Children´s Kundalini Yoga Classes

I am really excited that we will be starting regular Kundalini Yoga classes for children in Orgiva. Next Friday we have a free introductory class for parents and children at 4.30pm. Please come along and enjoy, we intend to have loads of fun.

Classes in Granada

The classes in Granada begin 5th October in the Centre Pranadanza, Calle Acera del Triunfo 19, 1D.

Timetable:

Mondays 8pm

Tues & Thur 9.30am

Sat Nam

The 10 Bodies Program in Orgiva from September

The Kundalini Yoga program for September, October and November, in Orgiva will be about The 10 Bodies.

Why are they important? Most people think of themselves as their physical body and their mind.

The truth is the human being is made up of ten bodies: the physical bodies, three mental bodies and six energy bodies. The Ten Bodies have powerful capacities. Each body has specific talents that it manifests in your life when it is strong and certain deficiencies tend to show when it is weak.

Your caliber is determined by the balance of your Ten Bodies.

The root of illness exists firstly in one of these bodies before it manifests itself physically. For this reason, when we strength and balance the Ten Bodies, we can at the same time reclaim our health.

The program starts Friday 18th September and during the two weeks before this we will be doing preparatory yoga.
May the Long Time Sun Shine Upon You, All Love Surround You and the Pure Light Within You Guide Your Way On.

World Yoga Day - Lisbon 21 June 2009

This year´s world yoga day had the theme of: World Peace, ending thirst, hunger and world wide inequalities. It included representatives from the U.N., the major schools of yoga around the world, the Ambassador of India, the Government of India and of a number of religions and spiritual paths.

It was a great honour for me to represent the Spanish Association of Kundalini Yoga (AEKY) and offer my humble vision from my personal experience of the transformative power of Kundalini Yoga:

• Practicing this technology over time has brought me to a state of physical harmony and surrendered my mind into deep peace and satisfaction. Now I experience the great abundance with each breath, realising that I have everything I need in each moment and that I always have had - life transformed into plenitude.



• It is my joy to share this technology and its effects so that we have less compulsion to consume more than we require, in other words consume what really belongs to other people around the world and future generations or take more from mother earth than she can give. The great Mahatma Gandhi said: "The earth gives us enough to satisfy the needs of all mankind, but not enough to satisfy the greed of mankind".



• Remembering the words of the beloved Yogi Bhajan: "If you can´t see God in all, you can´t see God at all", we no longer need to think or say that my religion is right and yours wrong or that my beliefs are better than yours. Remembering these profound words we can instead see the divine presence and perfection in all paths to the truth, then how could we want to attack it, we can only feel one pulse of love.

For more information on the World Day of Yoga visit: http://www.yoga-samkhya.org/site/diayoga/

3rd Iberian Yoga Gathering

What is Kundalini Yoga

The science and art of Kundalini Yoga is a holistic health system that gives us the opportunity to develop and use oru creative power "Shakti" to raise our consciousness and live a joyful, healthy and spiritual life.

Kundalini Yoga is a dynamic spiritual practice that is fused with meditation. It is made up of a collection of thousands of year old techniques that awaken the primordial source of divine vitality and creativity that exists in all of us.

Kundalini Yoga is a discipline of the spiritual warrior.

In this time of great challenge a both the individual and collective level, this technique of Yoga of the consciousness, is a wonderful gift that helps you pass through any challenge with grace and your head held high.

What Benefits will I Receive from Practicing Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga will show you techniques to keep yourself healthy. You will develop a strong immune system, vital glands and endocrine system (guardians of your health) and nervous systema. It will tone your muscles, otimize your circulation and make you aware of the impact of your habits.

From this base of health, you will feel more energetic and have the ability to control the mental and spiritual aspects of your life. Regularly practicing Kundalini Yoga will also give you clarity, vitality and a focus to your life.

It enables you to be the master of your mind so that your intuition can become stronger and clearer.

When your immune and nervous systems become strong you begin to enjoy vibrant health and abundant energy.

Other benefits:

• The mechanisms for self-healing of the body begin to manifest and accelerate, re-establishing balance and harmony to the body and mind.


• The state of physical and mental relaxation that we reach with this yoga enables us to enjoy a better quality of life.


• It changes our perspective and our mental and emotional attitudes, lifting our consciousness to bring solutions to our problems and acquire the power to put them into action.


• It accelerates our personal development and helps in developing our inner strength so we can meet our challenges with clarity and confidence.

What to Expect in a Class of Kundalini Yoga

Whilst each class is unique, they are all made up of 4 parts:

1. A warm-up; using stretches and rythmic flexes to prepare the body and focus the mind ready for the Kriya.

2. The Kriya; which are sequences of exercises designed to produce a specific effect on our body, mind, emotions or consciousness. For this reason, each class is unique depending on its objective. The Kriyas are made up of asanas (still postures), rythmic exercises, "pranayama" (breathing exercises), "mudras" (hand positions), "bhandas" (locks or energy keys) and mantras (vibratory sound currents with a powerful positive influence for the mind). The Kriyas are "thouands of year of formulas" for healing, transformation and the evolution of ones Self or Being. Its effects have been experienced and proven since the time of the Rishis in India to modern science today.

