…..and we sip and we sip and we sip and we sip and the trickle becomes a swirling inner stream that flows and widens, gains momentum, reaches the ocean, where we swim and swim to our hearts desire in endless expansion and bliss and joy! Marvelous as always Forrest! Thank you! 🌊🌊🌊🐬🐬🐬🌊🌊🌊
You are on point, even small Khechari can lift you up if you establish the pathway and bridge for energy. I also find parallels to mula, uddiyana and jalandhara bandhas in that the prana is drawn upwards. Physical positioning is a secondary thing and your video is summarized well. Thank you.
I learned this technique from Himalayan Monks last year, is a very powerful technique, Is so relaxing and is not so much different from Kechari! I can't do kechari mudra so this alternative is as powerful as that for me! 🙏🙏😊
@@ForrestKnutson You know that you can do Pranakriya and Pranayama with the Tongue touching the pallet? Is very powerful and It lead to powerful Trance states. 🙏🏼🕉
I really appreciate your videos both humorous and insightful. I found that I could get a sense of bliss from that introduction as long as i kept breathing fully.
Yes, I have experienced these. This is a very good post! Thank you so much. I don't mind spending the rest of my life attempting to do proper khechari, however, I am not sure I really need to, though it is routine. Especially when we hear of these second generation kriya babies doing full khechari spontaneously without any working knowledge of kriya yoga, if such a thing is even possible! ;)
I can naturally put my tongue back in my sphenoid sinus. In fact I’ve been doing that for a while without even knowing what kechari is. I used “swallow” my tongue sometimes and it feels kinda good.
I think I've done this instinctively before by feeling into the medulla. There seems to be an interesting energetic thing going on between the second proof and the medulla, and at times it does feel like bliss is dripping out of the brain, or something higher up, between these. My problem with even a baby kechari is that I feel the second proof the most reliably out of all of them, and I feel it very nicely in the tongue when I have it right against my teeth, contacting the hard palate in the front of my mouth. It weakens when I pull the tongue away, and I also have some blockages in the chest and throat that messing with the tongue exacerbates. This is a fascinating alternative.
7:24 I just realised I do the exact same thing, completely unknowingly. I find this bliss in devotion. I mean now that I know it. it's Going to be easier for me to access that state.
I tried cutting of frenulum twice by maxillo facial surgeons, first by laser and later by manual surgery. I had a difficult post operative period. Following normalisation, I realised that I am back to zero. But continued practice has helped me touch uvula but I still don't feel relaxed and it puts my temporalis and masseters in a permanent state of contraction leading to more stress. Kindly guide.
Wow, what a rocky experience! This is why Lahiri Mahasaya recommended not cutting the frenulum. Why not try the technique I describe here at the end of the video.
This might sound like a "negative" comment. But my suggestion would be to leave this entire process alone for a while (perhaps a year) until clarity arises. I have gotten blowback for trying to force many things before their time. Your tongue will heal. Do not force.
I'm really drawn to this topic. There are season where i'm just stretching my tongue on a routine basis then there are some where i'm just on a break. My only constant is 30 mins of HRV I can sustain 5 breaths per min and I'm happy there for now. Thanks for the education Forrest.
Thank you very much for this video Forrest. I have a question, can you reach back all the way to the sphenoid sinus with your tongue? If so, how long did it take you?
I have problems even to just bring my tongue back, now matter how much I tried. 00:23 It must be the geometry of my mouth not allowing me to do this. I wonder why there is not a soft tool already invented to achieve this with it instead of your tongue though. 8:08 I believe it works because whatever we do starts with imagining it first. It might take some time but this is possible for me to achieve. Thank you very much for your video and I would say "practical" wisdom shared. p.s. 14:15 when I will look like a Christmas Tree, I will let you know : -)
yup-just did it. Worked immediately! BUT- just realized I had a cough drop on top of my tongue that applied a lot more pressure to the top of the tongue beneath that gland!! I think that helped a lot. (but no one wants to gag on a cough drop!) The wonders of menthol!!
