What i've noticed with this purification business in my limited experience with ayp is that any logial casality between actuall practice and symptoms of purificiaiton often seem at variance- i.e no time link effect. Do this-feeel that
My hunch is that whay you are geting is major opening and purification, & symptoms etc. Offten the greater the discomfort, curiiously, the more auspicious, the more clearing and opening.
You have a very powerful and effective system. so with it powerful efects, some more disconcerting than others.
you first reported 15th,then suggest the spots dissapeare but then paralysis, which is understandably very diisconcerting, appears on 19th on one side face etc.
i know i've got a dominant pingala,right handside, but my one month ayp is helping much balancing this out. you sound like you might have a dominant ida, hence why folk may have suggested nadi shodhana ( in my experience yes kumbhaka made it more powerful,-i used an unrestrained natural retention,it felt gd and i was experminting when i introduced it to my usual nadi shodhana practice one last session)
the general principle/rule seems to be 'reduce practices'
only you can do nadi shodhana safely bu if you wished to do that you may want to consider abdominal breathing and Viloma I & II to prep and energise the nadis , and the system before-hand
http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/yoga/viloma-pranayama.aspi've got this one bookmarkeeed in my pranayama folder as i sense it is useful and safe.i do it on a seat/spine erect.
you're with ayp, you've got all your friends here, this wonderful powerful yoga sytem. and loads of kind support.i suspect what you are experiencing is very Auspicious.
i'd do short DM sessions, and reduce.
if you must do non-AYP pranayama say keeep it very light and gentle. The princiiple with the breath is keep it veeeerrrry slow, full,deeep,smooth,gentle.Some folk point at the thirf ye with 2nd finger. kumbhaka will make nadi shodhana more potent, in my experience but potency often affects the safety scale.
less is always mre - i never do that many rounds- would never go over 20 mins and always tend to do about 2-3 rounds. you could go up to six. you must observe the cause and effect yourself,miguel, of course.learning nadi shodhana now maybe is'nt the best idea but i added a some little retention recnetly as i felt the breath was naturally lke that when completley relaxed and i was experimenting a little- (someone suggested doing it on the switch,although you need a balancing practice,sure)( and you want to be ina relaxed state when you do pranayama) pranayam is anything but simple but an extremely subtle awareness is necessary to guage the details. that said, DM seems to be the finest tooth-comb,working on the manamayakosha and Beyond all the way to the bliss sheath. so that may be the more apporriate tool ,when done gently,small sessions.
i do nadi shodhana this way-
inhale through left nostril,exhale right nostriil,inhale right ,exhale left. that completes 1 round
it porbably does'nt mater if you do it the other way(i.e start with an exhale as perhaps suggested)-it might indeed be easier t work out retention ratios naturally( withouth mentally couting, which i don't bother with)
you need to take wht is useful to you here as only you can connect with your own guru.
it sounds to me like the pingala side of your nadi sytem could literally be flushing through, or least the drain-pipe analogy comes to mind- that there is blockage and it is wanting to flush through and is about to.
as i say sounds auspicious even though from your perspective it may be somehwat disconcerting. so main thing is to stay relaxed and calm.
i can understand your concern miguel though i think you have a very capable sytem here wand a very capable experienced support group( & a number of gurus) here to guide you as best they can.
i have akeen eye on this thread and your eventual resolution of symtpoms you report here.and follow it with interest.
i've had mild awareness in my left-hand cheek during DM sessions- one could interpret this as my left handisde waking up. if you look at the sensory-motor cortex right at the crown of the head, the face,ears etc tke up huge tracts of this part of the brain.---they're like strips that run over laterally .one in front of the other, right on the apex.
where you describe the nerve betwen roughly occipital and brain-stem regions could be irritated or, in nadi-terms, blocked. there may be a wholescael flushing going on in the whole head region.sounds like there is obvious safety reasons why root to ajna is the favoured approach, to help ameliorate or avoid symtpoms involving excessive & unripe/premtaure opening and purification in hte brain region at large. it is like bud about to open. it will open in it's won time,own pace.
also bear in mind the occiptal region involves the eyes( ajna being spiritual third eye,intuition and concentration) from a medical standpoint.
i uspect you are geting major opening and purification. you have a very powerful system, with some very powerful effects.
i watch your thread and transformation with interest. and am here to offer any advice i can.it think it's good though. you've been doing ayp presumably for about 4 months say(longer than I) and you're getting massive openeing and flushing of obstructions,(per Yogani's beautiful and mind-blowing explanations,sorry the pun)
keep us updated. i really do hope you recover as soon as possible. and i think you will. you are totally in the right place , my friend. and the tool-box here is pretty sophisticated and effective. sounds to me like a process you are going through.
Much Love, Miguel
with love
Akasha
