Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga

Dr. Brenda Lau and Carolynne Millard

This is a weekly recurring yoga class. Kundalini Yoga is known as the yoga of awareness. This practice allows you to awaken to your full potential and true self through a series of physical movements, meditations, breathing and mantra.

Kundalini Yoga benefits:

• Strengthens the nervous system, increases muscular strength, and promotes the overall fitness of ones body
• Awakens your inner willpower
• Clears the fogginess of the mind and awakens our inner creativity by releasing our worries allowing us to realize the infinite possibilities life has to offer
• Opens the heart center to gain an attitude of acceptance
• Reminds us to be forgiving, compassionate and nonjudgmental with ourselves and others
• Enables us to quiet the mind and feel the intelligence of our heart, what it yearns for and what is good for us.
• Learn the importance of staying present and accepting of both pleasure and pain as part of the same journey to health and balance In each class you will experience
• Running, dancing, chanting, and meditating. Any given Kundalini kriya can contain a variety of these activities.
• A typical class is focused on control of breath, mindful movement and expansion of energy. You will be encouraged to listen to your body; do what works for you and modify or rest as you choose.
• Running, dancing, chanting, and meditating. Any given Kundalini kriya can contain a variety of these activities.
• A typical class is focused on control of breath, mindful movement and expansion of energy. You will be encouraged to listen to your body; do what works for you and modify or rest as you choose.

Materials:

• Comfortable place to sit and lay down without interruptions.
• Yoga mat, firm cushion or chair, shawl or blanket, water or warm liquid/tea etc.

Please Note: In kundalini yoga we begin each class by chanting together the following sounds:

ONG NAMO GURU DEV NAMO

Translation: I bow to the infinite wisdom of the universe, I bow to the infinite teacher within

AAD GURAY NAMEH

JUGAD GURAY NAMEH

SAT GURAY NAMEH

SIRI GURU DEH VAY NAMEH

Said to focus the group and create an atmosphere of safety and wellbeing It is not mandatory to make these sounds, nor are they linked to any particular dogma or belief system. You can practice kundalini yoga from any religious or other spiritual or atheist background.

Always participate to your level of personal comfort, finding your own healthy edge of growth. Sharp pain always means stop.

If you can’t do a particular movement or posture, find a comfortable resting position and imagine yourself doing the posture – you will still benefit, much like elite athletes benefit from visualizing their race.