Man Bun and the Medulla - the true location of the Ajna Chakra

What is the true purpose and origin of the Man Bun? Understanding the medulla vs the spiritual eye, the kutastha, is a very big deal. I hope you'll take this short talk to heart, try out the stretch, and see what focusing on the medulla can do for you and your meditations.
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[@mattskinner846]

DUDE. This channel is a goldmine. I am so thankful to have found this. I wish kriya was more mainstream because it’s hard to find teachings as straightforward and effective as this. Thank you for making these videos

[@ForrestKnutson]

Matt, thank you so much! Welcome to the Channel!!

[@annoelzinga791]

🧘🧘‍♂️The level of the teachings are just wow. 🌟You should have millions of subscribers Knutson!! Come on people. Help this channel go threw the roof!!🙌🏻

[@ForrestKnutson]

Awe... Thank you so much! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@joyb5525]

My goodness Forrest, amazing. And I'll do my WOman bun!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic Joyce! 🥳

[@kashivishwanath7603]

Hi Mr. Forrest. For last 5 years I have been following looking up to get focus between the eyebrows to open agna chakra. I am so happy that I watched this video now. Great inputs . You opened my eyes now on the correct posture. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Excellent, Kashi!

[@daniellivingstone7759]

Watched this just now and tried it out. I feel that it will transform my meditation as I always end up looking up and then attempting to adjust. Thank you very much for the insights.

[@AJ_real]

A side note, a man bun is ok, if you have the hair for it. About the Ajna Chakra on the forehead, I think the forehead pulses at that point, which is probably why ancient Yogis said the 3rd eye is there.

[@geetanegi5907]

I am very grateful and thankful for giving this technique. Thank you so much dear. It will really be helpful for everyone who is doing meditation. Again thank you sir.

[@franklarson5604]

Thanks again, you are the Best. I have had the poor posture you describe for a long time. I learned from you tube to sit with face slightly upturned with focus between brows, which led to head forward slouched position and neck ache. Thankyou again. I feel I should be calling you Master.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Frank! I'm so glad you are figuring it out! Posture is a real killer sometimes, and once you isolate the lower back, especially the sacrum, it gets a lot easier.

[@subhaarthanari9323]

Totally amazing insights Forrest Guruji and your practical take on it is even more brilliant Namaste , wish I had more time to dedicate to these exercises

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful! Slow and steady wins the race! 🙏🤩

[@FrankDeLalla]

I am super excited to send this to my daughter, who's boyfriend has a hilarious man-bun. His name is Hudson. I have decided I will call him Man-Bunson instead after watching this. God bless you, my dear teacher and friend. 🙏 (For the record, Hudson is the man and I'm grateful he is her boyfriend.) 😁

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! That's so fun! It takes a real man to take a nickname like Man-Bunson! 🙏🙏

[@ericfontaine1997]

I kid u not, i was doing a similar medulla stretch/awareness technique last night...i have been doing it on occasion for several years....now that you have covered this topic, i am going to put more effort on that practice....i knew it was a good thing to be doing, but did not know why...Thankyou

[@ForrestKnutson]

Eric! That is fantastic! Isn't it amazing how the intuition works?

[@ericfontaine1997]

@@ForrestKnutson for sure...while doing this technique, i often include intoning the sound "ong" and try to resonate and feel it in the medulla zone at back of neck/skull...it works very well to bring my consciousness to this zone...i also notice that if i manage to hold my consciousness in this zone for even just about 5 to 10 seconds, i will be very calm and the calmness can last for many hours afterwards...it is very effective

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@ericfontaine1997 I love your technique thank you so much for sharing it with us I'm sure many people will find benefit from reading this.

