Meditation Video: Breath of Ten Meditation to Become Disease-Free

When we are experiencing anxiety, stress, or negative feelings we have often are disconnected from our emotional body, sense of purpose, and ultimately our essence. One easy way to assess and clear this is to see how connected we are to our breath. Is it shallow, deep? Are you breathing from all aspects of your body including your navel and heart? Does your breath give you a sense of spaciousness in your front, sides, and back of your rib cage?  Does your breath allow space for a still mind so intuition can come through?

This is an easily accessible meditation, especially for beginners, to help you feel more connected to your breath. It will help you feel energized yet relaxed by affecting your magnetic field.

If you want a written version of this meditation click HERE.

New Meditation Video: Healing Depression by Clearing the Arc Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus, 8/27/16

Each of the 10 bodies have a very specific role. When they are in alignment they help us to live to our highest potential, our destiny. The 6th body (Arc Line) is often symbolized in pictures of a halo around the head. You can see it in almost any famous painting of a saint, angel, or spiritual teacher.

Women have a second Arc Line that reaches from nipple to nipple of the chest. It is in these two regions where we store past relationships and karma. 

I wanted to focus on the particular importance of a strong and clear Arc Line to deflect symptoms of depression. It's our projection of our Arc Line that creates your reality. Hence we can either create 'heaven' or 'hell' on earth depending on the strength of our Arc Line (among many other things). It's the foundation of the radiant body. So when we connect with our own radiance (joy, happiness, light) we naturally project that out into the world. If it is clear then we repel negativity easily from either our thoughts or external environment.

I'm excited to talk more about the Arc Line and how to help with symptoms of depression in my upcoming 4 week series in September.

In the meantime, here's my latest video as I teach the Meditation for the Arc Line!

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Depression and anxiety can occur when different aspects of your mind are imbalanced which limits your ability to access a state of neutrality and peace within the mind. Balancing your protective and creative aspects of your mind allows one to make decisions that are in alignment with your unique destiny and essence while giving a clearer sense of purpose,belonging, and intuition. Through a dynamic and specific set of postures, meditations, mantra, and breathing techniques, you will learn how to balance these different aspects of your mind. This powerful class will also help give you the powerful projection of elevating yourself and others. You will learn about the different types of depression according to Chinese Medicine, the importance of a daily practice (sadhana), and how to relieve excess worry or stress that causes anxiety. As a result you will learn to reconnect with your essence in harmony. No experience with Kundalini Yoga is necessary. 

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Class Description:
Depression and anxiety can occur when different aspects of your mind are imbalanced which limits your ability to access a state of neutrality and peace within the mind. Balancing your protective and creative aspects of your mind allows one to make decisions that are in alignment with your unique destiny and essence while giving a clearer sense of purpose,belonging, and intuition. Through a dynamic and specific set of postures, meditations, mantra, and breathing techniques, you will learn how to balance these different aspects of your mind. This powerful class will also help give you the powerful projection of elevating yourself and others. You will learn about the different types of depression according to Chinese Medicine, the importance of a daily practice (sadhana), and how to relieve excess worry or stress that causes anxiety. As a result you will learn to reconnect with your essence in harmony. No experience with Kundalini Yoga is necessary. 

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Cutting Through Depression

In September I'm teaching a 4 week series on healing depression and anxiety. I'm excited to share this series with you so you can learn how to reconnect with your emotional body and the infinity within you. This youtube video by Yogi Bhajan is a great resource that will cut through depression.
 It's name seems to come from a foreign planet or the next Star Wars movie. It's called "KUNDALINI KRIYA NM056 920528 T", but maybe it's just the name that showed up on the video camera that recorded it. Either way, it's a truly lovely and simple kriya. Yogi Bhajan also has a nice long lecture that I recommend listening to all the way through.  It's better to do it with a friend as Yogi Bhajan suggests you talk to someone towards the end of the kriya.

