Eight-Week Curriculum
90-Minute Classes
Kundalini Yoga for Knowledge To Substantiate It Compiled by Shakta Kaur Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL) , Chicago, IL, USA
3HO IKYTA Teachers Conference Summer Solstice Sadhana Celebration Celebration June 19-20, 2014 2014 Sat Nam, Dear Teacher, This 8-week series of classes is based upon the 3HO International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA) Teacher’s Conference theme for 2014-2014--‘‘Knowledge .’ ‘Knowledge’ was originally chosen as a theme for the 2014 3H0 IKYTA Teacher’s Conference from Yogi Bhajan’s, ‘The 8 Elements of Excellence’ which reads: The 8 Elements of Excellence The Vision to see your goal and keep it in y our consciousness. The Courage to attempt it and to keep up. The Grit to go through it. The Humility to know who the Doer is. The Knowledge to substantiate it. The Prayer to feed it. The Grace to carry yourself through it. The Determination to achieve it .
In 2015 the Teachers Conference will focus on ‘prayer ‘ prayer’’ and in 2016, ‘grace. ‘grace.’ In 2017, ‘determination,’ will be the focus which will complete 3HO IKYTA’s ‘The 8 Elements of Excellence’ theme.) theme.) Each class in this ‘Knowledge’ curriculum includes one main kriya and one meditation that have been taught at Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL), in Chicago, Illinois, USA. While this is not a definitive list of all the kriyas and meditations you could possibly use in a curriculum focusing on ‘ knowledge’ it is my hope you will not only find inspiration with what is shared here but that you will teach this or a similar curriculum soon! May God and Guru continue to bless 3HO IK YTA, Kundalini Yoga Instructors, Practitioners and Teachers world-wide. Yours in service,
Shakta Kaur Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL), Chicago, IL, USA
www.ShaktaKaur.com – www.ShaktaKaur.com – 312-922-4699 312-922-4699
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Wondering how to market your ‘Yoga for Knowledge’ series?
Use all or some of this! [Studio Name]’s Theme
Yoga to Tap into Your Inner Knowledge Ensure your Happiness, Success and Excellence!
In the past, great knowledge about human potential was guarded by secrecy and layers of initiations. You had to be born into a particular family or have a particular destiny to learn the sacred science of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Those days are gone forever thanks to Yogi Bhajan’s teaching the thousands of meditations and kriyas that he brought to the west beginning in 1968. During the months of XXX and XXX, every class at XXX features meditations and kriyas designed for you to tap into your own inner knowledge and wisdom. You’ll not only remove fears, you’ll remove self imposed limitation while broadening your focus at the same time. Expect resources, facts and opportunities to appear to substantiate your vision. If you’ve become a little too limited, narrow or, simply afraid, come to XXX and tap into your inner knowledge and wisdom that is sometimes difficult to access on your own. You’ll find that touch of Infinite knowledge within—your intuition. And, you’ll go deep within to rest your mind, reset your behavior and remember that you incarnated to experience happiness, success and excellence! Drop into any class or pre-register on-line here: “Why are we limited? Because of lack of wisdom through knowledge. If you know wisdom and then you go through an experience, you have knowledge. Then you are one step higher and one step higher and one step higher. Any wisdom which you experience within yourself becomes a knowledge within you. A man of wisdom will fail. A man of knowledge will never fail.” – Yogi Bhajan (The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, p. 59.)
----------------CLASS ONE REGAIN YOUR BALANCE! Main Kriya:
Total Balance Kriya (Kundalini Yoga Manual edited by Rama Kirn Singh, pp. 20-23). (NOTE: In order to comfortably include this kriya in a 90-minute class teach 2/3rds times of each exercise instead of full times, i.e., instead of 4 minutes, teach 3 minutes. OR, schedule a 2-hour class to begin this series, so you may teach full times of the kriya.)
Meditation:
The Complete Adi Mantra for Individual Meditation (KRI International Teacher Training Manual Level 1, pp. 87-88).
