Kundalini Yoga
What is?
Kundalini Yoga is an ancient discipline whose origins are lost in the history of humanity. Its goal is to realign the relationship between body, mind, and soul, allowing us to enjoy a happy and fulfilling existence.
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Kundalini Yoga was first brought to the West in the 1970s by Harbhajan Singh (1926-2004), now known to all practitioners and teachers of Kundalini Yoga as Yogi Bhajan. He is considered one of the great spiritual guides of the 20th century. He came from India "to create teachers," not disciples or followers, and with this purpose, he founded 3HO (Happy, Healthy and Holy Organization), a spiritual community that today thrives on the teachings of masters and practitioners worldwide.
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The Kundalini energy, also called "the nerve of the soul," is the infinite creative potential inherent in every human being, which, due to our fast-paced and unaware lifestyle, remains dormant and mostly unused.
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When we practice Kundalini Yoga, we have the opportunity to reconnect with our true spiritual essence (our Sat Nam, our true identity, the spiritual one), enabling us to make profound transformations in our daily actions.
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"Just as all rivers end in the ocean, all yogas ultimately raise the kundalini.
What is kundalini?
The creative potential of the human being."
In each lesson, lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes, we work on different levels, from the most material (the physical body) to the more subtle levels (mental bodies, subtle body, pranic body).
• Each Kriya (sequence of exercises) is carefully designed to dissolve energy and physical blocks, allowing us to access a state of vitality and psycho-physical well-being, which should be our natural state.
• Pranayama (breath control): By becoming aware of our breath, we can positively guide the action of our mind and "train" it, so that it listens to us and serves our soul.
• Mudra, literally "seals," are positions we create with our hands, and their effect is to guide energy flows to our brain and mind. The hands act as energy maps for different parts of the body.
• Mantra (sacred sounds) MAN means "mind" and TRA means "to make transparent": when we chant these "primordial" sounds, we transmit harmonious and healing vibrational codes that have a beneficial effect on our nervous and glandular systems.
• Mental concentration / meditation: Through various meditation techniques (silent meditation, chanting mantras aloud or mentally, focusing on a specific breathing pattern), we learn to observe the movements of our mental space and realize that we are not our thoughts.
This allows us to take the position of the "observer," and by doing so, we learn to recognize our mental patterns, and then transform them into new mental projections that serve our life goals and purposes.
Why practice Kundalini Yoga?
It is increasingly clear that we are going through a very peculiar historical phase: the growing economic, social, and political chaos, and the consequent loss of some fundamental values of the world as we knew it from childhood or through the stories of our grandparents, are leading more and more people to experience states of anxiety, depression, fear, and uncertainty.
Yogi Bhajan, and other masters from different spiritual traditions, had already predicted in the 1970s that this historical moment would come: the transition from the cosmological Age of Pisces to that of Aquarius.
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Since November 1991, this change has been accelerating with the advent of new technologies and the increasingly direct and constant connection between individuals and communities, the increase of stimuli (sound, visual, light, etc.), and the electromagnetic pollution brought by Wi-Fi connections.
In this era, we need more and more resilience to stress, mental clarity, and courage to make decisions that create well-being rather than suffering. In one word, we need to create a new sense of identity, starting from this premise: we are souls living a human experience.
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This identity will be based on a new mental quality, rooted in the wisdom of intuition, self-control, and a neutral mind, which develops through the practice of yoga and meditation.
Our measure of judgment and the way we live will no longer depend on society’s values or the opinions of others: what matters is how congruent we feel with ourselves, how much coherence exists between what we think, say, and do.
Kundalini Yoga is both a concrete and subtle discipline.
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It is an effective practice because, with just 3 minutes of a single exercise, we can already perceive a change in our psycho-physical state; subtle because the tools it provides us work on a deep energetic transformation, dismantling old structures and mental patterns (which manifest as addictions of various kinds, behavioral patterns, and physical or psychological discomfort).
One of the main gifts of the consistent practice of Kundalini Yoga is becoming aware of the presence of these structures: we observe them, let them go, and finally transform them into new behavioral patterns that allow us to live more happily and healthily.
Today more than ever, it is essential to have tools at our disposal to help us navigate the sea of uncertainty around us. These tools can be found in every Kundalini Yoga lesson.
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