eMag ~ Activating Life Force for Health and Spiritual Purpose

This month, we focus on restoring vitality, which is essential for both physical well-being and spiritual growth.

The word "vitality" comes from the Latin word vitalis, meaning pertaining to life. Originally, vitality was related to physical energy and health, but over the centuries, it has evolved to encompass mental and emotional vigor.

In yogic philosophy, vitality is understood as Shakti, the divine energy that brings life, movement, and creativity to everything. Shakti is dynamic, nurturing, and the force behind all change. 

Shakti, however, can’t exist alone—it (She) is intertwined with Shiva, the essence of pure consciousness.

Shiva is formless, still, and the silent witness behind all action and creation. Shiva cannot act without Shakti, and Shakti cannot know or experience without Shiva. All yoga-tantra meditation techniques aim to increase Shakti to awaken Shiva, consciousness and awareness.

Together, they create the dance of life.

When our energy is diminished, so too is our consciousness.

Therefore, nurturing Shakti, the source of our vitality, is essential to all aspects of our well-being, from physical to spiritual.

Like the dance between Shakti and Shiva, our vitality thrives when we nurture the balance between energy and consciousness.

With our constant busyness, it’s easy for our prana—our life force—to become depleted. Whether due to stress, illness, or simply the demands of everyday life, restoring that vital energy is key to living with more clarity, strength, and presence.

In this month's newsletter, we’re sharing practices and insights to help you reconnect with your energy, restore balance, and support your overall well-being, including:

1. Insights: Prana Practices for All Levels: Restoring Vitality and Strength
2. Podcast: Prana and Spiritual Growth: Deepening Your Connection to Life Energy
3. Reading: Honoring Prana: A Journey into Life Force and Healing
4. Monthly Meditation: Life Force Meditation Series: Build Energy, Resilience & Consciousness
5. Reflection: Reflection Points to Consider
6. Featured Teaching: Yoga Psychology Bundle: A Path to Self-Awareness, Healing & Inner Strength
7. Behind the Scenes: Finding Comfort to Restore Balance & Energy
8. New Re-Release: Light on the Chakras and Kundalini

Until next time, stay well.

Jayne Stevenson & Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati

Insights

Prana Practices for All Levels: Restoring Vitality and Strength

Whether you're new to prana practices or more advanced in your journey, harnessing and balancing prana is essential for both physical health and mental clarity.

Prana and life force meditations offer numerous benefits, including direct experience of prana to boost health and vitality. They help:

• Regulate the flow of energy throughout the body and mind.
• Regulate metabolism and, therefore, balance the body’s temperature—for example, many people report feeling heat moving in their bodies during this practice.
• Improve physical health and better manage a range of physical illnesses, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, physical trauma, cancer, 
• In the management of several forms of cancer, these meditations can be used to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy and treatment as well as to support your body fighting the disease. 
• Promote psychological health and better manage many psychological and emotional conditions. For example, it is very good to reduce anxiety because the feeling of strength gained during practice is the exact opposite of the feeling of anxiety, in which we feel weak and vulnerable. 

Here are some tips tailored to both beginners and advanced practitioners to help you cultivate and restore your prana.

For Beginners

Our Therapeutic Meditation Bundle offers accessible techniques to restore prana and boost vitality. If you're just starting out, focus on these 3 essential practices:

• Lying Relaxation – Helps you reclaim energy and deeply relax.
• Controlled Breath – Activates the "rest and digest" system, bringing calm and balance.
• Ujjayi Breathing – Enhances breath control and deepens relaxation.

These foundational practices will set you on the path toward a healthier, more balanced life.

For Advanced Practitioners

More advanced students can focus on developing the Manipura Chakra, the energy center behind the navel, connected to digestion and overall vitality. You can strengthen your inner fire and prana flow by linking this chakra with the heart chakra (Anahata) and the source of prana (Muladhara).

