Kundalini Yoga is the fastest growing Yoga. It's known as the Yoga of Awareness – it consists of simple yogic techniques that can be enjoyed by everyone, no matter their age or physical ability. Kundalini is a holistic practice that includes breathwork (pranayama), yoga postures (asanas), sound (gong), chanting silently or out loud (mantra), and meditation.
This is a wonderful yoga practice that is done at your own individual pace, and everyone can do. From your very first class you’ll start reaping the rewards, whether you’re new to yoga, or you’re looking to expand your yoga practice to include some more spiritual and meditative work.
Here's some Q&A's to help get you started in learning more about this style of Yoga.
Why do we cover our head?
In Kundalini yoga it is recommended to keep the hair up and to wear a white headcover to better receive the solar energy, which will merge with the Kundalini energy rising from the root chakra and help...
Ajeet Kaur Album Release Tour
Featuring music from Ajeet’s new album "Haseya"
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
In this breakthrough album, Haseya, Ajeet Kaur takes a bold path into the healing world of sacred song. Haseya (which means to “rise up” or “she rises”) is deeply integrated with the rhythms of nature, the wisdom of our ancestors and an awakening of healing space, unlike any other music from the wealth of kundalini yoga inspired recordings. With attention towards the emergence of the sacred feminine and indigenous cultures, Haseya is a journey with sound to heal with the earth.
"Heal Yourself, Heal the World" Workshop
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Join Ajeet Kaur and her band for an experience of Kundalini Yoga, live music and deep reflection to tap into the most genuine way for your soul to live as a healing presence. Come Home to Your Soul! Please bring a yoga mat and meditation cushion.
Pre-Album Release Live Music Concert
8 pm to 9:30 pm - Featuring...
The Aquarian Existence. An era within which even the simplest approach to life is filled with complexities we never could have foretold. Our vocations are harder to define, trickier to manage, and, often, less fiscally profitable than jobs used to be. Relationships ask more of us. We ask more of ourselves. And ALL of the baggage of human history has come out into the open, daring us to finally deal with the heavy, scary, complex issues that have been overlooked for far too long.
Fortunately we have incredible tools at our fingertips; tools that help us to process the feelings, overcome the blocks, empower ourselves, spring into action, and inspire each other.
Tools like Kundalini Yoga, Meditation, and Sacred Sound Current. Tools that increase our peace and multiply our joy. How absolutely lucky we are.
Join Jai-Jagdeesh for a sweet evening of practice & presence. Come move your body, melt your mind, open your voice, and be part of the frequency of change.
It's...
Mirabai Ceiba Concert Ottawa
Date
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Time
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Doors open at 7:00 PM for seating. Concert begins at 7:30 PM.
Venue
Kitchissippi United Church, 630 Island Park Drive, Ottawa, Ontario.
There is free parking at the church in the parking lot.
Cost
$25.00 per person in advance, $30.00 per person day of the event. Children under 12 free admittance.
About the Concert
A gentle yet expansive spirit pervades all the music of Mirabai Ceiba. The delicate sounds of harp, piano, and guitar blend with lovingly intertwined voices amid lush celestial soundscapes.
Their concerts are group celebrations for peace—joyous and loving occasions that embody the duo's profound belief in music as a universal language uniting all the world's peoples, cultures and traditions.
Join Mirabai Ceiba for an intimate evening of heart opening chanting, conscious breath practice, meditations and spiritual songs to embody the Song of our Lives.
About Mirabai Ceiba
Mirabai Ceiba is a duo consisting of guitarist/singer Markus Sieber and singer/harpist/pianist Angelika Baumbach. They come from different parts of...
The Winter Solstice is the longest night and shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere, and so follows it’s the reverse in the southern. The solstice is considered auspicious in many cultures, including the Romans’ “Day of the Unconquerable Sun”, the Druids’ “Light of Arthur” and the Hindus’ Diwali and Lohri. This year it falls on December 22, when we’ll have just over 9 hours of daylight.