I've never heard of this or tried it before. I was very surprised by how far I could reach back and I'm sure I could have gone farther but I have a barbell with a hoop in my tongue...lol. I'll have to take it out and try. I have a very long tongue and think that will help me accomplish it.
If you raise your tongue slowly… you’ll feel a place where it tingles, it’s right before you get all the way up and in between hard and soft. If you lick it, it feels like a Pearl. It’s a Dragon Pearl thing. Also The Pineal Gland is designed to pop open. Amrita begins to flow once it’s fully opened, for that your exercises to raise the vibration within you and condense it down into a singular point. The fluid tastes bitter at first, you’ll also notice a strange dryness in the upper part of the throat. Once it gets unblocked you’ll start to taste a metallic taste at first… eventually it’s gonna start to taste like milk and honey, that is literally how it tastes. Be warned Amrita is DMT, when it fully turns on you are swamped with the impressions. The Upanishads help one to understand the things… also The Bhagavad Gita helps too. The world may be sped up and you will lose who you are. Your identification dissolves and you become your pure awareness. It’s like an explosion to your being, an oblivion that you’re venturing in. Be a Noble person in that process… when you lay down and it’s pouring out of the gland you can feel it coming down your throat and it feels like it’s filling your lungs. Drop into The 4th Phase of Breathe, slow your breath and focus… when you hit the breathe where you can’t tell if you’re breathing or not… rest there. Let yourself go to Death by Sleep. Just some further insight from my experience. It was a wild time.
Great vídeo Guruji 😊🙏When you say “touching the úvula is already a progress”, I guess its - touching it without pushing the tong with your hands, right?
I love your enthusiasm and levity, Forrest! While doing the "sipping" technique, I started to salivate like crazy. The same thing happens when I do the HRVR breathing while my tongue is resting. I have no idea why that is. Any clue? Thanks again for sharing!
When the body enters into HRV Resonance, the sinus passages start producing hormonal content and proteins. This very useful secretion is usually shut down, but reappears as the body enters rest. It can cause more saliva flow as well. It seems you entered into rest with this technique very quickly. 🤩🤩🙏
So I can tell I can get my tongue up there. I have to be honest I am a bit apprehensive and feel like it could get stuck. So I havent tried to hard yet to really get it in there.
Hello sir! I am 16 years old and I can do khechari mudra quite easily. I did stretched my tongue backwards in my mouth continuously for months until pain appears in the frenelum (and tongue). I would thought pain = something is wrong is going on, which causes me to stop rolling my tongue backwards. I before knowing all this wanted to see if the tongue go can up into the head, yes I thought it was impossible. I practice talabya kriya even today even though it seems unnecessary. I've been unknowingly doing talabya kriya for years and the adults and children around me found me weird and says I have some mental disorder or so. I'd say I'm doing this for 2/3 years so far. I can go beyond the uvula, up into the nasal pharynx and feel what's up there. There is this soft area directly above my nasal septum when I press my tongue on it, it triggers this burning sensation or it feels like 'electricity' at the tip of my tongue. I can go even higher than that, I go as high up that I feel this flat area or what is referred to as the 'roof'. I can slightly go pass it and I feel bumps and then this void. That's it, I can't make my tongue ascend any further. I looked in a lot of sources for information on khechari when I found out it is a very difficult and advanced mudra for a while now. The sources are the wiki, TH-cam, various websites, comments, and so on. I played with my tongue a lot during my lifetime. I also know about the liquid that flow down from the roof of your nasal pharynx and the effects of this powerful liquid. This is called amrita or nectar. So far I think I have not tasted this liquid although saliva does build up a lot in my mouth when I do khechari. The thing is, the effects of this liquid are so powerful I don't think I should even try absorb it when it is sweet anytime because I am not prepared I believe. Question, I've come this far so should I stop or continue? I don't do yoga nor meditation or what is referred to as sadhana.
