How to do sahaja yoga Everything you need to know for Beginners

What is sahaja yoga Meditation, Does it really work for you?

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Origin and History of Sahaja Yoga :

• Sahaja Yoga is Religious Yoga Movement and it also became a Meditational movement  for State Awareness to be achieved.
• Sahaja in sanskrit meaning saha - with you and ja - born,Which means Spontaneous and born, denoting the kundalini is born in us and can be awakened spontaneously.
• According to this movement the state of self awareness can be gained by awaking the Kundalini, which is said to be thoughtless awareness or mental state.
• This Yoga Meditation movement is Founded in 1970 by Nirmala Srivastava known as Shri Mataji  Nirmala Devi (Called by her followers as Mother).
• Nirmala Srivastava acclaimed to be Holy reincarnation of Hindu God Adi Shaki.
• Sahaja Yoga is majorly based on the hindu religious practice with influence of other religions.
• Sahaja yoga ashrams (Yoga schools) are in various countries like India, Italy, Kuwait, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America,Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany and more.
• In Sahaja yoga is based on the belief in apart from the physical body there are various Nadi's - channels and Chakras - Energy centres in human body.
• By Balancing the Chakras the Kundalini can be awakened in sacrum bone, which is considered to be the mother energy.
• In accordance to belief of Sahaja yoga, when sahasrara - top most Chakras is pierced by kundalini that person will feel a cool breeze in his head and hands.
• Sahaja yoga is approximately practised around the world by followers of 100,000, and Yoga centres are around 95 - 140 Countries.
• And also Sahaja yoga International school of sahaja in Dharmasala annually around 250 students are accepted.
• If you read about Inspirational world's oldest yoga teacher post from my previous content, it can be helpful to motivating to learn yoga.

Who is Nirmala Srivastava , Life and biography of Sahaja Yoga Founder :

• Nirmala Srivastava was Born on 21th March 1923 in Chindawara, Madhya Pradesh, Called by sahaja yoga followers as  Shri Mataji  Nirmala Devi.
• Her Father Prasad a scholar of fourteen languages , he is hindu religious follower and mother Cornelia Salve is the 1st women in india to got honors in mathematics degree , She is a christian religious follower.
• Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava descended from the royal Shalivahana dynasty.
• In her youth Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava stayed in ashram of great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi ji.
• She is too involve in Freedom struggle for indian independence along with her parents in that time.And also got arrested in Quit india movement on 1942.
• Shri Mataji married Chandrika Prasad Srivastava who worked as high ranking indian civil servant in that time of 1947 before independence.
• Shri Mataji Had two daughters Kalpana Srivastava and Sadhana Varma.
• Shri Mataji is more concerned by raising more false Gurus in this spiritual practise.
• Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava established the International Sahaja Yoga Health and Research Centre in Mumbai in the year 1996.
• Honors and recognitions given to Shri Mataji Nirmala are in 1986 she was declared as the personality of the year bu Italian Government, in newyork she was invited to speak about world peace for continously 4 years (1990 - 1994),in St. Peterburg, Russia, 1993 Shri Mataji Appointed as prestigious Honorary Member of Petrovskaya Academy of Art and Science,Shri Mataji was Awarded Honorary Doctorate in Cognitive Science by head of the Ecological University Bucharest by Country Romania in the year 1995 and even honors where given all around the world in her name.
• In 23 February 2011 at the age 87 Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava Died in Genoa, Italy.
• Can read about some of yoga's controversial topics of Goat yoga and Beer Yoga in my blog post.

Health Benefits of Sahaja Yoga Meditation :

• Sahaja yoga has ability to balance and Improve your energy of human body
• This Yoga method can be able cure many emotional problems , by improving the emotional intelligence of a person.
• Some people even believe it has the ability to heal various Mental Disorders and health conditions.
• It can improve and helps in recovering from most additive behaviours like smoking,Drugs,Alcoholism and more.
• Sahaja Yoga is most beneficial in Awakening the ultimate Yogic power of Kundalini by meditation.
• It can give a person a sense of inner peace by mind relaxation and calming effect.
• It can Increase blood flow and also slows the heart rate.
• Improves the High blood pressure medical conditional people.
• Sahaja yoga has the ability to enhance the immune response.
• Its gives more stamina,strength and endurance.
• Decrease the Effects of premature and whole process of rapid ageing in general.
• Aids in Breathing problems like Asthma,sinus and other issues.
• Increases the serotonin level in brain ,to uplift the mood.
• Helps you in better concentration and focus in any given task.
• Even makes you Smarter , by increasing the intelligence of a person.
• Can cure aggressive,Depressive and stabilise emotions.
• Increase the sleep quality with better relaxation.
• Most importantly calms the Over or Excessive Thinking mind to be stable.
• Gives you Compassion,Tolerance, Self awareness,self discipline and spirituality.
• Gradually improves the grey matters in the brain according a scientific study.
• Reduce the Anxiety and fear from the external conditions.
• Can be able to cure some of harmful Chronic Health problems.
• Good for heart health with Regularise the heart function.
• Cures common allergies and improves tolerance
• Make you feel Mindfulness and gratitude towards life.
• Heals Common cold,headaches and Migraine relief.
• Eliminates the causes of Insomnia and other sleep disturbances.  
• Can make you more active and energetic in Sports and physical exercise.
• Decrease infertility and improves fertility issues in both men and women.
• Helps you in day to day activities like relationship,workplace,friends in better emotional outlook. 

 Scientific Research Based on Meditation:

• According to Plos One source, Researchers long term effects of  Sahaja Yoga Meditation and found that meditation practitioner experiences a state of mental silence, in this Research 23 meditation practitioner and 23 non meditation practitioner are subjected to SMRI. And the results found that meditation practitioner brain have more Grown Grey matters, when compared with the  non meditation practitioner.
• And a research conducted by Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE) in San Francisco united school district , the findings suggest that the participated Office staffs over the peroid of time of 4 months have practiced transcendental meditation reported less perceived stress and improved emotional intelligence , when results are compared with the control group. 

In a Research with MRI Brain scans of Depressed people by Gaëlle Desbordes an instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) , in 2012 Desbordes conducted a FMRI scan on depressed patience who are Mediating , even when they are not in a meditation state their before and after an eight-week course in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, when they used negative words to describe and positive words showed a significant improvement in their mental health.

How To Do The Sahaja Yoga?

• Place your right hand against your heart and ask yourself, 'Mother' am I the spirit?
• Lower your hand to  lungs and ask yourself, Mother am I my own master?
• Then Lower your hand to your hip and ask, ‘Mother, please give me the pure knowledge.’
• After that Raise your hand to your lung and say, ‘Mother, I am my own master.’
• And Raise it to your heart and say,  Mother, I am the spirit.
• Then Raise it further to the back of your neck and say, Mother, I am not guilty.
• Raise it to your forehead and say, Mother, I forgive everyone.
• Raise it to the back of your head and say, Mother, please forgive me for whatever my wrongdoing.
• Finally Raise it to the top of your head and say,  Mother, please give me my self-realisation.

Things to do Before starting Sahaja Yoga practice :

• If you know about Weight Loss Yoga read my previous post for knowing how to loss weight using yoga? 
• Before beginning the Sahaja yoga session that person has to do some spirituality ritual of chanting holy Bandhan.
• These Bandhans can be helpful as a positive affirmation for preparing mind for practice of yoga to a higher state of consciousness.
•  And also theses chants act as psychological positivist for creating a beautiful mindset to begin the mindfulness practice of sahaja yoga.