Vayu The Element of Air

On this Spot, Sadhguru calls attention to the immense possibilities that the
element of air presents, how it functions within the human system, and how we
can activate and benefit from it. He says, Vayu or air is the best dimension to
work with for part-time yogis, because it is relatively easy to master.
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n the yogic tradition, we refer to air as vayu, which not just means air as a
mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases, but as a dimension
of movement. Among the five basic elements earth, fire, water, air, and ether
which make us and everything in the universe, air is the most accessible and
relatively the easiest element to gain reasonable mastery over. Hence, a large
number of yogic practices are structured around vayu or air, though in the
composition of the body, air makes up only a small percentage.
The area between the navel and the pit of the throat is the main activity zone of
prana.
Most of the yogic practices that involve an element of breathing are aimed
towards vayu or prana vayu. Vayu is the element prana vayu is one of the
pancha pranas. We are in a womb of prana, which is the atmospheric bubble.
This larger prana breaks down into eighty-four pranas. Out of these, five pranas
can cover the day-to-day requirements of most human beings. These pancha
pranas are sufficient to keep your body and mind well, and yourself spiritually
alive. Another ten are needed for someone who is into occult practices. The
remaining pranas are generally too subtle to explore and experience. The prana
vayu is an inward movement between the pit of the throat and the navel. At least
sixty percent of the process of Shakti Chalana Kriya[1] that we teach is aimed
towards prana vayu. We focus on this element because the quality of the air that
we breathe and how we breathe largely determines peoples surface experience
of life.
I would say almost ninety-nine percent of the people today are only concerned
about how to navigate their way through the world in a reasonably pleasant and
successful manner. There are very few who seek to become perceptive to
another dimension of life. In this context, vayu and prana vayu become most
significant, because a certain level of mastery over prana instantly enhances the
sharpness of the intellect. That means the practice of Shakti Chalana Kriya can
leave you a little smarter. Your emotions get a little more stable, organized, and
sweet. And you can do some physical activity better than you used to. For most
people, these three aspects are all they want in life.

The impact of the air that we breathe is very immediate. You can go without food
for eight to ten days without causing damage to the system. You can go without
water for up to three-and-a-half days without causing damage to the system. But
most people can go without air for only three-and-a-half to five minutes. With
some practice, you can stay without air for longer periods, but this involves a little
bit of cheating. If you manage to keep your metabolic activity very low, you do not
need to breathe through your nostrils but you breathe through your skin. As there
is perspiration, there is also respiration, or movement of air through the skin. If
you substantially activate the prana vayu, you can survive for a longer period of
time without breathing through your nostrils.
Yogic practices that focus on vayu give instant results especially on the level of
your mind and emotions.
In this context, the Shakti Chalana Kriya is a phenomenal practice. We have
taught it to a few million people over the years. If all of them had kept it up and
grown with it, the world would have changed by now. Growing with it means if
your practice was initially only forty minutes, over time, you extend it to one-anda-half to two hours. If, let us say, at least one hundred thousand people were
doing Shakti Chalana Kriya the way it should be done, it would already change
the atmosphere in the world.
So, what can we do with air? We can pollute it. We can purify it. Above all, we
can use air as a force of transformation in our lives. There is a certain immediacy
about air or vayu, which makes it very responsive and gives it the ability to
transform or to bring about changes very quickly. And of all the elements, wind is
the one that can generate maximum force. That is true both in the outside
atmosphere and within the human system. If you learn to activate it, it will make
you phenomenally strong not necessarily in terms of muscular strength but in
terms of life. A certain amount of sadhana is needed to activate the prana vayu.
The standard is that generally, if you do 1,008 days of Shakti Chalana Kriya
without a break, then your prana reaches a certain level of activity. The sheer
energy that you carry will set you apart.
You will seem to have a limitless amount of energy. There is no such thing as
limitless energy, though only in other peoples perception, it appears like that. If
your prana vayu is really active, you will be able to manage your time well. Life is
a combination of time and energy. If you keep your energy or the prana vayu very
intense, you will seem to have more time. Activity will happen out of the
effervescence of your energy, not out of effort. If you keep up the Shakti Chalana
Kriya, your ability to be active will increase immensely.
Today, an increasing number of people need to take longer breaks from their
work, in the sense of sabbaticals and the like. This need arises when you do not
manage your prana vayu well, and there are many reasons to it. One thing is if
you eat food that generates gas or air in the lower belly, below the navel or
manipuraka, it disturbs the movement of air or vayu from the navel to the pit of

