Basic Meditation I

Kriya Yoga Master, Kambiz Naficy, conducts a guided meditation of the basic Kriya Yoga meditation. He recommends this meditation for the start of your day.

Transcript

We will take a journey to our inner depths while riding the breath.

Sit in an upright position with head,

Neck and spine in vertical alignment.

Touch the tip of your thumb and forefinger.

Start to breathe in the stomach.

Relax the stomach muscles with eyes closed.

Breath comes in,

Breath goes out.

Slow waves of breathing in the stomach.

Witness the waves of breath in the stomach.

Listen to the sound of breathing.

Let the sound of breath fill the mind.

Now allow the sound of om to penetrate the mind.

Breathe in the sound of om.

Focus your attention on the heart,

Middle of the chest cavity.

Start to breathe into the heart while listening to the sound of om.

Focus on the point between the two eyebrows.

Breathe in between the eyebrows.

Now focus on the bottom of the feet.

Imagine the inhalation moves up from the bottom of the feet up to the crown of the head.

The exhalation moves down from the crown of the head out the bottom of the feet.

Now the breath becomes very deep.

All of the stomach fills with the breath.

Next the ribs move out.

Finally the chest cavity fills with breath.

Stomach,

Ribs,

Chest cavity.

Deep breath.

Next the breath becomes rhythmic like a clock.

Let the mind swing on the rhythm of the breath.

Now the breath becomes very smooth.

The inhalation and the exhalation are smooth with no breaks.

Now the breath becomes extremely slow.

Finally the breath becomes very quiet.

Notice how quiet your breathing has become.

Attention comes to the tailbone.

Focus is on the tailbone.

Imagine your spine is a hollow tube.

Imagine your breath goes up the spinal column in a spiral movement.

Pause the breath at the base of the skull and breathe out from the crown of the head.

Now the breath becomes very smooth.

The exhalation and exhalation are smooth with no breaks.

Attention comes to the third eye.

The breath becomes so soft that the exhalation does not even fog a mirror.

Soft,

Tiny,

Subtle breaths between the eyebrows.

The mind is so light it tumbles on the subtle breath between the eyebrows.

Now the same fragile,

Subtle breaths move to the crown of the head.

Deep attention to the motion of the exhalation.

Relax and let the mind float on the exhalation.

The mind rides the exhalation deep into silence.

With the inhalation in your mind recite the mantra,

So,

With the exhalation,

Hum.

So Hum.

So Hum.

So Hum.

So Hum.

Continue with the mantra.

Now the exhalation.

Thank you for watching.

Reviews

Very much like your Kriya meditation which I do and love! Is there any difference which I am not seeing?🙏Thank you. I have been meditating through what I have learned from Yogananda’s teachings specifically from Ananda. I have not been initiated into Kriya yoga but want to learn more and incorporate it with Hong Sau. I don’t use guided meditations that often but I am connected and feel great joy when I follow your inner voice. What is your connection, if any to Yogananda?

Exquisite...but what happened at the end....is there problemwith the recording?

Very grateful for a highly talented and gifted instructor demonstrating and sharing his special talent.

I'm so grateful for this simple, but very effective meditation. Mostly I like the combination of sounds, music and voice with breath and mantras. This practice helped me to calm my mind and feel more space inside me, more air, more love.
Thank you so much! I'll try to keep practice it every morning.

My first guided meditation 🙏🏻 how helpful to learn instead of my trying to silently push thoughts out of my mind

Great intro into this style of meditation . Feel super rested. Thank you

Perfect- just perfect 💕🙌🏼🧘🏻‍♀️

Beautiful relaxing meditation. The first part guides you through the basic technique for calming your body and mind. The second part is a silent meditation using an unspoken chant.

Excellent, thank you.

This meditation offers both the gentle comfort of being guided followed by the period of indefinite freedom. The contrast between the two was striking to me. It offered a powerful experience laced with interesting self-discoveries. I felt like a child who was guided to ride a bicycle for the first time: you thought the parent was behind you, protective, to discover that you’ve been riding on your own. Challenging yet exhilarating. I will definitely revisit.

Excellent, gentle guidance. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Excellent, great voice, great meditation.
Bookmarked.
Thank you🙏

Very good, great voice. Be aware of the period of silence at the end - there is no bell or anything to bring you back. Some people may want to set an alarm but it also means you can continue for as long as you like.

Presently, this is my favorite guided meditation. For me, the guidance is uniquely effective. And I appreciate that it becomes increasing still, ending in stillness.

Wonderful! Please add an ending bell!

I liked it. There is no ending signal but I just put a timer myself on 23 minutes. Good start on the day.

I am very new to meditation ans still font understand how to visualize but I will learn and this meditation helped calm my mind greatly when I feel sopoo relaxed!#

Perfect. Liked the long silence at the end. A bomb would we good to tell you that the time is up at the end.

As Tony the Tiger says: "It'sssss grrrreaat!!"