Ana Brett & Ravi Singh
January 2010 Kundalini Yoga Newsletter
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
"Every saint has a past and
every sinner has a future."
--Oscar Wilde
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News & Notes
Happy January everyone! First we want to wish you all a joyous, fun-filled, successful, and loving New Year! What can we expect in 2010? Change is in the air. Can you feel it? For instance, we predict, that as open-minded and progressive as President Obama is, he's going to be hard-pressed to keep up with people's desire for radical change. The collective consciousness is evolving! 2010 is a 3 year. 3 represents Jupiter, expansion. 2 is relationship. 1 is soul. It's a great time to grow our souls! 3 is also the ability to give hope to people and to embrace your inner optimist. The gift to all of us in 2010 is the inner toughness to go through anything with a smile. Nerves of steel and mental resiliency. You can draw upon those attributes to do great things. As always keep your Kundalini Yoga practice strong and use your gifts to make a difference.
***Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training***'The most important thing to a Teacher is, "Can I inspire people to be ten times better than me?" Without that commitment to teaching people to be greater than great, the
legacy of the Golden Chain will be broken.' --Yogi Bhajan
We've had a great response and are excited to announce that we will be conducting a 200 hr. Teacher Training Certification at Give Yoga in Memphis starting in February. If you're interested contact Olivia (901)493.1431/olivialomax@yahoo.com. Please don't think that you're not ready to be a Kundalini Yoga Teacher just because you're not "flexible," or "athletically inclined." What's important is that you feel a calling to make a difference in people's lives and further your own practice.
It's a total win-win!
Yogi Bhajan also said that, "If
you want to master something teach it." Being a Kundalini Yoga Teacher
may be on your list current projects, but if you're interested in
deepening your practice, enjoying the company of some great Kundalini
Yogis, and delving into the mysteries of yoga and life, please consider
attending. Also, did you know that you can also attend many of these
classes as individual workshops?
Our New DVD's
Thanks to all of you who've pre-order our new DVD's. We plan to fill orders very soon. We have heard from some of you who've had difficulty placing orders on our website (we've talked to our IT guy and promise to have a new store in 2020!) If you are having trouble, try the following: on the home page of www.raviana.com click on "Yoga Store." On the right hand side of the page it brings you to, you will see "DVD's (23)". Click on that and it will bring you to a list of our DVD's (with photos). Simply click on the "Buy Now" tab next an individual title or the 3 DVD set of the new titles. That should insert the items you selected into your cart. You can also place an order by phone: 1.800.243.9642. We also plan to have these new titles available on Amazon.com by January 12th.
 Kundalini Yoga Solar Power All-In-One Workout Shine like the sun, energize, stretch, and transform your life! Experience an all-in-one Kundalini Yoga workout you will love for life! This DVD features techniques which target the all-important solar plexus, known as the "moving center," for balance on all levels, energy, & the ability to open yourself to fulfillment & live in the rhythm and flow of life. From yoga newbie to expert, this is the yoga experience you've been waiting for! Featuring the powerful "Awaken Your Senses," et as well as a new mantra chant to open your heart.
Transform Your Body. Feed Your Soul. Change Your Life! Ana & Ravi take you to a new level of fitness and self-growth. Included are an in-depth yoga workout & two profound sets plus meditation to purify your past and liberate you from old habits and feelings which detract from your fulfillment. As in all the Ana & Ravi DVD's, inspiring music will enhance your workout. Kundalini Yoga is the perfect practice to help you live long, seize the day & prosper! Featuring the "Born Free" set which will take you from the mundane to the miraculous!
 The Kundalini Yoga Meditation DVD - TRANQUILITY WITHOUT TRANQUILIZERS! Calm Your mind and emotions. Redefine yourself from the inside out. Transform your life! Meditation is a must in the context of the lives we lead! As an antidote to constant activity and information overload, our minds crave this type of inner activity the way a dry sponge is starved for water. This DVD features 13 Meditation segments which include: The All & Everything Meditation, Deep Meditation into Stillness, Rewrite the Book of Your Life, and Breath Purification Series. Bonus Material includes a Sitting Primer, Mantra Primer, Commentaries for each of the techniques and much more! As with all of Ana and Ravi's DVD's, this program features amazing music. This DVD will keep you uplifted and inspired and will be a friend for life!
