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a nondual yoga. Swing Recitation is also presented in this chapter for students to learn. This
chapter also presents eight other main practices. The most important of all the practices are Inner
Heat Yoga and Clear Light Yoga; the others are enjoyable and profound and prepare you for
specific practices in sexual yoga, but it is not necessary to attain proficiency in them.
Preparatory Practices
Haṭha yoga (lit. forceful union) comprises yogic methods for purifying your physical and subtle
bodies as preparatory practices (ādi yoga). These include breathing techniques (prāṇāyāma) and
poses (āsana). These exercises enliven and strengthen your physical and subtle body, and give
you greater capacity to charge your body with subtle sexual energies. The main practices should
be preceded by this preliminary step of preparing your physical and subtle body for practice.
These are not simply stretching and breathing exercises, but true “yogas” that sanctify your body
and mind; they are performed in a state of meditative absorption and with great devotion. This of
set exercises was selected specifically to support the practices of sexual yoga. The most
important of the preparatory practices is Vase Breath (Kumbhaka), the breath used to perform
the main practices. It is also the first step in Inner Heat Yoga, and is presented below.
Main Practices
Beginning Practices
1. Inner Heat Yoga
Inner Heat Yoga (Caṇḍālī Yoga Jñānamudrā – lit. Fiery Woman Yoga with Wisdom Consort) is
the foundation of subtle energy yoga. It is presented in the Hevajra Tantra, and is taught by
Saraha. By pulling the Five Root Winds into the central channel at the point below the navel
cakra, and generating subtle heat, it purifies your physical and subtle body, releases tremendous
heat and orgasmic bliss, and burns away subtle karmic obscurations. Without proficiency in
Inner Heat Yoga, the more advanced practices of subtle energy yoga are less effective. Inner
Heat includes four steps: 1) Vase Breath (Kumbhaka), the subtle breath winds and the Five Root
Winds enter partially into the central channel at the point below the navel, 2) Blazing (Jvala),
flames from the point below the navel burn upwards and purify the seed syllables of the Four
Seals at the cakras that prevent you from perceiving beyond the Five Elements, 3) Vajra
Recitation (Varja Japa), the Five Root Winds (Pañca Mūla Prāṇa) enter strongly into the central
channel, triggering the flame in the central channel to become much hotter, and 4) Dripping
(Sravate Śaśī), a stream of white bindus from the forehead cakra pours down into the four cakras
and permeates you with bliss.
Benefits of the inner Four Blisses are that it purifies your subtle body of subtle karmic
obscurations and fills you with bliss for long periods of time, preparing you for the oceanic bliss
of the Clear Light. By holding your breath as part of the Vase Breath, the winds that you
concentrated and purified in the central channel are dispersed throughout the body where they
continue to transform you, bringing you tremendous erotic bliss. Only by practicing Inner Heat
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