What is Shambhavi Upaya ?

It is that which is in between effort and no effort. There is one level of upayas where there is lot of effort and there is one where you don’t put any effort.

        Shambhavi is in between where you put a little effort and then it happens. One of the Shambhavi mudras is, you just put a little attention in between the eyebrows but then let go. But in the name of Shambhavi mudra people do all wrong things and they end up having so much headache. They end up having migraines, headaches and sometimes they go cuckoo.

        So my advice is don’t venture into any of these. In the name of Hath yoga they do what all. All these kriyas don’t look normal. People lose strength in the body and the mind as well. That is why my advice is go very natural and whatever is safer, which is traditional, that which is taught here now. We must be authentic when we do Yoga practices.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji