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Thursday, August 14, 2014

[Kundalini Yoga] Re: New Member, Looking to Learn about KY and Meditation

Hi Shana,

I speak from my personal experience not from being a senior K yoga teacher....I agree with Guru Rattana - get straight into doing a kriya. I had a depressing period in life and became depressed and suffered from RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). I got quite happy & cured my RSI while all the bad stuff was still going on. That was from doing 40 day kriyas. It took 6 months to a year of doing 1 to 1 1/2 hours of tough K yoga kriyas every day so it was a long amazing liberating slog! But thanks to K yoga I could do it at home alone. Our emotions are really tied up with the state of our body and like mine was (and is still but less so!) your body probably has many tense areas of muscle some of which will be tender if poked. I worked on these areas to get sensation in them - to bring them 'back to life'.Be ready for some emotional stuff to come up! If you let it flow and realise it is the unhappiness from your past being released and nothing to be afraid of or alarmed by you'll be OK. Not saying it def. will but for some people it does and it puts them off carrying on. If you have plenty of time, discipline and toughness start full length otherwise scale down the times proprotionally to get yourself going. It is better to do 3/2 (or even 1/2/ length) than not do it at all. > ... I became dizzy, and I had to slow the pace down or rest during some of the techniques. That's the right thing to do. > But I did smile a few timesI wonder how many people smiled like I did when I read that. > The teacher said KY should not be taken seriously! It's a seriously wonderful thing - but you can have a laugh about it too. > The online class recommends that the student should at least to try silent meditation > on it's own for 40 days straight, then move on in the class.We have yoga because very few people 'wake up' just doing sitting meditation. We have K yoga kriyas to wake you up faster. Make the most of them! > I've been doing the silent meditation for 3 days, but it's hard to stay with, because I don't know > what I'm supposed to be doingThat is the normal experience! Doing kriyas will eventually wake you up to what is supposed to happen. > I would like to move onto the "Tuning In" mantra. I don't want to do it wrong, though. Do it as you do in your class? Do it any old way and get more refined as you learn more. Not doing anything for fear of doing it wrong is WRONG!Wahe Guru Kriya was a good starting one for me, otherwise try one that gets a big effect on you in class. The meditations are great but I found they were only great once I had 'paid my dues' and changed a certain amount from the kriyas. But we are not all the same so if one of them has a big effect in class maybe to it for 40 days. I so hope you can get benefits like I did, it's your birthright, but somehow it's hard to keep it going. It worked for me because I was so desperate and could see a way out from my suffering but there were so many times it seemed like I was chasing a silly hope.For me the big lesson was to just follow the instructions and learn from how your system changes and what you feel. You find your own balance between working hard to get faster change and being gentle on yourself. Also be still and aware of your breath and focus inside when you rest between actions - that is so important - a mistake I made was to not listen to that advice. wishing you a great journey...Keith

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

[Kundalini Yoga] Re: Metallic Taste

Hi Dan,

---In Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com, <DStradford@...> wrote :

> About two weeks now I have felt overstimulatedI don't know about that. > with a metallic taste in the mouth I was told by my K yoga teacher this is de-toxing. One think I learn from K yoga is the body has very 'clever' systems for detoxing itself. Seems like anywhere anything leaves the body there is a system that will dump toxins into what is leaving! > and some irritability That's probably K yoga doing it's magic - releasing repressed emotion. K yoga works faster than most other things and more of the repressed emotion surfaces to consciousness as it is released.Keith.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Re: [Kundalini Yoga] The role of a guru

Dear Brian,

Sat Nam!

On the Kundalini Yoga path, our ultimate guru is our connection with the Divine, the inner guidance that we get from being tuned into the 'cosmic' channel and our soul.
Yogi Bhajan did not set himself up to be this 'guru' because he was not that. He was a teacher who offered us technology so that we could awaken to this experience ourselves.

'Guru' in terms of the 10 Sikh Gurus are humans who serve as examples of the consciousness that we can achieve.
Then the tenth Guru Gobind Singh said - no more bowing to other humans -- here is a compilation of writing of humans who have achieved higher consciousness -- The Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
When you read it you can get connected, so it can be your 'Guru.'

There are other holy books that are also 'Gurus.'

Choose a mantra and make it your guru.

And as far as Yogi Bhajan giving some of us the name Guru -- we have to do our best to inspire others to connect with their own inner guru.

Blessings,

Guru Rattana :+)

On 7/14/2014 8:20 AM, nitawabrian@yahoo.com [Kundaliniyoga] wrote:

Sat nam friends,

I've been pondering a question lately that I'd like some help with, especially from the wise elders of this community. In this wonderful path of Kundalini Yoga (that I've been practicing and teaching since 1999), what is the role of a guru? My understanding is that Yogi Bhajan talked about himself only as a teacher (and even seemed to talk about Sant Hazara Singh as a teacher, not a guru). What is the difference, because I tend to think Yogi Bhajan was of that level of understanding that he could be a guru? Do we eschew gurus on this path, at least in human form? Do we instead consider our guru to be the 10 Sikh Gurus (Guru Ram Das, etc.)? The Siri Guru Granth Sahib?

On a related note, who was Sant Hazara Singh's Guru? Because I think I met him yesterday!

Then you tell us :+)

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[Kundalini Yoga] Re: Too Much Energy (Too Hyped Up) After Doing KY

There are so may kriyas - what specific practice are you doing?

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Monday, July 14, 2014

[Kundalini Yoga] The role of a guru

Sat nam friends,

I've been pondering a question lately that I'd like some help with, especially from the wise elders of this community. In this wonderful path of Kundalini Yoga (that I've been practicing and teaching since 1999), what is the role of a guru? My understanding is that Yogi Bhajan talked about himself only as a teacher (and even seemed to talk about Sant Hazara Singh as a teacher, not a guru). What is the difference, because I tend to think Yogi Bhajan was of that level of understanding that he could be a guru? Do we eschew gurus on this path, at least in human form? Do we instead consider our guru to be the 10 Sikh Gurus (Guru Ram Das, etc.)? The Siri Guru Granth Sahib?

On a related note, who was Sant Hazara Singh's Guru? Because I think I met him yesterday!

All the best,
Brian

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