Yoga Blog 8/12/06
Sat Nam Friends,
Much love and grattitude to all of those who came out to the workshop and concert with Snatam Kaur. Both were a success and the feedback has been great. So many people have expressed how powerful the events were, and I am excited for the many possibilities of future workshops and events with other wonderful teachers and classes. The Kundalini Yoga community is saturated with outstanding and amazing teachers and I feel truly blessed to be a part of this family. Many people comment on how much they enjoy my classes, but to me I am simply a by-product of the many, many inspirational teachers that I’ve had the opportunity to sit with. I very much hope that many of you will be able to meet some of them and as the Kundalini Yoga community grows here in Nevada county I’m sure that will happen. On that note, there has been some discussion of creating a non-profit organization to continue to build our community here. Within the next couple of weeks I would like to have a meeting to brainstorm community building ideas. Anyone who is interested and inspired to help is encouraged to come. I’ll let you know the details soon.
For those of you who weren’t able to make it to last Wed.’s yoga class, we worked with the very powerful mantra Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru. This mantra makes miracles (like I said in class, “don’t believe me, try it!”) Over the many years that I have been using it, it has never failed me. It is most effective for calling on the divine when nothing else seems to work. But you don’t have to wait till everything else fails you before you chant. We all have our habits. When stress comes some of us utter the mantras “oh my god, oh my god, I can’t, I can’t, everything is going wrong, damnitt, I’m screwed etc…” We all have our mantras. You make the decision which one’s to use. If over time we can learn to shift our negative thought patterns into positive one’s (through mantra), then the outcome is a calm stable and serene state of mind, and ultimately True Happiness. So next time stress arises, see what happens. At first you might freak out for an hour before you remember the mantra. But after a while that interval of time will shorten untill before you know it stressful situations will no longer trigger a stressful mind state. Instead it will trigger the depths of your devotion, the longing for peace and freedom that is deep within all of us, our innermost longing for the experience of Everlasting Happiness, the experience of God. Imagine it. Really…take a few moments and imagine what life would be like if the potentially stressful situations in your life triggered a devotional response within you. It’s a reality that is at your fingertips if you choose to make it so. All of us have emotions. Our emotions can become Commotion, or they can become Devotion, its up to you.
With a regular yoga practice, you carve a one-way path within the psyche for this mind state to be the norm. The emotional roller coaster will finally smooth out. Its no longer an up and down life filled with superficial highs and depressing lows. It’s a smooth stream down the middle road that is detached from both the “glamour” and the darkness of the outside world. It is a path that is rooted in ultimate trust, love and peace. Not only does the science of kundalini yoga literally lay this path out before your feet, it propels you forward with great speed! Use these mantras and let me know your experiences. I’ll share some of mine with you in the future as well.
For now, print out the following mantra and try to become familiar with it. We’ll be using it in a class soon. It is the Guru Gayatri mantra of Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th master of the Sikhs. It is used for many purposes but especially invokes the warrior spirit within you. When chanted regularly it manifests the spiritual warrior as well as prosperity.
Gobinday
Mukunday
Udaray
Aparay
Hariang
Kariang
Nirnamay
Akame
This mantra can eliminate the karmic blocks and errors of the past. It has the power to purify one’s magnetic field, making it easier to relax and meditate. It is a protective mantra, an ashtang mantra (having eight parts). Besides helping cleanse the subconscious mind, it balances the hemispheres of the brain, bringing compassion and patience to the one who meditates on it. The words of the mantra are describing specific qualities of the Creator: Sustaining, Liberating, Enlightening, Infinite, Destroying, Creating, Nameless, Desireless.
We will not be using this in the Wed. morning class but instead, I am organizing a special class where we will do a 31 minute kriya using this mantra. Powerful! Stay tuned.
This wedneday we will explore a much simpler mantra. Be ready to manifest anything you wish in your life; are you ready for that? See you there--
8:30am, Wild Mt. Yoga.
