Gurmukh explains how to do the Kriya of Liberation meditation from kundalini yoga:
Note: I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my arms lately…about how in shape they are. I do believe it’s from doing all those kundalini yoga kriyas and meditations that involve holding or moving the arms for various lengths of time. So [...]
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I was searching the Internet in vain for any training offering a combination of yoga and QiGong or Tai Chi. In doing so, I stumbled across Dahn Yoga, which is billed as a form of Korean yoga. In checking out the Dahn Yoga website, I found a few centers close to me, but with costs [...]
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I feel a little guilty – I had jokingly posted on Facebook yesterday taking names on who the next big celebrity to go would be. The general consensus was that we’d like to see some sort of evil despot like Kim Jong Il die, but no, it had to be a luminary from the yoga [...]
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So it may take Gaiam Yoga Club to finally get me to try handstand. Well, I am trying it, but up against the wall in my hallway. Rodney Yee suggests climbing your way up into handstand using a door jamb, but my doors must be super narrow because there is no way I can fit [...]
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A question to you all: When you see an article on a celebrity doing yoga, does it make you want to hit the mat more? Or do you have the opposite reaction, i.e., “Eeeuww, yoga has gotten so annoyingly trendy.” Or: “Great, I’ll never look like Cristy Turlington, so why bother.” Or is your reaction [...]
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Today is the start of a massive worldwide “sadhana” or daily spiritual practice aimed at helping us transition to the Aquarian Age. The meditation was given to us by Yogi Bhajan, and it is now being shared by the kundalini yoga community. The suggested meditation is daily for 11 minutes for the next 1,000 days [...]
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I recently saw an ad on Craigslist for free meditation classes. They did not include a link to their website, but I gleaned from the email address provided that the organization was Brahma Kumaris, an organization that describes itself as a “spiritual university” teaching Raja Yoga. (Raja Yoga, i.e., “royal yoga,” is the yoga of [...]
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I just saw an interesting interview with a KGB defector from 1984 who talked about how the KGB was studying Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his followers. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the guru to the Beatles, if you recall, and he died in February of 2008.
Apparently, the KGB thought that people who were “stupid” enough [...]
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I have to admit I am not a huge fan of a lot of Gaiam videos…I do think they have gotten better in recent years, but the ones I had in the 90s (more the Living Arts era) were so serious. Gaiam Yoga Club is Rodney Yee’s online yoga course (with his wife Colleen Saidman) [...]
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Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa is a Kundalini Sikh who wrote an often recommended book Kundalini Yoga: Flow of Eternal Power. While I found the book a bit too focused on the strict Sikh lifestyle for my tastes, Shakti Parwha is friendly and sincere. Since she teaches classes here in Los Angeles at Yoga West on [...]
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