Kundalini: The Yoga of Awareness
Mastery of the breaths leads to practical health and wellness benefits
Techniques from an ancient Tibetan lineage
Affirmations and meditations that empower you
Breathing Exercises and Affirmations That Transform Your Life
(An interpretation of the Brahma Vidya Course)
The Eight Spiritual Breaths
A Powerful System Of Self-Transformation
The Eight Spiritual Breaths originated in Tibet. It is an Ancient self-transformational system
of 8 Breathing Exercises followed by Affirmations and Meditation.
The 8 Breaths are taught once a week, across 12 weeks. Each Breath acts upon a different energy center in the body. The daily practice of these breaths supports :
- Good physical health,
- Stability of the mental state
- Emotional well-being
- Helps the individual practitioner blossom into their fullest potential.
This course was brought to the west from Tibet by the English journalist Edwin John Dingle also known as Ding Le Mei who in 1927 began teaching this course as “Science of Mental Physics” in California. The practice of these Breathing Exercises was conducted in India by Swami K. S. Ramanathan under the aegis of The Brahma Vidya Mission. Swami Ramanathan’s student, Justice M.L Dudhat also taught this course as Mental Physics in Mumbai. Santosh Ma studied The Eight Spiritual Breaths under the guidance of Justice Dudhat Ji.
The Origin of The Eight Spiritual Breaths
The Eight Spiritual Breaths Course
Santosh Ma
Santosh Sachdeva attended a course of Brahma Vidya conducted by Justice M. L. Dudhat of the Bombay High Court. This year marked the beginning of a significant period in her life. Little did she understand how this would completely change her life, bringing on a profound interest in meditation and a surrender to the Higher Forces.
TESTIMONIALS
I am a person who has followed instructions from books very carefully and thereby learned and acquired skills and prowess I would not ordinarily have. I have been doing just that with The Eight Spiritual Breaths with beautiful results and much progress. Thank you so much for this excellent book and Course. Everything you say in the book is not only perfectly understandable to me, but taking me …
TESB have been a powerful mental support for me. They keep me overall healthy, and have given me a lot of mental strength to face problems and tough situations. They have also been a very big teacher in the sense that they contain in a very short form the essence of most spiritual teachings. When I watch spiritual teachers and read spiritual books, many of the things the teachers try to pass on…
The Eight Spiritual Breaths (TESB) is for me the ‘missing link’ which I have searched for all my life. Here in my hand, I at last held the key to my spiritual advancement in its totality. The breathing exercises instil the body with strength and the accompanying affirmations are empowering. The Course is a gift that is ours for the taking. As I read TESB new pathways opened up and routes to an …
TESB have been not only my anchor but also the propulsion along the path of my life. The effects have ranged from an increase in physical health to an expanded understanding of an emotional, intellectual and spiritual nature. I feel that practising the TESBs has been life changing for me. I feel thankful and blessed.
Working with The Eight Spiritual Breaths is a gift the universal consciousness is offering to whoever is ripe enough to open up to the essence of life – being a universal vessel for consciousness to unfold according to the cosmic journey. The Breaths manage their ways through your DNA, upgrading it to accommodate more light which results in a frequency shift and limitless healing. The subtle bo…
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I took on TESB practice two years ago and I consider it the protector of my energy. I am a psychotherapist so I have to process a lot, and I can say without a doubt that TESB plays a foremost role in keeping me clear, fresh, and joyful.
The Eight Spiritual Breaths have a constant impact on my life path, they are alive and every practice, every inhale, every exhale, every affirmation, every meditation infuses my Heart, dances and consumes me more and more in this surrender to the simplicity of life, every moment is freed from everything I imagined it should be and is returned to what it has always been, the flow of life.
The…
The Eight Spiritual Breaths sadhana is designed to activate various energy centres and glands in the body.
The changes brought about is at a cellular level, regulation of hormones thus causing hormonal changes in the body.
