KUNDALINI YOGA

To hone our strength and inner wisdom.

Yoga is a technology with which we can experience our true nature. Yoga is not a religion, and people of every faith and no faith practice yoga and receive benefits.

A kundalini class includes asana (physical postures), pranayam (breath), savasana (deep relaxation), mantra (sound current) and meditation (focused attention).

The combination of these components moves stagnant and unhelpful emotions, thoughts, and trauma stored in the body, mind and psyche. At the same time, one is vivified, becoming more harmonious.

Kundalini Yoga is particularly effective in clearing blockages and catalyzing deep work. The practice consists of dynamic and subtle techniques which will put you in charge of your own power. It is a self-initiation into your sacredness. It illuminates our inner workings, so we may embody and radiate Truth.

Applying these techniques will help you keep a clear mind, a calm heart, and maintain a personal connection to the source of all creation.

If something in you is curious about trying kundalini yoga, then simply come try a class!

 


Class Schedule

Sunday 10:30am-12:15pm @ Eastlake Yoga

Thursday 7:00-8:30pm @ Eastlake Yoga
Kirtan Kriya Classes

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Upcoming Special Classes

"Kundalini Yoga for Prosperity"
February 18-19, 2012: NW Yoga Conference


"Essential Components" Series
Sundays, February 26-March 25
4:00-6:00pm @ Eastlake Yoga
More Info


See below for details & directions.

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EASTLAKE YOGA

Sunday mornings, 10:30am-12:15pm
Thursday evenings, 7:00pm-8:30pm

2501 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle, WA  98102

eastlakeyoga.com, 206-355-4154

Single class $15, Five-class card $65, Ten-class card $125 Monthly unlimited card $110

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Essential Components of Kundalini Yoga

Sundays, 4:00pm-6:00pm
February 26 & March 4, 11, 18, 25
at Eastlake Yoga
$15 per class

“Kundalini Yoga is uncoiling yourself to find your potential and your vitality and to reach for your virtues. There is nothing from outside. Try to understand that. All is in you. You are the storehouse of your totality.” -Yogi Bhajan

This classes are 2-hour explorations of fundamental elements of kundalini yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Each class is a complete kundalini yoga class, and an examination of a particular topic. Kundalini Yoga is a seamless technology composed of many parts – with practice, the components work together to create profound healing and expanded consciousness.

Beginners will welcome being introduced to these fundamentals. The seasoned yogi will be illuminated with further knowledge on what is happening during practice.

The truth is, each of these topics may be lifelong studies, unveiling its wisdom with time and commitment. We will begin with these five classes, with the intention that these topics will be revisited and expanded upon in the future. Other topics will be offered as well, since this knowledge is so vast and kundalini yoga is beyond even these five fundamental components. Let us explore this path together!

"The kundalini experience does not mean you have gone into a deep breathless trance and are beyond this world. … It integrates you more fully with reality and gives you a broader vision and sensitivity so that you can act more efficiently."  -Yogi Bhajan

The topics are: Asana (postures), Pranayama (breath), Bandha (locks), Mantra (sound current), and Mudra (hand seals).  We will be practicing all of these in every class, but special attention will be given as follows:

February 26: Asana
March 4: Bandha
March 11: Mudra
March 18: Pranayama
March 25: Mantra 


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Kirtan Kriya Class
Thursdays 7:00pm-8:30pm at Eastlake Yoga

This kundalini yoga class will feature a long practice of Kirtan Kriya, a powerful meditation which allows us to move through our changing world with grace. Each class will include a warm up, short kundalini yoga kriya, and then for our meditation, Kirtan Kriya (30 minutes). Let’s create a powerful vortex of energy to benefit you and all of the world. Come give it a try!

All levels are welcome.

“The Saa-Taa-Naa-Maa (Kirtan Kriya) meditation is the
basic fundamental meditation
which cuts through everything.” –Yogi Bhajan

What does Kirtan Kriya cut through? It cuts through anything that is not aligned with our Truth. It cuts through anything that is not supporting our fullest potential - our mental health, emotional equilibrium, physical vitality, creative happiness and deep, lasting fulfillment. In yogic language, we ascribe those limiting beliefs and habits to the ego. Ego believes in the finite, and makes decisions based on that. The Soul knows its true nature is infinite, and makes decisions based on that. Kirtan Kriya cuts through the ego so our infinite clarity can be our foundation.

Kirtan Kriya brings peace, relaxation, and balance. It works holistically on all levels of consciousness. When we dedicate ourselves to a regular practice of this Kriya, we see how much we can change and how incredible a tool it is for healing and growth.

Other spoken benefits: changes addictive patterns and unhealthy habits, solidifies & supports any positive work you are doing for yourself, clears your energy field of negativity and trauma, strengthens the frontal lobe so you are less emotionally reactive, tunes the glandular system so brain and body chemistry are harmonious, promotes serenity…and much more.

Modern science performed a study of this ancient yogic practice, finding that Kirtan Kriya improves brain function - particularly memory. See below for links to the articles and more information about Kirtan Kriya.

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“This Kriya is one of the three that Yogi Bhajan mentioned would carry us through the Aquarian Age, even if all other teachings were lost.

Practicing this meditation brings a total mental balance to the individual psyche. The mudras cause a balance in the electro-magnetic projection of the aura.

Practicing this meditation is both a science and an art. It is an art in the way it molds consciousness and the refinement of sensation and insight it produces. It is a science in the tested certainty of the results it produces. This meditation is based on the tested experience of many people, in many conditions, over many years. It is based on the structure of the psyche and the laws of action and reaction that accompany each sound, movement and posture. Chanting the Panj Shabd – the primal or nuclear form of Sat Nam – has profound energy within it because we are breaking the bij (seed or atom) of the sound into its primary elements.”

-Excerpt from The Aquarian Teacher
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“After eight weeks, brain scans revealed that the people showed increased blood flow in brain areas crucial to memory. Also, tests of verbal fluency, logical memory and other skills showed significant improvement according to the researchers, who reported their results in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

A comparison group of five people with memory problems who listened to Mozart violin concertos for 12 minutes a day showed no such improvements.

"Anyone can do this," said Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., one of the lead authors of the article and the medical director of the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation in Tucson, Ariz. "The people in the study had no experience with meditation, and yet by activating their brain with 12 minutes of meditation a day, they were able to improve their cognition and mental function. It really made their brain healthier.””

-Excerpt from:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/aging/lifetimes/kirtan-kriya-meditation-shows-promise-in-research-of-memory-functions/1090402


http://www.findbliss.com/yoga-practices/new-wave-of-healing/
 

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