Kundalini Newsletter

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter March 2021: Fly Like a Butterfly
Fly Like a Butterfly This month brings us an opportunity to reset our energy and our lives as we move toward the Equinox on March 21. The word equinox from Latin means “equal night.” It is a time when the length of the day and the night are equal in length, and there...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter February 2021: Going Neutral
Going Neutral “The Yogi is one who the pair of opposites does not control. Neither heat nor cold, praise nor blame, affect the Yogi.” – Yoga Sutras II, 48 One definition of a Yogi is one who does not react. In Kundalini Yoga, we call this non-reactive state the...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter January 2021: Sat Nam Building Blocks
Sat Nam Building Blocks Mantras are prelinguistic and they came before all languages. The sounds of mantras are independent of meaning and their effects are universal. They are sonic formulas to facilitate healing and transformation, and each part of the formula can...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter December 2020: Total Transformation – 15 Minutes!
Total Transformation - 15 Minutes! The practice of Yoga takes place over multiple lifetimes, and every advance you make carries forward throughout the soul’s journey. No effort you make in yoga is ever wasted, and everything counts for now and forever. Success is not...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter November 2020: Self-Mastery and Community – A Kundalini Yoga Formula
Self-Mastery and Community: A Kundalini Yoga Formula When attending Kundalini Yoga, you soon discover that there seem to be countless yoga sets, kriyas and meditations you can practice. Some teachers never repeat a class over the course of a year. And no wonder – it...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter October 2020: The Most Powerful Mantra
The Most Powerful Mantra in Kundalini Yoga (?) The job of a Preacher is to remind you that there is a God. The job of a Teacher is to remind you that you are God. Your job is to remind yourself. Fortunately, there is a mantra for that. Most of the mantras we use in...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter September 2020: The Secret Sustainer
The Secret Sustainer While doing research for my upcoming Mudra Therapy course, I examined several hundred mudras from many yoga and spiritual traditions. I began to appreciate that Kundalini Yoga used several fascinating mudras that I had not been able to find in the...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter August 2020: Mantras Meet Mudras
Mantras Meet Mudras A powerful yet relatively unknown practice in yoga is the conscious placement of sound into the physical body. This was one of the original tantric practices that reclaimed the physical body as the vehicle and implement of consciousness, and it is...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter July 2020: Magic Fingers
Magic Fingers The greatest secret in yoga is right at the tip of your figures. Literally. When you touch your fingers together in a specific way, you can take your Kundalini yoga practice and even your health to a completely new level. These finger positions are...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter June 2020: Classic Kundalini Quickies!
Classic Kundalini Quickies! One of the most common excuses people use to avoid committing to a daily yoga practice is they do not have any extra time in their day for yoga. Of course, no one has “extra time.” But everyone absolutely has “enough time.’ Especially if...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter May 2020: It’s Thyme for Yogi Tea
It’s Thyme for Yogi Tea! The health benefits of Yogi Tea, the beverage of choice for Kundalini Yoga practitioners, are well known: Improves digestion Increases circulation, Purifies the liver Strengthens the circulatory system Helps the lungs and respiratory system...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter April 2020: Be Healthy – Ride the Camel!
Be Healthy - Ride the Camel! Sometimes the simplest things work best. In Kundalini Yoga, perhaps the most fundamental posture or exercise is the seated spinal flex, sometimes called “Camel Ride” for its approximation of the natural movement that can occur when you are...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter March 2020: Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo
ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO As a Kundalini Yoga student and teacher, you may have chanted this mantra hundreds of times. It was a link to teachers and teachings that came before us and will come after us, a Golden Chain of a lineage and legacy. The Piscean explanation of...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter February 2020: Talking with Your Chakras
Talking with Your Chakras In the practice of Kundalini Yoga, there is the understanding that creating a conscious relationship with others depends on which chakras you are using in your communication. Are you coming from your heart? Your intuition? Your gut?...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter January 2020: The Secret of Consciousness
The Secret of Consciousness In 1977, one of the first books to be published about Kundalini Yoga was “The Experience of Consciousness,” a small collection of lectures and meditations by Yogi Bhajan. The book is almost impossible to find today, yet it explains the...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter December 2019: The World’s Shortest Kundalini Yoga Practice
The World’s Shortest Kundalini Yoga Practice It’s no secret that having a consistent and constant Kundalini Yoga practice is essential to physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. A daily sadhana will carry you through all the changes, challenges, and...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter November 2019: Prosperity Flows – The Mantra That Works
Prosperity Flows: The Mantra That Works! Prosperity can be defined as not simply having the abundance you need to fulfill your needs, but to realize that all your needs are pre-fulfilled. Yogi Bhajan, the master teacher of Kundalini Yoga, said this about prosperity:...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter October 2019: An Adventure in Consciousness
Kundalini Yoga: An Adventure in Consciousness When I first began practicing yoga in 1967, I found a book called Be Young with Yoga. Since I was only 17 at the time, I was actually more intrigued by the book’s pictures of women in leotards than with staying young. But...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter September 2019: The Master of Kundalini Yoga
The Master of Kundalini Yoga Yogi Bhajan is often called the “Master of Kundalini Yoga,” a title that was given to him at the age of 16 by his teacher, Sant Hazara Singh. The title of “Master” is often used to describe someone who has expertise in a particular area or...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter August 2019: Meditation to Know the Unknown
Meditation to Know the Unknown This month I completed my favorite 2 ½ hour meditation for what I believe to be the 36th time: Kirtan Kriya or the Sa Ta Na Ma Meditation. Yogi Bhajan called this meditation the way to “experience your own infinity … to know the...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter July 2019: Are You Kundalini Curious?
Are You Kundalini Curious? When my wife and I owned five yoga centers years ago, we offered all types of yoga. Of course Kundalini Yoga was our “favorite” and our personal practice, and we needed to come up with some answers for the students who came to our centers...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter June 2019: What’s the Angle?
Kundalini Yoga: What’s the Angle? When I first began teaching Kundalini Yoga 45 years ago, I remember the teacher in my ashram told me, “Kundalini Yoga is the science of angles and triangles.” That sounded wise and mysterious. I liked science, being a one-time physics...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter May 2019: 40 Ways to Do 40 Days
40 Ways to Do 40 Days In almost every spiritual tradition, there is an understanding that a profound change in consciousness generally requires 40 days to accomplish. The story of Jesus Christ fasting in the wilderness for 40 days, the parable of the great flood for...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter April 2019: Three Practices You Must Master
Three Kundalini Practices You Must Master By some counts, there are over 3,500 Kundalini Yoga practices one could do. Yet there are three practices that when done regularly are really all you need. These three Kundalini Yoga practices do it all. They balance the five...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter: March 2019 – The First Step to Happiness: Commitment
The First Step to Happiness: Commitment For any type of yoga, the most important indicator of success is the ability to commit to a daily practice. In Kundalini Yoga teacher training, we learn that in life, the first step to happiness is commitment. With...