Sound & Spirit CD Available on our Website
 Sound & Spirit a beautiful mantra CD featuring Kundalini Mantras (vocals by Wah!) from our 2004 - 2006 DVD's will be available on www.raviana.com later this week for only $15.95. Six eight minute tracks include: 1. Guru Guru Wahe Guru 2. Bhaje Mane Mere 3. Har 4x Gobinday 4. Ad Guray Nameh 5.. Har 4x Wahe Guru Sat Nam Har Haree 6. Gong Uplift yourself with this Divine Music!
Check Out These Links!
Raviana Fan Page on Facebook - Your daily destination for everything fun going on in Ana & Ravi's world.
Raviana Group Page on Facebook - The community for the Kundalini Yoga enthusiast seeking the latest on Kundalini Yoga and the lifestyle which surrounds it!
Be Ana's Friend On Facebook! - Post your thoughts and comments and talk to Ana on her personal Facebook wall!
Ana on Twitter! - Follow Ana's activities and thoughts on lifestyle, health, and the joy of living!
and of course our website, raviana.com where you'll find our A - Z Health Archive Tour Schedule, Ana & Ravi's Favorite Things, and more!
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 Top Ten New Year's Resolutions
1. To not speak less than positive about someone if they're not present.
2. To always try to communicate from our hearts.
3. To remember that in all our interactions, the other person is us.
4. To not be too hard on ourselves.
5. To live with the awareness that everything each of us does matters.
6. To make choices which ease suffering.
7. To eat a little less and breathe a little more.
8. To limit those thoughts or patterns which don't contribute to happiness.
9. To cultivate a relationship with our souls.
10. To keep up with a strong Kundalini Yoga and Meditation practice to empower ourselves to accomplish all of the above!
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Specials of the Month
It's FITNESS SEASON and many of our titles (some of which are hardly ever on sale) are currently on sale on Amazon.com
for as low as $11.99!!! If you buy more than one title on Amazon.com, you
also get free shipping!
 Kundalini Yoga for Beginners & Beyond - $11.99 - two
25 minutes sets: Rise & Spine for back health and everything else, and The Five Tibetans, for youth and health everyday.
 Fat Free Yoga - $11.99 - Four 20 minute sets: Start Your Engines, Burn Baby Burn, No Impact Aerobics, Your Life is In Your Own Glands. Also: 2 meditations and more! This
DVD will keep you young, healthy, hormonally balanced & trim!
Warrior Workout - $14.49 - Updated with the Matrix. A perfect workout for 2009! 
A non-stop energy feast! For circulation, elimination of toxins, and to be a hero in your own life!
Ultimate Stretch Workout- $12.99 - The best of both worlds combining the great dynamic elements of Kundalini Yoga with deep stretching of Power and Vinyasa. Also,a heart-opening mantra chant.
 Yoga for Beginners & Beyond: Stretch, Strengthen, Be Stress Free! $14.49 - This program features a fusion of Kundalini Yoga and traditional yoga moves (presented Kundalini style!). Segments include: Standing Warm-Ups, A Yoga Flow Salutation Sequence, The Challenge, Nerve Strength & Core Power, Upper Back & Neck Stretch & Strengthen, A Be Stress Free Meditation, and an uplifting mantra to chant along with. The best
of both worlds: Kundalini Yoga's dynamic aspect with the focused intensity of Power and Ashtanga Yoga. |
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Kundalini Yoga Cardio, Stretch, & Strengthen - $14.49 - is also the best of both worlds: an amazing Kundalini Yoga set with its spiritual depth and power, as well as a complete fitness experience: stretching, in-depth ab work, an effective and a fun dance-influenced cardio routine, and more!
Kundalini Yoga for Energy & Super Radiance- $14.49 - Live on fire. Shine like the sun! This is a Kundalini Yoga "old school" workout with cutting edge music and more. Features a complete whole body workout including some extended exercises which will test you, and bring out the best in you!
Am/Pm Yoga - $14.49 - NEW &
IMPROVED. NOW w/the MATRIX! Two Sets to Start & End Your Day In A
Great Way! Featuring the Morning Wake Up Series with continuous Breath of Fire! Also: 2 Meditations, 2 Breathing Exercises, Bonus Material,
and more!
Navel Power - $14.49 - for a Stomach of Steel & Personal Power and to develop the will to take a stand: turn negatives into positives and prevail! Also, the meditation on this will help you magnify your abundance.
Yoga Cleanse- $14.49 - Purify your body: purify your mind and emotions.
Dance the Chakras Yoga Workout - $15.95 - 2 yoga sets and movement work. A perfect balance of flexibility and strength work and fun low impact cardio dance.
