Feel the difference between a “good” hurt and and “bad” hurt. As best as you can, apply your meditative mind to each moment spent in Kundalini Yoga. It is essential to create an internal awareness during yoga, not only to reap the greatest benefits, but also to prevent injury to the body. Here’s a couple easy exercises that bring flexibility to your spine and rejuvenate your brain. After the restful period, most Kundalini Yoga classes end with breath or mantra meditation–the icing on the cake, so to speak!Ĭlick on image to purchase book on our site. After the yoga set, a Kundalini Yoga class will culminate with a deep relaxation, supported and uplifted by divine music, and often times, the sound of the gong. There are literally hundreds of these yoga sets to choose from: yoga for your back, your radiance, your mind/heart balance, your ability to keep up through hard times, in short, for every aspect of you as a human being. Each Kundalini Yoga class is unique, but each will contain a yoga “set” of postures and exercises that work on specific areas of the body, mind, and spirit. It means “I salute the Divine guidance within me and all around me.” Then we warm-up and stretch out our bodies using movement and strong breathing. The tune is for Kundalini Yoga is : Ong Namo, Guru Dev Namo, repeated three times, one per each deep breath. So what does a Kundalini Yoga class look like? First we tune in using a centering technique to call upon our inner guidance.
Strong, rhythmic breathing coupled with fluid movements is one of the strong foundations of Kundalini Yoga. In fact, I always say that if you can breathe and move your body, you can do Kundalini Yoga. Kundalini Yoga meets you where you are, and takes you to your potential. Unfortunately this portrayal of yoga scares most folks away, but fortunately, yoga, and especially Kundalini Yoga, is not really like the “macho yoga” image. Yoga magazines and books are filled with images of rubber-bodied yogis in acrobatic twists, or muscular body-builders in perfect handstands. Often people are afraid to try yoga, and no wonder. In addition to yoga and meditation, Kundalini Yoga incorporates teachings for all aspects of life for example, vegetarian diet, serving others, and yogic life skills such as conscious parenting and partnering.Includes pranayama (breathing) techniques and uses the bandhas (body locks).Encompasses the eight limbs and all seven branches of yoga.Is directly focused on moving the energy through the chakras (your body’s energy centers).Incorporates chanting and singing as yogic technology.Has an introspective quality of listening to the body and releasing emotions, as well as drawing on inspiration, such holding a pose with fearlessness, etc.Links movement with rhythmic breathing patterns.It is that simple.Ī unique and distinctive yoga form that encompasses elements that are found in all other forms of yoga, Kundalini yoga is sometimes called the “mother yoga.” Here are a few of the ways that Kundalini yoga shares paths with other traditions of yoga. Yoga is the science of the self, and kundalini is the awakening of the self. It is a normal capacity that most people simply are not utilizing. What is uncoiling and awakening is you, nothing more and nothing less. This uncoiling process is known as kundalini. Infinite Spiral The easiest way to understand kundalini is to acknowledge that there is a universal spirit which uncoils him/her/itself.
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