Alternative names: Muladhara (Sanskrit) Colour: Red Location: The end of the spine, between the anus and sexual organs Element: Earth Demon: Fear Goal: Self-Preservation Basic Rights: To be here and to have Language: In class Guru Raj Kaur stated t ...
The Almighty Breath of Fire
Well, darlings, this was one of the first things we went over in our first teacher training weekend. And I won't lie to you. I've been doing breath of fire wrong or in the half-ass sort of way that I do things sometimes. I didn't feel confident in my br ...
Kundalini Yogini Reflections: Halfway Through Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training
I'm about halfway through the KYTT. I wanted to offer some reflections on the training, myself, and just in general on yoga life. After all, this is a blog about one young woman's journey through Kundalini Yoga Teach Training as Taught by Yogi Bhajan. ;) ...
A Kundalini Yogini View | The Sacral Chakra | Svadisthana
We are now traveling down through the lower triangle, the bottom three chakras. These chakras are beneath the Third Chakra, supporting the navel chakra, their energies moving up to it, just as the kundalini rises upward from the Root Chakra. Today's chak ...
What’s Up With the Navel Point? | Kundalini Yoga and the Navel | Enlightenment Starts Here
If you have ever been to a Kundalini Yoga class you might've noticed that there are two things that are big in this style of yoga. You might even say there's an obsession with the Navel Point and Root Lock. "In the Ancient Shastras it states that "all yog ...
A Kundalini Yogini View | The Solar Plexus Chakra | Manipura | Where it All Begins
I almost hesitate to write about the Chakra System. Do I really have more value to add to something already written about so much on the interwebs? I don't know. But I know that I keep referring to them and instead of referring you out to an outside sou ...
I Have an Irrational Fear of Failure | The Ego Comes Out
This panda came up when I looked up Yoga Fail. I don't think he failed at all. He is just adorably practising plow pose. I have this irrational fear that I am going to fail this Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and not become a Kundalini Yoga Teacher. I ...
Herpes And Crystals (Final Post in Series)
My other love, beyond yoga, is playing with the mineral kingdom. I have a whole business based on that so one of the things I looked up during the outbreaks were the minerals that would facilitate its healing. The first thing that I did was look at my go ...
Keep Up And You’ll Be Kept Up
The Famous Yogi Bhajan who brought Kundalini Yoga to the West in the form we commonly know it now here as(Canada/USA). This has to be one of the most famous Yogi Bhajan quotes we have: "Keep up and you'll be kept up." I hear it at what seems every thir ...
Manifesto of a Yogini
Yogi Bhajan says the teachers oath is: "I am not a woman. I am not a man. I am not a person. I am not myself. I am a Teacher." Pretty powerful words. He goes on to explain that a teacher is a vehicle through which God is experienced. God uses that teach ...