Origin vs Doorway of the Chakra - Yogi Explains

Ashokji told me, "Each chakra has a origin and a doorway."
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[@ententchen]

I can totally confirm all of what Forrest is teaching in this video. Om Japa is like a miracle technique... I just did a little 15-30min meditation session this morning and was "high" for the rest of the day. Felt the bliss in my whole body and was intensly uplifted. What a wonderful day! And the more you do the cleaning the more blissful days you'll get... it's a totally mood turner into unconditional happiness and joy. Forrest and his teaching is such a gem, I cant believe how few views this wonderful channel has! If you are new here and reading this, check out Forrests new book which was just released a couple days ago. It is the distilled knowledge of all his videos here. The price is a joke for the benefit it will bring into your life if you give it a chance and start to meditate each day. Blessings to all of you 😊🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

What a beautiful and heartfelt testimony! 🌹🌹🙏🙏🥰🥰

[@williamcranstoun9566]

I find that over and over you help us make little conceptual shifts about yogic ideas that greatly impact practice. This is a great example. Wow. and of course your laughter helps a great deal.

[@ForrestKnutson]

So perfect William! 🤩🤩🙏🙏🌹 and the laughter! 😅😅🙏🙏

[@claudiavoigt7563]

Pranam to you Forret. So much joy listening to your teachings. Thanks for making the -1 Yogi Probems so much fun. A wonderful possibility you provide.

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's so perfect! Yes! Haha those infamous negative one yogi problems! 😅😅🌹🌹🙏🙏

[@colleencarone8650]

This is great to know! I learned about chakras with dull drooping flower petals and “somehow” waking them up so they became bright and upright with open petals, and then getting to know each petal on each chakra. I also learned about chakras as geometric shapes and colors that appear once awakened. Thanks, Forrest! 🙏🏼💗

[@dianecurran3648]

Beautiful! Thank you Forrest! It seems as though it is a bit of a paradox, because when the chakras are clear, there is a static effect of repose and quiescence, and yet simultaneously there is a continuous movement of endless becoming into who we truly are where there is no seemingly end. Stillness and becoming working together. In the Ocean of Knowing they work together seamlessly as one.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing Diane! So beautifully said! 🤩🤩🌹🌹🙏🙏🌟🌟

[@charleslewis3045]

great video Forest ! have never seen you so excited, and laughing so much in a video… great vibes 😅😃😃😃

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! Excellent, yeah I almost lost it, LOL! 🤩🙏

[@saikatbanerjee4724]

Amazing as Always!

[@loveadeola]

Don't we just love Forrest's joyous energy? 😅

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! I hope it is infectious! 😅🤩🙏🙏🌹🌹

[@loveadeola]

@@ForrestKnutson it's infecting me already 😂

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@loveadeola 😅😅😅🙏🙏🙏🤩🤩🤩

[@chrisvanderwoerd9932]

I never understood the subtle difference between Kundalini and Kriya before. Kundalini almost seems like a trap. Thanks for the clarification. Thanks for Ashokji and you!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect Chris! Yes it certainly can be! 🌹🙏

[@viafrequency]

Oh Forrest, I just adore your laugh and your personality; I resonate with you in so many ways. Thank you for explaining things with such simplicity & clarity. Sometimes all it takes to change everything is a slight shift in perspective. Really appreciate you. 🫶🏽

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much! I love hearing that! And I love your channel! 🤩🌹🙏🌹

[@trmarple]

This was great Forrest. The do be do be as well as the Navi teaching has really lead to great experiences. Absolutely love the simplicity! Thank you good sir! Have a blessed weekend 🙏🏼

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's so fantastic! Thank you Ted! 🤩🌹🙏

[@jannareindel6263]

Another thank you on Forrest Friday! 💝

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! Kinda catchey, right? Thank you! 🤩

[@jannareindel6263]

Definitely!!!

[@drc97086]

Oh come on, you are the missing link for us all, in meditation. So good at this you are. You mentioned Star Wars in one of your videos, and this brought back my memory of watching one of the original Star Wars movies in the early 1980s in a theater. I remember well that subtle feeling when Luke is training with Yoda. You are my Yoda, Forrest. Not hyperbole, simply how different I feel in the last 8 weeks since I discovered you. 😀

[@ForrestKnutson]

I love this. One of my students called me the Mr. Miyagi of Yoga, and now the Yoda of Yoga. So cool. So glad that it's all clicking for you!!