the throat. The area between the navel and the pit of the throat is the main
activity zone of prana. When you eat bad food and have gas, you will experience
a great lack of energy in the system, because the prana vayu will not function
well. You have gotten the air in the wrong place. It should move between the
navel and the pit of the throat in this area, it is powerful.
The idea of taking charge of the element of air is to bring about health and an
instant sense of wellbeing.
If the prana vayu moves below the navel, the effervescence in life is gone. The
body feels like a sack of potatoes. By the way potatoes literally cause inertia in
the system because they lower the prana vayu. And of course, any food that is
moving towards putrefaction has the same effect. This includes food that you buy
in the supermarket, which is stored for long periods of time, and has no pranic
value. Even if it is not yet beyond the expiration date, it is slowly moving towards
putrefaction. In the yogic culture, one important aspect of managing the prana
vayu is to eat food within an hour-and-a-half, or a maximum of four hours after
cooking. Certain substances must be eaten even more quickly, or else they will
create gas in the system. Once there is gas in your system, you cannot master
your prana vayu.
Not only yogic practices even the way you keep yourself, the way you breathe,
walk, sit, and stand can help you gain a certain amount of control over prana
vayu. Every human being has some control over the five elements otherwise,
you would not be alive. For life to move to a higher possibility, having mastery
over the elements is important. Vayu or air is the best dimension to work with for
part-time yogis, because it is relatively easy to master. Yogic practices that focus
on vayu give instant results especially on the level of your mind and emotions.
By increasing the prana vayu, you can solve mental problems. The mind will get
much more organized. But even if you master the element of air, your karmic mill
will still keep rolling. Generally, it will move even faster than before, because it
has a clear run now. That means your karma is getting worked out faster but
you may have a more eventful life.
The idea of taking charge of the element of air is to bring about health and an
instant sense of wellbeing. If you activate vayu and it reaches a certain peak,
naturally agni or the fire element will follow to some extent maybe to twenty-five
to thirty percent. If you have mastery over the element of air, the element of fire
will partially come along with it. A lot of people lack fire, which is a big problem in
life. They may do things, but nothing will come out of it. Once the fire is on, you
are much better than the way you were. Though fire only makes up a small
percentage of the human system, in many ways, it is everything. It also gets you
closer to the subtle element of ether.
Vayu has a great influence on all the day-to-day things that people aspire for. The
process of activating vayu is an important step in ones growth. Vayu-based
practices can bring you a higher level of intellectual capability, energy, and

effectiveness in the world.

Love & Grace,

The Element of Earth

On this Spot, Sadhguru writes about Earth as one of the classical five elements,
its fundamental importance from a yogic point of view, possibilities and ways to
experience it, as well as particularly conducive days for that. He says, It is time
you know it as only human beings are capable of knowing it.
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n yogic terms, when we say earth, we not only refer to the planet but also to the
most fundamental element in the making of our physical selves and of everything
for that matter. Our physical self is essentially a combination of Earth, Water, Air,
Fire, and Akasha. Earth is the most basic and stable of the five elements. When it
comes to the energy system and chakras, the Earth element is associated with
the Muladhara. It is the basis that all the other elements build on, and of our
physicality. Though the element of Earth is part of physical matter around us too,
it is best we start to perceive and understand it from the basis of our lives,
because most people only really experience their own body and mind. Knowing
and experiencing the element of Earth from within is part of the yogic process.
When it comes to the energy system and chakras, the Earth element is
associated with the Muladhara.
Whenever you eat food, you swallow a part of the earth. Essentially, we take in a
part of the planet to sustain the body. Consequently, how we treat the planet is
how we treat our own bodies. Conversely, in a way, how we treat the body is how
we treat the planet. It is all the more important to look at what role the element of
Earth plays in our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. If the
element of Earth does not cooperate, you are not getting anywhere. If the body
does not cooperate, whatever aspirations you may have, you do not get very far.
Unless you are completely detached from the physical, it will determine just
about everything in your life.
How to establish a connection with the earth? All creatures have set levels of
perception they experience life in a certain way. Animals are very connected to
the earth because they do not have the intellect and awareness that human
beings have. When it comes to humans, their psychological space dominates
over their existential presence. In a way, an earthworm experientially knows the