As it is known that cells communicate via photons or light, this sadana increases the volume and amperage of electrical conductivity of the cells. There is also the word…
I started TESB during a very turbulent time in my life and it helped me tremendously! I feel lighter, clearer, more empowered, grounded and calm. I am most grateful to Santosh Ma for her loving presence and wisdom.
TESB has changed my life for the better, and in what feels like a very short amount of time. Prior to this Course, I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with a Kundalini Yoga program I had been practicing for a few years, and I was actively seeking something different. Filtering through the various offerings I could find, both online and locally, I read and heard many great claims, but I was…
Practicing TESB has given me a lot of energy and enthusiasm along with higher levels of calmness in daily life. There is always a sense of progress and learning.
Apart from the practice, listening to Santosh Ma itself provides immense learning. She explains very subtle concepts in a simple way. I always find myself extracting something new each time I listen to her.
The clairvoyance with which Santosh Ma has presented the information in TESB, and the way the visualisation has come to her, is so divine that many lifetimes of preparation must have gone into it. Our deep heartfelt gratitude for the guidance.
We are evolving rapidly as a result of the Course. Years of work have finally led us to the path of being able to actualise the experience of the Trut…
I have been doing TESB for the last year and a half without missing a single day and it has changed my life. Mentally… I seem to comprehend the subtleties of life with much clarity. Desire for material things has lessened, yet appreciation for what comes in life has increased. The biggest blessing is lessening of the ego as one becomes a witness to the blessings of the greater forces as awarene…
I have been practising TESB for a couple of years. The big impact on my life is that I am much happier and stronger than I used to be. My chronic sinus has completely disappeared. The breaths have brought changes – some that are obvious and some very subtle. In short, the breaths have brought joy, clarity, and improved my health and my life.
I have noticed changes in my day to day approach to external situations as well as a greater internal awareness. I feel confident that I now have the beginnings of a process, which followed with diligent commitment, will provide me with the inner guidance and spiritual support. I only wish I had received such Grace in the form of this teaching decades ago!
I read and re-read the Course Book and I discover something new each time. I have an autoimmune condition, which has come under control without medication in the last year-and-a-half, through the practice of the Breaths. I find this very fascinating.
There is a longing to do the Breaths every day. I have found it’s still better to do the Breaths later during the day if one can’t do them in …
The Eight Spiritual Breaths (TESB) is Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Integral Yoga’ in practice, it is leading a divine life in a divine body. It is of immense use to those who want to scale to higher levels of consciousness and open themselves to the Supramental light.
With about eight weeks of practicing TESB, I am experiencing expansion of my mind. I am able to have some experience of my subtle body. Earlier, my mind was somewhat empty and silent, but the silence was accompanied with a feeling of dryness. But, now I am observing that the feeling of dryness is gone, I am more receptive… Definitely, I am preparing and conditioning (or de-conditioning) mysel…
I came to TESB battered and broken. I had no discipline in my life. TESB has been the one constant in my daily life, and the anchor for me to rebuild and reconstruct. Other things are changing for the better. Starting from a place of fragmentation, I am slowly becoming whole again.
TRANSFORMATION is the overwhelming sense that comes to mind when describing TESB and their impact on my being. I was made aware of the different dimensions – emotional, physical, mental and energy. In my personal experience, TESB went about the process of transformation in a holistic manner, leaving no dimension untouched. My experience involved cleansing/purification, energising and re-coding/…
For the past few years I lived with a medical condition wherein allopathy had no answers. TESB, in just a few months of starting them, is working on cleansing my entire DNA system. Are there many visible changes? My emotions have not disappeared, but now I have learnt to modulate them for a more effective communication, resulting in a definitive reduction in my levels of blood pressure and stre…
The Breaths gave me immense energy, enhanced my strength and immunity, and I never fell ill during the course of my practice.
