Yogi Bhajan’s 1,000 Day Sadhana
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 (which translates to 3 years!), but you can join in at any time and fit the meditation in as works best for you.
(I have a friend who is a kundalini yoga teacher who plans on performing this sadhana weekly, as she is focused on her own personal sadhana right now.)
The instructions along with an audio track are available for free on the KRI website.
What I found somewhat amusing was the video of Yogi Bhajan leading this meditation from 1992. I noticed that the kundalini yoga clothing styles have changed quite a bit since then, which is surprising when you consider that the general guidelines are all white with a head covering. In the video, you can see a lot of women wearing very stiff, formal looking turbans. Nowadays, most kundalini yoga practitioners wear loose white bandanas or knit caps as head coverings.
I also loved how Yogi Bhajan ended the meditation, very abruptly, in the middle of the chant: “OK, relax, relax, you’re going too deep now.” And…we’re done! No formal inhale or holding of breath, just STOP now, OK?
At any rate, I don’t personally feel guided to do this meditation for the next 1,000 days, though I might do it once in a while and I expect we’ll be doing it a lot in kundalini yoga classes. No offense to the person who created the song that goes with the chant, but it’s one of those things that sticks to your brain and I think after a 1,000 days of hearing it, my brain might explode. But I’ve heard there are other musical versions of it out there somewhere, if you aren’t keen on the music. My friend from Israel said the military march was too reminiscent of all the wars she’s been in, so it’s perfectly OK to find music that works for you.