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Main Kriya.
11:30 am:
Deep relaxation.
11:45 am:
Meditation.
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
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3 Key Concepts: 1) We have a vision. We’ve been courageous to even attempt our vision and have ‘kept up’ with grit and humility. But, every once in a awhile we become a little limited, narrow or, simply afraid. We can’t tap into our inner knowledge and wisdom. We don’t expect resources, facts and opportunities to appear to substantiate our vision. 2) The main kriya today helps us regain our balance ... both physically and mentally. If you have something to do that requires quick, clear decisions to substantiate your vision these exercises will help by removing any brain fatigue and mental sluggishness. We’ll break deposits, remove obstructions and release tensions caused by everyday life that tends to get in the way of us finding the knowledge to substantiate our vision. 3) Then, in our mantra, chanting ‘Ong Namo Gur u Dev Namo’ in the complete individual form immerses us in awareness and guidance for our personal situation. This is not just any kind of knowledge, but, the kind of knowledge that transforms us. “Wisdom becomes knowledge when it becomes your own personal experience.” (The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, p. 59)
3 Key Skills : 1) Holding the arms up is made e asier if you let the scapula do the work (instead of the deltoid muscles). 2) Cobra Pose. 3) Chanting ‘Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo, Guru Dev Namo Guru Dayva’ 3 times on one breath, then, 5 times on one breath.
CLASS TWO BECOME CRYSTAL CLEAR! Warm-Up Kriya:
To Balance the Head & Heart (Kundalini Yoga, pp. 92-93).
Main Kriya:
Becoming Crystal Clear (Self-Knowledge, p. 4).
Meditation:
Meditation for Knowledge and Communication (I Am a Woman, p. 166).
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Warm-Up Kriya.
10:55 am:
Main Kriya.
11:25 am:
Deep relaxation.
11:40 am:
Meditation.
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
3 Key Concepts: 1) “There are 2 moments when you are all-knowing. One is 3 seconds before death. Your entire life in its panorama will be shown to you. What you have done, why you have done what you have done, [how you felt when you did it]. You are going to judge yourself. You can feel bad, condemn yourself or you can feel good and uplift yourself. Same moment before you were born, before the soul was released to a body in this world you were told why this body was being given to you and then you were shown all the computerized accountability of your past. And you were shown 3 actions; one is normally what that means to you; second, as an
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uplifted person what it means to you; and third as a downgraded person what that means to you. No person has been shown only one part. You have been shown 3 paths. One is called path of the master, second is called path of the man and third is called path of the beast. God has given you energy. Energy is a solid situation. And you can use it either of the 3 parts as you like. What we have today among us is the non-clarity. We are not clear. Our understanding is not crystal clear. When our understanding is not crystal clear, our reputation is not cry stal clear.” 2) “ God gave the human soul ... [the] human soul ... not every soul ... the mind of its own. Mind was not given to you. Mind was given to your human soul so that beyond time and space you can reach God and Experience it. All you understand is justify your corruption. You say, “I’m not rich, I’m not poor, I’m very depressed, I’m this, I’m that. Y ou justify your corruption. Your whole thinking is based on, it is called ‘face saving.’ It is not on ‘soul saving.’ The total rhythm of life is, the person should experience his own soul, own mind, own body. It is the science of crystallization, not sublimation, not evaporation. This is the life where students shall never, ever have to come back through any life cycle (October 2, 1985).”
3) “When you crystallize the unseen of you, you live through the heart center. When the dreams of the heart gather energy and manifest through the navel chakra, you act on those dreams and nurture them into the world. [Becoming Crystal Clear] adjusts, aligns and strengthens the flow between the fourth and third energy centers of your subtle body (KRI Director of Training, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, P h.D., Self-Knowledge, p. 4).