New to the channel, have you experienced bliss in your practice and what book or books would you recommend to use for kriya yoga. Thanks for the content
If I may, and I am sure Forrest's recommendation would supersede any of mine, you can read 'Yoga and Kriya: A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques'. As the name suggests, it is a systematic course on Kriya yoga by the master himself.
When you get to the point that you can push the tongue into the nasal pharnyx do we continue to do just this or do we need to continue the tabla kriya as well?
Dear friend! It's a translation error. In the original Sanskrit, the back of the tongue was translated as the tip of the tongue. Putting the top or the tip of the tongue against the hard palate during meditation or throughout the day is quite sufficient. The sole purpose of Khechari Mudra is to transmit electricity from the underlying body to the pineal gland to stimulate pineal development and activity. Namaste! 😇
Interesting, I always have my tongue right up against my teeth and the roof of my mouth at the front, and I feel the second proof in my tongue that way. It seems like the right position for me as opposed to stretching the tongue out which I always find strained.
That's very interesting Frank, thank you, however I hold two oral traditions on Khechari, and they both work very well. So I'm very certain about the veracity of what I teach. 🙏
"LIT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE!!" That's what happened to me!! Thanks to you and Bill Donahue!! It reminded me of some kind of Pentecostal rebirth. Does that mean I activated my merkabah or Tibetan rainbow body?? Can I escape reincarnation now?? THANK you, Forrest Forever..
Thank you so much. When the tongue is up in khechari do you breathe through your nose still? It feels totally blocked but im assuming breathing through the mouth isn’t right..
That's correct, you want to adjust the position of the tongue slightly and elongate it towards the roof until there is room on both sides of the tongue for the breath to pass. All Kriya are meant to be done with a nasal breath.
What timings! I am trying to do khechari for the past 3 years now and still can't do it. Only thing that has changed is when I sometimes hit the right place, I suddenly feel a tone which is constant and it becomes very very peaceful. Not sure if this is right? This method might help on top of trying khechari. Thank you, Forrest! 💖💖🙏🙏
I have been having many people bothering me fantazing and creaeting dreams with me it is very annoying slowly but surley I am making senseof it and closing up to protect and focus my energy... Buti t iss uper anoying...
…..and we sip and we sip and we sip and we sip and the trickle becomes a swirling inner stream that flows and widens, gains momentum, reaches the ocean, where we swim and swim to our hearts desire in endless expansion and bliss and joy! Marvelous as always Forrest! Thank you! 🌊🌊🌊🐬🐬🐬🌊🌊🌊
Diane! So beautifully said! The Ocean calls! 🌊🌊🌊🙏🙏🙏
I love your characters❤🎉.
Fabulous!
You are on point, even small Khechari can lift you up if you establish the pathway and bridge for energy. I also find parallels to mula, uddiyana and jalandhara bandhas in that the prana is drawn upwards. Physical positioning is a secondary thing and your video is summarized well. Thank you.
That wax reminds me of the cervix plug!
I learned this technique from Himalayan Monks last year, is a very powerful technique, Is so relaxing and is not so much different from Kechari!
I can't do kechari mudra so this alternative is as powerful as that for me! 🙏🙏😊
That's amazing Simone! 🙏🤩
@@ForrestKnutson Yes! Himalayan Monks are Amazing! 🙏🏼🕉😊
@@ForrestKnutson You know that you can do Pranakriya and Pranayama with the Tongue touching the pallet? Is very powerful and It lead to powerful Trance states. 🙏🏼🕉
I really appreciate your videos both humorous and insightful. I found that I could get a sense of bliss from that introduction as long as i kept breathing fully.
Forrest, you are a blessing to the world and for all yogis. This is timely. Thank you. So much gratitude. God bless.
Perfect Sai! I'm so glad to hear it was synchronous. 🤩🙏🤩
Yes, I have experienced these. This is a very good post! Thank you so much. I don't mind spending the rest of my life attempting to do proper khechari, however, I am not sure I really need to, though it is routine. Especially when we hear of these second generation kriya babies doing full khechari spontaneously without any working knowledge of kriya yoga, if such a thing is even possible! ;)
Thank you! Yes, I've met three so far, amazingly. 🙏
I did notice it as you described it, and I also got a chuckle.😀
I can naturally put my tongue back in my sphenoid sinus. In fact I’ve been doing that for a while without even knowing what kechari is. I used “swallow” my tongue sometimes and it feels kinda good.
Merci 🙏
Hilarious, you're a consummate professional. The giddiness was a fantastic demonstration. Thank you.
I think I've done this instinctively before by feeling into the medulla. There seems to be an interesting energetic thing going on between the second proof and the medulla, and at times it does feel like bliss is dripping out of the brain, or something higher up, between these. My problem with even a baby kechari is that I feel the second proof the most reliably out of all of them, and I feel it very nicely in the tongue when I have it right against my teeth, contacting the hard palate in the front of my mouth. It weakens when I pull the tongue away, and I also have some blockages in the chest and throat that messing with the tongue exacerbates. This is a fascinating alternative.
That's great!
7:24 I just realised I do the exact same thing, completely unknowingly.
I find this bliss in devotion.
I mean now that I know it. it's
Going to be easier for me to access that state.
I almost forgot to say thanks,
Thank you so much for your guidance Forrest
Beautiful Pratik! 🤩🙏
Beautiful!
You are Amazing Forrestji, great technique. I will also revise big bliss training thankyou
Thank you Subha! Perfect! 🙏🌹🥳
Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love 🙏🙏🙏❤
Atma namaste Vimala! Great to hear from you! 🙏🌹🙏
Atma namaste sir thank you so much for your kind reply God bless much love 🙏🙏🙏❤
@@vimaladominic God bless! 🙏🤩🌹
@@ForrestKnutson wishing you and family a very happy wesak blessings loads of love 🙏🙏🙏❤
This is also an awesome mediation or technique thanks so much ganna use this for the rest of my life feel better already.
Fantastic! 🙏
I tried cutting of frenulum twice by maxillo facial surgeons, first by laser and later by manual surgery. I had a difficult post operative period. Following normalisation, I realised that I am back to zero. But continued practice has helped me touch uvula but I still don't feel relaxed and it puts my temporalis and masseters in a permanent state of contraction leading to more stress. Kindly guide.
Wow, what a rocky experience! This is why Lahiri Mahasaya recommended not cutting the frenulum. Why not try the technique I describe here at the end of the video.
This might sound like a "negative" comment. But my suggestion would be to leave this entire process alone for a while (perhaps a year) until clarity arises. I have gotten blowback for trying to force many things before their time. Your tongue will heal. Do not force.
Brian David Gilbert's most recent 2 min song "there is a rock in my house" is awesome and seems to be totally relevant
I'm really drawn to this topic. There are season where i'm just stretching my tongue on a routine basis then there are some where i'm just on a break. My only constant is 30 mins of HRV I can sustain 5 breaths per min and I'm happy there for now. Thanks for the education Forrest.
That's perfect! 🤩🙏🌹
Thank you very much for this video Forrest. I have a question, can you reach back all the way to the sphenoid sinus with your tongue? If so, how long did it take you?
Om sri gurubhyo namah
I have problems even to just bring my tongue back, now matter how much I tried.
00:23 It must be the geometry of my mouth not allowing me to do this. I wonder why there is not a soft tool already invented to achieve this with it instead of your tongue though.
8:08 I believe it works because whatever we do starts with imagining it first. It might take some time but this is possible for me to achieve.
Thank you very much for your video and I would say "practical" wisdom shared.
p.s. 14:15 when I will look like a Christmas Tree, I will let you know : -)
Just what I was looking for. The visualization could be a perfect and realistic substitute for the tongue lengthening.