In the Life Force Meditation Series, try these practices to activate and balance prana:

• Develop Inner Strength – Grounding
• Awakening Power and Vitality – Manipura Chakra Shuddhi

For Everyone

Regardless of experience level, Yoga Nidra is an excellent practice for restoring energy, especially if you're recovering from illness or exhaustion. It's a powerful way to revitalize both body and mind.

Whether you're just beginning or looking to deepen your practice, these techniques provide a pathway to greater energy, resilience, and inner balance.

Podcast

Prana and Spiritual Growth: Deepening Your Connection to Life Energy

In this episode, we delve into one of the most essential concepts for living a healthy, vibrant life – prana.

Prana is the subtle energy that fuels our health, well-being, and spiritual growth.

This talk covers everything you need to know about prana, including:

• Why it's crucial for both physical health and spiritual development
  
• How to become more aware of this powerful force within you
  
• The different types of prana in the body
  
• How to cultivate and direct prana for greater vitality
  
• The role prana plays in yoga and meditation
  
• How prana is used in healing practices

Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just beginning to explore subtle energy, this episode will offer valuable insights to help you harness your inner vitality and improve your overall well-being.

Listen or Watch: Podcast Ep. 16 ~ Prana and Spiritual Growth: Deepening Your Connection to Life Energy.

Reading 

Honoring Prana: A Journey into Life Force and Healing

Prana, the subtle energy that sustains all life, is more than just a concept – it’s the force that flows within and around us, guiding our health, vitality, and spiritual growth. In our latest article, we explore the essence of prana and how you can nurture this energy to support your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

In this article, we share insights into:

• The nature of prana and how it moves through the body
  
• Ways to cultivate prana through gentle practices
  
• The connection between prana, healing, and balance

We invite you to explore this in more detail and reflect on how the flow of prana can bring harmony to your life.

Read Article →

Monthly Meditation 

Life Force Meditation Series: Build Energy, Resilience & Consciousness

The Life Force Meditation Series is designed to guide you through a journey of energy cultivation, resilience, and heightened awareness with 3.5 hours of expert instruction.

This series includes:

• 2 Talks and 10 Guided Meditations (MP3)
  
• Instructional Text for deeper understanding

Phase 1: Energy, Vitality, Longevity – Learn to feel and move prana (life force energy) through practices like Ujjayi breathing and subtle breath awareness.

Phase 2: Grounding, Alignment, Pulsation – Build core strength, calm the mind, and connect your inner strength to the heart.

Phase 3: Purification, Strength, Awareness – Awaken your power through practices targeting the Manipura Chakra and Ajna Chakra for intuition and vitality.

These meditations are specifically designed to unblock energy, improve digestion, increase stamina, and soothe the heart – leaving you feeling energized and resilient.

Each meditation builds on the previous one for a comprehensive experience that truly enhances vitality and well-being.

Access everything through our online portal from your desktop or mobile, or download the meditations for on-the-go listening. With instant access upon purchase, you can engage with this transformative series at your own pace and return to it whenever you need a boost.

Buy Now ($50) →

Reflection 

"When the mind becomes silent through the repetition of the mantra and awareness of breath, your soul awakens to its own light, and healing begins at the deepest level."

Here are 7 reflection points to consider as you move through the month.

1. How much energy and vitality do you feel you have?
2. How aware are you of your own prāna, your subtle life force, which is the source of your vitality, inner glow, and well-being?
3. How does the idea that prana is "your most precious possession" resonate with you?
4. In what ways might prioritizing your prana impact your daily choices and overall well-being?
5. We each have a prana bank account, the energy that we have stored so that our body and mind function optimally. This gives us the resilience to face the challenges of life. What activities or habits in your life do you feel may be depleting your prāna bank account? What practices could you incorporate to increase your prāna bank account?
6. Can you identify any areas in your body or life where you sense prana may be stagnant or imbalanced? What steps could you take to restore flow and balance?
7. Meditation is a powerful way to generate, store, and properly utilize prana. What has been your experience with meditation so far? How might a regular meditation practice focused on prana awareness benefit your energy levels and overall health?

