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 Advanced Yoga Practices
Support Forum Posts of Yogani
2005-2010
AYP
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Introduction and Table of Contents ( )
When the Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP) online lessons
began on
Yahoo Groups in 2003, there was an
immediate flow of email coming here with questions on practices and
experiences. The resulting email correspondences with hundreds of people
became a mainstay in the development of the lessons, and in the evolution of
the way the implementation of the integrated system of practices was adapted
to accommodate a worldwide community of practitioners. The email
interactions and online lessons led to publication of the first
AYP Easy Lessons
for Ecstatic Living book, and all the books that
followed.
From the beginning, readers of the lessons were asking
for a forum community so practitioners could communicate with each other. It
was not undertaken immediately because the amount of administration that
would be required to set up and operate such an online community was
daunting. Later on, as people stepped forward to assist with moderation and
other aspects of setting up and running a forum, an AYP forum was
launched on
Yahoo Groups in February of 2005. It soon had over
1,000 members, communicating on many aspects of spiritual practice and
experience. As you will see in the last chapter of this ebook, my
participation in that first AYP forum on Yahoo was limited, because
extensive email communications were continuing here, and new lessons and
books were being written. It was only later that practitioners began relying
less on my email and more on the support forum community as the primary
place for communicating on their practices and experiences.
While the first AYP forum was a good start, it soon
became apparent that a more fully-featured forum environment would be
necessary, with capabilities for managing multiple public forum categories
for the growing online community, plus backrooms for administration and
projects. So in July of 2005, the forum was moved to its current location at
www.aypsite.org/forum. Since then, the AYP
community has steadily grown in size and scope, covering every aspect of
spiritual practice in a well-moderated environment. As of this writing,
forum membership is approaching 4,000, which is but the tip of the iceberg
in terms of overall readership. The AYP support forums and free website
lessons saw over
130,000 unique visitors in 2010,
coming from nearly every country in the world.
Since the forum moved to
www.aypsite.org/forum,
my participation has been much more, with the majority of email support
shifting to the public forums, and with many other experienced practitioners
participating in the support function as well. In this way, support for
spiritual practices and experiences has become much more efficient, and
beneficial for many with the ongoing public discussions. The forums are also
serving as a launching platform for many "real world" activities, like local
meditation groups, training, retreats, and research on practices. All of
these activites are on the rise worldwide.
To date, the public AYP forums have received over 65,000
posts, with about 2,000 of those coming from me. This ebook contains the
2,000 posts. They are organized by the 23 public forum categories, with
posts in ascending order by date in each forum category (oldest first). At
the beginning of each forum "chapter" (see table of contents), a link to the
category in the actual forum is provided, and a link is provided to the
actual post for every post in this ebook. All links in the text of the posts
are "live," whether they go to other posts in the forums, to AYP online
lessons, or anywhere else on the internet. For this reason, the full
benefits of this ebook will be most accessible on e-readers that have
browser and internet capability. In many cases, a post here can stand on
its own, providing useful information on the AYP practices. In other cases,
links in the post text here will provide the full context of the discussion
in the actual forum topics, AYP lessons, or elsewhere on the internet.
This ebook has been published to create a permanent
archive for all posts from me in the 2005-2010 period. It is also to provide
better access to the writings. It will be easier to search 2,000 posts here
than to search 65,000 posts in the live forums. The latter is actually a
topic search and does not zero in on specific posts the way it can be done
in this ebook. Much more targeted searches can be accomplished here.
The posts in this ebook have not been edited for content.
Nearly everything is just as it appears in the actual forum. So what you see
is what you get. Hence, in some posts there may not be much information on
practices, where a simple "thank you" is being expressed, input on a forum
operations discussion, AYP promotion discussion, or whatever. In many other
posts, there is a lot of information on practices, supplementing the AYP
lessons and books. That is the real value of the forums and this ebook to
supplement the baseline AYP writings. As we have often said, the forums
should not be used as a primary instructional tool for practices. For that,
they are not complete. Better to go to the AYP lessons and books first, and
then use the forums to supplement that, as needed.
Because the same questions keep coming up from many
practitioners, you will find redundancy in many of the forum posts here.
That is just how human interactions on spiritual matters occur. It is like
touching an elephant from many different angles. It is the same elephant,
whether we are feeling the tail, the leg, the tusk, or the trunk. It can
seem redundant when we keep touching the same parts, but we will notice
differences also. In time, the redundancies and the differences add up to
the whole. It is not a bad thing. The forums are especially that way, where
everyone is touching the elephant again and again. We keep answering the
same questions coming from many angles. If we are engaged in daily
practices, our level of consciousness will be continually expanding, so
reading the same things every few weeks or months will bring new
perspectives. This ebook can be handy for that, as can reading any of the
AYP lessons or books more than once.
You may also find a few posts from me here challenging
certain members who are pressing an agenda, proselytizing, attacking a
teaching or a guru, etc. While the AYP community is very tolerant of all
spiritual paths, there is a limited tolerance for attempts to force an
agenda on others. If such attempts are borderline and make it past
moderation into the forum discussions, they will likely be challenged, and
there is some of that in here. All of my posts are here. As they say, it is
"the good, the bad, and the ugly." Hopefully not too much bad and ugly. :-)
On translating the 2,000 forum posts to the ebook
environment, some technical compromises were necessary to make it work.
Images in large quantities are difficult to translate to the several ebook
formats, so the various kinds of "smilies" in the live forum have either
been converted to a text equivalent, like the one immediately above, or
eliminated.
Finally, it should be emphasized that my posts represent
a small fraction of the vast online resource the AYP support forums have
become for assisting many to navigate the path of self-directed spiritual
practice. My deepest thanks go to all who have contributed to the support
forums, whether it be with their experience in spiritual practices,
administration or technical skills. Without the help of many, the AYP forums
and this ebook would not have been possible.
It is hoped you will find this ebook helpful as you
continue on your chosen path. Practice wisely, and enjoy!
The guru is in you.
Yogani
January 2011
Table of Contents
Introduction
Forum 1 Overview and Announcements
Forum 2 Satsang Cafe General Questions on AYP
Forum 3 Support for AYP Deep Meditation and Samyama.
Forum 4 Support for AYP Pranayama, Mudras and Bandhas
Forum 5 Asanas Postures and Physical Culture
Forum 6 Tantra Sex and Spiritual Development
Forum 7 Yamas & Niyamas Restraints &
Observances
Forum 8 Jnana Yoga/Self-Inquiry Advaita (Non-Duality)
Forum 9 Bhakti and Karma Yoga
Forum 10 Building a Daily Practice with Self-Pacing
Forum 11 Kundalini Inner Energy Ecstasy
Forum 12 Healthcare Holistic and Modern
Forum 13 Yoga, Science and Philosophy
Forum 14 Gurus, Sages and Higher Beings
Forum 15 Books, Web Sites, Audio, Video, etc.
Forum 16 Enlightenment Milestones
Forum 17 Yoga and Relationships
Forum 18 Yoga, Career and Money
Forum 19 Other Systems and Alternate Approaches
Forum 20 Illuminated Poetry, Quotations and Stories
Forum 21 Member Announcements Events, Classes & Retreats
Forum 22 AYP Helpers
Forum 23 Yahoo AYP Forum Archive
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