Kundalini uses movement and breathwork to help you release energy blockages in your body and reach your optimal flow state. 

Kundalini also involves sound and mantra. A mantra is an instrument of the mind—a powerful sound or vibration that you can use to enter a deep state of meditation.

Like a seed planted with the intention of blossoming into a beautiful perennial, a mantra can be thought of as a seed for energizing an intention.

When we release sound through mantra, we create vibration within our cells, which helps move stuck energy in the body and increase our vitality.

Kundalini yoga helps:

• Build strength
• Improve your mood
• Enhance your memory and focus
• Boost your metabolism
• Lower blood pressure and heart rate

Sadhana means daily spiritual practice. It is the foundation of all spiritual endeavors. Sadhana is your personal, individual spiritual effort. It is the main tool you use to work on yourself to achieve the purpose of life. It can be done alone or in a group. 

Sadhana is whatever you do consistently to clear your own consciousness so you can relate to the infinity within you. 

Before you face the world each day, do yourself a favor—tune up your nervous system and attune yourself to your highest inner self. To cover all your bases, it will include exercise, meditation, and prayer. 

During what are called the “ambrosial hours” (the two and a half hours just before sunrise), when the sun is at a sixty-degree angle to the Earth, the energy you put into your sadhana gets maximum results. Your world is quieter. It’s easier to meditate and concentrate before the hustle and bustle of the day begins. 

If you absolutely cannot get up early in the morning to do sadhana, then do it some other time! 

Doing sadhana at any time of the day or night will benefit you. 

Develop a regular sadhana and you take control of your life. Develop a deep sadhana and you open the doors of experience. 

Commit to meet your higher Self each morning and your decisions and your life become original; your life will bear the signature of your soul; your radiance will express the meaningful intimacy of the Infinite in each moment. 

Immerse yourself in the joy of victory that comes from starting each day with a powerful sadhana and every challenge becomes an opportunity. 

By Guru Tera Kaur

Kundalini Yoga is known as the Yoga of Awareness. It is the householder’s yoga—for people who are active in the world. Most other systems of yoga were developed by those living the renunciate life. Kundalini Yoga gives you tools to expedite your spiritual growth and healing.

Practice gives you an experience beyond the limits of time and space—an experience of the depth of your soul and true identity. This direct experience of your higher self builds a platform of strength, radiance, and security on which to build your life. 

Kundalini Yoga also provides more well-known benefits: increased flexibility, expanded lung capacity, a strong core, and stress alleviation. Here are 10 more great—and perhaps unexpected—benefits of Kundalini Yoga: 

1.   Inner Guidance

Kundalini Yoga develops the power of the intuitive mind. Your intuition is the voice of your own inner GPS. Every person has inner guidance available to them and can choose to listen and live with its support. When you clean out the subconscious mind and learn to listen through deep meditation, when your thoughts and feelings resonate with the soul, you can sense the guidance of intuition that is always present.

As you develop your internal guidance system, you can use it as a touchstone when faced with the decisions, questions, and choices life brings you.

2.   Sacred Sound

Kundalini Yoga is known for the sacred chant music that is part and parcel of the practice. Sacred sound, or Naad Yoga, is based on the experience of how sound vibrations affect the body, mind, and spirit through the movement of the tongue, the mouth, and changes in the chemicals in the brain.

When we consciously regulate the sounds we make through the use of mantra, breath, and rhythm, we can produce profound effects on our health and well-being, not to mention the pure joy that is experienced when we chant from our hearts and souls.

3.   The Golden Chain

Kundalini Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years, transmitted from Master to student. When you chant Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo to begin a Kundalini Yoga class, you become linked to the long line of spiritual masters who have preceded you.

You are calling on this lineage and the teacher within you for guidance, protection, and wisdom. This lineage is called the Golden Chain. It is a transference of spiritual awareness that guarantees that the teachings of Kundalini Yoga remain pure, unadulterated, and effective.

4.   Turn Karma into Dharma

The practice of Kundalini Yoga takes you out of the cycle of karma. Your positive intention to grow and put yourself through Kundalini kriyas (exercises) burns off karma. The more you practice, the more present, conscious, and intuitive you become. Walk the path of dharma (conscious living) rather than living in response to your karma (the results of your past actions).

5. Protection from Negativity

Kundalini Yoga practice fortifies and expands your electromagnetic field, or aura—the energy field that surrounds you, and that alerts you to positive and negative influences in your environment. A weak aura can let in negative influences, and even attract them. A big, strong, bright aura can protect you from negativity and keep you centered in the light of your true identity.

6.   Emotional Balance and Neutral Mind

Kundalini Yoga strengthens the nervous system, balances the glands, purifies the blood, and cleans out subconscious thought patterns. This gives you greater awareness and ability to choose how you respond to your thoughts and feelings. Through practice, you can train your mind and body not to react emotionally—not by repressing emotions, but by developing a buffer zone, a time and space in which to process and make conscious choices about your responses.

Develop the neutral mind, the place where the positive and the negative are evaluated in an instant, and you can act from that state of non-attachment, compassion, and neutrality. Act, don’t react.