Yoga Quick Fixes - $15.99 - almost 4 hours of workout options. Pre-set workouts plus Quick Fixes for everything from Depression to Headaches.
Yoga House Call - $15.99 - 4 hours of workout options. Pre-set workouts plus short segments include Eagle Eyes, Heart Helper, Strong Bones & Muscle Tone and much more!.
A Journey thru the Chakras - $14.49 - Climb the Ladder of Lights. A Great Inner/Outer Workout.
Yoga Bliss Hips* - $15.99 - A powerful inner and outer workout to free your hips, master your moods and move forward in life.
Also, please note that many of these items are for sale on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca |
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Questions of the Month
Weekly Rotation for Yoga Quick Fixes & Yoga House Call
Hi Ana and Ravi -I love your Yoga Quick Fixes and Yoga House Call DVD's but there is so much material on them. Would it be possible to suggest a weekly rotation for these title? I really appreciate any insight you can provide!
Thanks for writing. Here is a weekly rotation
from Yoga Quick Fixes/Yoga House Call Each of these sessions is about 45 min or less except for Thursday practice
which is 52 min.
Monday (goal: emotional balance, glands, new beginnings) - from Yoga
Quick Fixes: All Systems Go Pre-Set, Positive PMS, Deep Relaxation,
Sa-Ta-Na-Ma Meditation
Tuesday (goal: energy, anger into inspiration, victory in life) - from
Dr. Yoga House Call: Strong as Steel Pre-Set, Fertility & Potency
Set, Deep Relaxation, So Darshan Chakra Kriya Meditation
Wednesday (goal: creativity, communication, quickness of thought) -
from Dr. Yoga House Call: Energy Warm-ups, Brain Booster Set, Deep
Relaxation, Amazing Minute Breath
Thursday (goal: expansion, radiance, blessings) - from Yoga Quick
FIxes: Balance & Joy Pre-Set, Delete Depression, Anxiety Antidote,
Deep Relaxation,
Friday (goal: sex energy transformation, completion) - from Yoga Quick
Fixes: Positive PMS, So Long Sciatica, Deep Relaxation, Sa-Ta-Na-Ma
Meditation
Saturday (goal: self-discipline, turning the past around) - from Dr.
Yoga House Call: Kundalini Yoga Superset, Deep Relaxation, So Darshan
Chakra Kriya
Sunday (goal: devotion, spiritual awakening) - from Yoga Quick Fixes:
Kundalini Yoga Superset, Deep Relaxation, Soothe Stress - Free Fatigue,
Sa-Ta-Na-Ma Meditation
Diet Confusion
Dear Ravi
and Ana, I need help! I have a beautiful Kundalini Yoga cookbook called
" The Kundalini Yoga Cookbook" that is so well written, and I want to
follow all of the advice, especially since it comes straight from YB, but,
I cannot handle all the spices - or nuts... or grains. I get
headaches, stomach-aches, gain weight, puffy eyes, and I don't feel close
togreat. I am on the Kundalini Yoga teacher path - I really want
to follow "the Rules." But I can't, at least not at this time
in my life.
Natalia Rose - (are you familiar with her?) Has a great
program - raw juices for most of the day, and a big salad, with some fresh
fish, and/or raw goat cheese, and, maybe, some La Loos Goat milk ice
cream for desert! I feel "Great" - energy wise when I follow that plan. But
I feel "terrible" in the sense that I am not eating ... mung beans
and rice, etc.,and I do eat fish. She also recommends eggs 0-4 times
per week.
I really would love, love, love to know your thoughts on
this Food Business. Perhaps you have a DVD out that discusses food
one that I must not have yet... (I think I have pretty much all of your
DVD's...) Or maybe you can refer me someone I can contact. (I live
incalifornia.)
I am a Hatha Yoga teacher, (Not Cert Kundalini...
yet!) and I just feel like I "should" be on the diet Yogi Bhajan put forth,
like i'm not authentic or something if I can't do it..
I'm not going
to reread this. I won't send it if I do. I know it sounds too obsessive
probably. :) But I imagine I'm not the only one in
this boat.I'm at a normal weight - 5'5", 125... not feeling fat
really - just I don't know, it's like I need to be "told" what to do on
this... Thanks! Sat Nam!