3 Key Skills/Practices: 1) Arm Arcs in Easy Pose; also while standing up and squatting down in Crow Pose. 2) Focus on feeling the pranic energy in the hands. 3) Move the navel with the beat while chanting ‘Rakhe Rakhanhaar’ with a strong whisper. “To know wisdom is nothing. To experience wisdom becomes knowledge. Then you can stand through the times.” (The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, p. 66.)
CLASS THREE PENETRATE THE MEMORIES! (With Yogi Bhajan via DVD)
Warm-Up Kriya:
Varuyas Kriya (Sadhana Guidelines , p. 69).
Meditation:
Housecleaning IV DVD (Nov. 21, 1988) (Rebirthing, pp. 39-49). NOTE #1:
May also be used as a ‘ Clear the Ghosts’ class.
NOTE #2:
If you have taught/will teach Shakta’s ‘Clean the House,
Cleanse Your Being ’ series, this is also CLASS FOUR of that series.
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Warm-Up Kriya.
10:44 am:
Meditation via DVD with Yogi Bhajan. 4
11:55 am:
Yogi Bhajan ends with a very quick ‘Lo ng Time Sunshine Song.’ Let the students sit for 30-60 seconds. Afterward, you may end with another musical version of the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
3 Key Concepts: 1) “Man never understood that he gets me ntally tired. .... We suffer losses and calamities because we are not mentally steady, we get tired and we cannot cope. As far as spirituality is concerned, the defense mechanism of your body is very powerful. When your spirit is on, the defense mechanism of your body—the Radiant Body they call it—the light is on. When your spirit is off, the light is off, and you become vulnerable. You are attacked by situations that you just don’t want to relate to. “Everybody gets tired and when you are m entally tired, you do so many blunders, stupid blunders, stupid blunders, mistakes that make life become useless, and you grow spiritually tired. “The body will need its nourishment, its enrichment; the mind will need its nourishment, its enrichment; and the soul will need its enrichment and nourishment. The longing of the spirit, the longing of the mind and the longing of the body are three hungers within you. They cannot go away. (Rebirthing, p. 39). 2) “Where is God? He is under the foot, called the ‘sole.’ Walk three miles regularly, do a sadhana of about 2-3 hours a day of proper exercises and I don’t think you can go wrong. There has to be movement in order for the five tattvas* to balance. It is a requirement. ... Your five tattvas must balance once every 24 hours. It is a living requirement—I don’t care which religion you belong to or which country you belong to.
*Tattvas—the elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether of which all creation, including the human body, are composed. 3) “... we are penetrating the most neglected area of our life—our layers of memory. We have sad memories, we have dirty memories and we have happy memories. Man lives by perpetual memory. There is no Jesus Christ. Where is he? Perpetual memory. Whenever you do something wrongs you call on him, ‘Jesus Christ,’ or, ‘Oh, Christ.’ That’s our perpetual memory. ... Memory—you live by memory. After death you live by memory. Mortal becomes immortal by memory (Rebirthing, pp. 40-41).” “If your subconscious is totally cleared and clean, you’ll be doing totally different things, and you will be a lot happier and more effective than you are today .” --Yogi Bhajan
3 Key Skills/Practices: 1) Tense the body until you shake. 2) Mantras: ‘All Things Come from God’ and the Narayan Shabd . 3) Kirtan Kriya melody.
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CLASS FOUR YOU ARE A LIVING FLOW! Main Kriya:
Exercises for Body Cleansing and Disease Prevention ( Kundalini Yoga Manual edited by Rama Kirn Singh, pp. 30 -34).
Meditation:
Sarb Gyan Kriya (Sadhana Guidelines , p. 161).
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Main Kriya.
11:25 am:
Deep Relaxation.
11:40 am:
Meditation.
