Gaia Hatha Yoga Postures

Gaia Hatha Yoga Postures
by Swami Mantrananda

LET SWAMI MANTRANANDA YOGA BE PART OF YOUR LIFE

This is a collection of Gaia Hatha Yoga postures demonstrated by Swami Mantrananda. These Gaia Hatha Yoga Postures connect us with the Earth as a conscious field of living beings. This conscious field includes man at the top and other animals that even man considers to be extremely intelligent. Much of the Earth has psychic interconnections. Many people have communicated with the Animal Kingdom. According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a Yogi eventually learns about the animal world and the living nature of the Earth, now called the GAIA principle. The following postures are a part of over 1500 Hatha Yoga Postures that Swami Mantrananda has collected and are important to have tried. There are 18 different types of Hatha Yoga Postures of which Gaia Postures are only one variety.

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Earth Pose: Yoga Name: Swastika asana
Friday: January to August, October to December [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Meditation
Source Of Pose: Ancient Yoga

This is the most important posture for meditation on the Earth Principle. Use this posture only on Friday to meditate so you can attain Earth Element. Try to meditate silently and let the posture do the work. The hands are open and resting on the legs. Do not touch the thumb to the first finger. The toes are put between the calf muscles and the thigh muscles in this posture.

According to the doctrine of Shankya Yoga, man tends to experience himself as Spirit and the Earth as part of his body and as a separate principle. Thus we have Spirit, as the person meditating and Earth as the field in which the meditation is done. To meditate in Earth Posture helps us know both the Spirit and the Earth. To love the field of meditation as the Earth is to save all Earth beings. This is just the beginning of all spiritual work.

"Prospecting for Gold" Yoga Name: Modified Uttanasana
Wednesday: Spring [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Forced Yoga
Source Of Pose: Leslie Bogart, Yoga Journal, May / June 2003, p. 119.

Place your hands just above the knees as shown. The back is kept straight. The feet are placed about under the hip joints. This posture helps straighten out the back. The Yogi is prospecting for a different type of gold in this posture. He wants his own light to be a part of the planet. The gold to be found is of light and happiness. This posture helps us attune the Earth as a planet rich in natural resources. The Yogi is to find his place in the process of making the best use of all planetary forces and elements. Then the planet will have man be the master part of Gaia. At the present time, the Gaia Hypothesis is only a hypothesis, and it will not remain a hypothesis if you use all our natural resources according to the highest powers of Yoga.

"Gaia Temple"
Thursday: Fall [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Forced Yoga
Source Of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Start on the floor and bring your legs up as shown. The feet are pointing away from the body. Lift your head several inches off of the floor. Place your arms between the legs and touching the legs. The hands are in the Gaia Gesture, with the tips of the fingers touching and the thumbs touching. Look at the space between the palms during the posture. The Yogi has build a small Gaia Temple with this body posture in order to hold the forces of Gaia dear to himself. This will spark your consciousness to have greater sensitivity to nature.

"Refreshing Light On Earth" Yoga Name: Tiptoe Pose Variation
Sunday: Summer [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Forced Yoga
Source of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Start by balancing on your tiptoes with the body resting on the heals of the foot. The arms are out to the side with the fingers together and out away from the body as shown in the photo. The fingers do not touch the floor.

Each Yogi must take time to refresh the light on the earth by doing this posture. Of course there may be other projects that will also refresh the light on the Earth. Let this posture give you a chance to add your own energy, light and health to the Earth around you. Every Sunday, during the Summer. Take this posture and allow the posture to enhance your surroundings.

"Frog Spring"
Wednesday: Spring [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Forced Yoga
Source Of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Start the posture by putting your hands below the feet as shown. Then bring the heels together. Lift up with the head, chest and raise the legs upward. Many Yoga postures are related to animals, amphibians and reptiles. This posture gives us some of the powers that the frog may have. These creatures are part of the Gaia field of the Earth and help us to remember to save the rain forest and places that are their habitat.

"Seer Of Earth"
Thursday: Fall [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Forced Yoga
Source Of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Start by putting the feet together on the floor and bend forward putting the arms through the legs and placing the hands in the Gaia Gesture. The Yogi is looking at the hand gesture to contemplate it. The Yogi uses this posture to have a place on Earth as a seer of the Earth. This happens during the posture. The posture give a glimmering of reality of what a seer of the Earth is. What did you experience when you have done this posture? According to the Law of Karma, each Yogi must create good Karma with regard to the Earth as a Seer of the Earth. Then in his future lifetimes he will be part of the network of GAIA, the living world of light.

"Snow Tiger Melting Snow"
Saturday: Fall [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Forced Yoga
Source Of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Begin this posture by raising both legs keeping the legs and feet together. The hands are two thirds of the way up the legs. Keep the head off of the floor. This posture relates to the Snow Tiger, or Snow Leopard that is in the Tibetan region of China. No one seems to know about the spiritual value of animals until they disappear. Consequently, mankind wants to protect animals species.

"Great Ocean Boat"
Wednesday: Summer [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Strengthen
Source of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Start on the floor with the legs together and the feet pointing away from the body. Place the hands in the Gaia Gesture and raise the hands and arms up as shown as you begin to lean back. The arms remain bent as shown and are not straightened up. This pose helps strengthen the body

"Crocodile Showing Off"
Wednesday: Winter [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Strengthen
Source Of Pose: Swami Mantrananda

Start with both feet on the floor on tiptoes about three feet apart. Take the push up position as shown and turn the head to the left and raise the left leg up at the same time. Then turn the head to the right and raise the right leg up. This posture helps strengthen the body.

"Crab" Yoga Name: Kulirana
Sunday: Fall [Best day to do the posture]
Type Of Pose: Gaia Pose / Strengthen
Source Of Pose: Olivia Miller, Essential Yoga, Chronicle Books, 2003.

Start sitting on the floor and place the legs out in front about one foot apart. The hands are placed on the floor pointing away from the body. Lift the body up until the body is parallel to the floor. The head is stretched back during the posture. This posture is related to the sign to the Zodiac of Cancer. Cancer is the Crab in Astrology. This posture strengthen the upper breast area.