Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya

▵ Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya is an ancient, purifying 21-minute yoga practice of immeasurable transformative power that Sadhguru has brought to the modern world. Shambhavi aligns your entire system so that your body, mind, emotions and energies function in harmony, establishing a chemistry of blissfulness within you and empowering you to create your life the way you want it.

▵ Improved cardiac health.
▵ Greater coherence within the brain.
▵ Improved sleep.
▵ Improved attention and focus.
▵ Reduced menstrual disorders.
▵ Reduce medication and eliminate problems such as depression, allergies, asthma and other ailments.
▵ Greater inner peace.
▵ Improved emotional balance.
▵ Greater mental clarity.
▵ Increased energy levels.
▵ Improved self confidence.
▵ Reduce medication and eliminate problems such as depression, allergies, asthma and other ailments.

A survey conducted on 536 Inner Engineering practitioners showed improvement in the following areas:

Factors	% respondents reporting improvement
Concentration	70%
Emotional Balance	87%
Energy Level	79%
Inner Peace	91%
Mental Clarity	80%
Productivity	70%
Self Confidence	74%

Raj Maturi et al, Survey of well-being in Isha Yoga practitioners, March 2011

Reduced risk of heart diseases and better cardiac functioning
Heart Rate Variability studies show that Isha Yoga causes greater balance of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System, thereby enhancing the ability of the heart to respond to various stressful situations effectively. This reduces the risk of cardiac ailments like hypertension, angina, infraction, arrhythmias, etc.

Improved attention
Neurocognitive tests show that Isha Yoga increases performances in attentional tasks suggesting better distribution and faster allocation of attentional resources and enhanced sustained attention skills.

Enhanced Mental Capabilities
The EEG study on Shambhavi Mahamudra also showed higher levels of coherence between the right and left sides of the brain. This greater whole brain synchronization leads to greatly enhanced mental capabilities like better learning ability, increased creativity, heightened mental clarity, and sharper intellect.

Improved quality of sleep
Polysomnographic study comparing Isha Yoga practitioners and matched controls showed a statistically significant improvement in the efficiency of sleep and lesser number of awakenings during sleep indicating improved quality of sleep in Isha Yoga practitioners.

Increased alertness, awareness, and relaxation
Neurophysiological studies using EEG revealed a substantial increase in delta and theta brain waves and markedly reduced beta and alpha brain waves measured after 21 minutes of Shambhavi Mahamudra practice.

Increase in delta and theta waves are associated with deep relaxation and higher levels of mental focus. Reduced beta waves are associated with reduced mental tension and anxiety. Reduced alpha waves in conjunction with increased theta and delta waves are associated with conscious awareness of the subconscious mind.

These results support a drop in stress and anxiety, a boost in mental alertness and focus, and an increase in self awareness as a result of just 21 minutes of daily practice.

Reduction in menstrual problems
A study on women suffering from menstrual disorders showed a significant improvement in symptoms after the practice of Shambhavi Mahamudra.

Beneficial Changes	% people reported
Reduction in severe menstrual pain	57%
Reduced irritability and mood swings	72%
Reduction in heavy flow	87%
Reduction in irregularity of cycles	80%
Reduction in work impairment	83%
Reduction in need for medical and surgical intervention	63%

Reduction in disease conditions and medicine usage in chronic diseases
In a health survey that was conducted on Isha Yoga practitioners, more than 500 respondents reported improvement in their disease status and reduction in medicine usage for their disease.

Disease Condition	Respondents reporting improvement	Respondents who stopped medication	%Respondents whose medication reduced
Allergies	66%	42%	40%
Anxiety	86%	50%	28%
Asthma	72%	56%	31%
Back or Neck Pain	68%	50%	33%
Depression	87%	50%	25%
Diabetes	63%	12%	13%
Fibromyalgia	67%	67%	33%
Gastrointestinal Diseases	67%	50%	25%
Headache	88%	46%	45%
Heart Diseases	37%	33%	17%
Hypertension	63%	28%	28%
Insomnia	73%	30%	40%
Obesity	41%	67%	0%
Poor Resistance to Cold and Flu	86%	75%	13%
Thyroid	51%	9%	50%

Excerpt: Five Amazing Benefits of Meditation (Isha)
Excerpt: Survey Result for Shambhavi Mahamudra (Isha)

▵ Touch the Source of Creation
The Shambhavi Mahamudra is a tool to touch the source of creation. In touching your innermost core, there is transformation. -Sadhguru

▵ Why Shambhavi?
There is a certain way to engineer our system, to make this body, to make this mind… the very chemistry within us the way we want it.” Traditionally, yoga sees the human being as five layers of body: the physical body, the mental body, the pranic energy body, the etheric body and the bliss body. The reason why most people are unhappy or unhealthy is that the physical, the mental and the “pranic” body are not in alignment. Sadhguru explains, “If they are properly aligned, a natural expression, an overwhelming expression of joyfulness will naturally happen within a human being. Now, we are looking at the technology of keeping these three bodies constantly aligned so that joyfulness is not an accidental happening; joyfulness becomes a normal condition, a natural way of living for you. -Sadhguru
– Excerpt from Why Shambhavi (Isha)

▵ Shambhavi Mahamudra – A Consecration
There are various types of initiations. And though we call some of them initiations, not all of them are really initiations. The first process like that that we offer, Shambhavi Mahamudra, is not really an initiation – it is more like a consecration. We are consecrating people. By any standards, consecrating a living human being is the easiest thing to do compared to consecrating a form like the Adiyogi linga [in the Adiyogi Alayam, Isha Yoga Center]. This needs enormous work, because you are transforming an inanimate object into almost like an animate life, a living discerning form. He knows everything about you [Referring to the Adiyogi linga]. – Sadhguru
– Excerpt from How Do Initiations Affect Sadhguru? (Isha)

The kriya is a part of the Inner Engineering program, Isha’s flagship course. A large part of the course can be taken in the comfort of your home, through Inner Engineering Online, and initiations into Shambhavi are offered around the world at regular intervals.

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▵ Inner Engineering (Isha)
▵ Register for Inner Engineering Online (Isha)
▵ Register for Inner Engineering Completion (Isha)
▵ Shambhavi Mahamudra Survey Results (Isha)
▵ Five Amazing Benefits of Meditation (Isha)
▵ Why Shambhavi (Isha)
▵ How Do Initiations Affect Sadhguru? (Isha)

▵ Register for Inner Engineering Online (Isha)
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