7.   Deep Relaxation that Heals

Kundalini Yoga works to strengthen and balance the nervous system. When your nervous system is weak, you are susceptible to unhealthy reactions to stress. During a Kundalini Yoga kriya and the deep relaxation that follows it, all the nerve endings in the body are given a tune-up. You experience a deep rejuvenating state of total relaxation where healing can take place. Regular practice gives you extra stamina and resilience in the face of everyday stress.

8.   Kundalini Yoga Lifestyle

Because Kundalini Yoga is specifically geared for the householder—people who have jobs and families and busy lives, it works quickly, is effective, and includes a vast array of lifestyle information.

You can choose to attend a weekly yoga class and reap the benefits found there. You can also choose to dive into a whole body of time-tested yogic teachings on personal hygiene, diet, numerology, child-rearing, relationships, communication, selfless service, and much more.

9.   Community Connection

Being together with like-minded souls is a powerful support tool in the quest for spiritual growth and higher consciousness. Kundalini Yoga centers and studios welcome yoga students and teachers to create community, to celebrate special occasions with group meditations, sacred chant concerts, pot luck get-togethers and community service projects.

3HO Foundation International sponsors worldwide Kundalini Yoga events, as do local Kundalini Yoga centers. As you make positive changes in your life, the connection with and support of a spiritual family is a priceless gift.

10.  Befriend your Soul and Manifest Your Destiny

Kundalini Yoga gives you an experience of who you are when the grip of ego is released. It allows the depth of the soul to be felt and known. Begin to access your truth and create a strong connection to your soul and your soul’s work in this lifetime.

Kundalini Yoga is an experience of uniting the finite self with the Infinite. Once you gain this experience, you no longer have the need to look for your security outside of yourself. Your security comes from knowing who you are in relation to the Universe. You know who you are, and you can be you. You can leave the pain of past wounds behind, and manifest your soul’s destiny.

Over the past decade, Paramahamsa Nithyananda has been working closely with a team of scientists and researchers to throw more light on the mystical sciences rooted in the Vedic tradition, and reach the benefits of these sciences to people across the world.

The focus of recent studies has been the activation or ‘awakening’ of the Kundalini Shakti, the inner potential energy that lies latent in every individual. While Kundalini is well-known in Eastern yogic science, it is only just beginning to gain recognition as a scientific reality in Western medical circles.

Kundalini energy can be activated by various means like yoga, breathing techniques (pranayama), certain herbal preparations, creating particular vibrations in the body through the chanting of mantras, and through initiation (energy transmission) by a yoga adept whose Kundalini is already awakened. Of these, initiation is the fastest, easiest and safest way of awakening Kundalini .

Once awakened, Kundalini brings about extraordinary transformation in the body-mind system of the individual, including a huge surge in energy levels, the healing of chronic diseases and enhanced mental abilities. Beyond this, a host of other changes have been observed but had yet to be systematically studied or quantified.

STUDIES ON INNER AWAKENING PARTICIPANTS - 2011

In a breakthrough series of studies conducted in 2011, Kundalini awakening and its benefits were systematically recorded under controlled conditions in close to 600 individuals attending an intensive yoga and meditation retreat at Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam’s international headquarters near Bangalore, India.
Apart from daily yoga, pranayama and other supportive practices, participants of the 21-day INNER AWAKENING program were exposed to a total of 21 personal initiation sessions from Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
The study was based on a similar study conducted by Jeffery A. Dusck at Harvard Medical School and published in Public Library of Science in July 2008.  Recordings were taken on Day 0 and Day 18 of the program.
The parameters studied included:

• Cellular energy levels
• Physical health & immunity levels
• Psychological and emotional health
• Neurological changes in the brain
• Genetic transformation, if any
• Expression of any extraordinary abilities

1. Cellular energy levels assessed through mitochondrial tests:

Mitochondria are the energy powerhouses of the human cell. Mitochondrial activity in the cell is a precise indicator of the individual’s metabolism rate and energy levels.
In this study, blood samples from a group of Inner Awakening participants aged above 50 years were subjected to a well-known protocol called MTT Assay for assessment of cellular energy levels.
100% of the participants in this particular study recorded a drastic increase in energy levels, averaging 967%. Studies have shown that such an increase is clearly impossible through any other known means, such as exercise, yoga or fitness training, which can effect a maximum of 40% increase in cellular energy.

• Healing of physical ailments

Rapid recovery from a range of physical ailments was observed, also indicating enhanced immunity levels:

• 100% of participants recorded significant weight loss
• 100% of participants recorded recovery from eating disorders
• 100% of participants recorded recovery from chronic fatigue
• 92% of participants showed marked recovery from rheumatoid arthritis
• 78% of participants showed marked recovery from osteo-arthritis
• 79% of participants showed marked recovery from asthma
• 71% of participants showed marked recovery from chronic headaches

Participants also recorded lowering of fasting blood sugar, decreased BMI and improvement in psychosomatic illnesses and auto-immune diseases.