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
3 Key Skills/Concepts: 1) “The very seed of you knows the entire knowledge .” –Guru Arjan, Siri Guru Granth Sahib, p. 274, Sukhmani . 2) When you become shuniaa then the One will carry you (The Mind , p. 198). What is shuniaa? It is a state of mind and consciousness when the ego is brought to zero or complete stillness. There a power and knowledge exists. In that stillness you plant a mantra, a bij (aka a seed), to re-pattern demoting habits. With regular practice your vision becomes substantiated by your inner knowing. 3) Sarb Gyan means ‘an action that brings all knowledge and wisdom.’ We lose the wisdom by becoming too narrow, limited and afraid. We forget that we are a living flow of all the information and being that comprises prakirti , the universe.
3 Key Skills/Practices: 1) Camel Pose. 2) Gyan Mudra in front of the hear t center with the four tips of the thumbs and index fingers touching. Remaining three fingers of the right hand are crossed over the left. [Concept: This mudra by itself will change the flow of the body’s energy.] 4)Mantra Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad Sat Gur Prasad Ek Ong Kar . [Concept: This mantra is a gatka shabd —one that reverses the mind. If the mantra is chanted just 5 times it will stop the mind and put it into reverse gear. It can stop anything negative. It is so strong that it elevates the self beyond duality and establishes the flow of spirit. Its positive effects happen quickly and last a long time. It needs to be chanted with reverence. This mantra brings great intuition to the practitioner. After chanting this mantra, anything you say will be amplified and created with great force. So have a positive projection and do not say anything negative for awhile (KRI International Teacher Training Manual Level 1 , p. 84).]
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CLASS FIVE APPLY YOUR KNOWLEDGE Main Kriya:
Exercises to Create a Disease-Free Body (Reaching Me In Me , pp. 15-16).
Meditation:
Elevation of the Body, Heart and Mind ( A Year with the Master, p. 90).
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Warm-ups to stretch the lower back and hamstrings (i.e., Cat Cow and Life Nerve Stretch Variation left and right).
11:40 am:
Main Kriya includes Deep Relaxation.
11:45 am:
Meditation.
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
3 Key Skills/Concepts (well, 4 really!): 1) ‘Sat’ means truth—the reality of one’s existence. ‘Nam’ means the identity. The truth of your identity is that you are a spiritual being here having a human experience ... not the other way around! Sat Nam is a bij (or seed) mantra. Within the seed is contained all the knowledge of the fully grown tree. The essence or seed is the identity of truth embodied in condensed form. Sat Nam is perhaps the most widely used mantra in Kundalini Yoga. Chanting it awakens the soul and gives you your destiny. 2) You can’t learn to drive a car by reading a book. You actually have to drive the car! You have to ‘apply’ the knowledge. “Knowledge is not enough, that’s what the Piscean Age is. This is your intuition, your applied knowledge. With all the knowledge you can’t drive the car, you can read every book, but until you drive it yourself, you can’t drive. That’s why what is taught to you has to be apprenticed. Don’t ever give your children knowledge, we are sick of that knowledge you give them and then they freak out next minute. Give them applied, intuitive knowledge, give your husband applied, intuitive knowledge. Give your home applied, intuitive knowledge, give your dog applied, intuitive knowledge.” (Excerpted from ‘Intuitive Applied
Knowledge,’ I Am A Woman DVD Series, Creativity of the Creator, Volume 15, July 16, 1992.) 2) In order to take advantage of the resources, opportunities and facts t hat come to support your vision you need to be healthy and strong. This kriya is a preventative measure ... to keep you healthy and vital so that you can take care of all the small details necessary to substantiate your vision. “When your circulation is strong, disease doesn’t like to visit you. This set moves your blood, ly mph and prana. It activates the nervous system from the navel center, distributing energy so you can relax and live fear-free and full of health.” - KRI Director of Training, Gurucharan Singh K halsa, Ph.D., Reaching Me in Me, p. 16.
Your nervous system is your base power. If the base power is well stimulated, human effectiveness is greater than otherwise (Reaching Me in Me, p. 15). 3) We meditate to develop a neutral mind. Our neutral mind takes the input of both the negative and positive minds to assess the best course of action in relationship to our highest self. A neutral mind reflects the uniqueness of our own soul.
