Tag: pranayam

Members - The Potential of the Human Spirit

 

 

This class is about the possibility of awakening in this dream. The positions, the mudras the pranayama all add to that equation which allows you to experience the truth of consciousness within your own self. This is the essence of kundalini yoga. We’re here to share with you 40 years of practice that these things have worked for us. And we can tell you from our direct experience the truth.

members - Step Into Your Grit with Nihal Kaur

 

 

Step Into Your Grit with Nihal Kaur Navigating our own sacred path requires grit and determination. Grit is defined as firmness of mind or spirit : unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger. When things get rough we need our deepest strength to bring us to a place of expansion instead of fear and collapse. Breath into difficulty. It's our job to find the infinity of truth within us.

The Potential of the Human Spirit

 

 

This class is about the possibility of awakening in this dream. The positions, the mudras the pranayama all add to that equation which allows you to experience the truth of consciousness within your own self. This is the essence of kundalini yoga. We’re here to share with you 40 years of practice that these things have worked for us. And we can tell you from our direct experience the truth.

Members - Kindling the Agni

 

 

Although there are certain areas of the body that have more fire, fire is responsible for transformation, digestion, assimilation, and metabolism. It’s in every cell of your being and it’s known as Agni. When our Agni is balanced, our fire element is healthy, we have a good appetite, we digest our food well, we digest our experiences well, and there is a lightness in the body after we eat. We have clarity in our mind. As we move thru winter and spring when there is not as much fire in the environment, we need to bring a little more fire element out in our bodies, thru our yoga practice, thru our diet, and thru our lifestyle.

Kindling the Agni

 

 

Although there are certain areas of the body that have more fire, fire is responsible for transformation, digestion, assimilation, and metabolism. It’s in every cell of your being and it’s known as Agni. When our Agni is balanced, our fire element is healthy, we have a good appetite, we digest our food well, we digest our experiences well, and there is a lightness in the body after we eat. We have clarity in our mind. As we move thru winter and spring when there is not as much fire in the environment, we need to bring a little more fire element out in our bodies, thru our yoga practice, thru our diet, and thru our lifestyle.

Discerning Intellect of the Yogic Form

 

 

We strengthen the body with yoga. We strengthen the breathing with pranayam, the breath. By strengthening the body, strengthening the nervous system it allows the energy to manifest itself. When the kundalini does happen to you, when the energy, the primal force of life, manifests itself in this body the yoga becomes natural. The body automatically does these postures. The breathing becomes natural. It’s a way that programmed chemically into your DNA. Nobody ever gets that and when it does happen, if you’re not prepared, if your body is not strong, if your nervous system is weak it freaks you out. It causes problems, because you’ve been too lax.

So we train ourselves in yoga to be strong, to be radiant, to control the energy, to be awake enough so when that blessing of kundalini does happen that this body and this mind, that you have made up over these years, is strong enough to handle it. You have a matrix of consciousness to handle the experience, because all the sudden you’re going to be confronting infinity. You’re gonna be seeing the light of the universe in front of you. You’re gonna be meeting with Jesus, Mohammed, whoever your guru is. You’re gonna be meeting that form of consciousness. You have to have a stable mind to deal with that, ‘cause what are you going to say? “Hi, how are you?”

The idea is to create a worthiness in yourself, and you are all worthy of that, because you are the same light. There’s no difference in the light that makes up any of us. You have to create that worthiness in your mind so when you have that experience the position of your consciousness merges easy, seamlessly into that infinite consciousness. Otherwise it’s too much for you. Otherwise you’ve forgotten to bring your clothes to the dance. So we train ourselves to be worthy beings of our own light.

Sit in easy pose. Let your breath be relaxed. Now take an inventory of your body. See what is painful. See what is not straight. Try to straighten that out. Try to relax your body. Go inside. Feel any tension. Relax it. Everything is straight and perfect. Go within now. Feel the energy swirling around you. Visual these currents of energy swirling. Feel this double helix of swirling energy, and you’re sitting in it. This is the evolutionary pathway. We’ve added to this helix. We’ve added chromosomes. Through the countless incarnations we built this human form. It’s not an accident. We’ve taken the time to build this human form. We’ve taken the time, chromosome by chromosome to add to the double helix to create this form. Now is the time to use this form, not to fall asleep.

Give yourself a twist right and left. Feel comfortable in this body. Feel comfortable and joyful. In your mind place yourself on infinite horizon, nothing supporting you below. This earth is immaterial, it doesn’t exist. Nothing on either side, nothing above you but the infinite sky. Be sitting in that level of consciousness where you’re floating in your own self. Make the connection with this archetype form that you’ve created over all these incarnations. Feel that same swirling energy of that double helix that you’re following for millions of lifetimes. Sit in the center of that energy with your consciousness. This is the way back home. In the center of that swirling energy of the lights that are spinning around you, the filaments that are being enlightened with your own life, your prana. Sit in the center of that tunnel of consciousness. Look upwards through the top of your head and feel the cathedral of consciousness opening, all the filaments glowing. Through the top of this cathedral of your own self divine light comes pouring down.

Gravity naturally wants to pull the energy down and keep it in our three lower centers, security, sensation, and power. Breath of Fire acts as the bellows stoking the fire within our core, gathering the life force. Learning to use the bandhas (locks) we can stop the flow of prana and allow the heat we’ve built to rise into our heart and higher centers of consciousness. Once there we can notice where we feel pain, or discomfort, and provide it with the energy needed to overcome even the hardest of obstacles.

members - Infinite Possibilities

 

 

Infinite Possibilities: Finding a discipline from which to gather the life force and elevate ourselves is the key to exploring the endless expressions of consciousness. Without discipline, without boundaries, we can get lost or fall into someone else’s reality. Identifying what captures your heart and dedicating yourselves to the service of others brings life into focus. We become stronger and more resilient by connecting with the endless energy of love and compassion and our own life force.

Members - The Technology of Yoga

 

 

The Technology of Yoga This is an energizing class from Kundalini Live focused on the bandhas, or body locks. These locks direct the prana and apana, the generative and eliminating energies. With continuing, deepening practice of the bandhas, the body systems are cleansed, restored, and refined through this circulation of kundalini energy.

Members - Stabilizing the Material Plane

 

 

If you follow the analogy that we are individual operating systems tuning into the greater flow of energy that’s the main server, you can call it God, or you can call it the overwhelming consciousness itself. The idea is that we tune ourselves in to allow this flow of consciousness to come thru us, to be a part of us, without getting in the way, without tainting it, without changing it, without owning it but letting it flow within ourselves. And this flow of consciousness which is ultimately us, becomes the beauty and grace of this human archetype.

Members - Having the Tools for Interdimensional Consciousness

 

 

Kundalini yoga is a powerful tool for self discovery and expands our view of the ultimate horizon. It is from this perspective that we see our role in the world is one of honoring and serving those around us. By energizing ourselves through the breath of fire and by redirecting our core power up to our heart center and above, we become empowered to live a joyous life of spiritual growth through compassion and giving.