Param Karam Dharam Kriya

Sat Nam! Param Karam Dharam Kriya is a wonderful tool to help break blocks in you life and promote prosperity. I recommend doing it for at least 11 minutes to get in the flow of it. If you'd like more prosperity in your life you can play the Aap Sahaee Hoa mantra (Jai- Jagdeesh has a great version). I also like playing the mantra, Chattra Chakkra Vartee to invoke fearlessness. (My favorite version is by Chardi Kala Jatha). Remember to tune in with 'Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo' 3x before starting the kriya. This is a great kriya to do as a warm-up when teaching a Kundalini Yoga class.    Guru Singh explains the aspects of the kriya exquisitely in this video.

Connect with your Breath and Prevent Yourself from Freaking Out!

Have you heard the term, "You are not your emotions/thoughts?" Well, it's true! Although your emotions can give valid information,  too many people attach themselves to a emotion which can lead to a perpetual mental feedback loop of thought. This leads to obsessive thinking and unnecessary worrying. One way of cutting the feedback loop is to connect to your breath. Without your breath you can't control your mind and therefore how you respond with your emotions. We are getting into the summer months where the weather can not only heat up, but also opportunities for our emotions to become fierce like a fire. You have the option to react or consciously communicate. Rule your breath then you can rule how you communicate. This meditation can help with that!

Meditation to Prevent Freaking Out
*(From the I am a Woman - Creative, Sacred, Invincible Manual)*

This meditation will alter your energy by changing your nostril breathing. You can't get out of your body, but you can change its energy. If you are thinking something neurotic and find out that you're breathing through your right nostril, start breathing through your left nostril instead. This will change your energy from agni (fire) to sitali (cool).

If you are depressed, in a disturbed mental state, start breathing from the right nostril. In 3 minutes you will be a different person. This ability to change nostrils in breathing should be taught to your children within their first 3 years. Exercising this ability can prevent nervous breakdowns. You may work up to 31 minutes.

Sit in Easy Pose with a straight spine, and a light Neck Lock. Interlace the fingers with the right thumb on top. Interlace the hands at the center of the diaphragm line, touching the body. Eyes are closed. Concentrate on the breath at the tip of your nose. Notice from which nostril you are breathing. Within 3 minutes you should know. Then change it. If you are breathing primarily through your left nostril, consciously change to your right nostril. Be sure to keep your shoulders completely relaxed. Practice changing this breath back and forth for as long as you like. Eye Focus Closed Time: 3 minutes to 31 minutes

*This meditation retrieved from the Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings on 6/1/2016. http://libraryofteachings.com/kriya.xqy?id=c8415933-5b7d-9922-e28e-03a1b58c612f&name=Meditation-to-Prevent-Freaking-Out

Courage

To be courageous is to befriend fear like a lover.

This lover you lost and never let go of. 

Freedom is only granted when welcomed in.

Fear makes you look twice in a dark parking lot, shiver on a cold night, and cry yourself to sleep.

Fear is the mother of anger, depression, rage, and disappointment.

It is the glue that attaches the story to the dreamer.

Yet, it is here.

Welcome it with tenderness like the untamed wild creature that is.

It's passionate thirst for the unconscious mind cut with the sword of a warrior.

The true warrior saint is so firmly planted in the earth that she can feel the

roots of the trees through her callused feet.

She can feel the heat of the core rising up her legs

through her own belly.

Yet, she is fully connected with the wisdom of the stars, the serenity of the ethers, and vastness of the cosmos.

The warrior saint is completely aware of all four directions within her and outside of her.

She see's the enemies next move before it is even thought.

Her fuel for courage is confidence.

The intertwining of confidence and courage is rarely mastered.

Many teachers will talk, few will lead by example, fewer will give their head up to save another.

I dare you to choose the door leading to the dark and cold tunnel.

For your Light is enough to be a guide to the other end.

It always was.