Sat Nam Rasayan® means “Deep Relaxation in the True Identity.” It is an ancient healing art of pure meditative absorption in the Divine. Entering a state of Sat Nam Rasayan® means entering a state of total surrender, becoming nothing, and operating from the state of shuniya. The mind of the Sat Nam Rasayan® practitioner becomes transcendent and in the vastness of this consciousness healing can occur. 

This place of healing can be reached in a one-on-one setting of healer and client, between a teacher and a group of students, or within yourself in your own sadhana and daily life.

The process involves holding a neutral, contemplative state of awareness, being aware of everything – all sensations – and then allowing the resistances to change and/or release as you continue to hold your state of awareness. Resistances can be distractions, differentiation of sensations, preconceptions, conditions, boundaries, or limits. The self-healing powers of the body become activated, and we are able to meet life in a more balanced and clear state.

For thousands of years, Sat Nam Rasayan® was a secret yoga tradition. Sat Nam Rasayan® was taught in silence by a master to his student, and only a few highly developed students were so privileged. The process of training lasted several years, until the student could recognize and maintain a state of neutrality and silence. The practitioners of this art were admired as outstanding healers, and the teachings were recognized as the highest achievements of Yoga. Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini Yoga, graced Guru Dev Singh with traditional training in Sat Nam Rasayan® who is the living master of this tradition. 

Yogi Bhajan was convinced that in times of great changes, the world would need a strong group of healers. He wanted to make the knowledge of the old Yogis accessible for all human beings.

Sat Nam Rasayan® is free from dogmatism, religion and belief systems. It does not only help yoga practitioners and therapists, but every interested person, to sharpen the senses and to learn meditation and a meditative healing technique.

Every human being has vitality, which is necessary for a healthy and happy life. Vitality originates when body, mind and soul are working well together. We feel this vitality when we feel alive. We trust in our capacity to master our lives and reach our goals. We are connected with our awareness. We are healthy and happy.

These times in which we are living are full of chaos and stress, which make it difficult for us to stay balanced. Sat Nam Rasayan® and Kundalini Yoga offer powerful tools to heal and stay balanced.  They help you to stay silent in the hustle and stress of your daily life.

Sat Nam Rasayan® is a great tool to add to your Kundalini Yoga experience. It will enhance your awareness of your subtle body and expand the capacity of your meditative mind. Sat Nam Rasayan® opens your compassionate awareness so you can be sensitized and present. It teaches you:

• To heal others with powerful tools
• To integrate silence & calmness into your life
• To release unhealthy behavior
• To experience every moment with mental clarity & presence
• To find an easy access to the high art of meditation
• To handle your feelings, thoughts, & emotions without any attachment to them
• To develop and establish inner silence in your mind
• To hone your intuition

This yogic technology can have many healing benefits even if used solely for relaxation. Medical research has shown that relaxation:

• lowers blood pressure
• reduces anxiety
• stimulates immune system 

In Sat Nam Rasayan®, sickness is described as a tendency of the body to react.  The reaction can be a pain, an emotional problem or a serious illness. In the course of the education, the Sat Nam Rasayan® healer develops the ability to find and dissolve these blockages, thus the self-healing powers of the body can become effective again.

The purpose of Sat Nam Rasayan® is to serve humanity. Mahan Kirn’s goal is to bring this healing practice to all who need it. She is available for private lessons and teaches Sat Nam Rasayan® worldwide.

Shuniya is silence. In all meditative and yogic traditions, inner silence was respected as the highest achievement. In our daily lives this seems very difficult and only achievable by higher yogis.

Shuniya means zero. The moment you become zero, then all powers will prevail through you.
-Yogi Bhajan 

References:

<sub>Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D. The Aquarian Teacher: KRI International Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Textbook Level One Instructor. Third Edition. Kundalini Research Institute, 2005.

Khalsa, Mahan Kirn Kaur. Bound Lotus: An instructional manual. KRI approved, 2005.