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We meditate to control and transcend the waves of the mind, allowing the flow from the radiance of our soul. We meditate to develop our intuition. Success is a mirage unless we are successful with our own thoughts. ”When you meditate, thoughts rejected by the subconscious start floating up like negative signs. To control this stream of thoughts, hit them with a positive, ‘Wahe Guru!’ Cross the negatives and make them positive. Cross the negatives and make them positive. When this becomes automatic you develop intuition. Without intuition you are like an impulsive animal, subject to circumstances and those circumstances are not subject to you .” – Meditation and Thought , A Year with the Master , p. 90,
November 14, 2000, Espanola, NM.
3 Key Skills/Practices: 1) Root Lock to keep the lower back on the floor during leg lifts to 90 degrees. 2) Chattr Chakkr Vartee mantra. 3) Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hung mantra. “ You have great trouble in the Piscean Age as humans, and we are entering the Age of Aquarius. In the Aquarian Age, there’s a knowledge, ‘I’ll go and get it.’ In the Aquarian Age, there’s a knowledge, ‘I’ll have the experience.’ Its two different things, absolutely 180 degrees different. What will happen, there’s no need to prophesize and predict it. What will happen is that about 80% of humanity...will live more miserable, empty-minded, useless, just like any animal lives and dies. Twenty percent may realize and achieve and be ready to walk in the Age of Aquarius.”
CLASS SIX BALANCE THE BRAIN, RELIEVE THE STRESS Warm-Up:
Breathwalk Program Two, Awakeners: Hip and Spine Balance (attached in Appendix and also at www.ShaktaKaur.com).
Main Kriya:
Beyond Fatigue (Inner Workout Manual , pp. 18-20). NOTE: This kriya takes approximately 30 minutes to teach including 30 seconds in between e xercises for transitions/explanations and 5 minutes chanting ‘ Dhan Dhan Ram Das Guru’ in Ex. 9. If chanting 10 minutes in Ex. 9 and/or leaving 60 seconds in between exercises for transitions/explanations eliminate the Warm-Up.
Meditation:
Celestial Communication with the Guru Gaitri Mantra (Gobinday Mukunday ).*
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Warm-Up.
10:45 am:
Main Kriya.
11:25 am:
Deep relaxation.
11:40 am:
Meditation (11 minutes of meditating).
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 Long Sat Nams.
3 Key Concepts: 1) Good health and vitality are a must if we are to take advantage of opportunities, circumstances and conditions that present themselves to substantiate our vision. Because stress is endemic in our society and can never be completely avoided we need to relieve the long-term effects of stress on our body.
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2) Men and Women Respond to Stress Differently: Looking at the behavior of neurons under stress (the spikes on the end of the neuron) ... women’s dendritic spikes retreat under intense stress while the male neurons increase their spikes, i.e., when bombs are going off men are often more excited and ready to perform; they’re out on the front line. Women under intense stress may experience more confusion or internal processing about what to do and the best way to do it. On the other hand, under long term, chronic, day-to-day stress, the men’s neurons decrease in activity and the women’s increase. Women are far better at handling long-term chronic stress. (In a relationship a man needs to tell the woman, ‘don’t worry, I’ll handle it.’ If a man can get the woman to relax because she believes in him she doesn’t lose her neurons. ) The feminine consciousness is the best organizing and managing force on the planet. She can help the masculine mind which has narrowed and launched into action by adding context, support and clarity to see the goal. The masculine psyche drops the past and memories fade. His hippocampus, which handles memory, retreats under stress (and it is smaller than hers to begin with). Unless he is well trained in the neutral mind to handle stress and threat, the emotional energy of the old brain override the careful associations and strategizing of the frontal brain ( Level 2 Vitality & Stress Manual ). 3) To get beyond fatigue and burn-out we need to adjust the chemical balance in the blood by strengthening the adrenal glands. The hormones the adrenal glands produce determine whether the body is relaxed or alert; open or tense; ready to receive or closed to all that is available to us in each moment.
