Awaken Your Healing Energy
Our bodies have an amazing capacity to heal and thrive due to our life force, or prana. Shivani Lucki, internationally known Kriya Yoga meditation teacher and author of Healing with Life Force, shares Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings for vitality, healing and Self-realization.
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Shivani Lucki dedicated her life to the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda in 1969 when she met Swami Kriyananda, the founder of the Ananda community. Her passion has always been the self-healing techniques of Yogananda, taking on as her unique mission to find and share these mostly out-of-print or never published teachings. She helped to establish two Ananda communities-one in California and one in Assisi, Italy as well as the Yogananda Academy of Europe. She is also the founder of Life Therapy School for Self-Healing. Since 1985 she and her husband have lived at the Ananda Assisi Community in Italy. Shivani is the author of a trilogy of books entitled, Healing with Life Force: Teachings and Techniques of Paramahansa Yogananda. Today we are discussing the first book in the series, which is focused on Prana.
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: I was so inspired by this conversation with Shivani Lucki. Her reverence for Paramahansa Yogananda's teachings and her years of study and teaching bring a depth of knowledge that will inspire many who are looking for spiritual healing. She shared that Yogananda was not as well known for his work in spiritual healing, but it was a great focus of his work. He became known as the founder of spiritual healing in the modern age and produced many articles and teachings about prana (life force). He said all disease is due to two factors: insufficient prana and the balance of prana. He taught how prana can be enhanced and distributed throughout our bodies and minds. With our energy forces in peak performance we can increase our health and wellness and do the work that we are here to do. This first book of her trilogy of books gives us tools and techniques to increase and balance our prana, as taught by Yogananda, some of which Shivani shares with us. I highly recommend this Yoga Hour program.
DR TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: Our conversation focused on prana, or vital force, and how the health of the energy body underlies the health of the physical body. We discussed how breathing exercises, or pranayama, balance the flow of energy in the two main channels of the body, the ida and the pingala as they are called in Sanskrit. I particularly enjoyed our conversation of the link between our willpower and prana, and the review you gave of a few methods to increase our willpower. We can commit to trying one new thing every day, or to doing something creative either daily or at least once a week. Both of these practices build our willpower, and thus keep our “tank” full of prana, or vitality.