I wanted to write about this kriya because I found it to be very powerful. Right now in my life there has been a pattern of my heart hurting. A lot.
I did this kriya for three days in a row, and found myself sick in bed for five days. I definitely felt like I was clearing a lot of stuff out of my emotional field! I’m not even sure what it all was, but often my guides tell me I don’t need to know everything I’m healing! It’s good enough to deal with it and let it go.
After a few days of good health I began to do the kriya again daily and after about nine days I stopped. My heart was hurting so much! I found myself spontaneously crying because of the stretching it felt my heart was undertaking. My heart wasn’t hurting all the time though there often was a dull ache. It was more at random times it would hurt so much tears would come to my eyes.
When I look in the book at the meditation Yogi B simply says something like: If your not feeling the love do this meditation and you will feel the love.
I decided to take it easy and ease off the kriya for a while. I know its a good one for me and I plan to go back to it once I get grounded in my new home. I have just been following Maya Fienne’s You Tube video. 🙂
Kundalini Yoga in Dolores Park with Sariah and Seva Simran. 🙂
Life has been a whirlwind for me the past few weeks. I’m finally in a space of settling down a bit more. I stopped doing my meditations as well ~ planning to start doing them again today.
It’s only the mind that makes things complicated. Nothing really ever is. The mind attaches all sorts of amendments to any thoughts we have. A natural way of thinking I suppose, or is it taught?
About three weeks ago I was offered my dream job in Nelson, BC, which is about eight hours north east of Vancouver. It was amazing at the grace that followed: one day later my room in Vancouver was rented, three days later my bike sold, four days later I had a room in Nelson, 7 days later a man came and picked up my stuff in Vancouver & delivered it to Nelson for $50.
Three days after that I left for Sacramento, CA because I had felt a ping to attend a small Transformational Festival called Transcendence. I was very excited because I was working as a crystal healer and teaching yoga there. I taught a Saturday 8 am Crystal Infused Class with 13 people! 🙂
It was a very still class because the set I choose was a pranayama for opening up the heart chakra, and the mediation was the meditation for self-love and acceptance. Normally I try to do a more physical based practice because many people unfamiliar with Kundalini Yoga I’ve noticed like the physicality of the practice, so I was concerned people weren’t going to like the class, however it felt right to teach these in my one hour slot. It was a fun class!
The festival got shut down on Saturday night {due to permits} and I rolled into my favourite city in the world: San Francisco. I would love, love, love to live there one day, or perhaps Santa Cruz. I just love the energy and the people in the area. There is so much happening for Conscious Dance and for Yoga and for the Crystals and Spirituality.
I feel so at home there because there are people there who can meet me and challenge me in so many areas of my own evolution and growth. I feel so much at home and the muse alive in me when I am in the area ~ I fall in love with myself all over again because I can feel myself in the fullest way possible. It’s my home & one day I plan to manifest a visa so I can live there ~ possibly even open a crystal store in San Fran because the city desperately needs it. I have a huge vision for that crystal store…
Anyways, back to Kundalini Yoga! On Sunday I discovered at Dolores Park there was a free Flash Mob Kundalini Yoga class in Dolores Park, and they brought a Gong!!! I was all over that, and enjoyed the class and meditation very much! The teachers, Sariah and Seva Simran were very welcoming and kind. It was really neat to meet some of the community in San Francisco and connect in.
On Monday I left to come back to Canada by train, and went straight up to Nelson, BC. Here I’m finding a lot of support. I’m going to check out Sat Kaur’s class at Sat Kaur Yoga/The Moving Center. That’s the place to be in Nelson, I’ve heard, for Kundalini Yoga. I’m very excited. I really like Sat Kaur.
And my yoga mats are finding a lot of support here. I’ve finally decided how I’m going to work the mats, and am setting up a page here for anyone interested in the hand painted mats I’m creating. I’m super excited about them! Check out the new page!Â
This is more of a personal post. I haven’t really talked about my experience of the course in depth but have been more sharing what I’m learning. The additional research, rereading of materials and having to share the information with clarity is helping me retain what we are taught each month. Thank you for reading it!
