A Sample Practice: How To Enhance Your Relationship with the Sun

and Re-charge Your Energy Reserves

 One of the first practices that we learn in Yok'hah Maya is how to ‘Greet the Sun'. This daily practice will deepen your relationship spiritually and energetically with the Sun. Through this practice you will begin to feel solar power within your own body as you increasingly experience your energy body radiating like an inner Sun.

This practice is best done at sunrise or sunset when the solar light is gentler, but it may also be practiced at any time of day.

• Stand with your feet planted solidly on the earth. Quiet your mind and become fully present in the moment. Ground yourself and feel the pulse of planetary life beneath your feet and within your own body. Take a few deep breaths and in your imagination send deep roots into the earth from the soles of your feet. Feel deep into the center of the earth.
• Now, stretching up toward the sky, raise your arms into a v-shape with the palms of your hands turned toward the Sun. Breathe in the sun's energy through your nostrils up to your Third Eye (located between, and just above, the eyebrows). As you slowly inhale, imagine the solar light illuminating your mind, and flowing all the way down to the base of your spine. As you slowly exhale, imagine a cord of energy descending into the Earth like a root, and energy radiating from deep inside you in all direction, like the rays of an inner sun. Repeat this breath several times.
• Next, chant the name of the Sun, K'in, seven times for each of the energy centers within your body. Take deep breaths and release a long, resonant ‘K'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiin'. Imagine solar power descending into your body as you chant. Visualize your body becoming illuminated with light and vitality.
• After each repetition, pause to feel the vibration of the sound within your body. When you have completed seven rounds, remain in silence for a period of time simply enjoying communion with the Sun. Let your mind be still, yet remain aware and open of any thoughts, feelings and impressions. Be fully in the moment.

This practice is sample of the many Yok'hah Maya practices that involve the chanting of sacred sounds like Ki'n, the use of physical body postures and hand positions, and the conscious practice of various breathing techniques.

How Yok'hah Maya Works

The Body Electric

Yok'hah Maya practices are designed to energize and balance our physical and bio-electric bodies. The body electric is the aspect of ourselves that is made up of particles of light energy. This subtle light body surrounds and interpenetrates the physical and provides the animating spark of life to all of our cells.

The Maya understand that this energy body receives its vitality from the Sun. The Mayan name for the Sun is K'in, and they call the bio-electric energy within our bodies, K'inan. The Sun is the source of all life on our planet, and that the human body also depends on it for its bio-electric power. The solar generator provides an endless supply of vitality that energizes and enlightens every particle of our bodies and minds. The living Maya of today have preserved this knowledge and share it with us through the practices of Yok'hah Maya.

We are all born with an abundant supply of this vital solar energy, but most of us do not know how to manage this energy wisely. Due to our poor apprehension of how this energy functions, improper lifestyle habits, and a general attitude of disrespect for the natural world, our inner stores of energy generally diminish and we lose our ability to process solar power efficiently. This results in disease and premature aging of the physical body.

The Macrocsom Reflects the Microcosm

The macrocosm reflects the microcosm with respect to energy management. In our outer world, we see that Mother Earth is suffering due to abuse and poor management of her energy. The delicate balance between earth's resources and the Sun's light has been disturbed through humanity's ignorance. It has become glaringly obvious that we need to support and protect Mother Earth's vital resources, and utilize solar power in more intelligent ways, in order to survive.

To heal this imbalance requires collective outer action, combined with individual inner work. All change begins within. As we learn how to preserve and develop our own inner resources, the world around us naturally reflects these changes. Quantum physics reveals to us the mechanism for how this works when our human energy field resonates with the unlimited possibilities of the quantum field.

The practices of Yok'hah Maya help to balance and heal the intimate relationship between our earthly bodies and our solar spiritual energy. These practices encourage us to honour these energies in the outer world and to seek to know them within ourselves. When we successfully achieve a balance between the Earth and Sun within us, we enjoy physical health and vitality, greater harmony in our relationships, and increased spiritual connection to all that is.

Beyond the attainment of improved of physical health and well-being, Yok'hah Maya practices assist us to awaken our dormant spiritual powers. Mayan wisdom informs us that these inner spiritual powers are awakened only through a conscious use of solar energy. It is the Sun that empowers and enlightens our human journey.

The Mayan Calendar and the Age of Light

Throughout human history these esoteric teachings have been preserved by the elders and largely kept in secrecy to protect the knowledge. Today, the knowledge is readily available to everyone who seeks it. According to the Maya, this easy access occurs for a reason. The Mayan Calendar informs us that the Earth and human kind are about to take a huge evolutionary leap which will result with an unprecedented era of peace and enlightenment on planet earth. The Maya call this period the Age of Light. This is a time when Divine Cosmic Intelligence has preordained that conditions will exist that are optimal for our spiritual evolution.

Commencing with the year 2012, and for several decades following, humankind has an opportunity to evolve to its full human and spiritual potential. This potential includes expanded human mental, physical and spiritual capacities. They include the ability to heal ourselves, to access universal knowledge spontaneously, to be in communication with beings of other spiritual dimensions, and to be conscious co-creators with the Divine because we will know ourselves to be the Divine.

