Curious enough and despite its pure simplicity of performance, The Puja Position is the most powerful...
Curious enough and despite its pure simplicity of performance, The Puja Position is the most powerful therapeutic offering available. The Puja Position is effortless to administer yet similar to the yogic asana called sivasana[corpse pose] being ironically the most difficult yogic posture to sustain due to its challenge to fully ‘let go’ despite there being no resistance.The Puja Position is modest in its implementation yet mighty in its potency. The Puja Position is customarily used to initiate a session yet I recommend that we routinely return to this sublime posture several times during a treatment. The Puja Position IS grounding and balancing to the spirit and opens the receiver to a sense of security and trust. The Puja Position is ultimately very intimate. I want to describe now why The Puja Position embodies such power and influence remedially and restoratively.
One of the foremost reasons for Puja Position’s ability to induce profound sedative response is because of the inherent vulnerability of the abdominal region. As we observe other areas of the body we see that the vital organs are protected and secured by boney structures such as the cranium around the brain and the rib cage around the heart. Yet the belly area contains several different vital functions such as digestion, assimilation and elimination to name just a few and these functions are fully exposed and unguarded. So as therapeutic technique would have it, we become ‘available’ and ‘accessible’ leaving the receiver no other way to be but trusting and innocent.
All the viscera correspond incidentally with the 12 signs of the zodiac and are influenced by a number of other interesting correlations also such as Ayur-Vedic doshas, koshas and The illustrious 5 element theory [from dust the body comes and to dust it shall return]. The belly region also embodies the Conception Vessel Channel [Traditional Chinese Medicine] and the Sen Sumana Nadi configuration found within the ancient Siamese [Thai] medical system.
Typically, the instructions recommended to treat the belly area further enhance the quality of physical, emotional and spiritual openness for the receiver. These instructions include that the practitioner kneel comfortably alongside the receiver’s rib cage area and gently leaning against the lateral rib cage assembly with the side of the leg offering warmth and confidence to the receiver. This warmth and comfort will initiate a positive response from the receiver.
We are taught also to rest our hand gently upon the receiver’s abdominal center [Nabhar] having our hand become just like ‘a flower petal resting on a pond’ or ‘a leaf resting on a lake’. Within the practitioner’s meditation and attitude, the 3 distractions i.e. judgment, analysis and diagnosing have been abandoned. For the practitioner, this is a critical mentality to assume, thus enabling the practitioner to proceed confidently with intuition instead of logistics.
The practitioner must also sit up straight and attend to their own internal ‘tunings’ such as relaxing their solar plexus which is known in the ayur-vedic sciences as ‘The Second Brain’. The practitioner must also pay complete attention to the receiver’s breathing, the receiver’s heart beat and the receiver’s ‘fire’. We are taught to ‘listen’ to these three signals from the receiver by asking ourselves only quality questions about the signals. We learn to become ‘disinterested’ in answers realizing that answers eventually become ‘booby traps’ in the spectrum of therapeutic relativity thus the answers become invalid and fallible in the dimension of medical intuition. Again, we are best attuning to the recipient’s needs when we listen ONLY to our internally-generated enquiries about the receiver’s breathing, their heart sounds and their fire of fortitude.
In addition, in Puja Position we are offered an opportunity to spend a few moments ‘seeing’ the session as already completed. We can cast our seeds into the future. That is, we can imagine for a moment that the conclusion of the session has transpired and we can see the recipient as transformed into being joyful, healed, refreshed, balanced, rejuvenated, enlightened, beautified and tranquilized!
Puja Position also offers us a very unique experience to sensitize our awareness to which area is requiring the most immediate attention. Where is the S.O.S. alarm being generated from? Is the lower half of the body requiring attention? Or is the upper half calling us? Is the front of the body or the rear of the body sending a message? Is the right side or is the left side needing energy?
In conclusion, I want to share the most important treasure that contributes to The Puja Position. The Mulabandha Chakra is the energy sphere generated when we contract our perineal muscle located between the anus and the genitals. This is an ultimate support system for the practitioner and also the receiver. Contracting and relaxing the pubo-coccygeus assembly brings an increase in sensitivity bordering on the mystical. I feel certain that it is necessary for all siddhas [spiritual powers] including levitation and psycho-kinetic transponderance, the latter actually being identical with pranic healing. When we neglect this procedure of attending to this vital region, in effect what we are doing is virtually heating our home while leaving the back door open. This will frustrate our system.
Use this deliberate and purpose filled discipline to enhance not only the quality of a Thai-Yoga Massage session but use it also to increase the quality of personal living. Mulabandha brings joy, health and wisdom. Use it while standing in a check out isle of a store or in an airport waiting line or anywhere. It is intelligence!
The Puja Position is also an emotional experience for a recipient because of awakening awareness of our core region. This is our sacred center. I am in love with the very position of Puja and can claim to have witnessed a miracle or two over the years from achieving a oneness with it.
It is a privilege to have experienced one day during a session that under my hand was indeed my self. Of course it was sometimes a new client, a friend, a sister, a father, a son, a teacher, a guru, an ancestor or sometimes a future grandchild yet ultimately I was impacted wholly that under my hand during the entire session was indeed my soul. That is when I realized that there was no alternative to the quality that I was to offer from then on.
Puja Position is folk medicine for the family and community. Puja Position is also sophisticated medicine proving true in its healing promise. Now go and rest your hand on someone’s tummy, contract your Mulabhandha and soar!
Thank you.