Kundalini Newsletter

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...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter February 2019: The Magic Mantra
The Magic Mantra All mantras are magical. Indeed, some of the earliest uses of mantras were to control the elements, appease the planets, or to awaken latent powers. But there is a mantra in Kundalini Yoga that is sometimes called the “Magic Mantra” because it...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter January 2019: Happiness is a Warm Sat Nam
Happiness Is a Warm Sat Nam When was the last time you felt really happy? Hopefully when you just finished reading the last sentence! Because happiness is not a condition we achieve or something we once had. It’s simply an acceptance of our natural state in the...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter December 2018: Heal Yourself, Heal the World – Yogi Bhajan on Winter Solstice
Heal Yourself, Heal the World: Yogi Bhajan on Winter Solstice Yogi Bhajan, the master teacher of Kundalini Yoga, often said that the two most important times of the year to meditate are the days surrounding summer and winter solstices. Here is a portion of one...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter – November 2018: Ignite Your Fire
Ignite Your Fire As the seasons change with an occasional frosty morn, our attention turns to the warm and cozy. Warm foods, heated yoga classes, and fireplaces become attractive as we bring more fire into our lives with the approaching winter months. Fire is an...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter October 2018: Stay in Bed – Do Yoga
Stay in Bed - Do Yoga Having trouble getting up for your morning practice? Just want to climb into bed instead of doing that evening meditation? My advice: do it in bed. In Kundalini Yoga, there is a short three-part morning exercise that we teach all of our teacher...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter September 2018: Do You Want to Keep the Change?
Do You Want to Keep the Change? I often joke that as a Yogi, it helps to believe in reincarnation because it seems it must take several lifetimes to discover all that Yoga has to offer. When going to Kundalini Yoga classes on a regular basis, you will discover that...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter August 2018: Be Bright, Wear White, Spread Light
Be Bright, Wear White, Spread Light Ever wonder why Kundalini Yoga teachers wear white clothing when they teach? I began wearing white clothing in 1994 ago after I returned from a Summer Solstice White Tantric course. Almost 25 years later, I still wear all white...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter July 2018: Kundalini Summer Time Cleanse
Kundalini Summer Time Cleanse Yogi Bhajan, the Master of Kundalini Yoga, possessed the royal teaching majesty of a Leo and the healthy diet consciousness of a Virgo. And in those roles, he often gave his yoga students special diets to follow to support them in their...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter June 2018: Kundalini Journey Coming Home
Kundalini Journey Coming Home Every spiritual path requires the soul to make the journey from individual consciousness to universal consciousness, to realize the infinite in the finite and to experience the atman (individual soul) in the Mahatma (the Great Soul). Yoga...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter May 2018: Tripping Out with Kundalini Yoga
Tripping Out with Kundalini Yoga: Two Sets to Take with You For many people, summer time brings short and long distance trips that can shake up our routines for the better – less time in front of a computer and more time in the “real” world for example. Yet there is...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter April 2018:
Finding Your Meditation Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan has been estimated to consist of over 3,500 meditations and kriyas, more than any human being could likely experience in a lifetime of practice. So which one should you choose for your own practice and...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter March 2018: The Most Powerful Kundalini Yoga Mudra
The Most Powerful Kundalini Yoga Mudra There are hundreds of mudras, or hand positions, used in the practice of yoga and meditation, and Kundalini Yoga uses many of them. Yet there is one Kundalini Yoga mudra that could win the honor of the most powerful one of them...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter February 2018: Meditation – Got a Minute?
Meditation: Got a Minute? A Kundalini Yoga class is an ongoing experience of the meditative mind. During the exercises, you focus on your breath, a mantra, a mudra, and often have your eyes closed in order to go deeper within the practice and achieve a natural state...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter January 2018: Kundalini New Year – Drink Up
KUNDALINI NEW YEAR – DRINK UP! New Year’s has always been a modern substitute for the pagan celebration of Saturnalia where the purpose was to drink and orgy your way through the winter months. Old customs die hard, even as the common practice of orgies fade away and...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter December 2017: A Kundalini Solstice
A Kundalini Solstice Yogi Bhajan often taught special meditations for the Summer and Winter Solstices. He said that these were special days for the human psyche to re-set itself for the seasonal changes. While Winter Solstice is usually December 21st in most parts of...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter November 2017: Show Me Some Skin
Give Me Some Skin One of the many distinguishing (unusual!) aspects of Kundalini Yoga is the presence of sheepskins used to practice and meditate upon. While other yoga students are busy buying petroleum based yoga mats and bags, Kundalini students are investigating...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter October 2017: Talking with your Chakras
Talking with Your Chakras When is the last time you talked with your chakras? Probably in the last hour or so. Every time we speak, we usually speak from a combination of two chakra energy centers. Every chakra has a specific frequency that informs our energy. From...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter September 2017: Keeping it Hot
Kundalini Yoga: Keeping It Hot I’ve taught Kundalini Yoga in some pretty hot places: Costa Rica, Bali, Mexico, and of course, Austin Texas. Sweat trickling down your back as you do Sat Kriya and giving Breath of Fire a new meaning in 105 degree heat. And some people...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter August 2017: All the Breath You Need
All the Breath You Need: Managing Your Emotional Energy Anxious? Depressed? Low energy? Can’t calm down? Just feeling really off? Maybe you need to take a breath. Or several breaths. After all, one of the most powerful experiences in the practice of Kundalini Yoga...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter July 2017: The Six Secrets of Kundalini Yoga
The Six Secrets of Kundalini Yoga Kundalini Yoga is one of the most powerful yoga practices available to spiritual seekers, primarily because it is taught and practiced in the format of a kriya, or a prescribed sequence of postures, breath, sound, and movement. The...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter June 2017: Silent Mantra and Simran
With Every Breath: Silent Mantra and Simran In the practice of Kundalini Yoga, students are often instructed to use a silent mantra with the breath as they inhale and exhale, or as they move from left to right or up and down (“Inhale Sat, exhale Nam.”) The silent...

Kundalini Newsletter May 2017: Your Eyes Have Secrets The Drishtis of Kundalini Yoga
Your Eyes Have Secrets: The Drishtis of Kundalini Yoga Unlike most styles of yoga, the eyes are usually closed when practicing Kundalini Yoga. More accurately, the eyes are not simply closed but are specifically focused inside the body in a gaze or what is...

Kundalini Newsletter April 2017: Ten Kundalini Yoga Tips for Great Sleep
Ten Kundalini Yoga Tips for Great Sleep! If you have been practicing Kundalini yoga for very long, you know that it helps you sleep better at night. There are dozens of scientific research papers published on the effectiveness of yoga in reducing insomnia and...

Kundalini Yoga Newsletter March 2017: The Most Important Stretch in Kundalini Yoga
The Most Important Stretch in Kundalini Yoga When we talk about yoga and postures and stretching and flexibility, most people focus on the wrong things – like their hips, their shoulders, or their hamstrings. And indeed the yoga postures that people work the...