Background
In this episode of the Instinctive Life Project, I, Siddha Guru Sanju, guided my student through a sacred exploration of energy work through instinctive activities. We traveled to a traditional South Indian model village designed to portray ancient human life — a place that preserved the essence of natural living, sensory awareness, and human instinct. Every activity we encountered reflected how energy once flowed freely in the human body through simple acts of living — sunbathing, playing, farming, weaving, washing, and connecting with animals.
This discourse brings you into that experience — how every movement, gesture, sound, and scene in such an environment can awaken your prana and align your nervous system to the rhythm of the Earth. It is an invitation to rediscover energy flow not through effort, but through naturalness.
The Sunbath and the Flow of Instinct
Yes. These pigeons taking their sunbath — look at them. So instinctively, they open their wings and allow sunlight to heal their bodies. This is how the body knows what it needs. The pigeons are not doing yoga, not meditating — they are simply being. Their sunbath is instinctive, not taught.
And in that moment, you suddenly realize — real beings are happy. Real beings, whether animal or human, are alive because they flow with nature, not against it. You feel that the sunlight, the air, and the sound all merge into one continuous field of energy, and your own body becomes a part of that field.
Entering the Model Village – Rediscovering Instinctive Living
I am in a place that represents an ancient South Indian village — a model of instinctive life. Everything here feels alive — even the clay figures, the animals, the people frozen in time. Each model radiates a story. There is a man sitting under a tree, a woman washing clothes, children playing, and a cow resting nearby.
This place mirrors the Instinctive Life Project itself — a living museum of consciousness. It reminds my student and me of the natural, unfiltered flow of life that once existed before industrial speed invaded human rhythm. My dog walks beside me, observing, unhurried. He doesn’t rush, doesn’t calculate, doesn’t try to appear wise — yet he is alive in every sense.
Childhood Joy and Energy Flow
As I walk further, I see two little girls playing with a skipping rope. It takes me instantly to the innocence of childhood — the joy of movement, the laughter that bursts without reason. That energy — spontaneous, unmeasured, free — is the essence of kundalini in motion.
Nearby stands a bullock cart, the sound of wooden wheels turning against the soil echoing through the village. Even that rhythm carries prana. When you listen deeply, it’s like a mantra repeating through the earth. I look at a cow next to it — sculpted yet radiating such stillness that it feels alive.
Awakening the Instinctive Brain
I turn to my student and say, “Look at this. Look at the instinctive brain in you awakening. See how even a simple scene of people grinding grain, washing, or walking with pots can rewire your nervous system.” These images aren’t mere nostalgia; they are direct portals to our cellular memory.
In ancient times, every activity — cooking, weaving, carrying water — was meditation in motion. The mind was silent because the body was engaged in rhythm. These were not dull chores but energy practices in disguise — instinctive sadhanas.
The Village Council and Collective Consciousness
Then we reach a space where elders of the village once sat in circle — the panchayat. Here, people resolved disputes not through law but through presence, through dialogue, through shared grounding. I tell my student, “Sit here. Feel the vibration of unity. This is what collective consciousness feels like when it is unbroken.”
When you sit in such a space, the chatter of the mind dissolves. It is as if 2000 years of human calm begin to flow through you again.
The Eternal Village Rhythm
In those times, life was slow but not stagnant. It was circular. Even today, in many Indian villages, people still live this way — cooking on open fires, carrying water, caring for animals, sharing silence in the evenings.
I recall telling my student from Denmark, “In your land, the snow covers the earth like silence. Here, the sun burns like life. Yet both are sacred states — each one teaching energy in a different form.”
Mother and Child – The Flow of Care
We pass a scene where a mother bathes her child near the well. The water glistens, the crow caws from above, and the moment feels eternal. I notice the folds of the saree, the sunlight on her hands — so vivid it feels alive.
I tell my student, “This is energy work in its purest form. The act of caring, washing, feeding — all of it is pranic exchange. You don’t need to go to a temple. This is worship.”
Remembering the Origin
Every handicraft, every handmade object here reminds me of our origin. This is where we came from — from the soil, from simple creation, from instinctive intelligence. I sit for a while, reflecting on how much has been lost. Modern humans live surrounded by machines but disconnected from their own life force.
Look around — the blacksmith shaping metal, the carpenter carving wood, the weaver creating threads of life. Each wrinkle on their faces, each movement of the hand, expresses mastery of energy. This was the original Energetic Mastery Method — living in rhythm with what is.
The Spirit of Work and Natural Joy
We reach the village school, and I smile. “Ah, the school,” I say playfully, “I always hated school.” Because true learning was never in books; it was in life itself. Watching someone draw water from a well, grind grain, or chop wood teaches more about balance, patience, and rhythm than any classroom could.
Then I notice a man chopping wood, another grinding grains with a traditional stone mill, and a postman walking down the mud path. As I observe, I suddenly feel my heart chakra opening — the flow of energy expanding in waves of joy. “Yes,” I exclaim, “yes, this is it!” The student feels it too.
When the body witnesses real movement connected to nature, the heart opens effortlessly. Energy rises without any forced meditation. This is natural kundalini activation.
Instinctive Energy Work – Chop Wood, Carry Water
In Zen they say, chop wood, carry water. Here, I see the truth of that statement. Chopping wood is not labor — it is instinctive alignment. Carrying water is not work — it is surrender.
These villagers, these sculpted memories, are teaching what the modern world has forgotten — that enlightenment is not found in escaping the body, but in using it fully, joyfully, instinctively.
The Closing Vibration
As I stand in the traditional grocery market, surrounded by clay figures that look more alive than the people in cities, I feel an immense wave of gratitude. The sounds of birds, the call of an eagle, the rustle of leaves — all merge into one cosmic rhythm.
This place reminds me of what it means to live instinctively. You don’t have to search for spirituality elsewhere. You only have to return to your natural rhythm — walking barefoot on earth, feeling sunlight on your skin, laughing without purpose, caring without measure, creating with your hands, and breathing with the planet.
That is energy work. That is life itself flowing through you.
This is the essence of the Instinctive Life Project — to reawaken the ancient intelligence of the body, the primal joy of existence, and the effortless energy flow that happens when you live, not think, your life.
