If you are looking for dramatic spiritual progress, you must do your yogic practices before sunrise, which usually means starting the practices at the Brahma Muhurta, which is the last quarter of the night - anywhere between 3:30 a.m. Brahma Muhurta – The Best Time for Spiritual Progress There are other aspects to it, but these are the two most fundamental reasons why yoga is practiced morning and evening. The best time of the day to do this is always the sandhya when the energies on the planet are going through a certain transition and the friction within the system is greatly reduced, which allows the remolding to happen more easily. That is what we are trying to do with yogic practices – we want to remold ourselves into something entirely different. If you want to be a being of the future, it is necessary to remold the fundamentals of who you are. If you say you are the way you are because your father was like that or because it is in your genes, you are saying you are a creature of the past. After some time, as life situations change and you become less conscious, you will fall back. That is what we are trying to do with yogic practices – we want to remold ourselves into something entirely different.Īttitudinal changes will not last. Times of Transition in Yoga & Meditation Because yoga evolved in tropical climates in India, we always said that all yogic practices must happen before 8:30 in the morning or after 4:00 or 4:30 in the evening. Between day and night, there is a transition that reduces the friction within the system, and therefore, the practices will generate less ushna. That is why yogic practices are always to be done in the cooler hours of the day. If the temperature outside is high and the ushna rises beyond a certain point, it will cause cellular damage. We are conscious that doing practices will raise the ushna in the system.

If your bodily functions go at a certain speed, your mind will go crazy, and above all, it will reduce your lifespan.

When your energies are low, your body tends to go at a higher pace to keep the life process going, which will deplete the system. We can prove this to you in a matter of three to six weeks – if you do certain practices and get your energies to a certain level, your physiological factors will settle down and go at an easier pace. When your energies are in a higher realm, your body will function at an easier pace. If the metabolism becomes high, you will exhaust yourself physically. A higher realm does not mean a higher level of metabolism. Almost all the practices are designed to take you to a somewhat higher realm than what people normally live at. If the body cools below a certain point, it creates inertia in the system. A yogi always wants to keep the body slightly on the warmer side because heat also indicates intensity and dynamism. Samat prana or samana vayu is in charge of maintaining the warmth of the body.

Isha hatha yoga sequence