Featured Teaching

Yoga Psychology Bundle: A Path to Self-Awareness, Healing & Inner Strength

The Yoga Psychology Bundle offers a deeply enriching journey designed to help you connect with your inner self, balance your emotions, and nurture your mental and spiritual well-being. Through a blend of self-paced courses and guided meditations, you’ll gain practical tools for fostering self-awareness, emotional regulation, and profound inner healing.

What’s included:

1. Introduction to Yoga Psychology & Psychotherapy – Understand the mind-body connection.
2. Facing the Shadow Course – Embrace and integrate your unconscious self.
3. Healing the Mind Course – Cultivate mental clarity and resilience through Ajapa Japa meditation.
4. Therapeutic Meditation Bundle – Restore mental and emotional well-being.

Each course is thoughtfully curated to guide you toward greater self-understanding and emotional well-being. Discover more about how this transformative journey can bring clarity and peace to your life.

Find Out More →

Behind the Scenes 

Personal Notes: Finding Comfort to Restore Balance & Energy

Recently, we both came down with a case of the flu—or as we jokingly call it, "influenza-type NH" (Need Holiday). Unfortunately, a real holiday wasn’t on the cards, so we decided to simplify. We returned to our trusty prana meditations, and paired with nutritious food and much-needed relaxation, it helped speed up our recovery.

During this time, I revisited some of my favorite childhood reads. When I was young, I loved reading about mythology and fantasy. Of course, the book Lord of the Rings is one of the great masterpieces of this genre. Another excellent book is The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018). She was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction and fantasy. She was one of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers in these genres during the 20th century. Le Guin was a student of wisdom traditions, especially Daoism (one of Jayne’s main areas of study). I loved her books when I was young and I wanted to revisit them now as her timeless exploration of magic and the shadow felt particularly relevant as we’d just upgraded our Facing The Shadow course. I really wanted to travel with the young wizard Ged as he faces the fark force of the Shadow. These books really take you on a fantastic journey into the world of magic and power. It is as though we are there facing the dark forces and contemplating how we would manage to face the shadow, which is so beautifully described by Le Guin.

It’s a great reminder that sometimes, simplicity and timeless wisdom are all we need to find balance and restore energy.

(Swami Shankardev)

A Taste of Life Restored: Bryan Fischer’s Journey

We love hearing the transformative stories from our students, and one that stands out is from Bryan Fischer, a criminal lawyer in Las Vegas. For 12 long years, Bryan had lost his sense of smell and taste. Every meal was bland, every moment lacked the joy of simple pleasures like tasting coffee or smelling flowers. In 2004, he attended one of our Prana workshops seeking some relief from this sensory loss.

By the end of the workshop, Bryan felt exhausted and went home to rest. The next morning, after a deep sleep, he woke to a life-changing moment. He could smell everything – the scent of coffee was so intense he could barely step into the café! Overwhelmed, yet thrilled, Bryan described it as a "rebirth," a resurrection of his ability to truly experience life.

After a few days, his senses returned to normal, but that moment of rediscovery is one we’ll never forget.

Thanks to your great Las Vegas workshop, I have regained my sense of smell – after 12 years! I am amazed at the power of the prana techniques and the whole learning experience. Upon waking the morning after the workshop, I could smell everything! At first, it was completely overpowering, but fairly soon, I was enjoying life’s smells (and, of course, tastes) again. I continue practicing your Pranic Healing guided meditations, and I am very impressed with this guidance’s professionalism, care, and effectiveness. 

Brian Fisher, Lawyer, Nevada

New Re-Release: Light on the Chakras and Kundalini

We’re really thrilled to finally announce the re-release of our Light on the Chakras and Kundalini program!!

This in-depth program guides you through authentic chakra and kundalini awakening. It's an advanced, 10-module course that offers 30 core lessons and 60 CPE hours, focusing on expanding self-awareness while developing a stable mind to manage powerful psychic energies.

With lifetime access, online support, and email guidance from teachers, this online program allows you to study and integrate at your own pace.

Find Out More →

That's all from us for now, take care and stay well 🧘🏼 

Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati & Jayne Stevenson



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