Kundalini Yoga teachings as taught by Yogi Bhajan
Grounding & self soothing techniques for emotional regulation When you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed or experiencing distressing emotions it is helpful to focus on aspects of the physical world, rather than on just your internal thoughts and feelings. This can help us to connect to our body and re-ground ourselves and from this place we [...]
40 day Kriyas: the ups and ups I’m on day 35 of my latest Kundalini Yoga Kriya, I’m going to do it for 40 days. I have gone through loving it, dreading it, physical pain, ecstasy and a general sense of calm and surrender that has often surprised me as I move through my everyday [...]
Sat Nam radiant souls, I'd love to share with you a Kriya (set of exercises designed for a specific purpose) for Purifying the Self. This Kriya is beautifully energizing and helps to purify the mind and body of the stress and toxins that we accumulate through our internal and external environments. If you are [...]
“A birth is defined as traumatic if the woman was or believed she or her baby was in danger of injury or death and she felt helpless and out of control, this can occur at any point in labour and birth.”(Beck2004a) As a mother myself, I know plenty of women who have given birth. It’s [...]
September, 2013 My interest, study and practice of yoga has been, shall I say, impassioned for over a decade now. Ten years of teaching yoga has been an absolute gift. Coming back to teach my regular class after a two week break, I was reminded of how lucky I am. For me, to teach is [...]
It was registration day. I had looked forward to travelling to Rishikesh, India, to study the Kundalini Yoga Level 2 component, Authentic Relationships. I stared at the screen in front of me – India: yoga paradise. What happened next is still a mystery to me, but it was to change my life forever. I unexpectantly [...]
Sitali pranayam can be used in conjunction with others postures or it may be used at any time of day, in any situation to help to cool the body and to bring the mind into a state of meditative awareness. It’s a great breath practice to use for spring and summer. The only things that [...]
Yogi Bhajan describes meditation as “the art of breaking habits, to purify the mind and to take care of the day-to-day things”. In his lecture, ‘Meditation: a simple process’ he states the following: “Meditation is a process. When the dawn comes, the sun power, the ray energy, is more scattered and the mind is not [...]
According to Yogi Bhajan the Master of Kundalini Yoga and my teacher, we are now in the Age of Aquarius starting on 11-11-11. Things have speeded up considerably in life and on mother earth since that date. How can we deal with all that amazing energy? I do mean everything is speeding up too. Our [...]
I feel we may all agree that a subtle yet profound event has occurred when we find ourselves at a yoga class. Before we even unroll the mat our inner knowing holds this to be true. Why is this? I believe that in choosing yoga rather than squash or marathon running, we are communicating a [...]