Our articles about the Nadis, the Indian Yogic system of Prana Energy Channels.
Although some ancient sources and charts claim that the Yoga Nadis “radiate from out the heart region,” it’s more common that it’s mentioned that all the Nadis spring from the Kanda. The Kanda, also called [ Read more … ]
If the Yoga Nadis are invisible but still actually exist, what are they made of and what do they look like? That’s a question that naturally arises when thinking about substance and components of the [ Read more … ]
Ida Nadi, also known as Chandra Nadi or the Moon Channel, is the Prana Energy Channel located at the left side of Sushumna Nadi, and one of the fourteen main Nadis in Yoga. Alternative names [ Read more … ]
Depending on a variety of ancient Indian scriptural sources, the total number of Nadis (and sub-Nadis) is thought to be 101, 72000, 80000, or 350000, or sometimes even millions. Nevertheless, usually only 14 Nadis are [ Read more … ]
Gandhari Nadi is considered one of the fourteen principal Nadis, that is, it’s part of the set of fourteen most important Prana Energy Channels in Yoga. According to the ancient Yoga sources we’ve researched, Gandhari [ Read more … ]
Commonly, it’s said that there are two types of Nadis (channels, tubes, or meridians) present in the human body, that is, Subtle Nadis and Gross Nadis. They’re sometimes also referred to as Astral Nadis and [ Read more … ]
When we try to provide accurate descriptions, functions, charts, locations, and trajectories of the Yoga Nadis, we really embark on a complicated task, and it puts us for several difficulties. There are, for instance, different [ Read more … ]
In Yoga, Sushumna Nadi — also written as Susumna Nadi — is known as the main, most important Prana Energy Channel, part of the set of fourteen major Nadis. This Prana Life Force pathway (or [ Read more … ]
Indian scriptures throughout the centuries, actually across millennia, don’t agree on the total number of Nadi Prana Energy Channels — the so-called Yoga Nadis. Different quantities are mentioned, which, for instance, include 72, 101, 72000, [ Read more … ]
The origin and history of the concept of the Yoga Nadis go back to at least somewhere between the beginning and the second half of the 1st millennium BCE, that is, around 2,500 to 3,000 [ Read more … ]