It is significant that EEG studies have shown that during Yogic Flying, at the moment the body lifts up, coherence in brain wave activity reaches a peak.

Students and faculty love Yogic Flying
by Global Good News staff writer
10 December 2010

Amine Kouider from Algeria, a former student at Maharishi University of Management, has been practising Transcendental Meditation since he was 10 years old.

Amine reports that even when in activity, he always feels the inner peace of his practice of Transcendental Meditation. ‘I've been feeling it as a meditator, but since I've been doing the Yogic Flying, it's become more and more . . . present. You can almost touch it,’ he said

On a visit to his home country of Algeria, his friends were ‘totally astonished’ when they saw the change in him of one year. They said to him, ‘You're still really active and you like to move, but you have this kind of calmness within, there's something more stable about you since this year.’

Amine attributes this to the Yogic Flying technique. ‘With Transcendental Meditation you go deep within yourself and you feel that silence; it's thick, it's beautiful, it's full,’ he said. ‘Then once you take the Yogic Flying course, you feel like that silence is coming out, and is integrated in your life and within yourself.

‘It brings so much joy. The heart is tickled so much. You can't even imagine how much bliss goes out when you're doing Yogic Flying.’

In a video presentation about Yogic Flying, Nancy Lonsdorf, MD, explains that the purpose of Yogic Flying is to develop one’s nervous system and to develop consciousness. ‘Yogic Flying integrates Transcendental Consciousness with activity,’ she said. Trained at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with her residency training in psychiatry at Stanford University, Dr Lonsdorf is a long time practitioner of Yogic Flying and an author on the subject of Maharishi Ayur Veda.

Rod Falk (shown in the photo above), an educational administrator, reports that he was a happy person prior to practising Transcendental Meditation and doing Yogic Flying, ‘so when I learnt Yogic Flying, the transcendental bliss of the Transcendental Meditation Programme immediately was felt throughout my whole body while I was moving around in the environment.

'It is Being in motion, wholeness on the move, Nirvana on the move,’ he said.

‘If someone asks me if I can fly, I can say, “Yes, I can fly.” The inner subjective experience is one of flying, and even if you get off the foam for one or two inches, the inner experience is that you feel tremendous energy, bliss, happiness—bubbling bliss—inside your own consciousness.’

Dr Craig Pearson, Executive Vice-President of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, says in the video presentation, that the most important aspect of Yogic Flying ‘is what you don't see—so the reason people do this isn’t so much that they expect to fly some day.

‘Whatever you might think of the phenomenon of the body bouncing across the foam [which is used to protect the Yogic Flyers when landing]—whether you're impressed or whether it looks odd—what's important is what you can’t see, the integrated brain functioning that is at the basis of developing our full creativity and intelligence; the happiness, joy, and freedom that we all want to experience.

‘This is meditation taken to the next level. This is beyond what most people think of as meditation. Yogic Flying trains the mind to think from that most wakeful, more creative, most powerful level.’

Dr Fred Travis, Director of the Maharishi University of Management Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition, comments that Yogic Flying supports everyone's desire to think clearly, to be successful; to help themselves. ‘It will expand people's awareness so they'll be able to see how they fit into the larger situation.

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