Kosa and Vayu

Question 1

What are the 5 kosa?

Answer 1

1. Annamaya Kosa
2. Pranamaya kosa
3. Manomaya kosa
4. Visnanamaya kosa
5. Anandamaya kosa

Question 2

What is Annamaya Kosa?

Answer 2

Ana means food
When identify with this kosa we identify with the physical aspects of our self , eg: skin, flesh, and food.

It is the sustenance for all of the other 4 components of the kosa .

Question 3

What is pranamaya kosa?

Answer 3

Quality of energy we have by the food we consume , or people we have in our lives.
Flow of energy through the Nadis which we have 72000 as by patanjali.

Question 4

What is Manomaya kosa ?

Answer 4

Comprises the mind being the our mental thoughts and emotions along with the 5 senses.

Manomaya kosa contains:
- Manas (the mind)
- subconscious
- sense of organs of sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing.

Question 5

What is Vijnamaya kosa?

Answer 5

It is associate with wisdom, knowledge, intuition and witness consciousness.
It is the last layer of the subtle body.
It is the witness consciousness that is underneath the processing, thinking aspect of the mind.

Question 6

What is anandamaya kosa?

Answer 6

Bliss body
Last component of kosa

Stillness, and peace

Question 7

How to purify Annamaya kosa?

Answer 7

Consume high energy food, eating vegan or vegetarian if you can.

Pranayama and Kriya practice

Question 8

How to purify pranamaya kosa?

Answer 8

Pranayama practices and kriya

Question 9

How to purify Manomaya practice?

Answer 9

Gentle yoga asana practices
Devotion
Chanting
Yamas and Niyamas

Question 10

How to purify vijnanayama practice

Answer 10

Doing good deeds
Study of scripture
Being associated and being around with likeminded spiritual people

Question 11

How to purify anandamaya?

Answer 11

Meditation

Question 12

What is Vayu?

Answer 12

Vayu is the wind - it is felt and seen through the air we breath.

Vayu keeps energy moving to ensure health and vitality.

Vayus are types of prana that exist in the body from abdomen, heart, throat, perineum and brain. And outer areas of the body including nervous , endocrine and cardiovascular system.

Question 13

What are the 5 major vayus?

Answer 13

1. Prana vayu
2. Apana vayu
3. Udana vayu
4. Samana vayu
5. Vyana vayu

Question 14

What is Prana vayu?

Answer 14

Responsible for our cardiac system and respiration, located under the heart and throat , provides air to heart and lungs - energy and power
Associates with anahata chakra and Jalandhara bhanda, pookara - inhalation

Area of the lungs
Has upward movement
Correlated to our sense organs of hearing and seeing so the ears and eyes.
Respiration and speech
When prana vayu is healthy, we are able to articulate our feelings, emotions, deeper inner thoughts with less challenge.

Question 15

What is Apana vayu?

Answer 15

Associated with elimination of waste products from your body through lungs, smalls and large intestine , urogenital system.

Below navel region
Elimination, digestions, expulsion of watse , childbirth.

Large intestine, kidney, anus genitals , it is expulsion of the waste.
Downward and outward flow of prana

It is connected to the lower limbs , pelvis and to earth .

It is strengthen through pada bhanda

Standing series, grounding series such as pashimotasana

Ardha Matsyendrasana

Savasana

Question 16

What is Udana Vayu?

Answer 16

Above the neck
Thought absorption
Energy moves around the throat and head.
Including sensory receptors, ears, eyes and nose.
Responsible for creating sounds, eg: singing, crying , laughing . Communication, sight hearing, sleep, hormone, tissue repair , thyroid gland .
Supports the experience of deep meditation.

Question 17

What is Samana Vayu?

Answer 17

Between heart and navel
Sitter in the navel and associates with fire element .

Associated with digestive system, liver, pancreas and stomach.

Distributed circulatory movement of energy in and out of navel.

Sending the nutrients around the body and activating heart and circulatory system.
Since it’s correlates with abdomen, strengthen with uddiyhan bhanda and pranayama like bastrika and kapalabati.
About letting go, how you digest and swallow your experiences?

Question 18

What is Vyana vayu?

Answer 18

Responsible for expansion and contraction of the whole body . All the muscular system .
It is responsible for immune system, circulatory system, lymphatic system, musculoskeletal system and nervous systems.

When all other vayus are balanced, so is the vyana vayu

Question 19

How many vayus in the subtle body?

Answer 19

49 different types of vayu