Practices, teachings, and principles from the path.
RUDRA YOGA
Rudra Yoga is a primitive and unadorned path to perfection.
It has one idea and one exercise.*
The three treasures out of which Rudra Yoga arises are the Creation Principle, the Golden Formula and the Magdalena Way.
The foundation of the Rudra Yoga lifestyle is personal responsibility and the offering, each day, of free healing, free food and free spiritual instruction to each one who comes into one's life.
* These are subject to change based on timeline and circumstances.
Currently they are: Idea: Remember, not react. · Exercise: The Rudra Practice — see instructions.
The three treasures are not separate ideas to be understood and filed away — they are meant to be synthesized into a single ongoing orientation toward life. The work is in the daily application: how much do I actually need here, and have I prepared for more? Does this action serve the whole, and am I honestly included in that? Where is my energy going, and is it moving toward healing and growth? Taken together, they form a kind of inner compass — not a ruleset, but a living practice that sharpens with use.
THE CREATION PRINCIPLE
The bare-bones butt-dragging minimum times three, utilizing other people's intelligence, money and energy.
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The bare-bones minimum isn't the goal — it's the starting point. Identify the true minimum of what a situation requires in time, space, or energy, then multiply it by three and make that your baseline. What looks like excess becomes the condition for abundance, and the margin that keeps the unexpected from becoming a crisis.
THE GOLDEN FORMULA
The greatest good for the greatest number of people, including oneself.
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Every action has a direction — toward more good or less. This formula asks you to hold the whole field in view before you move: what serves the most people, in the most meaningful way, without excluding yourself from the equation. The inclusion of oneself is the part that tends to get dropped, and it's the part that makes the whole thing sustainable.
THE MAGDALENA WAY
Using one's life force energy for healing and growing oneself and others.
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Life force is real, and it goes somewhere. The Magdalena Way is a commitment about where — toward healing and growth, for yourself and the people your life touches, rather than toward the things that consume without returning anything. It names a quality of presence that is both active and receptive, oriented less toward achievement and more toward becoming.
YAMAS & NIYAMAS
From Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the Yamas and Niyamas form the first two limbs of the eightfold path — the ethical and personal foundations upon which all practice rests. The Yamas are restraints: behaviors and impulses to abstain from. The Niyamas are observances: qualities and practices to actively cultivate. Together they describe the inner and outer conditions that make genuine practice possible.
YAMA
In order to successfully practice Rudra Yoga you must avoid the compulsion to make excuses, argue and lie.
NIYAMA
In order to successfully practice Rudra Yoga you must cultivate:
Being in a good mood
Being in love
Loving from the other person's point of view
Remembering that when you see something that needs to be done, realize that you are God's Agent on the scene
Witnessing your mind through waking, dreaming and deep sleep
4 PRIME DIRECTIVES
I.
I respect the source.
II.
I am a giver more than a taker.
III.
I get along and work well with others. I have an inability to argue. I am known by my sense of humor. I endeavor to love you from your point of view.
IV.
I will take immediate action to repair or replace broken, lost or stolen objects and neglected spaces that I notice within 24 hours with the optimum need in the time and space of my noticing.
RUDRA PRACTICE
From Spiritual Cannibalism by Swami Rudrananda
The Rudra Practice is a breathing and awareness exercise for developing inner strength, kundalini activation, and surrender. It works with the heart and navel chakras through breath retention and slow exhalation, repeated over an extended session to cultivate depth of concentration and openness.
Bashar is an extraterrestrial intelligence channeled by Darryl Anka since 1984, speaking from a civilization called Essassani — a collective of beings approximately 500 light-years from Earth. The teachings are practical in nature: less a cosmology to believe in than a set of principles for navigating reality consciously. Central to all of it is the idea that your beliefs, emotions, and actions are not reactions to your circumstances — they are the source of them.
THE FIVE LAWS
You exist — and you always have and always will
Everything is here and now
The One is All and the All is One
What you put out is what you get back
Everything changes except the first four laws
CORE TEACHINGS
Follow your highest excitement at every moment, to the best of your ability, with zero attachment to outcome — excitement is not preference, it's the vibrational signature of your true self
Circumstances are neutral — they have no built-in meaning; the meaning you assign is the reality you experience
Your beliefs are the templates; the external world is the reflection
Shifting realities: you don't move through time, you move between parallel versions of reality moment to moment
Permission slips: physical objects, rituals, or practices that allow you to give yourself permission to access a state you already have
