Take Your Kundalini Yoga Practice to the Next Level
Kundalini Yoga to the Max! Most Kundalini Yoga students experience their practice within the boundaries of an hour-long class or perhaps a personal early morning sadhana. And the consistency of a regular practice, no matter now long, brings tremendous benefits. But if...
Discover Group Consciousness in Yoga Practice
Yoga Plus Friends The classic image of a Yogi is the person sitting by themselves, alone in meditation and removed from the world. Yet, it wasn’t always this way. One theory about the earliest practices of yoga is that it was first done to create group consciousness...
How Mantras Work
How Mantras Work Mantras, sacred sounds, are used in all the practices of yoga, from postures to breath to meditation. They help focus the mind, direct the flow of prana, and center us in the present. In Kundalini Yoga, we say that repetition of mantras creates new...
Discover Kundalini Rebirthing
Kundalini Re-Birthing I have a friend in Portugal who teaches Kundalini yoga and plays the gong. When he and his wife had their first child, he played the Gong while she chanted mantra. A real Kundalini Gong Birthing! The rest of us probably were not as lucky during...
Seeing Colors When Meditating
Do You See Colors When You Meditate? For many practitioners of Kundalini Yoga, the answer is Yes. In fact, one of the most frequent question that come up in our Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training courses is: “What does it mean when I see colors in my meditation?” The...
The Shortest Kundalini Meditation Ever
The Shortest Kundalini Yoga Meditation Ever Meditations in the Kundalini Yoga tradition are typically 11 minutes or 31 minutes in length. And there are some meditations that can be practiced for 2 ½ hours (and even beyond!) and there are actually a good number of...
Why is Yoga Hard?
If Yoga is so Good, why is it so Hard? If you have been doing yoga for a while, you already know the many benefits it brings you: more energy, better rest, freedom from aches and pains, and a greater sense of peace and calmness. You would think that once someone...
The Secret Kundalini Meditation
The Secret Kundalini Meditation Sometimes a secret is intentional, and sometimes it’s accidental. This is an accidental secret Kundalini Yoga meditation from over 20 years ago. I first experienced this meditation when it was first taught (at least in the Western...
Kundalini Yoga for Brain Fog
Kundalini Brain Fog A popular new non-medical term is “brain fog” – a condition sometimes reported by people who have recovered from COVID-19. Basically, brain fog is a symptom of an underlying medical condition that involves memory problems, a lack of mental clarity,...
The Yogic Diet: Eat Your Stress Away
Eat Your Stress Away Kundalini Yoga, like all yoga, is most effective when practiced as a lifestyle. In my very first class at a Kundalini Yoga ashram nearly 50 years ago, I became aware of the delicious aromas coming from the kitchen as they prepared their evening...
Meditation for Spring Equinox
Fly Like a Butterfly This month brings us an opportunity to reset our energy and our lives as we move toward the Spring 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,...
The Neutral Mind
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...
The Most Powerful Mantra in Kundalini Yoga
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...
A Secret Mudra for Intuition and Intelligence
The Secret Sustainer While doing research for my 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...
Nyasa in Yoga: 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...
Short Kundalini Yoga Practices
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...Tea for Immunity: 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...
Simple Kundalini Yoga to Boost Immunity
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...