3. Deep relaxation, "Savasana"; this is the moment when we cease the activity of the body in a conscious way, the mind has calmed from the effect of the Kriya and we turn towards our interior. "Savasana" is the moment when the effects of the exercises become incorporated into our system.

4. Meditation, the class culminates in these moments of meditation. They can also vary greatly depending on the class, some are done in silence, others using the power of mantras and music, which is one of the pilars of Kundalini Yoga. All of them have a remarkable ability to open the heart, expand the mind and connect us with our higher consciousness.

What do you need?

• Comfortable clothes, preferably white cotton, or another natural fibre.
• You do not need any previous experience or knowledge of yoga.

Your level of fitness, flexibility and strength will improve with each class that you attend, as you make your attendance constant and conscious. Systematic practice of Kundalini yoga will offer you purification of your body and mind, vitality, joy for life, self-healing abilities and a bridge of constant contact with your higher consciousness.

Who was Yogi Bhajan

Yogi Bhajan was considered an example of the highest degree of Kundalini Yoga and was the Tantric Mahan of these times.

In 1969 Yogi Bhajan arrived in the USA and began to teach Kundalini Yoga. His teachings of Kundalini yoga and meditation have benefitted hundreds of thousands of people around the whole world.

Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, is much more than just a system of physical exercise, it is a dynamic and powerful tool for expanding consciousness.

A Bit of History...

Thousands of years ago in the north of India a Yogic tradition began to develop which was later transmitted personally from Master to disciple. With its practice focussed on awakening the vital energy through the stimulation of the chakras, it was maintained in secret for a long time.

A chain of 10 gurus (holy men) that lived between 1512 and 1843 and later in a sacred book that collected the teachings of these teachers granted the mysical basis of this practice.

"Ek ong Kar"; “The creator and all that is created are one” were the first enlightened words of Guru Nanak; the first Sikh Guru. This principal of universal unity is the seed of this path of love, respect and service. Therefore, Kundalini Yoga is not only a series of exercises to cultivate the body, but a collection of techniques that use postures, the breath, energetic keys and the vibratory power of sound through mantras and music, to experience devotion and unity.

It is a Yogic system that spans all aspects of our life. It is not a religion nor does it exclude personal beliefs.

Kundalini Yoga turns lives around for those who feel called to this path.

Frequently Used Mantras in Kundalini Yoga

An aspect of Kundalini Yoga that is not particularly well known in the West is the use of Mantras. Mantra means “Mental projection” and they are made up of two types of sounds; those that have a sacred meaning and those that are purely sound frequencies that produces a specific effect at the physical, psychic or energetic level of a person.

Both affect our consciousness. The first type focus our mind on a particular idea, for example, SAT NAM means "I identify with the truth." The second focus on their vibratory effect.

Mantras tend to raise us to a very high level of "vibration" so that we can enter into and become what we sing. The easiest way to understand this is to think of a time when you have walked into a room where people have been having an argument, you can feel it in the air, like a heaviness. Alternatively think about when you have walked into a room after people have been meditating or singing or laughing and having a good time. The air feels light and really nice to be in.

The mantras help make our mind clearer, calmer and more joyful by replacing our more dense thoughts and in this way bit by bit we clear our subconscious mind.

We usually use mantras by co-ordinating the sounds with movements &/or breathing. These mantras are in an ancient language called "Gur Muhk"

Most used mantras:

Adi Mantra: ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO

Meaning: “I bow before the infinite and creative consciousness that is in me and beyond me"

Sit comfortable with your legs crossed and your spine straight. Press your hands together to the centre of your chest as if you are about to pray, with your fingers pointing upwards. Concentrate on the area between your eyebrows (often called the third eye point) and sing a long ONG, a short NAMO, a long GURU DEV and a short NAMO. Everything is in monotono, except DEV which is sung slightly higher. Repeat three times.

When we sing this Mantra, we open a sacred space in which we can work on ourselves, we connect with our inner teacher and recognise our higher consciousness.The Adi mantra is the first technology of Kundalini Yoga.

Bij Mantra: SAT NAM

Meaning: “I identify with the truth”, or "truth is my true identity". It is useful for practicing long and deep breathing, concentrating mentally on SAT when you breath in and on NAM when you breath out.

It is also used to maintain the rythmn, co-ordination and consciousness of the here and now in exercises such as spinal flexes, leg lifts and neck rolls etc.

It is very profound and potent to meditate on the mantra Sat Nam which represents the truth that in reality we are.
Guru Mantra: WAHE GURU

Meaning: “To enter into the ecstasis of consciousness. To go from darkness into light is an indescribable ecstasis".

Laya Yoga Kundalini Mantra: EK ONG KAR SAT NAM SIRI WAHE GURU

Each sound corresponds with special points in the body, called Chakras, which are centres of high energetic activity which are located at the same places as the principle nerve plexuses of the body. The first is found at the base of the spine, the next at the level of the sex organs, the third at the navel point, the fourth in the centre of the chest, the next at the throat, followed by between the eye brows, the seventh at the crown of the head and the last the magnetic field or aura that surrounds our body.

...And to end our Kundalini Yoga practice and help us take the inspiration that we have received into our everyday life, we sing:

“MAY THE LONG TIME SUN SHINE UPON YOU,

ALL LOVE SURROUND YOU,

AND THE PURE LIGHT WITHIN YOU,

GUIDE YOUR WAY ON”