connection to the earth, but it cannot consciously realize it. If you pull it out of the
earth, it wants to go straight back into the earth. If you pull a fish out of the water,
it wants to go straight back into the water. This is not only essential for survival
but also just because of the familiarity of habitat. In that sense, they know the
connection. But they are not capable of being aware of it when they are in the
earth or the water, respectively.
Nature has evolved us to a different level of intelligence and awareness, but we
are refusing to accept the promotion.
Most human beings are in the same state. Nature has evolved us to a different
level of intelligence and awareness, but we are refusing to accept the promotion.
Obviously, you cannot live without Air, Water, or Earth. If someone tries to take
any one of them away from you, you will desperately want to get it back. In that
sense, you know the connection as an earthworm or a fish knows it. It is time you
know it as only human beings are capable of knowing it. There are ways and
methods to do that unless you are too engaged in a world of your own. Most
people are living in their own world, which means they are living in a
psychological space, not really on the earth. They get down to the earth only
when they get buried or cremated. Their psychological space is much more
important to them than the reality in which they exist. In other words, their own
thoughts and emotions are working against them, because their intelligence has
not been trained to be used in such a way that it enhances the way they
experience life.
The whole focus of modern education and cultures is on how to use and exploit
our physical environment every creature and every substance. Nothing is being
offered to enhance the way we experience life using our intellectual dominance
and awareness. We have learnt to use everything around us, but wellbeing has
not happened. If you try to enhance your physical situations, only those are
getting enhanced, not you and your experience of life. When you breathe, there
is not a certain quantity of air that is yours or mine. Without a constant exchange
with your surroundings, you cannot live. An earthworm knows this. But most
human beings do not even have that level of awareness. Our intelligence and
awareness have turned against us because we have not bothered to create a
stable enough basis for ourselves. This is why the Earth element is so important,
and that your Muladhara is stable.
A true experiential connection means that you experience the earth as much a
part of you as you experience your little finger as a part of yourself.
A simple way to connect with the earth and stabilize the Muladhara is to walk
barefoot. The time between pradosham, which is always two days before a new
moon day, and new moon is particularly conducive for this experience. On these
days, the moons gravity creates a certain level of inertia, and your body and its
energies are much more connected with the earth than on other days, because it
is pulling you in that direction. By contrast, on full moon days, it is pulling you up,
in the opposite direction. That is why there are different yogic practices for full

moon days, new moon days, Shivaratri, and pradosham.

If not every day, at least for these three days from pradosham to Amavasya or
new moon day if not outside, at least in the house see if you can walk
barefoot and sit on the floor, particularly cross-legged. Both bring a deep energy
connection and create the experience of being a part of the earth. Lying down will
not give you that kind of conscious experience. One thing is we know what kind
of meditation will happen when you lie down. Apart from that, how the energies
function when you lie down does not support a conscious experience. There are
various other practices in this culture to connect to the earth experientially. On
certain days of the year, people eat a little bit of earth, generally from a termite
hill or the like, to experience this connection. A practice to bring the elements into
your experience on a daily basis is the Bhuta Shuddhi that we teach.
It would be best if you can be conscious of every breath you take. When you
breathe air, be conscious that you are breathing a certain aspect of this planet.
When you eat something, be conscious that you are eating a part of this planet.
When you drink water, be conscious that you are drinking a part of this planet.
You should intellectually understand and be conscious of the connection, but that
alone will not bring an experiential connection. A true experiential connection
means that you experience the earth as much a part of you as you experience
your little finger as a part of yourself.
Walk barefoot, sit cross-legged on the ground, do the Bhuta Shuddhi practice.
Whether you eat, breathe, or drink something, be aware that you are taking in a
part of this planet. Whatever you do make it as conscious as possible. It will
make a world of difference in how you experience life.
Soil
The Soil that you walk upon
The Soil that you treat as Dirt
Is the Magical material
that turns into leaf, flower
and fruit. All that you
know as life was at one time
held in the eternal pregnancy
of the Sacred Soil. Mother
to some and Dirt to some other.
But the Sacred Source of all
The life encasing cage
of the body is but the Soil.
Under farmers Till, potters
Wheel, above all the Divine Will

It turns into Magical Mill

Love & Grace,
The world that we have created is so super masculine that it is not even good for
a man definitely not good for a woman.
Sadhguru
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