nadi
नाडी nāḍīA channel of the subtle body through which vital energy flows; the three principal ones are ida, pingala, and sushumna.
Where this term appears
- What is Tantra? Lineages
That subtle body is mapped by chakras , the centres, and nadis , the channels.
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
One force, five offices. The currents run in channels called nadis .
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
The rivers: nadis If prana is the water, the nadis are the riverbeds.
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
The split ear is a wound that heals into membership, and the tradition reads the cut itself as opening a channel, a nadi , that assists the yogi's power.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The Nadi dosha belongs to the eight-fold matching of horoscopes for marriage, where a shared category between bride and groom is read as a threat to their children, and it is matchmaking custom rather than scri…
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
Nadi-pariksha appears nowhere in Charaka and nowhere in Sushruta; it enters the corpus around 1300 CE.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
And nadi , the heaviest at eight points, is routinely sold today as a check on genetic compatibility.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
They map nadis , channels through which subtle energy runs; chakras , centres strung along the subtle spine; and prana , the vital breath that moves through them.