I fell behind in February with my homework though! Or maybe it was January. I’m not sure, but I do know I was working on getting caught up in February with the meditation homework but when I was on a business trip I missed a day. I had to restart when I came back.
Let me tell you, it was a challenge!
For basically two weeks all I did was yoga! I was up to a 2-3 hour practice each day in order to complete all that I wanted to complete.
Our homework for this course is very interesting. It includes usually an 8 page hand out with questions for us to answer after reading the text-book, the yoga sutras, and the Master’s Touch. It also includes usually about 33 minutes of meditations that we must do consecutively for two weeks and journal our experiences of.
I fell behind, and, of course, the homework started to add up as we are getting close to the end of the course. I was doing my personal practice (at that time an hour), plus the previous months homework (approximately 33 minutes), and we received a special homework where we had to do a kriya plus an 11 Â minute meditation (approximately 1 hour). It was a lot.
It was all I could focus on really. It felt like a lot. I had a lot going on internally as I did all these potent meditations. They are meant to change us, to help us grow, to show us the power of the yoga that we have been passed from Yogi Bhajan.
Kundalini Yoga has a power inherent to it that most people taking this course know and have witnessed in their own lives. It changes things. A lot of things.
And doing all of that meditation and yoga for two weeks shifted a lot. I felt each day a layer of something was falling from me, mostly layers of fear, I think. It was intense. I cried a lot. Some days I felt like I would never stop crying.
I also realized how much I miss doing a daily physical yoga practice. Most of our homework has been meditation and I have let the business of Vancouver Life take away that daily physical practice I love so much. I wish they included more of it in the homework, however, we do have to do 20 yoga classes at a yoga studio over the eight month period.
In any case, I’ve begun to incorporate daily kriyas back into my lifestyle.
Another strange thing has happened. Even though I’ve been doing less yoga on a daily basis my flexibility has increased in ways I’ve not even been focusing on. I can hold camel much easier than I used to be able to. I can almost do the splits! I don’t know how or why, but all that comes to me is a quote. I have no idea whom said it, so if you know let me know!
“Your only as flexible as your mind is flexible.”
Something like that.
All this yoga and meditating has opened up my mind and by doing so opened up my body.
It’s amazing.
I’m all caught up now, too, on my homework! It feels great!
This past year as I began my Kundalini Yoga Teacher training I was a broke Mystic Yogini. There was not much happening in the realm of finances though I received always enough to eat it was a constant worry in my head wondering if I would have enough to eat the next few days.
And I won’t lie to you.
My status of being a broke or poor Mystic Yogini starts long before this blog. It starts before I even became a Yogini. Not sure if it started before people began to classify me a Mystic, but let it just be known that this experience has been around a loooooooooooooooooooooong time in my life.
And I’m kind of tired of it. Really tired of it actually. I want to be able to serve others, support others, and support myself. I see and understand that I must be able to serve and support myself to support others. I must do certain things in order for abundance to come to my life and stay flowing consistently.
I was expressing these sentiments to various people of how tired I was not having a place to live, relying on others (and releasing the Prince Charming Complex I was carrying), and how I just didn’t want to be broke any more! I wasn’t sure how I was going to shift it, but I would! I was hoping someone would have an answer.
I kept looking over the job ads, impressed at the vast amount of jobs in Vancouver, but my eyes would glaze over. They didn’t seem very suitable for me. Nor fulfilling. It feels like a piece of my soul dies when I work jobs that are unfulfilling to me and don’t serve a person in a deep way.
One of my yogini friends piped up one day with an answer and offered to send me some meditations Hari Singh, one of the lead trainers at Yoga West, had sent her. I immediately agreed.
My fire was so hot on changing my prosperity levels that I began a few days after she sent it. I decided to do the recommended length of 120 days. I am sixty days in.
And this is changing my life.