Wonderful Daniel!
yup-just did it. Worked immediately! BUT- just realized I had a cough drop on top of my tongue that applied a lot more pressure to the top of the tongue beneath that gland!! I think that helped a lot. (but no one wants to gag on a cough drop!) The wonders of menthol!!
Amazing Amy!
@@ForrestKnutson You can count on me, Forrest.
Is the metallic taste I get the “milk and honey” also how do I get to the point it happens again?
I've never heard of this or tried it before. I was very surprised by how far I could reach back and I'm sure I could have gone farther but I have a barbell with a hoop in my tongue...lol. I'll have to take it out and try. I have a very long tongue and think that will help me accomplish it.
Excellent, yes, give it a go 🤩🙏
If you raise your tongue slowly… you’ll feel a place where it tingles, it’s right before you get all the way up and in between hard and soft. If you lick it, it feels like a Pearl. It’s a Dragon Pearl thing.
Also The Pineal Gland is designed to pop open. Amrita begins to flow once it’s fully opened, for that your exercises to raise the vibration within you and condense it down into a singular point. The fluid tastes bitter at first, you’ll also notice a strange dryness in the upper part of the throat. Once it gets unblocked you’ll start to taste a metallic taste at first… eventually it’s gonna start to taste like milk and honey, that is literally how it tastes.
Be warned Amrita is DMT, when it fully turns on you are swamped with the impressions. The Upanishads help one to understand the things… also The Bhagavad Gita helps too. The world may be sped up and you will lose who you are. Your identification dissolves and you become your pure awareness. It’s like an explosion to your being, an oblivion that you’re venturing in. Be a Noble person in that process… when you lay down and it’s pouring out of the gland you can feel it coming down your throat and it feels like it’s filling your lungs. Drop into The 4th Phase of Breathe, slow your breath and focus… when you hit the breathe where you can’t tell if you’re breathing or not… rest there. Let yourself go to Death by Sleep.
Just some further insight from my experience. It was a wild time.
Wow! I'd love to learn more
@@bodhi_bear2878 I know a good amount of stuff. I’d need to know what it is you seek.
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Great vídeo Guruji 😊🙏When you say “touching the úvula is already a progress”, I guess its - touching it without pushing the tong with your hands, right?
Both are very good. You're halfway there at that point, and the next phase is to push the tip of the tongue up into the nasopharynx itself. 🙏🤩
@@ForrestKnutson yes, practicing every day… hope I get there this year or next😅😊🙏
@@tumareyoga9041 perfect 🔥🙏
I love your enthusiasm and levity, Forrest! While doing the "sipping" technique, I started to salivate like crazy. The same thing happens when I do the HRVR breathing while my tongue is resting. I have no idea why that is. Any clue? Thanks again for sharing!
When the body enters into HRV Resonance, the sinus passages start producing hormonal content and proteins. This very useful secretion is usually shut down, but reappears as the body enters rest. It can cause more saliva flow as well. It seems you entered into rest with this technique very quickly. 🤩🤩🙏
@@ForrestKnutson Awesome! Thanks for the explanation! 😁
Is this part of the beginning stage?
How to download cosmic energy into the body
So I can tell I can get my tongue up there. I have to be honest I am a bit apprehensive and feel like it could get stuck. So I havent tried to hard yet to really get it in there.
Does this affect the shambavi mudra?
Hello sir!
I am 16 years old and I can do khechari mudra quite easily. I did stretched my tongue backwards in my mouth continuously for months until pain appears in the frenelum (and tongue). I would thought pain = something is wrong is going on, which causes me to stop rolling my tongue backwards. I before knowing all this wanted to see if the tongue go can up into the head, yes I thought it was impossible. I practice talabya kriya even today even though it seems unnecessary. I've been unknowingly doing talabya kriya for years and the adults and children around me found me weird and says I have some mental disorder or so.
I'd say I'm doing this for 2/3 years so far.
I can go beyond the uvula, up into the nasal pharynx and feel what's up there.
