Uvaraj wrote in to thank Siddha Heartbeat for featuring Varma Kalai and furnished more information regarding this art of self defense and healing.
"The Varmam details is very well written. So simple and yet so informative. So beautifully done. Anandham."
"I have attached a few resource files that will be very useful for the Varma Kalai articles for the Siddha Heartbeat blog."
"These are some compiled notes and articles from many sources online that we find very useful in explaining about Varma Kalai in its essence and how the siddhas and their knowledge is related to it. These notes are the ones which I find easily understandable and states the basis of Varmam."
"There is one file titled 'Varmam Warrior Arts' and this is a summary of our Varma class that we teach. Our Varmam system is referred as 'Varmam Warrior Arts' as we don't just teach the Martial Arts side of Varmam but integrate others warrior essence such as meditation, yoga, breath work, siddha principles and other relevant studies."
VARMAM WARRIOR ARTSVARMA KALAI (the art of vital points) is the ancient Indian martial art form that manipulates vital points in the body, which can be used both for self-defense, healing and spirituality. Varma Shastra belongs to the very Ancient Siddha Tradition rising from the South of Ancient India. VARMAM WARRIOR ARTS, is a dynamic martial system of life that merges the Ancient Siddha’s Varmalogy system with modern warrior ways.With balance in all forms as essence, our VARMAM WARRIOR ARTS system covers mixture of ancient VARMA KALAI martial training combined with modern defenses, health, healing, spiritual and fitness training that includes these core structures within the system:- Varmam Vasi (Breathing)- Varma Kavasam (Inner Power)- Tarkhapu Varmam (Varma Defense)- Pancha Por Murai- Varma Weapons- Kuttu Varisai- Warrior Yoga- Varma Meditation- Varma Healing (Adangal)- Varma Vital Point Therapy- Varma Energy Therapy (Meitheendha Kalai)- Varma Siddha HerbsVARMAM WARRIOR ARTS primarily focuses on developing the Warrior essence by understanding the optimal being state for the modern living. Our classes will present in depth meaning and understanding of living as a warrior by;
- Educating the diversity of the Warrior Arts training and their application in modern day.
- Layering the Mental, Physical, and Spiritual aspects of these Warrior Arts.
- Exploring many different Warrior Arts application within the Varmalogy system.
- Studying Ancient Yogic arts and Warrior Healing applications within the Varmalogy system.
Some interesting facts came to light while browsing through Uvaraj's notes.
- Discovering Modern, Ancient, and Spiritual importance of Warrior Arts in Modern world.
Our mission is to explore, educate and experience the commonality of Warrior Arts within the Ancient Varmalogy System and make it available in its evolved form for today’s needs.The core backbone of the Varmam Warrior Arts is Varmalogy System of life, Martial application and Healing System. This is our main focus. Through our experience to make the art more accessible as a way of life we needed to continually evolve the structure, just like everything else evolves in life naturally.In essence it is based on the Great Siddhas ancient teaching, adapted for every day beyond it in a new perspective. The Warrior ways of the ancient days must be adapted for today’s warriors needs or else everything becomes stagnant and ‘non-alive’.
- Thirumoolar directly and indirectly quotes about varmam points in relevance with chakras and breathing cycle, using various concepts based on Aayul Pareetchai, Aathaaram, Kalai Nilai, Sara Nilai, and Vaara Soolam etc.
- Varmam has grown under three independent schools of thoughts, mainly governed by three ancient Siddha’s namely Agathiyar, Bhogar and Rama Devar, hence arriving at three school of thoughts, Agathiyar School of Thought, Bhogar School of Thought and Rama Devar School of Thought.
- Varmam has relationship with other fields like Siddha Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga, Astronomy, Psychology, Tantra, Anka Sasthra and many others.
- Varmam is one of the main streams within siddha medicine.
- Among ayurvedic text, there is no separate text for varmam. But in the text ‘Astangahridayam’, written by Vakpatar, he speaks about 107 varmam points in human body. Some other ayurvedic texts also contain sparse information about varmam points.
- Every yoga asanas has its effect on certain group of varma points enabling proper health, flexibility, mobility and physique.
- Siddhas, who developed varmalogy, studied where and when rays from all the planets and moons in the solar system reaches Earth and act on human body and based on their studies, they have created various varmam texts which studies varmam points in relationship with the rays from the planes and moons and their consequence on human body.