First it began with the belief systems I held, the thoughts and ideas about money. I have for the first month journal entries of the way my thinking was changing and coming to understand that money is like water. Constantly flowing, moving, shifting. Sometimes there’s more, and sometimes there’s less. We can increase our prosperity by building a larger riverbank for the finances to run through, creating a larger and larger stream into our lives.
We begin as a creek and create larger and larger spaces until you can hold an ocean of abundance.
After 30 days things shifted in my physical life: I found a job that seemed too perfect for me, as a nanny with very flexible shifts (thank you God! No worries if this gypsy wants to go travelling!) and I began an successful Indiegogo Campaign to move my business, Willow’s Lavender, to the next level.
My ideas and perceptions on what, where and how I spend my money have changed dramatically which I notice daily. I have seen so many shifts and my friends have noticed so many that I began teaching others, and have now made a video, started a Facebook Group and taught several classes in person. All of this was not expected. None of this was. It just is.
So I gift you with the Prosperity Meditations that have changed my life: Sobagh Kriya and Gyan Chakra Kriya.
I heavily recommend that you do these meditations (which are about 20 minutes a day) for 120 days for maximum results.
Subagh Kriya is said to be one of the most powerful Kriyas.
P.S.
One of my friends, another Kundalini Yogini, made the astute statement: “I never see any broke Kundalini Yogis. I think we are on the right path if we’d like to be well off and not worried about finances.”
And most of the yogis I tell that I’m doing this say “Woah, that’s a powerful Kriya.” With the knowledge that comes from one who has done this practice before.
I expressed to one of my friends that I was having a breakout a couple of weeks ago, and the anger that I had surrounding it. She immediately began sending me ways to help myself during the outbreak from applying coconut oil to, you guessed it, yoga!
It was what she found with a quick Google search, and I’m glad she sent me what she did, because I did try applying coconut oil (it worked on having a cooling effect). I also took a shot of baking soda each morning for four days because baking soda almost instantly alkalizes the body, and renders the virus harmless due to the alkalinity. One shot won’t kill the virus, but over several days of it and other alkalizing methods it will reduce the break out to non-existence.Â
I also began eating alkaline again and added lemon to all the water that I drank (and still do the lemons). Lemons have an alkalizing effecting on the water so its a good idea to do that as often as possible!
She had also sent me some yoga that she found that has been known to cure herpes. Now, Kundalini Yoga Teachers, you will find this particular meditation on page 65 of your Kriya and Meditation manual for level one. For everyone else, lets chat about this!Â
The meditation is “officially” called “Immune System Booster: The inner sun”. Â Its a very simple meditation focusing on the way the breath flows through the system. Throughout the day our breathe gets split between our nostrils. For around two and a half hours the majority our breath will flow in and out of the left nostril before switching to our breath flowing in and out of the right nostril. Our breath continues to cycle throughout the day in this fashion.
When we are breathing through our left nostril at an energetic level this side is associated with the Moon, calmness, sensitivity, empathy, and synthesis. Breathing through the right side is associated with the sun, vigor, alertness, concentration, will power and being ready for action. We can induce these feelings by blocking out one side of the nose with a finger and breathing for a few minutes through the open nostril.Â
This meditation closes off the right nostril, so we are receiving calm, sensitive energy throughout this meditation. This meditation is recommended in several spots on the internet under various names, including for hypertension and to lower high blood pressure. Why? Because this meditation calms the nervous systems, and allows us to come back into balance, releasing the things that block us from “calmness”.
This meditation activates the immune system and strengthens it at the energetic level. One of the main ways to keep from having breakouts with herpes is to take immune boosters so one has a strong system as well as reducing stress in a rather stressful world in the West.
It has been said that if one was to do this meditation on the day of a breakout, the breakout would disappear that day.Â
I have yet to try it out as by the time I did all the research and felt confident in attempting the meditation my breakout had stopped. Let me know if you try it and what your results are! I’m curious and am keeping this in my bag of tricks for future breakouts. 😉
For the PDF version of this meditation click here.
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