It's wonderful to hear that you are on the Kundalini Yoga
teaching path! Re: Yogic Diet: there are no rules! We are all so
highly individual, from individual constitution to our personal
frequency. What was right for Yoga Bhajan, or anyone else for that matter,
may be all wrong for you! We don't eat Yoga Bhajan's diet either, and feel
that we would most likely experience many of the symptoms you describe if
we did!
We feel the Kundalini Yoga diet prescribed by Yoga Bhajan is
wonderful for someone who is moving to a vegetarian diet from the typical
American one. YB's diet has lots of starchs, oils and spices, so that
someone can transition without missing their meat, salt, sugar, fried,
starchy, and other rajastic (stimulating) foods they are used to. If
you feel great on the raw food diet, or the modified raw diet, which
you describe, then, by all means, carry on with that diet!
I (Ana)
eat a mostly raw diet and agree that the energy one gains from an enzyme
and water rich diet is incredible! I feel a raw food diet is the perfect
yogic diet for me because my food digests easily and
quickly and my body
and mind stay in a light energized state perfect for yoga and
meditation.
Feel confident in creating your own "yogic diet."
Each of us is an artist and our lives and health are works in progress.
Your masterpiece is what constitutes balance for you! You will have
occasion to create many masterpieces throughout your life, in every area
of your life. Being on a spiritual path means to walk the tightrope
between "the rules," (previously established guidelines) and what your
consciousness dictates, based on your particulars. Kundalini Yoga is the
Yoga of Awareness, so use your awareness to follow up on what you feel is
right for you, and you can't go wrong!
Keep us posted as your diet
and teaching evolve! We wish you a joyful, fun, and love filled New
Year!
Vegan Boundary Issue
Hi Ana & Ravi ! I thought I saw somewhere that you and Ravi are working on a book? If so I really look forward to it. Also, is there anywhere that you discuss nutrition? I know that you have been following a raw food diet. Myself I am switching to vegan...but also no wheat. :( I find it exhausting because not only do I have all of my own learning to do, but I'm tired of everyone immediately questioning me and wanting me to give them a step by step nutritional lowdown on why I'm doing it. Frustrating. I don't ask people to explain to me why they're stuffing on bloody cow meat or eating a twinky. lol Anyway, looking forward to any new works that you do put out. :)
Thanks for writing and congratulations on your positive lifestyle changes! :) For good health and "good karma," a vegan diet is ideal! The questions one usually hears re: a vegan diet, are how to get enough protein and how not to overdo carbs and sweets. I (Ana) don't really define myself as a raw foodist. It has taken years of experimentation with different diets to find the one that makes me feel best. My diet is perfect for my active lifestyle and is very alkaline, water and enzyme rich! It digests easily and quickly and leaves me feeling light and energetic so that I am always ready for yoga and meditation. The only cooked food I regularly eat is steamed vegetables. We do discuss nutrition in our forthcoming book, which should be ready this Spring.
Re: "...I'm tired of everyone immediately questioning me and wanting me to give them a step by step nutritional lowdown..." LOL! So funny. So true! But another way to look at this is by remembering the adage: if you want to master something teach it! Some people are born into Destiny, and some people have Destiny thrust upon them. By that we mean that it's a blessing to help people expand their consciousness and learn to make healthier choices. We seem to be at a pivotal point in our human and planetary evolution and there is a great desire among people to live healthier and happier lives. All of us who have been attempting to live conscious lives are at the vanguard of this movement. We encourage you to not only to continue to deliver yourself to a healthier lifestyle, but to inspire as many people as you can along the way! Please keep us posted!
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 Meditation of the Month - Doei Shiva Kriya
This powerful meditation is designed to open the Third Eye. The Third Eye, or Eye of Shiva, gives us the ability to penetrate through the layers of mind and to perceive with crystal clarity. The amplitude of the puslation of the pituitary gland, which is the physical counterpart to the Third Eye, is Awareness itself. Kundalini is known as the Yoga of Awareness.
Sit on your heels and raise your arms to a sixty degree angle with the hands bent at the wrists and the palms parallel to the ceiling. Focus up and in towards the brow. Inhale in 16 strokes and exhale in 16, all through the nose. Continue for 3 - 11 min. To end inhale deeply, relax the breath, and with your hands in your lap, focus at the brow and breath long and light. Go deep and experience your True Self!
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We wish you an exhilarating, joyful January!!
 All Best, Ana Brett & Ravi Singh
www.raviana.com / ravianayoga@aol.com
Disclaimer: The advice we give is in no way intended as a substitute for medical counseling. Please consult your physician before beginning any exercise program or nutritional protocol
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