If you are looking to keep that yoga mindset going in between classes, check out the free Guru Singh Podcast. Guru Singh is a kundalini yoga teacher in Los Angeles who is popular for his talks as well as his music. He teaches packed “Humanology” classes Monday and Thursday nights at Yoga West, which is [...]
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I taught a friend of mine a kundalini yoga set today. He wanted to see if yoga could help open up his chakras. So I read his energy before doing the set – his chakras were very shut down on the back. After the yoga and meditation, I did a second reading. The chakras had [...]
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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 went to one of those kundalini yoga classes where you have to meditate for an hour. An hour! I was so annoyed. I was in a bad mood and had gone to the class for a healing. We sat there for an hour chanting something long and nonsensical. This was supposed to make us [...]
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The theme for kundalini yoga this week apparently is “Let’s put our students into some serious pain!” The recommended yoga set is one that includes lifting up your legs at 60 degrees angles as fast as you can. This isn’t just 60 degrees straight up, but 60 degrees out to the side as well. If [...]
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Sat Nam Rasayan is a healing modality that comes from kundalini yoga. I took a Sat Nam Rasayan class the other night with Hari Nam Singh. He is a kind, friendly guy who is somewhat reminiscent of a Santa Claus in a turban. The class consists of the teacher guiding the students through a meditative [...]
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Here’s a message sent out by Los Angeles Kundalini Yoga Instructor Guru Singh on the financial crisis: Sat Nam – Dear Ones, Right here now there are many forces at play in these cosmos and this world: some of them are feeding off our collective human energy without our conscious knowledge while additional forces, in [...]
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Friday night I went to a gong concert at Yoga West, only to have a complete meltdown because some naive mother thought it would be a good idea to bring her wee toddler to the event. I was having a really trying day (it was the day of a big eclipse, if you are into [...]
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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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This is just a personal observation, based on the places I’ve done yoga at…I’ve noticed that here in Los Angeles, more men go to kundalini yoga classes. And not just any ole men – a lot of these guys are extremely good-looking, tall men. (Here in LA, there are tons of short guys for some [...]
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