3 Key Skills: 1) Camel Pose. 2) Crow Pose. 3) Guru Gaitri Mantra: Akaamay .*
Gobinday, Mukunday, Udaaray, Apaaray, Hariang, Kariang, Nirnamay,
*Images of the ‘Guru Gaitri’ Celestial Communication Arm Movements attached in Appendix.
CLASS SEVEN CLEAR THE SUBCONSCIOUS CHATTER Warm-up: Main Kriya:
Breathwalk Program 18, Awakeners: Circulation (attached in Appendix and also at www.ShaktaKaur.com). Unloading the Unconscious Burden (Self-Knowledge, p. 30).
Meditation: OR
Kundalini Bhakti Mantra (for 120th day of pregnancy) Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru .
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Warm-up.
11:45 am:
Main Kriya.
11:25 am:
Deep Relaxation.
11:40 am:
Meditation (11 minutes of meditating).
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
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1)”The Age of Aquarius is the Age of Knowledge. Everybody will know everything. There will be no hidden agenda. How many people can go and see what happens in our congress on the C-Span? And can see who’s yelling, who’s saying what. Look at these guys, they look like kids going nuts. But it’s there for anyone to see on C-Span. You see your representative talking and somebody’s telling, “shut up.” He says, “You shut up.” It never used to be possible before. Now you can watch it on TV. Four mega billion units of information is not a small thing. And if we do not have a very perfect practice of Kundalini Yoga, and have an absolute self- admiration to control it our nervous system won’t have a chance. We’ll be depressed all the time .” (Excerpted from Yogi Bhajan Lecture, Methodology of Teaching, Teacher Training & Projection , June 15, 1996).
Yogi Bhajan discerned the date of the ‘change of the age’ from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age as 11.11.11. He said that it would take until 2038 for all the changes to be absorbed into society. It’s a frequency shift. He called the 27-year period from 2011 to 2038 the ‘gray’ period. We’ll tend to feel ‘low’ during the ‘gray’ period. 2) When you feel overwhelmed or stressed you often feel you don’t have the resources. You feel you no longer can cope. That’s when you use Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. The specificity of the techniques work because they fix the ‘overwhelm’ or ‘stress’ with mind/body interventions. 3) You’ve incarnated during the ‘gray’ period for a reason. Your soul has a particular destiny to walk in this incarnation. Babies born during this ‘gray’ period are not children of the ‘Piscean Age,’ they are the water bearers of the ‘Aquarian Age.’ And, today we celebrate the 120th day of pregnancy … the day when the soul enters the fetus … of not one, but, two of our new moms! We celebrate the woman, the divine feminine, with the Kundalini Bhakti Mantra! [Suggested Alternative Mantra Meditation if not celebrating the 120th day of pregnancy during this class: Guru Guru Wahe Guru Guru Ram Das Guru … because it ‘projects the mind to the source of knowledge.’] 4) Definitions: Unconscious Mind--Realm of automatic habits of the mind we are not conscious of that generates thoughts and feelings. Subconscious Mind—Realm of dreams and memories; seat of fear, negative habits, emotional impulses and commotional behavior. The subconscious mind can be kept clean through meditation. Consciousness—the state of being aware within oneself. Projection—the psyche projected into action; an attitude of the mind to approach action in a certain way. Psyche—the universal consciousness which permeates every existence.
