Yoga in Mexico's Yucatan: Yok'hah Maya Sample Practice

 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

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 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.

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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