[@ericfontaine1997]

Also, When u were talking about finding your chakras with the heart-mind, that too is something i discovered in recent months....i use the "ong" technique to help find my chakras and put my consciosness at the back of my spine in a particular chakra zone...often times, if i am not getting good results, I find that if i first focus on my heart chakra, i can awaken what i call the feeling-sense (what u call the heart-mind) and use this feeling sense to help me isolate and and enter my consciousness into each of the other chakras...it is always so much easier once the heart-mind is active....Opening the heart was not initially intuitive nor easy for me, until i discovered the "loving kindness/metta" meditation technique about 18 months ago. Here is a link to this technique: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5W5oZdjjsZqes0 This "Bhante Vimalaramsi" youtube channel is dedicated to this metta technique. It helped me a lot. The most helpful tricks i learned from this technique is to practice the art of subtley smiling with the heart, mouth (mona lisa/buddha smile) and the eyes all at the same time...it cracks open the heart-mind every time.

[@manoharmano3539]

Thank u...

[@vasu5224]

Hi Forrest the exercise you suggested is exactly the one that is called the dolphin stretch in qigong , I am from India and I loved your knowledge of why Rishis wear their hair the way they do .

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's perfect! 🤩🙏

[@taopol]

I had missed that video ; My bad ! it is one of the most important !!! it helps so much in following the breath from the root to ajna chakra !!! many thanks and regards Forrest !!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful, Paul! I'm so glad you caught this one!

[@taopol]

@@ForrestKnutson my meditation is sure progressing these days, my hands and soles are tingling like crazy! such a nice feeling, makes me high for the rest of the day !!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@taopol oh man, what a divine confirmation! Well done!

[@claudiabenson3167]

Brilliant

[@kirtiservices]

Aha, Awesome 🙏

[@JohnnyFive626]

i started putting my hair down for meditation, but now I'm going to try leaving it up!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect!

[@shilpapopat2530]

Wow!! I misunderstood your Om japa video. I was doing shambhavi focusing on the point between the brows and doing om japa on the point. Now I know we have to focus on the back and do Om japa there.

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Good tips & loving the music.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you!

[@1rsalc]

Forrest Ji, another amazing video. Thanks.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful, thank you!

[@innerbliss108]

Lmao ever since I’ve begun this kriya sadhana I will wobble my head side to side every so often like an Indian! I know exactly why they’ve always done that. The bliss baby!

[@bobseehafer5414]

Great information Forrest. Thank you

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Bob!

[@michaelneb6883]

Is the Ajna chakra and the pineal gland different? Is the third eye in the Ajna chakra or is the pineal gland?

[@JenP2776]

Buddha bun = Source Energy antennae!

[@ForrestKnutson]

So true!

[@royjames196]

Thanks for this!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Roy!

[@whitemagiktiger]

Amen!

[@2010ig]

This video has no subtitles - a big problem for me

[@amritpalmarok5578]

Hey forrest I wear my hair in a rishi knot in my regular life , and I have researched for a scientific reason for long while for it and it was always vauge answers but your explanation makes sense. So Now I'm wondering if I put more of a pull on my hair when doing my rishi knot would that help with meditation. And I wanted to ask the reason for uncut hair by some yogis, and how that's helps with there meditation. Since I already have long hair this subject is interesting to me. And thank you for making all these great videos.

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's great! A little pull is good, but not so much that it bothers you or distracts you. Khechari also supports this posture. The tongue muscle helps to pull the neck into proper position. From there it's that Reduced Breath Rate. That's the magic! As I mention in the Clinical Mindfulness. Thank you so much for watching and your great comment! To your medullary meditative success!!

[@kamalbandyopadhyay4681]

Give JALANDHAR BANDHA a try.

[@ForrestKnutson]

I love the chin lock! I practice it every day. I mention it in one of my tips videos.

[@raamkumar1979]

Kriya yoga Energizing exercise # 8.........🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's right Raam!

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[@Brancaalice]

So, the woman use pone tail, is it help them also?

[@vivekmathai1255]

Interestingly / strangely enough, the MO is also called the Mouth of God.

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's right. I think Yogananda coined that, unless someone said it before him.

