus. Our aim is to register our presence in all these muscles without causing tension, reaching all these parts through experience to eliminate diseases.

Through the practice of Shavasana, these voluntary muscles are relaxed without tension. This method attempts to resolve issues in involuntary organs. It's a technique where muscles that hold tension, often unnoticed by normal individuals, are relaxed without additional tension.

We become so accustomed to holding our muscles that we don't realize we've pulled them. This pulling and tension habit becomes normal over the years, and we don't even feel the tension and strain we've applied.

It's noteworthy that not only does the mind hold the body, but the body also holds and pulls the mind. The body's gravity and the mind's gravity pull each other, creating tension. This excessive pulling leads to increased mental and physical health issues, increased pressure of air in the body, and restlessness (decreased attention span) in the senses and mind.

In this practice, the brain's muscles will be relaxed through the motor organs, and the motor organs will be relaxed through the brain's muscles. This mutual relaxation will heal all unhealthy parts inside the body and brain.

Legs - calf, thigh, and hip muscles (all leg muscles).

Arms - lower arm, upper arm, etc. (all arm muscles).

Anus and Genitals - related to the intestines, liver, kidneys, and bladder.

Jaw - through the jaw, it relates to the brain, stomach, intestines, navel, throat, thyroid, etc.

2. Yoga Nidra | Sleep of the Knowledge Sense Organs

Yoga Nidra | Sleep of The Five Sense Organs

Eyes - Primary function: sight

Based on my innermost experiences, the mind, brain, memory, stomach, liver, and other major organs are most influenced by the eyes. The eyes are the most powerful of all senses and are primarily responsible for concentration. Through the eyes, the heaviest items are stored in the mind and memory. Since the eyes can perceive the form, colour, and shape of objects, this sense causes the most diseases in an ordinary person. This sense is the foundation of Bhakti Yoga. Therefore, I have decided to discuss the relationship of the eyes with the brain, sleep, thoughtless state, liver, stomach, and other organs. I will also demonstrate how to heal diseases obtained through the eyes using Yoga Nidra. Whatever is received through the eyes occupies the most space in the brain and all inner places.

Tongue - Primary function: taste

I have successfully reached all organs through the tongue. Using the taste sense, I have managed to reach the neural system of the stomach and brain. By placing different tastes on the tongue, I have experienced how the glands in the stomach, liver, intestines, and brain produce different juices. Therefore, I emphasise removing tension in the tongue through Yoga Nidra and have conducted many experiments on this, which I will share with the students in this program.

Nose - Primary function: smell

The nose's primary function is to perceive smell, but it also experiences touch. In Yoga Nidra and Pranayama, more emphasis is placed on the experience of touch rather than smell. This removes obstacles in reaching the brain and sinus areas and even helps in halting thoughts, making the mind imageless.

Skin - Primary function: touch

The skin, whose primary function is touch, is the most powerful sense organ as it is hidden in all other senses. In Yoga Nidra, through the skin, one tries to experience oneself in all senses and parts of the body. The final stage of all senses is touch. For example, taste cannot be experienced on the tongue without touch. Smell cannot be perceived in the nose without touch. Images cannot be seen in the eyes without touch, and the same applies to sound in the ears. This shows that the body's connection to the master is primarily through touch. Therefore, touch holds the most importance in my practice. I attempt to resolve various issues through Yoga Nidra by focusing on touch.

Ears - Primary function: sound

In Yoga Nidra, I have emphasised calming the brain through sound, practicing both Ahat (struck) and Anahat (unstruck) sounds. These sounds create emotions, providing both tension and peace to the mind and brain. It is not about the volume but the emotional tension caused by the sound, which is often unnoticed. Through Yoga Nidra, we focus on eliminating these tensions with Anahad sound. Essentially, one sound is used to remove the tension caused by another sound.

Subject Areas

-How to resolve issues related to the small and large intestines

- Managing unnecessary increases in heart rate

- How to control high and low blood pressure

- Discussion and solutions for problems related to IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)

- Issues related to the anus

- Problems related to sleep, including excessive dreaming and overactive thoughts during sleep (excluding snoring), and muscle tension during sleep

- Discussion and solutions for problems related to all sensory organs (eyes, ears, tongue, skin, nose) and the issues they cause in the body

- Problems related to the stomach

- Gastric problems, a common issue for many, and how to control it

- Memory-related problems

- Discussion and practical exercises to address issues related to sexual overthinking using both methods

- All mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, mood swings, and stress

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