Catching Bliss Exercise - Yogi Explains

Summary

June 21, 2024, 11 min

A short somatic exercise for tasting the bliss of the dorsal vagal complex: a small, long outbreath that shakes a wave of parasympathetic relaxation down onto the spine, like a rainstick. Includes a brief follow-along and advice to cycle it with HRV resonance, Sitting Very Still and OM Japa in the chakras.

In this video

Teaches

Bliss

Discusses

Kriya YogaOM Japa in the ChakrasParasympathetic nervous systemDorsal Vagal ComplexHRV Resonance

Mentions

Origin and doorway of the chakraLow-Idle-StateFreeze ResponseSitting Very Still (SVS)

Key moments

00:00What dorsal vagal bliss is, and why it's hard to picture 01:43Kriya Yoga as a bliss program: long breathing and OM into the origin 03:27A small window: catching the feather of the bird of bliss 04:40The exercise: a long outbreath as a wave of relaxation 05:05Follow-along: shake out, breathe, feel it on the spine 06:05The rainstick feeling down the spine 07:03Magnified in the freeze response and low-idle-state 08:12Cycle the exercise with HRV resonance, SVS and OM Japa 09:39Don't dismiss small feelings: catch one feather at a time 10:08The Big Bliss training