Sahaja yoga, lights and shadows on origin and practice

We will guide you to the knowledge of a particular type of yoga, indeed, more precisely, of a current of meditation called sahaja yoga .

This time we are not faced with the umpteenth style of yoga bent to the tastes of fitness, but, on the contrary, we are preparing to investigate a well-structured movement, which is headed by a famous guru and at the center of many controversies.

Let's deepen together!

How sahaja yoga is born

Sahaja yoga, also called " easy yoga ", is proposed as a set of techniques, mostly of a meditative nature, aimed at awakening the kundalini.

According to esoteric yoga physiology, kundalini is the latent energy in each of us that resides at the base of the spine, more or less at the first muladhara chakra. Symbolically depicted as a sleeping snake wrapped in its coils, it represents the unexpressed potential that is waiting to be awakened and to be fulfilled.

Appropriate physical and energetic techniques are able to arouse this energy from sleep and allow it to ascend the column, cross all the chakras, connecting with the divine and realizing the union between human being and divinity .

The Sanhaja yoga wants to be one of the possible ways to awaken the kundalini, specifically, through meditation techniques, developed by the founder Shri Mataji who from the 70s until her death traveled around the world to spread her method, as an activist and Indian yogina, who has spent herself personally to make her techniques known by organizing hundreds of conferences.

Subsequently, an association was formed around the doctrine called "Vishwa Nirmala Dharma" (The pure universal religion) which is inspired by the teachings of the foundress.

In the video I put a little taste of his experience on the page.

The shadows of sahaja yoga

Although we have never attended a course of sahaja yoga, or knowing someone of trust who has participated in the initiatives of the association, we feel obliged to add an apostille because it could happen that some of our readers became curious about this practice.

Even with a little in-depth online research, you will find many sites that collect rather negative experiences related to this movement: deification of the founder, amazing experiential results, sectarian organization, superficial and "magic" approach to yoga are just some of the criticisms that are exposed, also with bright tones.

We do not have the elements to know if these complaints are founded or not, but, out of intellectual honesty, we could not be silent.

Sahaja yoga meetings are held throughout Italy and are mostly free, so nothing prevents you from approaching them in a balanced and secular way and then deciding if it is a path that deserves to be followed.

The critical spirit must never abandon the sincere seeker, because it is a useful tool to distinguish the true masters from the fake gurus .

Personal experience is another great friend as it offers direct and unfiltered knowledge of a given phenomenon.

Finally, serenity in judgment makes it possible to avoid falling into easy psychological traps and to maintain oneself always vigilant, equidistant and lucid.