There is this soft area directly above my nasal septum when I press my tongue on it, it triggers this burning sensation or it feels like 'electricity' at the tip of my tongue. I can go even higher than that, I go as high up that I feel this flat area or what is referred to as the 'roof'. I can slightly go pass it and I feel bumps and then this void. That's it, I can't make my tongue ascend any further.
I looked in a lot of sources for information on khechari when I found out it is a very difficult and advanced mudra for a while now. The sources are the wiki, TH-cam, various websites, comments, and so on.
I played with my tongue a lot during my lifetime. I also know about the liquid that flow down from the roof of your nasal pharynx and the effects of this powerful liquid. This is called amrita or nectar. So far I think I have not tasted this liquid although saliva does build up a lot in my mouth when I do khechari.
The thing is, the effects of this liquid are so powerful I don't think I should even try absorb it when it is sweet anytime because I am not prepared I believe.
Question, I've come this far so should I stop or continue? I don't do yoga nor meditation or what is referred to as sadhana.
New to the channel, have you experienced bliss in your practice and what book or books would you recommend to use for kriya yoga. Thanks for the content
If I may, and I am sure Forrest's recommendation would supersede any of mine, you can read 'Yoga and Kriya: A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques'. As the name suggests, it is a systematic course on Kriya yoga by the master himself.
@@divyanshpratap4208 thank you
When you get to the point that you can push the tongue into the nasal pharnyx do we continue to do just this or do we need to continue the tabla kriya as well?
Usually you can just push with the fingers because the tablya no longer provides a stretch.
Make a video on yogic diet.
Dear friend! It's a translation error. In the original Sanskrit, the back of the tongue was translated as the tip of the tongue. Putting the top or the tip of the tongue against the hard palate during meditation or throughout the day is quite sufficient. The sole purpose of Khechari Mudra is to transmit electricity from the underlying body to the pineal gland to stimulate pineal development and activity. Namaste! 😇
Interesting, I always have my tongue right up against my teeth and the roof of my mouth at the front, and I feel the second proof in my tongue that way. It seems like the right position for me as opposed to stretching the tongue out which I always find strained.
That's very interesting Frank, thank you, however I hold two oral traditions on Khechari, and they both work very well. So I'm very certain about the veracity of what I teach. 🙏
"LIT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE!!" That's what happened to me!! Thanks to you and Bill Donahue!! It reminded me of some kind of Pentecostal rebirth. Does that mean I activated my merkabah or Tibetan rainbow body?? Can I escape reincarnation now?? THANK you, Forrest Forever..
Thank you so much. When the tongue is up in khechari do you breathe through your nose still? It feels totally blocked but im assuming breathing through the mouth isn’t right..
That's correct, you want to adjust the position of the tongue slightly and elongate it towards the roof until there is room on both sides of the tongue for the breath to pass. All Kriya are meant to be done with a nasal breath.
@@ForrestKnutson thank you again. Appreciate you and your content🙏🏼 take care
What timings! I am trying to do khechari for the past 3 years now and still can't do it. Only thing that has changed is when I sometimes hit the right place, I suddenly feel a tone which is constant and it becomes very very peaceful. Not sure if this is right? This method might help on top of trying khechari. Thank you, Forrest! 💖💖🙏🙏
That's perfect! Yes you are correct! 🙏🌹🌹🤩
I have been having many people bothering me fantazing and creaeting dreams with me it is very annoying slowly but surley I am making senseof it and closing up to protect and focus my energy... Buti t iss uper anoying...
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I'm sure it's just me but for some reason the image of a hamster bottle seems to work better than the idea of some form of wax plug
That's perfect 🤩
I can touch my uvela " just tried it now"with my tongue I guss I'm lucky enough lol
Excellent!
It’s works makes me happy 😂
Perfect! 🥳
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I told my girlfriend and she say u should throw up?
There is a gag reflex sometimes, that you have to work through and make it normal to your body.
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