In many places, obviously including Ottawa, solstice marks the distinct shift into winter. While the days are getting longer with increasing sunlight after solstice, we enter a season where we desire hibernation. These cold, dark days remind us of the reverence and gratitude we have for sunlight and our perfect position in relationship to the sun for the abundance it provides. Like all things, there are dual, overlapping aspects to all creation, and so we embrace the necessary darkness and dormancy winter provides for renewal in the spring season.
The natural drawing in...
- Yogi Bhajan, Excerpts from KRI Level 2 Conscious Communication Manual
Do you know what real communication is? Real communication is when after uttering, saying, or communicating, you stand fully one hundred percent by whatever you said. Real communication does not give you any right to change it afterwards, no matter what. Anything which is not real is a lie. It is not whether it is right or wrong, good or bad, or moral or ethical. Person A talks to person B and between A and B, the talk is real. Then A and B are bound down to put their totality in it until infinity.
You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say, you stick with it. When you don't stick with what you say, you have no value, and your decoration and your jewelry and your sex and your person have no value. Real communication is the faculty...
When a student comes into the studio, whether it is for the first or hundredth time, it brings a warmth to my heart. I know that they came to me seeking to become healthier and happier. I greet my students by asking them how they are doing, how the day has treated them, and if they have any problem areas they have noticed lately. This allows me to sense their energy, and choose a Kriya that I know will benefit everyone’s mind, body and spirit. Each day, each session, is driven by the energy that’s brought into the studio. Regardless of the stresses and various states of mind my students may be in to start, the sessions always progress in very much the same way.
As they warm up, I watch as they close their eyes, and start breathing long and deep. Their breathing and movements come together as a group, as if to support one another. Already, I can see...
To those of you who may not know about Kundalini Yoga, or wonder why you should take a class, or better yet kundalini yoga teacher training, let me enlighten you on my personal experiences.
My name is Gurumantra Kaur, and I am a Kundalini Yoga instructor, and owner of Yogi Strong. After being diagnosed with anxiety and severe allergies from my surroundings, in 2004, I began looking for a Raj Yoga, a royalty yoga, as a holistic approach to address my issues. I discovered Kundalini; and it is just that: royal. Once I started, I couldn’t stop the snowball effect that Kundalini had on my life. My anxiety lessened, I was breathing easier and more deeply, and stress no longer affected me like before. I needed to know more, and thought “why not try teacher training?” Later, after talking to some of my peers, I found that many people were in the same boat as I had been; desiring to be...
Fuming. That’s how Cam, the main character in The Merit Birds, feels about being dragged to Laos, Southeast Asia, by his mother. His absent father, his lifetime of anger issues, and his recent basketball fight only serve to compound his strong emotions. Gradually, Cam’s change comes when he learns about the power of the breath and of serving others. Written by Kundalini Yoga instructor, Kelley Powell, the novel ends with KRI-approved instructions for the One Minute Breath.
Inspired by the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, The Merit Birds is unique in that readers are introduced to Kundalini Yoga through fiction. It is about the friendships that Cam eventually and often reluctantly makes and how a lifetime of anger can be transformed from the inside out. It’s about how daily attention to the breath and bringing focus within can melt away years of anger and hurt. And it’s about how this realization of inner peace leads to a bursting open of the heart...
From Devinder Kaur, PranaShanti's lead trainer and owner, a numerology reading to prepare you for the coming year. In Kundalini yoga, numerology is a system that assesses the significance of numbers in a person's life. It is simply a framework for considering life, personality, and events, so that we act in a way most beneficial to our health, spirit, and success.
As every year does, 2015 brings us a new cycle of energy and expansion. How you respond to stress, and how you let this response affect your communication with others will affect your quality of life.
There will be continuing fast energy shifts in 2015! Tap into your intuition and learn how to ride this energetic wave with the most clarity and productivity with Yoga and Meditation.
The overall number for 2015 is 8, the universal number that represents the life cycle. While you may feel ready to leap into the future, you need to have a better and more effective plan...
