Kundalini yoga
Forget what you already know about the practice of yoga and take a fresh look at a technology that could transform your life.
A practice of Kundalini Yoga is a place of transformation. The kriyas (series of postures and meditations) are more specific than what we can find in a class of classical yoga. They are a set of exercises that generate, organize and deliver you to a specific energy – especially an increased in awareness. This technology work to strengthen our nervous system, balance our glandular system, purify the body and calm the mind.
Kundalini Yoga is a powerful technology that works on all levels of the being simultaneously: physical, energetic, spiritual and emotional. This holistic technology involves series of dynamic or static postures (called “kriyas”) using breath, rhythm, sound (in the form of mantras), relaxation and meditation.
It meets our needs to face our modern way of life by providing flexibility, inner balance, power, harmonizing all aspects of the human being, and awakens our inner truth and the consequences of our habits. In short, everything we need to cope with stress and the vagaries of life.
Kundalini Yoga provides us with many and varied techniques that we can choose according to our goals and aspirations. It is accessible to all, regardless of age, health status or disability. It does not require any adherence to a philosophical or religious system and would be more inclined to free us from any reductive vision of the individual and the intolerant and sectarian attitudes that generally accompany such a vision.
Kundalini Yoga comes from Punjab in India. After centuries of secret transmission, from carefully selected teachers to disciples, Kundalini Yoga was introduced into the Western world by a master, Yogi Bhajan. Judging that it was time that these techniques were made available to the greatest number, Yogi Bhajan decided to transmit them to the open and to all audiences. He began in 1969, in Los Angeles (U.S.A.), to train teachers and founded a school there that soon reached international status.
Kundalini Yoga uses breathing, rhythm, dynamic or static postures, sound, relaxation, singing and meditation in order to awaken the internal energy that lies deep within us. Kundalini is an energy and it is the essential vital potential of the human being. Once awaken, it allows us to develop all our latent abilities. Kundalini Yoga is called “the royal way” because its power has almost immediate effects. At the first session you can feel the energy mobilized through the body.
Health: to effectively correct the dysfunctions of different devices: digestive, nervous, glandular, lymphatic.
Vitality: thanks to a physical workout and cultivating a flexible body and mind.
Emotional balance: through the learning of techniques that aim to make us master of our mind, and therefore our decisions in a state of calm and serenity;
Kundalini Yoga helps us to free ourselves from our mental and physical automatisms, from our reductive visions, from our intolerant or sectarian attitudes and directs us towards a more positive universe in openness and reconciliation.
This teaching is a discipline because it will bear fruit if it is put into practice on a regular basis. It is accessible to all, regardless of your age or disability.
Emotions often crystallize at the muscular level and create tensions and aches, which themselves create mental blockages: it is a vicious circle. Relaxation after intense physical exercise allows you to let go. The muscles relax, the tension subsides and allows the energy to circulate throughout the body: the mind is finally at peace.
Meditation is the observation of thoughts without the intervention of judgment. It’s a moment within ourself, listening to our body and our mind. To observe without judging is to become aware; and it is thanks to the awareness that we can break our physical and mental automatisms. Sometimes, in Kundalini Yoga the meditations are sung with the mantras and amplify the work of the breath.
Kundalini Yoga allows us to better manage our emotions and become master of the course of our lives. Communicating better with ourselves, we are led to improve our relations with the external reality and the society that surrounds us. When we are calm and at peace, we no longer need to seek outside what is inside of us.
Coming in Fall 2018
Exploratory workshops in small groups over 4 weeks around a specific theme. An experience allowing you to include a daily practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation, to observe its effects in your lives, to benefit from a personalized follow-up and benefit from the sustaining force of the group, the sangha.
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«The power of Kundalini Yoga is based on experience. It goes straight to the heart and widens your awareness to give you grace and knowledge of the truth. At the end you understand that you are in touch with the universe »
Yogi Bhajan