The Yogis and wise ones of all traditions have offered us glimpses of what this spiritual potential may look like. And from generation to generation, fragments of this understanding have been preserved. Today, the wisdom of the ancient Maya returns to the forefront of our understanding in order to help us make the final critical leap into our spiritual destiny.

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The teachings of Yok'hah Maya are part of the spiritual heritage of the indigenous Maya of Mexico and Central America. These practices are being revived in the present time largely through the efforts of Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men of the Cosmic Mayan University in Merida, Mexico. In a spiritual context however, to be Maya transcends cultural or racial definitions.  A true Maya is one with enlightened consciousness, one who is a Keeper of the Knowledge of the Kundalini Serpent. We find evidence of the Maya in most of the wisdom traditions of the world where they are identified as the Family of Light or the Children of the Sun.

The word Yokhah literally means 'to ascend to the highest truth'. Yok'hah Maya practices work closely with the energy of the Sun, the source of life, to awaken our cosmic memory and refine our innate spiritual capacities. By cultivating solar energy with ceremony, meditation, and mantra we begin to remember who we really are, as keepers of this planet with a cosmic heritage. Yok'hah Maya guides us to live in greater harmony with the cycles of our Mother Earth, Father Sun, and the cosmos. The practices connect us deeply with the beauty, power and rhythms of the natural world.

The Practices of Yok'hah Maya

The techniques include pranayama breathing practices, hand mudras for meditation, Mayan sacred words used as mantras, and physical postures that are held in order to induce an altered state of consciousness. All of these practices combined are the tools that help us activate the energy centers that lie along the human spine, and to awaken the energy of Kundalini which lies asleep at the base of the spine. This transformational energy lies dormant until awakened through yoga practices and was called by the Maya, Kultanlilni.

Yoga traditions from India also depict this dormant transformational energy as a sleeping serpent. The Maya describe how, when the kultanlilni energy is awakened and begins to ascend, or fly up the spine, we become 'the Feathered Serpent', known to the Maya as Kukulkan and the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl. A Kulkulkan is one who has completed the crowning achievement in the process of becoming a complete human being. They have realized an enlightened state of consciousness that allows them to access universal knowledge, and have the ability to function in many dimensions of cosmic life. In the past these individuals have been worshipped as gods. Today we recognize that these gods reflect back to us our own inherent divinity.

At Chichen Itza in the Yucatan, the traditional Maya built the majestic Pyramid of Kukulkan (named by the Spanish El Castillo). This pyramid was recently named one of the 'Seven Wonders of the World'. It is a treasure trove of Mayan teachings embodied in stone. Not only does it embody many aspects of the Mayan Calendar system, it also symbolizes the shamanic pathway to enlightenment. The initiate ascends the stairway of the pyramid, moving through the nine levels of the Mayan Underworld, until they reach the initiation or ascension chamber at the top. Here at the height of the pyramid, the Mayan yogi would be nearest to the heavens, where in deep meditation he/she might time-travel to access cosmic information from other dimensions. They would then return back down from the heights of this journey empowered with knowledge to share with the community.

Twice annually, at each of the Equinoxes, the Maya found an ingenius way to illustrate the path of Kukulkan. Combining their architechural genius with astounding pre-computer knowledge of astronomy and mathematics, they constructed the Pyramid of Kukulkan with such accurate alignment that at the time of the Equinox the shadow of a serpent appears to undulate down the side of the pyramid from top to bottom. The undulating serpent body contains within it seven diamond-shaped centers depicting the energized power centers of the chakras, or chaklas, as they are called by the Maya. Thus they communicate with us from the distant past to illustrate the path of enlightenment. This amazing process has been displayed at Chichen Itza now for hundreds of years. We are just now beginning to understand it. Because it is time.

Today, the indigenous Maya,and spiritual Maya from around the world, visit the Pyramid of Chichen Itza at these auspicious times to receive the solar blessings of Kukulkan that flow from Heaven to Earth. This energy restores of balance between Heaven and Earth, between Father Sun and Mother Earth, between the masculine and feminine forces. The pyramid is a sacred site that serves as a powerful transmitter of cosmic energy, especially when fully activated. The living Maya tell us that it is very important to resume doing ceremonies at these pyramid sites in order to fully awaken the pyramid as a transmitter of spiritual power.

We are now on the cusp of the Age of Light, near the end of the famous Mayan Calendar at the year 2012, or a few decades later, depending on your sources. The exact date is not so crucial when you consider that this is the end of a cycle that started with the dawn of time. It will likely take a few decades to make the adjustment. The Age of Light was prophecized by the Maya long ago and marks a time when humanity  has the opportunity to make a huge leap in evolution, to collectively realize the state of enlightenment. The sacred sites and the practices of Yok'hah Maya are being revived now to ensure our success. We are in the midst of the tranformational Dance of Shiva and the journey into the Mayan underworld of Xibalba (pronounced Shi-val-va) . It is a journey that each of us must take in order to transform. This process involves the pain of release from limiting forms of being. But like the butterfly that emerges from the chrysalis there is indescribable freedom at the end of the journey.

Soon, each of us will need to make an important choice: Whether to continue on the path to personal and global destruction, or to transform and realize our full potential as powerful enlightened beings. This will may the end of the world as we know it, or our emergence into a whole new way of being. We get glimpses of this state through our practice: peace, bliss, freedom, oneness...union with something indescribably beautiful. Are you ready? What's happening now?

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