The Pranava Kriya™

Experience the ultimate truth of existence through what many of the ancient texts & scriptures consider the highest of Yogic practices! The Pranava Kriya™ as taught by Yogacharya Gowrishankarananda includes the specific combination of Asanas, Mudras, Mantras, Kriyas, & Pranayamas as propagated through the 6800 year old Brighu Rishi Paramparai. This specific combination of techniques facilitates a more complete system for rapid progression of the effects of the Pranava Kriya! Anyone wishing to learn the Pranava Kriya should contact Yogacharya Gowrishankarananda; this practice is taught through an intensive weekend retreat and can be hosted for interested groups. No pre-requisite is required.

The recommended practice of the Pranava is for quickening the spiritual evolution of the sadhak and is stated as a necessity for Moksha in the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras, as well as many other Yogic scriptures. The Pranava is both Saguna, with form, and Nirguna, without form.

The Pranava is an excellent Yoga Chikitsa for those suffering from diseases of all types.
~ Swami Gitananda Giri

Various teachers and students of our Paramparai throughout the world have stated the following physical, mental, & emotional benefits.

- Firstly to heal latent or dormant dis-eases within the 5 energy bodies which could manifest as illness.
- Remove energy blockages.
- Energize and innervate chakras and subtle-energy bodies.
- Neutralize past emotional traumas and tensions of this and previous births.
- Take one to a higher state of consciousness.
- Receive messages from the Higher Self.
- Activate a process of healing at the Physical, Astral, and Causal planes of existence.
- Remission of Cancer and HIV
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Stroke & Heart disease
- Asthma
- Depression
- Overcoming insomnia
- Overcoming addictions
- Pain management

How Does The Pranava Kriya™ Work?
Within the Pancha Koshas we store emotional traumas, dis-ease, and negative karmas from our lifetimes. These karmas can inhibit our spiritual evolution and the flow of Prana to the various energy centers of the bodies. What the Pranava Kriya™ does is to maximize the free flow of prana and attune that prana to the highest vibrational healing frequency & consciousness in the universe.
When the body allows abundant Prana to flow into the various Chakras they can resonate to their ideal frequencies. As the causal body-mind complex becomes more energized and purer various other Yoga practices can become more effective including meditation.
The Pranava works on all three planes of existence to bring about a state of balance and healing. The three states of consciousness are Jagrat (wakefulness), Swapna (dream), and Shushupti (deep sleep) and are associated with the three planes of existence. In conjunction with working with the three planes of existence Pancha Koshas (5 energy bodies) are also affected.
The physical energy body which consists of the Annamaya Kosha.

The energy body which consists of the Pranamaya Kosha (Vital Body), the Manomaya Kosha (Memory and conscious mind which is in charge of all autonomic functions), and the Vijnanmaya Kosha (the higher mind with the intellect and the discriminating mind).

The causal energy body consists of the bliss body, the Anandamaya Kosha which extends into infinity.
Through the use of the Pranava the physical body (Annamaya Kosha) through ideation and causation is balanced and healed and the mental body (Manomaya Kosha) is purified by the cosmic body (Anandamaya Kosha) and thus the entire Pancha Kosha (five bodies of Man) are balanced and purified.
In order to renew, repair and self-heal we have to integrate the three planes of existence, transcend the three states of consciousness and move into a fourth state of consciousness - the state of causal silence within known as Turiya.
In the Mandukya Upanishad, we are told that the Pranava represents the four states of consciousness and that the fourth state, Turiya, is the state of enlightenment.
In order to achieve Turiya the Pancha Kosha or 5 bodies need to be adequately energized and balanced from Prana. Prana is cultivated through Pranayama and then it needs to be harmonized so as to vibrate at the appropriate frequency hence the scientific explanation for the healing and consciousness effects of the Pranava Kriya™.
The Pranava Kriya™ teaches the proper way to perform the Pranava and its appropriate application and it also maximizes the five energy bodies ability to absorb Prana, thereby greatly speeding the healing and evolutionary benefits of the Pranava!

What Will You Learn:
Through the Pranava Kriya™ we learn the potentiating techniques of the Brighu Rishi Paramparai to not only maximize but to also direct the Pranava!
The Pranava Kriya™ Includes the combined practices of the:
- Hathenas
- Prana Mudras
- Pradakshina & Mahat Pranayama
- Bija Mantras and…
The specifically combined practices of the Pranava Kriya™

The Spiritual Scriptures and Masters of India have all commented on the power of practicing the Pranava:

“The real nature of Brahman is identical with the Pranava.” ~ Svetasvatara Upanishad 2:8

“The Pranava is the bridge to immortality.” ~ Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.3-6

Pranava means both life-giver (infuser of prana,) and controller of life force (prana). “That which causes all the pranas to prostrate themselves before and get merged in the Paramatman, so as to attain identity with Him, is for that reason known as the Pranava.”
…(Atharvashikha Upanishad 1:10a)

Ramana Maharishi: The first recorded teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi, written down by him in response to the request of a seeker, was: “The Ekakshara (Pranava)) shines for ever in the heart as the Self.”

Shankara Acharya: It has been common knowledge in India throughout the centuries that the Pranava is the mantra specially commended to sannyasis (monastics), and the majority of them–especially those in the Swami Order of Shankara–have generally employed it as the heart of their sadhana.

Swami Vivekananda: also generally recommended the practice of the Pranava.

Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati: renowned as a yogi par excellence, practiced the Pranava and taught it to others, whatever their mode of life.

Swami Rama Tirtha: the great Hindu reformer propagated Pranava Yoga in India, Japan, and America.

Avadhuta Sri Nityananda: of Ganeshpuri, whose Chidakasha Gita contains some of the most profound statements on the Pranava

Swami Swahananda: sums up the Nathas involvement with the pranava as the heart of their sadhana

Swami Purnanada: Inside her is Citrini, who is lustrous with the lustre of the Pranava and attainable in Yoga by Yogis.

Ramana Maharishi: “Earnest seekers who, incessantly and with a steady mind, practice the Pranava will attain success. By practice of the Pranava the mind is withdrawn from sense objects and becomes one with the Self.” In order to get at this true significance, one should meditate on the Pranava. …The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release (moksha), which is the state of unsurpassable bliss.”
Avadhuta Nityananda Paramhansa: Nitya Sutra 95 “Following the path of discrimination, let the pure mind be firmly fixed on the Pranava.”

Sri Anandamoyi Ma: “Remembrance of the Pranava must become so automatic that you cannot breathe without remembering It.”

Lahiri Mahasaya: “Constant practice of the Pranava, Which is self-revealing, and constant focus on it as the form of Ishvara, and dedicating all actions to it as if you are not the doer yourself; is Kriya Yoga.”

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa: ‘What will you gain’, some sages ask, “By practicing the Pranava you will attain Brahman, that Brahman has been described by the Vedas as the ultimate goal.”

The Pranava Kriya Weekend Intensive is available to interested groups of students anywhere in the world. If you & your group are interested in hosting this retreat please contact Yogacharya Gowrishankarananda at Gowrishankarananda@gmail.com to discuss the details.