3 Key Skills (4!): 1) Eight-part exercise sequence in warm -up. 2) Chanting Hummee Hum Brahm Hum with the tip of the tongue and without moving the lips much. 3) Chanting Har Haray Haree with the tip of the tongue and using the power of the navel. 4) Learning the Kundalini Bhakti Mantra ( Adi Shakti ) or the Guru Ram Das chant (depending upon the meditation chosen for this class). CLASS EIGHT SUBSTANTIATE YOUR VISION Main Kriya: Meditation:
Working the Total Self (Kundalini Yoga Manual, edited by Rama Kirn Singh, pp. 37-41 and Kriya, pp. 25-30). Meditation to Rest Your Mind (KRI, July 16, 1990 and www.ShaktaKaur.com).
10:30 am:
Welcome, Tune-in and Framing.
10:35 am:
Main Kriya. (NOTE: Reduce times of each exercise by 30% to comfortably move through this kriya in a 90-min. class. OR, schedule a 2-hour class to end this series, so 10
you may teach full times of the kr iya and have 11 minutes for meditating after deep relaxation!)
11:30 am:
Deep Relaxation.
11:45 am:
Meditation (7 minutes of meditating).
11:55 am:
End with the ‘Long Time Sunshine Song’ and 3 long Sat Nam’s.
3 Key Concepts: 1) You have a vision. But, whenever you feel limited or when you doubt, your natural access to your inner knowledge and wisdom is blocked. So, today, we move the body to rest your mind so that there is no doubt! Then resources and opportunities will appear--to substantiate your vision! 2)”From day one, you have one thing that is most strong in you, which is called doubt. Baram: doubt, duality. You are the product of duality. You want to reach out and find out what is beyond duality. … Where there is no doubt you become Dharam. … In Dharam you come to your basic, initial integrity: I am, I am. Neither I was, nor I am, nor I shall be; but just I am, I am. … Everything you do is to remove your doubt. You say that you have faith, but you don’t have faith. You even doubt your faith. So there is a doubt; and there is a cause and an effect. Cause or sequence you can start; consequences you must face. Cause you can cause. Effect you cannot escape. The purpose in life is how to get out of all this. That’s what the purpose of life really is. What can we do so that we do not doubt. … Intuition. You shall not doubt if you can intuitively know what reality is. If you know the reality you shall have no doubt. If you saw a rope in the pathway but you know it is a rope, you will not doubt that it is a snake. A human being has to raise his Kundalini. The dormant power, which is in all of you, has to raise itself to open your intuition for you. ( Excerpted from Yogi Bhajan’s lecture, The Primal Force of Life,
July 16, 1990 ). 3)”… in the computerized Age of Aquarius, in which you are going to be, you will have four mega-billion units of knowledge at the press of a button. I pray that you should have strength, nervous strength to hold yourself .” (Excerpted from Yogi Bhajan’s lecture, Methodology of Teaching, Teacher Training & Projection, June 15, 1996).
There is so much coming at us today, you might ask if, in meditation, we are to stop the mind … to stop the onslaught. “ It’s not the meditation that stops the mind. It is the surr ender of the mind to the soul and the soul to Truth. It’s when you prefer the word of truth to the word of our own intellect .”
(Excerpted from Yogi Bhajan’s lecture, The Primal Force of Life, July 16, 1990.)
3 Key Skills (really, more than a half-dozen!): 1) Bow Pose, Locust Pose and Camel Pose. 2) Learn new mantra: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Da Ni Sa, Sa Ni Da Pa Ma Ga Re Sa. 3) Learn new mantra: Har Singh Nar Singh Neel Narayan . 4) Two Triangle Pose Modifications 5) Tip of the nose eye focus. “When you ask and you get, you cause a karma. If you pay first, then there’s no karma between you and the knowledge. And, any knowledge which causes karma never becomes dharma. T hat’s why we go to the Guru, we give offering and we bow, and then we learn.”
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--Yogi Bhajan (Excerpted from, Methodology of Teaching, Teacher Training & Projection , June 15, 1996).
APPENDIX Arm Movements for ‘Gobinday Mukunday’ Celestial Communication (Class 6) (Photos taken by Sat Pavan Kaur (Cindy) Krulitz at Level 1 Teacher Training, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.)
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