• Healing of psychological disorders

Decreased dependency on medication and enhanced sense of well-being

• 97% of participants reported recovery from depression
• 89% of participants reported freedom from phobias
• 82% of participants reported freedom from anger and frustration
• 88% of participants showed marked recovery from insomnia
• 76 % of participants reported recovery from panic attacks
• 76% of participants reported freedom from insecurity
• 73 % of participants reported an increase in mental focus
• 71% of participants reported freedom from mood swings

• Neurological changes through QEEG studies

A series of QEEG studies were also conducted on participants who had Kundalini awakening to study the effects of Kundalini Awakening on electrical activity in the brain. The same studies were also conducted on a control group. These included:

• Short term effects observed at the moment of initiation by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
• Long term effects measured through post-activation assessment of various mental and cognitive functions

Findings:

• At the moment of initiation, certain instantaneous changes were recorded in all participants who had active Kundalini awakening, including:

a.            sharper focusing abilities
b.            higher alertness levels
c.             extremely rapid multi-processing
d.            better short-term memory

Significantly, the brain waves of subjects during the activation showed a high incidence of delta waves, indicating that they were in a state of deep relaxation comparable to sleep. In Vedic science, this state of intense restful awareness is known as Samadhi.

We will be going through this together adding a new element each week. Some parts will be live (the part that's being added on) while the parts we have already done will be recorded.

If that's confusing, keep reading and hopefully, it'll make sense.

Week 1:

On Monday the 10th we will meet over Zoom at 6 am to do Sadhana together until 7:30 am.

We'll continue live Monday - Friday. The Sadhana session will be recorded so if you miss it or need to do it later you can.

Saturday and Sunday you can use the recording to continue your Sadhana practice.

You'll see the most profound benefits of this practice if you do it for at least 40 consecutive days.

Week 2:

Monday May 17th we will meet at 8 am for our fitness class. The idea is that you will have already done Sadhana at 6 am before coming to this portion of the program each day.

Classes will be up to 1 hr long and consist of yoga, cardio, dance, and some surprises.

Some of the classes will be led by Dijon, others by guest teachers.

Enjoy grounding the energy we've created through Sadhana into your body.

Week 3:

Monday, May 24th at 9 am we'll add journaling to our other practices so we can meet our inner selves and become more aware of our emotional world. 

We'll do free writing and let whatever is inside come out on the page. Once it's outside of us we will craft our thoughts and feelings into a poem.

We can then share our poems in the community portal of the program to be seen and witnessed by each other.

Week 4:

This week we'll start at 9:30 am and dive into different aspects of financial literacy like

• what is an asset
• what is a liability
• what is inflation
• why is it crucial to invest
• what is the blockchain
• what is cryptocurrency
• where do I buy crypto
• how do I buy crypto

With this knowledge, we will be able to begin the path to financial sovereignty so that we can support others and fully live out our dharma.

We will be doing 

Three Types of Exercises

Ayurveda speaks of three different types of exercise: internal, external, and mixed (internal and external). 

Incorporating all three into your life nourishes and balances not only your body but your mind and spirit as well.

Internal exercise is most subtle, acting immediately on the subtle plane. Examples  include:

• Meditation
• Pranayama (breathing exercises)
• Japa or mantra meditation
• Prayer
• Breathwork
• Yin and gentle forms of yoga
• Tai chi Qigong

Attention is directed internally and focuses on the mind, subtle body, meridians (chi energy channels), nadis, and pranic flows of energy. Either very little or no external movement is required for internal exercise; however, there is a great deal of subtle movement that occurs within. Internal exercise works directly with the subtle elements (mind, intelligence, ego, consciousness). It balances Vata dosha (Ayurveda air element), regulates prana, and supports the nervous system. It decreases stress and anxiety while enhancing peace and calmness. Through the inward attention of internal exercise, the potential for soul awareness arises.

External Exercise

External exercise is purely physical and focuses on muscles and bones as well as the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Its purpose is to achieve greater physical strength, expand lung capacity, and improve cardiovascular health and endurance. Its other benefits include stress reduction and detoxification. Some examples of external exercises include:

• Weight lifting
• Running
• Biking
• Swimming
• Competitive sports
• Strenuous yoga

Mixed Exercise

Mixed exercise is a combination of internal and external exercise and includes such practices as:

• Hatha yoga
• Kundalini yoga
• Some forms of martial arts
• Meditative walking or jogging
• Meditative swimming
• A combination of yoga, pranayama, and meditation

Mixed exercise incorporates mindfulness and inner awareness along with physical exercise and movements.

What’s best?

Based on the principle of subtle precedes gross, subtle exercise has the most powerful and long-lasting benefits because it harmonizes our body, mind, and soul. It can also be practiced for our entire lives and will benefit and nourish us even at the moment of death. Mixed exercise is an ideal combination of internal and external. It sufficiently strengthens our physical body while balancing and healing our subtle body.

Sadhana helps integrate our inner and outer aspects. It, therefore, supports us in becoming fully integrated human beings. Ultimately, it's ideal to include all three types of exercise, but the emphasis is always placed on mixed and internal in order to nourish your body, mind, and soul!

You and your life are worth it!

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