Kundalini Yoga, brought to the West by Yogi Bhajan, combines breath, movement, relaxation and meditation. It is the science of sequence, rhythm and sound to work on every aspect of the body, mind and soul. No previous yoga experience is required or...
Excerpt from a lecture delivered by Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan at a meeting of the Khalsa Council on 13 October 1995: A leader is born, created by destiny, created by prayer, created by his own sweet will. The best leader is the one who comes out with applied consciousness. This.
Yogis often refer to the free-floating, changeable nature of the mind as „monkey mind”. A distracted mind creates distracted habits. Commanding the mind and quieting it are considered the keys to yogic discipline and are the direct source of mental health. Over the years, Yogi Bhajan has repeatedly emphasised that.
Man is a social animal, said Aristotle. During development - the innocence, love, affection, care that we enjoyed as a child, we need more and more and all the time. Meanwhile, as life grows, we become sad, depressed, angry. We long for ...
I think there is no beauty in you if you don't have tolerance. You have to have a sense of tolerance, no matter what someone does, what they say, how they attack you, what they want from you - you stay calm. That's the capacity of the ocean - how much ...
On 10 September 2001, Yogi Bhajan spoke in Española, NM, USA, to a group of listeners who had survived the Gulf War. He spoke about the importance of feeling God in our hearts. He said: „These are times of trial and testing. No one ...
The starting point of yoga meditation is concentration on a single object, which can be either a physical object (the place between the eyebrows, the tip of the nose, a shiny object, the flame of a candle), a thought (metaphysical truth) or God (Ishwara). This permanent and abiding concentration is called EKAGRATA, a...
In order to achieve certain desired effects of kriya and/or meditation - certain amounts of time are needed . *3 minutes of meditation - affects the electromagnetic field, circulation and blood image stability. *11minutes of meditation - begins to change the nervous and endocrine systems. *22minutes of meditation ...
Why do we do a yoga practice every day and why is it best for 40 days? Once we decide on a particular practice, we can do it for as long as we feel the need. According to yogic knowledge, for lasting effects of the practice, it is done in cycles of 40, 90,...