The Navel Compass

Hidden in plain sight.

Most of the profound, ancient teachings of yogic technology are hidden in everyday life. Some of these technologies were deliberately kept secret, to shield the “uninitiated” from the karmic repercussions of ignorance. These teachings are so ancient and so profound, and so universal, that for many of us, even if we think we understand them, we don’t really understand them.

Time and time again, well-meaning seekers like us experience a profound realization and assume that it’s all we need to know. Taking only a part of the teaching and turning it into a platform, a brand, a religion, a belief system, with devout followers who preach only one piece of a vastly complicated fractal. Historically, many of the deep teachings have been hidden to prevent this kind of karmic misstep.

In the age of Aquarius, nothing is hidden. Every piece of information imaginable is available to us at the touch of a button. But because of this, many of the deepest and most profound teachings of yogic science remain hidden. With so much access to so much information, it takes a significant amount of skill (and energy) to see through, interpret, and extract the information that is useful to us. The truth and depth of the teachings are lost in a sea of the overflow of information. This is one such teaching, the navel point.

“I had a gut feeling”

Maybe you’ve used this phrase before. Used to express a knowing that came from somewhere deeper than the conscious mind. Specifically the navel area. In yogic science, there is a tremendous emphasis on the importance of the navel center. A point where all 72,000 channels of the subtle energy of the body meet. The place where your life was sustained without breath for 9 months in your mother’s womb. When something is off about your direction, or your intention, the navel center is the first to tell you. Some western scientists go as far as to call the gut the “second brain,” because of the number of nerve cells that effectively allow your gut to remember.

The navel center can itself be out of alignment, kinda like when you bring a compass too close to a magnet. When the navel point is out of alignment, you will feel jealous, unsure, easily triggered into negative self-worth, anger, or fear. Your ability to clearly perceive your intuitive hits and connect with your destiny depends on the circulation of subtle energy in the body. Remember those 72,000 channels of subtle energy, and how they meet at the navel point? If that energy terminal is misaligned, how could that energy possibly circulate properly?

This navel conduit has a subtle and physical location, and through the various postures and kriyas of certain yogic practices, we can bring that center into alignment. Everything in your life is initiated from and flows through that point. That’s why many fitness trainers will instruct you to keep your core engaged to prevent injury. The movement has to connect from the place where you began. When the navel center is aligned, you’ll find yourself consistently in the right place at the right time, unresponsive to the emotional triggers of jealousy and fear because you are too busy enjoying the seemingly unending synchronicity of living on your destiny path.

Set the navel point with this abdominal set from The Manifestation Workout