[@HMALDANA]

Wise words, Forrest! Personal experience is the real deal. Teachers do inspire, but you gotta cross the bridge yourself! Blessings and blissings!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly brother! 🤩 🤩🙏🙏🌹

[@angiewright-artist8246]

I really enjoyed this! Great video!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic Angie!

[@draganpa2911]

In depth explanation of Om japa technique , now I understand Lahiri Mahasaya word's on Om japa in chakras , thank you

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect! 🤩🙏

[@Vshamann336]

Thank you forrest, I can't explain to people how much it can help to see and hear something scientifically proven or shown. But even when it's just illustrations that aren't really to the scientific method but from experience, I've noticed that I quickly pick up on doing things when shown a visual with an explanation

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic Shane! I know what you mean! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@Vshamann336]

@@ForrestKnutson I've been scheming up a phone application idea for meditators. That has good information like this and good illustrations that are scientifically backed. My dream is to have one that actually has sensors and EKG style helmets to actually tell you what brain waves and what biometrics you have. So you can 100% identify where you are in your meditation. The question is is this something possible to do cost-effectively

[@NinjaArts]

Very nice!! 🙏❤️

[@pavneetkaur4545]

Thank you, Forrest! I just love the laughter as it somehow transfers. If I keep watching your laughter, I will remain in bliss, I reckon! lol! 😆😆🙏🙏🌹🌹

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect! Haha! I'm so glad! 🤩🙏🌹🌹

[@Aserium]

Once again, thank you Forest, seem to have the perfect advice every video for every scenario that's arising in my journey :)

[@ForrestKnutson]

I love that Synchronicity! 🤩

[@tumareyoga9041]

Love videos about the chakras, they are so important Guruji 💜😊🙏

[@Terciorb]

amazing !!!! thanks!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful 🙏

[@OctoBox]

Thank you Forrest-ji!! I've been waking up (from deep sleep) to find myself in the middle of practicing Kriya a lot lately....the subconscious is getting programmed!! .....and when that's not the case waking up to practicing BPV from the subconscious -- with huge breath holds, all again coming out of the subconscious while asleep. I love it!!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Amazing! Now see if you can get Bliss in your dreams. That way you spend the day in Bliss and you sleep with bliss.

[@subhaarthanari9323]

Dear Forrest Guruji, thanks for this very timely video and gauntlet. Om japa did magic for me just yesterday, I was much troubled by grief standing in a jampacked train and started Oming into 3rd chakra and bit of 4th and later on somehow felt, the sharp edge of grief has changed, grief became somehow manageable, I will keep doing this and hopefully experience bliss in all chakras, thanks for the wonderful explanation. Namaste.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Subha I'm so amazingly proud of you. Well done and that's exactly the idea of the process. 🤗🙏

[@raamkumar1979]

Fantastic Brother ❤ Getting understanding with chakras Great🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ForrestKnutson]

Fantastic Raam! 🤩🙏

[@drblaneyphysics]

THIS was one of the most useful/awesome/wonderful videos i've ever seen. Thanks Forrest! This is helping me really understand so much more about om jappa. It's like silencing the chaotic sound waves in the aeather, isn't it?

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly right! If you go back with one of my early videos with Ashokji, you can hear him say almost exactly the same thing.

[@drblaneyphysics]

@@ForrestKnutson OOh really? so cool. --and all thanks to you, Forrest, the one who transmitted the info accurately !!!

[@treeofyoga8382]

This is gold! ❤️

[@OctoBox]

Gauntlet Set!!!!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

🥳🥳🥳

[@dakotahsimonson631]

Woah !🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@i_love_god10]

Hey Forrest- One question I am always curious about- how chakras are oriented within spine? On Sushumna, are they horizontally located (vertical axis passing only through center of the chakra without touching any of its side) or vertically located (vertical axis passing through center of the chakras but also touching at least two other points at bottom and top)? I know that Sushmna pierces all the chakras but haven't read anywhere how chakras are oriented on Sushumna. Can you please elaborate? It would be awesome if you can provide some book reference that gives these details.

[@dakotahsimonson631]

And my third chakra is very blissful

[@ForrestKnutson]

Excellent!

