What Is A Yagya?

Yagya, Havana, Homa, Agni Hotra are all Sanskrit words used to describe a yagya.

A havana is a sacred fire ceremony, a part of the technology of the Vedic tradition and it is a very powerful upaya. ‘Upaya’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘technique to remedy or correct energetic imbalances in spaces’. In the Vedic tradition, many different types of havanas exist.

A havana is one of the most powerful things you can do for clearing a space and opening up the energy.

Havanas have been used for thousands of years in the yogic tradition, to open specific gatherings and to support in gaining intensity around an intention. When we can gather intensity around our intention, we can create from that place. That intensity itself becomes a creative force.

We do this with other yogic techniques too, but here it becomes engaged with the elemental reality. It’s an external expression of our internal yagya that we are constantly engaging in, activating our inner fire and burning the samskaras. We are influencing and pouring the intention into the flame and that flame is radiating that particular fragrance.