[@ashwanijohri8879]

Oh now I got , now a days post kriya my hands become heavy and chin goes down with shallow breath and it seems right as it is automatic and blissful. Now I got may be it is medullary stretch

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's wonderful Ashwani!

[@andoabil5169]

Hello Forrest, yours is a great channel, i'm really interested in all the topics you talk. I'd like to ask you, if you don't mind for some method to exercise the heart mind, thank you, blessings

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Ando! I definitely can, but if you could tell me exactly what that means to you? Then I'll have a better idea of which direction to go in.

[@andoabil5169]

I refer to that cuality or level of the mind which allow to perceive the energy centers in our body, and perhaps be able to connect our mind to these in a fluid way. I wonder if there's a method for developing that in the basis of daily practice. Thank you so much Forrest, light to you.

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@andoabil5169 Fantastic! Actually, this video is that. You just find them, one by one, when you have some time outside of your meditation practice. You want to develop a feel and response, which is what I'll be talking about in a coming video. So, that requires a process of concentrating your attention, feeling a connection, checking for a response (a sense of the content of the chakra), and then chanting a mantra in that chakra. It's a profound process. I'll be covering that soon, but it all starts here! ;)

[@andoabil5169]

Thanks so much, I'll keep watching

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Ando!

[@anandkesar5042]

Wanted to ask can we balance our two noistriles ie.air comes out through only right side ,how can we do that

[@ForrestKnutson]

If I understand your question correctly you can't. Alternate nostril breathing requires both nostrils. However, what I teach is a reduced breath rate or Heart Rate Variability Breathing. You can see this best in the video called Clinical Mindfulness. That breathwork is designed to balance Ida and pingala very quickly in a very natural way. It is Sahaja. As Lahiri mahasaya taught, the natural way. I hope you'll give it a try!

[@anandkesar5042]

@@ForrestKnutson thank you for your reply.suggest me a book where I will get all techniques of lahirimahasya

[@ForrestKnutson]

Unfortunately, there is no such book which does this correctly. It is very much like learning a martial art. There is no way to learn a martial art but by taking personal instruction. IF you want to learn it correctly. It is very difficult to find Lahiri Baba's original kriya. Maheshwari Dubeyji was one of the most prolific teachers of the Panchanan Bhattacharya lineage. He, more than anyone worked to keep Lahiri Baba's original teachings intact. If you would like to read a book I recommend, "Purana Purusha" and "Who is Shyam Charan?" These books, however, do not contain kriya techniques, though they comment on them often.

[@anandkesar5042]

@@ForrestKnutson I live in country of saints but I cannot go to one

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@anandkesar5042 Well, the good news is I've designed this channel with the idea that it is a support and preliminary to anyone on an interior path, especially if that path is a Kriya Yoga path. So, the technique called Clinical Mindfulness is designed to circumvent certain common problems that many meditators encounter. I hope you will try it out. Getting those 4 proofs in meditation is Humongous.

[@jon8367]

What if I feel a ball of energy between my eyebrows? Is that the chakra or it just other thing? I don't feel anything in the back of my head. But sometimes I feel some energy in the circular spot from where the hair grows.

[@jon8367]

And thank you for sharing your wisdom. 🙏 ♥

[@ForrestKnutson]

Hi Jonathan! I have several videos on the 3 Knots of Lahiri Mahasaya, and what you are experiencing, is the 1st Knot. It's happening inside the brain, and the brain is projecting it out in front of you (where the spiritual eye is seen as well), because that's how the brain works (as a projection machine). If that sensation becomes too powerful, you can draw it gently back to the medulla, where the sensation will be more tolerable and enjoyable. And I hope you'll watch the videos on the Knots.

[@jon8367]

@@ForrestKnutson thank you again 🙏

[@kaushalgyawali6704]

how to concentrate on medulla oblongata ??

[@ForrestKnutson]

Great question! I have a video on how to find your chakras mentally: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2bMnZmFl82seZo