[@DenizSasal]

Your positivity is contagious! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. How long should I Om into my chakras? Is it minutes of Om and minutes of Feeling it? Days? Months? How long did it take you to feel bliss in all your chakras? Sorry if my questions sound ridiculous. I am quite new to this - but quite amazed, to be honest :)

[@bluerain704]

Can anyone tell a beginner the position of the tounge when you do the OM sound? Does it even matter? Also I heard visualizing the infinity symbol in gold color where your third eye is, will open the third eye... Anyone heard of this and can give positive feedback? TYVM

[@ForrestKnutson]

You can try saying the ohm out loud that's fine, but then eventually you want to be able to say it only internally. This will allow you to sit very still as you go up and down the six chakras. As you practice the HRV resonance breathing, you'll find that you automatically become still, and that Stillness will automatically bring you spiritual experiences that you might equate to your spiritual eye. So the whole process is very natural. I also have a bunch of videos about the third eye and how to develop it.

[@joncen2658]

I like how you presented chakra and I agree with it. My question is where should I practice on japa: right in the origin of chakra or in the back extension of it outside of body.

[@aloksahu7208]

🙏

[@Vanderful_life]

student started to be trans-parent , with pronouns who/where how feeling bliss can help individual on a collective level? is it something on rising on consciousness level for individual or can be used for benefit of others

[@drblaneyphysics]

Totally for the benefit of you, others around you, and the planet. Who would you rather sit by on a bus, a person in torture or a person in bliss. If it's the bliss person, you may just start to resonate in bliss too. I feel like we are being taught, in a metaphorical sense, how to ring a bell to get the cleanest and most beautiful tone.

[@webby8950]

So you focus on the doorway first until you peel back the onion, not on the point on the spine itself? I feel like I missed something 😅 Also, do you need to emotionally trigger yourself before you do Om Japa for it to be effective? Can it perhaps be more effective when I Om, for example, when I feel the worst?

[@rinakaur7245]

How do you OM into a chakra?

[@kidsinthefield]

Thank you as always for your very clear explanations Forrest. As we have learnt, moving from Chakra to chakra as you Aum into it doesn't always allow you the time to feel the Chakra before you have to move on to the next. This is especially relevant if you are using Om Japa at the same time as HRV. You have to move with the breaths. Is it ok to go back to each Chakra after the full cycle and feel each one individually? Thank you again.

[@victorsaitta3910]

Thank you guruji! If all you are feeling is Bliss and not the chakra do you just OM into the Bliss? Also, I find it easier to focus on my chakra’s from my back. Should I focus on my chakras from the front as I inhale and from my back as I exhale, or does it actually matter? ❤🙏🙏📿🕉

[@ForrestKnutson]

You can continue to chant into the chakra, and you will reveal more of its innermost nature which is the Bliss. So you're not chanting into the Bliss as if you were chanting into a negative emotion, you are just continuing to chant into the cup to reveal a deeper layer. I would pick one side or the other for a session. 🤩🌹🙏

[@peruviansublime4819]

Just amazing info you share, this morning after only 10 minutes of doing 5 breaths x minute I automatically let go into an amazing bliss state that lasted for quite a while. Next will om into the chakras, havent done that yet and still feeling major bliss, its like getting high naturally, no drugs needed. Thank you Forrest ! Do you offer a certification program? Would love to share you knowledge in spanish to the latin american market is huge..

[@ForrestKnutson]

I've been working on a book and out of that will come a training as well of the fundamentals. And if you are really ambitious I also train teachers in Kriya. 🤩🙏

[@peruviansublime4819]

look forward to it, I'll email you to stay updated, thanks!😎

[@Sassieone1]

Hilarious 😆 Joy 🤩

[@ForrestKnutson]

Haha! 😅😅🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@sandipanroy2431]

Sir I feel an experience of half outof body like floating while lying down in bed . Then a thought ( can i never get back my body) came , i stopped my meditation.

[@dakotahsimonson631]

🤣🤣🤣

[@fhoniemcphonsen8987]

Talk about polishing the mirror into non-existent

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes exactly! 😅🙏

[@sandipanroy2431]

Sir is introvert good or bad??

[@ForrestKnutson]

It is only a personality choice which is a binary choice soon after birth. For the yogi being an introvert is a boon. However even the extrovert can easily learn to meditate with the right instructions. The deeper point of knowing if you are introvert or extrovert is figuring out how you can balance your personality and be closer to the middle.

[@sandipanroy2431]

@@ForrestKnutson guruji , what's your view on education??

[@brynbstn]

Forrest, you seem to be assuming the mind is the brain and the brain is the mind. It’s definitely a big part of it but the mind could be the entire body, all organs, all systems, especially the nervous systems, the whole thing…. Something to contemplate…

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you. Actually the brain treats every cell as part of itself through neurotransmitters.