3HO, www.3ho.org/3ho-lifestyle/health-and-healing/sat-nam-rasayan</sub>

Bound Lotus is also known as Baddha Padmasana or psychic union pose, with roots in Kundalini, Ashtanga, and Hatha Yoga. In Kundalini Yoga, as Taught by Yogi Bhajan, Bound Lotus is held for up to 31 minutes, providing many physical, mental, emotional and spiritual benefits to the practitioner.

Bound Lotus is a restorative posture, and it engages the entire body by binding it into the symbol of infinity. The legs are in full-lotus with the arms crossed behind the back, hands holding the toes with the forehead on the ground. 

Bound Lotus can be seen as the “Seat of Awareness” that allows you to merge into the spirit realm where all healing is possible. 

Bound Lotus practitioners report:

• Helps enhance physical flexibility. The ankles, 
     knees, legs and spine gain increased mobility.   
• Helps open up the shoulders and hips.
• Helps to improve the digestive system
• Helps to strengthen the immune and nervous 
     systems.
• Helps to open the flow and clear the Chakras.
• Helps to eradicate karmic obstacles, negative 
     tendencies and patterns acquired over lifetimes.
• Helps to develop the state of stillness (Shuniya), 
     supreme bliss (Anand), and awakened 
     consciousness (Samadhi).

Bound Lotus has a self-sustaining energy. Once you connect and tune into the energy of the posture, it carries you. People who are not able to hold the perfect posture will still receive many benefits. 

The beauty of this practice is that we can experience our body as a vehicle for powerful transformation and healing. This Kriya works on all levels of our being at once, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, and heals through the awakening of the chakra system.

This is a challenging posture, because it requires a fair amount of physical flexibility and endurance. Most of us have to gradually develop more flexibility of the spine, muscles and joints in order to do it correctly. The hips and shoulders are often contracted and tense from the pressures of our lifestyles and the lack of appropriate regular exercise. Opening and balancing them brings strength and integrity to the posture. While practicing the posture, the digestive organs are in a fetal position of rest so that they can rejuvenate. The Kriya strengthens and calms the nervous system, allowing it to recharge. A strong nervous system is essential for maintaining physical vitality throughout life.

With the legs folded into the full lotus position, a helix ( - the symbol of infinity) is created. This locks the lower Chakras (energy centers) into a position where the flow of energy is directed towards the heart. Our lower 3 Chakras are our centers of creativity and vitality. In Baddha Padmasana, this energy is focused up towards the heart, the seat of the soul and virtue.

The arms crossed across the back holding onto the toes creates another helix, this time locking the energy from the higher centers and focusing this towards the heart as well.

The connection between our emotions and our physical bodies is becoming better understood. Through biochemical processes, our bodies literally store emotions within the cells, tissues and bones. When we have a negative experience, the emotion is locked within the tissue, creating pain or imbalance. Over time, this can create chronic, debilitating conditions, called dis-ease. Practicing Bound Lotus can release stored emotions such as fear, insecurity, anger, resentment, and jealousy. In my experience with this practice, I have found it to be like peeling away layers of an onion. As all types of emotions surface, I release them back to the Universe. While still in the posture, you may say a prayer, either silently or out loud, or hold a firm intention to release the emotions.

Bound Lotus is said to be the most difficult of all the Kriya’s. It is also known to be one of the shortest paths to healing deep emotional blockages.

Central to the positive effects of yoga is the cultivation of a meditative mind. The unschooled mind is like a wild wind filled with useful and useless thoughts and feelings. One line from the first prayer of the Sikhs puts it succinctly: “man jeetai jag jeet”; “Once you have conquered your mind, you have conquered the World”. This posture helps grab the wandering mind and focuses it on the feelings and energies that arise as you do it, because your body is in such a restrained and confined position, your mind can either jump and go nuts, or fall silent like a drop of water on a leaf.

Spirituality is how you face your self in life when you meet a challenge. In this Kriya you learn what spirituality means. Bound Lotus is certainly a challenge, and by practicing it, I find that I am more prepared to face challenges that come up during the day.