Blessings to you all,
Jai Dev Singh
Much love and grattitude to all of those who came out to the workshop and concert with Snatam Kaur. Both were a success and the feedback has been great. So many people have expressed how powerful the events were, and I am excited for the many possibilities of future workshops and events with other wonderful teachers and classes. The Kundalini Yoga community is saturated with outstanding and amazing teachers and I feel truly blessed to be a part of this family. Many people comment on how much they enjoy my classes, but to me I am simply a by-product of the many, many inspirational teachers that I’ve had the opportunity to sit with. I very much hope that many of you will be able to meet some of them and as the Kundalini Yoga community grows here in Nevada county I’m sure that will happen. On that note, there has been some discussion of creating a non-profit organization to continue to build our community here. Within the next couple of weeks I would like to have a meeting to brainstorm community building ideas. Anyone who is interested and inspired to help is encouraged to come. I’ll let you know the details soon.
For those of you who weren’t able to make it to last Wed.’s yoga class, we worked with the very powerful mantra Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru. This mantra makes miracles (like I said in class, “don’t believe me, try it!”) Over the many years that I have been using it, it has never failed me. It is most effective for calling on the divine when nothing else seems to work. But you don’t have to wait till everything else fails you before you chant. We all have our habits. When stress comes some of us utter the mantras “oh my god, oh my god, I can’t, I can’t, everything is going wrong, damnitt, I’m screwed etc…” We all have our mantras. You make the decision which one’s to use. If over time we can learn to shift our negative thought patterns into positive one’s (through mantra), then the outcome is a calm stable and serene state of mind, and ultimately True Happiness. So next time stress arises, see what happens. At first you might freak out for an hour before you remember the mantra. But after a while that interval of time will shorten untill before you know it stressful situations will no longer trigger a stressful mind state. Instead it will trigger the depths of your devotion, the longing for peace and freedom that is deep within all of us, our innermost longing for the experience of Everlasting Happiness, the experience of God. Imagine it. Really…take a few moments and imagine what life would be like if the potentially stressful situations in your life triggered a devotional response within you. It’s a reality that is at your fingertips if you choose to make it so. All of us have emotions. Our emotions can become Commotion, or they can become Devotion, its up to you.
With a regular yoga practice, you carve a one-way path within the psyche for this mind state to be the norm. The emotional roller coaster will finally smooth out. Its no longer an up and down life filled with superficial highs and depressing lows. It’s a smooth stream down the middle road that is detached from both the “glamour” and the darkness of the outside world. It is a path that is rooted in ultimate trust, love and peace. Not only does the science of kundalini yoga literally lay this path out before your feet, it propels you forward with great speed! Use these mantras and let me know your experiences. I’ll share some of mine with you in the future as well.
For now, print out the following mantra and try to become familiar with it. We’ll be using it in a class soon. It is the Guru Gayatri mantra of Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th master of the Sikhs. It is used for many purposes but especially invokes the warrior spirit within you. When chanted regularly it manifests the spiritual warrior as well as prosperity.
Gobinday
Mukunday
Udaray
Aparay
Hariang
Kariang
Nirnamay
Akame
This mantra can eliminate the karmic blocks and errors of the past. It has the power to purify one’s magnetic field, making it easier to relax and meditate. It is a protective mantra, an ashtang mantra (having eight parts). Besides helping cleanse the subconscious mind, it balances the hemispheres of the brain, bringing compassion and patience to the one who meditates on it. The words of the mantra are describing specific qualities of the Creator: Sustaining, Liberating, Enlightening, Infinite, Destroying, Creating, Nameless, Desireless.
We will not be using this in the Wed. morning class but instead, I am organizing a special class where we will do a 31 minute kriya using this mantra. Powerful! Stay tuned.
This wedneday we will explore a much simpler mantra. Be ready to manifest anything you wish in your life; are you ready for that? See you there--
8:30am, Wild Mt. Yoga.
Blessings to you all,
Jai Dev Singh
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