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Kriya Yoga Findings

Kriya Yoga Done. Photoart by Tormod Kinnes
Kriya yoga works.

Research findings tell kriya yoga works - that is, the kriya yoga of Satyananda's line, and maybe another unspecified kriya yoga in Das and Gastaut's ground-breaking research from the 1950s. The authors do not tell which kind of kriya that was investigated by them. During TM and kriya yoga meditation the brain get electrically charged and decharged at different speeds and in different brain patterns (waves), depending on the focus. For example, the more sharpened we get, the faster brain waves we have.

A Scandinavian psychologist and his team assumed that the brain waves before and after kriya would be considerably different. And so it was, they found. Hence, one form of kriya works (per se) - works on the brain wave patterns in the favourable ways that are shown. It is possible to study the findings, going for facts, and then draw proper conclusions from that again: [Link].

  1. The findings tell that kriya affects the brain.
  2. There seems to be very little or nothing wrong with the novel research methods and equipment of measurements.
  3. The kriya researcher of the novel study is an internationally renowned brain researcher. The quality of kriya studies rests on his competence and the measurement devices, most of all.
  4. The kriya-teaching school of yoga and meditation in question is not a cult.

Eschew the Foolish and Senseless

The abstracted Scandinavian KRIYA STUDIES were done by an international and well-respected psychologist / brain researcher, Erik Hoffmann Ph.D.

What is called Yoga Nidra (yoga "sleep") in the referred-to study is a a decent relaxation technique that is free for all. Descriptions of it are found on the Net and in several books. One of them is Yoga Nidra [Yn] by Satyananda.

  1. Kriya teachings are not withheld today as two thousand or two hundred years ago. Kriya is described in details in books, even [Cy; Kta].
  2. The Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation school is a school of independent teachers. It is like an umbrella with independent schools and teachers in Germany and Scandinavia.
  3. In a study it is not the funding channels but the professionalism of the work that really matters.

The integrity of a study tends to rest with the one accountable for it - in this case a respected international researcher, Erik Hoffmann, Ph.D. etc. I have no indications that the university man (an associate professor for 8 years) was funded by the kriya yoga school at Haa. At any rate it is not the funding that is at the heart of these matters; it is competence in doing scientific research. [FB]

The research by Hoffmann (Ph.D.) has a neutral tone and tells about measured facts etc.

Principles

Dogen (1200-53) of Soto Zen wants all of us to align to the realization state. It can be done in various ways.

The way of yoga is of awakening from concepts through deep meditation. Transcendental Meditation is for that - too.

Exhortations may do you no good. Rather, maintain there are great benefits of deep meditation. You can read about many of them by results of solid research studies, such as the introductory TM - Transcendental Meditation: A New Introduction to Maharishi's Easy, Effective and Scientifically Proven Technique for Promoting Better Health, Unfolding Your Creative Potential, and Creating Peace in the World by Robert Roth. Research from after 1994 is not included in it. Compare: [▾Nice site]

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Literature  

Cy: Satyananda Saraswati, Swami. A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya. Munger: Yoga Publications Trust, 1981.

Kta: Satyananda Saraswati, Swami. Kundalini Tantra. 8th ed. Munger: Yoga Publications Trust, 2001.

Yn: Satyananda Saraswati, Swami. Yoga Nidra. 6th ed. Munger: Yoga Publications Trust, 2001.

Note

[FB] Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School. "Yoga, Tantra, Meditation". Håå Course Center, Hamneda, Sweden.
[http://www.scand-yoga.org/index.shtml] Accessed 2 November 2005.


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