I realised that powerful Affirmations do not only mean that I say them as loudly as I can, but also to believe in them and implement them in everyday life. I learnt to let go of the baggage I was carrying for all these years, as well as all the preconditioning, to see…
I must compliment you for ‘The Eight Spiritual Breaths’ Course Book. It is an excellent treatise. Since I have attended Brahma Vidya classes with another teacher: the basic course as well as advanced course thereafter which ran for 2 years, it was very easy to follow your book. I must admit I learnt many new aspects of these Breathing Exercises.
From the time I completed the Brahma Vidya c…
I stumbled upon the TESB Course after reading one of Santosh Ma’s books. Before this transformative journey, chronic sinusitis and extreme sensitivity to smells were constant challenges in my life. Sudden changes in temperature triggered relentless sneezing, and the simple act of breathing while lying down felt like an impossible task. However, the TESB Course has brought about genuine improvem…
A Guru is one who shines a light on our spiritual journey. She demonstrates, through her presence, the joy and grace of spiritual discovery; showing us that the path ahead may be steep but not impossible. She simplifies and makes the inner cosmos accessible and available.
I feel like I have been knocking on many spiritual doors all my life and finally found the door home. The Affirmations …
Regular practice of TESB has changed me. The changes are at such a deep level, that there is no going back. The energy worked at a subtle level, and I didn’t even realise when and how the changes were occurring. The anger vanished, the anxiety left me; what remained is a serene calm. After the Course, I instinctively started to feel for others and see their point of view in different situations…
I have been practicing TESB for the last 15 years under the guidance of Guruji Santosh Sachdeva. This has transformed me from an unconscious mass of consciousness into a conscious, alive, energetic life form. It took me on a journey of the unknown, revealing the mysteries of the world and the Self. The transformation has happened at the physical, mental and emotional levels. My personality comp…
Guruji—the very thought brings forth many emotions. Her teachings touch the core of my heart. For many years, I was in search of a spiritual practice that would help me connect with my inner self as well as connect with something bigger than myself. And now I know. I practice TESB; that is my ‘Sadhana’. The interesting thing about my Practice is that every day, a new meaning unfolds.
I am v…
The foremost change was learning how powerful my thoughts are. I have started sorting out the thoughts as ‘what is mine’ and ‘what is not’. Slowly, things within are changing as I feel, think and then act accordingly. It is compelling to dwell on the past, or on thoughts of negativity, but to be determined is what the process is all about, and the Breaths made it happen for me. As my awareness …
I wake up every morning with a sense of anticipation. What a wonderful feeling to wake up to know your day involves a practice, rather, a dialogue between the Creator and the created. That’s what TESB is to me after 12 weeks of the Course!
After practicing TESB and being in Santosh Ma’s presence for the weekly online Meditations, I have become so calm. I have become more conscious of what I see or listen. I feel I have become more sensitive to the energy around. I had lower back pain for more than three years which gave me sleepless nights and I had difficulty in walking. It just seems to have disappeared. My heartfelt thank you …
I share my experiences with utmost gratitude towards Guru Santosh Ma. TESB have taught me lessons of lifetimes. The breaths and affirmations have changed my life 360 degrees. My old self has dropped away and it feels I am reborn in the same lifetime. They work like a miracle if done with faith. Physically, the body feels cleansed with unwanted and unknown emotions and behaviours that hamper an …
For a long time, my life’s journey didn’t make sense to me. It felt like some of the key pieces from the puzzle of my life were missing. But, when I found myself in the presence of my Guruji Sri Santosh Ma, my journey finally started making sense. From the moment I first saw Guruji Santosh Ma speak about her spiritual journey, I felt this powerful flow of shakti that put me in a spontaneous med…
With the daily practice of TESB, I started feeling more energetic, vibrant, calm and peaceful. Over the four years of practice of the Breaths and meditation, I have undergone a lot of changes and have felt a new awakening of peace. Earlier I used to base my life on others’ opinions but now I have started living for myself. I now respect my life and am loving it.
