 Sat Nam Beautiful Yoga Friends, We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to do yoga with all of you who attended our workshop at Mt. Airy Yoga in Philadelphia and Teacher Training at Give Yoga Memphis. Your Keep up Spirit was awe inspiring and we created some amazing healing energy together! We look forward to seeing you again soon.
Let's do some Kundalini Yoga Together! Fri. Mar. 23rd - Sun. Mar. 25th, Lake Placid, NY (ALL LEVELS) Spring Equinox Yoga Retreat: SHAKE YOUR CHAKRAS / ROCK YOUR SOUL! The Mirror Lake Inn: 518.523.2544 / www.mirrorlakeinn.com (SEE BELOW)
Memphis Teacher Training Fri. Mar. 30th to Sun. Apr. 1st Complete Action: Kundalini Kriyas: More! for info: OliviaLomax@yahoo.com
901.493.1431 / www.giveyogamemphis.com / 901.493.1431
It's not too late to get on board! Thanks to all of you who attended our first Teacher Training session in Memphis. What amazing energy you all generated! For those of you who have been thinking about it, its not too late to get on board! Now is the time to manifest Destiny and use your gifts to heal, uplift, and inspire. The Aquarian Age is dawning and YOU are invited to assist in the quickening of souls and to give people hope and a better way. Make the most of your time alive! Heal the world and so grow in Spirit! Memphis is a rocking soulful town where Elvis Presley made his first record. The yoga community there keeps that soulful vibe alive. Hope you can join us! Teacher Training Info Here.
Shake Your Chakras / Rock Your Soul Yoga Retreat: Lake Placid, NY Mar. 23rd - 25th!
 We would love to have you join us for our upcoming yoga retreat in the beautiful Adirondacks! We are so excited, not only to do some awesome Kundalini workouts in the fresh alpine air, but because we are being hosted by the gorgeous Mirror Lake Inn on Lake Placid.
The Mirror Lake Inn has been voted among the top spa/resorts countless times by both Conde Naste and Travel + Leisure, yet is one of our most affordable retreats yet! Ed, one of the owners, discovered Kundalini Yoga through his chiropractor who gave him our Kundalini Yoga for Beginners & Beyond DVD a few years back. He has kept up a daily practice with it ever since....and now Ed, along with his lovely wife Lisa, has graciously offered to host us for a rejuvenating KY weekend celebration of great yoga workouts and a little pampered indulgence!
Lake Placid has a rich Olympic history and was host to both the 1932 and 1980 winter games, home of the famous "Miracle on Ice." In fact, Ed & Lisa's son, Andrew Weibrecht recently won a Bronze Medal in the 2010 Vancouver games as part of the men's US Ski Team. For those of you that may be travelling with someone whose interests lie outside the yoga classroom, the Olympic village offers countless indoor & outdoor activities to keep your family, friends, and significant others busy for days! You can pamper yourself with their world class spa treatments, heated indoor pool, and delicious cuisine in between your yoga sessions.
Our name for this retreat is Shake Your Chakras/Rock Your Soul. It is open to all levels and we expect quite a few beginners. Everyone will get a great workout in every class. We are going to have an amazing time! If you have any questions please reply to this email. If you would like to go ahead and sign up, you can contact the Mirror Lake Inn directly! We look forward to seeing you soon!
To register please contact the Mirror Lake Inn directly: 518.523.2544. Check out this online article about the event Here. Download a flier with all the details Here.
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Do you have specific goals for which you would like to apply the most appropriate inner technology? Would you like some clarity with regard to the person you're meant to be and your mission on this earth? Do you have an emotional or physical health issue which has resisted your best attempts? Ravi Singh will draw upon his long experience as a Teacher and Spiritual Advisor and provide counseling and a personal Meditation practice for 2012. Each consultation will consist of two phone conversations. The first to gather information, and the second to present Ravi's "findings," and to explain your personal Meditation. The cost for the overall consultation is 108 dollars. Please reply to this e-mail if you're interested.
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The 10 Things to Remember
Since I (Ana) was a child, there have been certain clarifying moments when I would stand still and think, "I am going to remember this moment forever." The first one was in a schoolyard in Australia when I was 6 and had become aware of boys, as a separate species, for the first time. I thought "Oh my God, boys are sooo cute!" After that epiphany, my teachers couldn't keep me off the boy's side of the playground. I couldn't resist chasing, tackling, and trying to kiss them while they ran screaming!
Each time in my life, when I have been prompted to remember, "This moment forever," it seemed to mark a stage of growth. I still retain every one of those memories. Too much time can go umnmarked and lived solely on our impulses and reactions. Months and years vanish into a large amorphous block of "The past," and have no special significance going forward. Here are some little strings to tie around our fingers so that we can consciously remember to remember, to reclaim our pasts and supercharge our futures!
 1. The most important thing to remember, moment to moment, breath by breath, day by day, is who you are, why you are, and who you were born to be.
2. Love above all. 3. Be a star in your own eyes, but don't stop there. Work hard and make it real. You want the glory; you have to live your own story! 4. Remember that certain people are in your life for a reason. It may be that they have a soul contract to toughen you up for your Great Task. Those people who press all of your buttons, drive you up the wall, and who are forever making trouble, and/or causing you grief, are actually your Teachers! In retrospect, you may marvel at what a great job they did in playing their roles so impeccably. 5. Somehow, some way, be of service. We are all the hope for the world. 6. One thing to remember is: "All things come from God. All things go to God." This is the highest philosophy in the history of humankind. 7. Celebrate the people in your life for their gifts, grace, and uniqueness. What if they don't have discernable "grace?" Ascribe it to them anyway. 8. What we try to control controls us. When we control from the vantage of ego, we become slaves to the things we are trying to control. When we let Spirit be in the driver's seat, everything flows. 9. Create a relationship with energy via the breath 10. Meditate like you mean it. Blessed are those who take a stand ag- ainst their mind's machinations and strive to experience Infinity in the finite.
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Specials of the Month
 
∆ Our Two Newest DVD's!!! ∆
Here is a list of our 22 DVD's and links to Amazon.com where many of these are on sale! Give the greatest gift of all to the people you love: health, peace of mind, insight, creativity, inner strength, and Spirit!
- Yoga Total Tune Up -Four 20 min. segments. Powerful stuff!
- Yoga Cleanse - Perfect workout for your winter detox and more!
- Navel Power - For personal power, focus, will, stomach of steel!
- Warrior Workout - a non-stop high energy feast.
- Ultimate Stretch Workout - for longer leaner lines!
- A Journey thru the Chakras - Climb the ladder of lights
- Am/Pm Yoga - Start and end your day on a high note!
- Kundalini Yoga for Beginners & Beyond - A Kundalini "must have," featuring the classic basic spinal series and the Five Tibetans! A great daily practice!
- Fat Free Yoga - One of our most popular. Great to do during change of seasons to recalibrate the glands!
- Dance the Chakras Yoga Workout - Move thru the chakras, literally! Two sets: half hour chakra workout and sacred movement.
- Yoga Beauty Body - Featuring the "Magnificent 7," + much more!
- Yoga Bliss Hips - Let your energy flow in new and exciting ways!
- Yoga House Call - Yoga for long term issues, quick sets, more!
- Yoga Quick Fixes - Yoga fixes for on-the-spot self-healing, quick sets plus. Featuring Delete Depression, Headache Helper, more...
- Yoga for Beginners & Beyond: Stretch, Strengthen, Be Stress Free - Kundalini/Hatha fusion. Embody the basics and grow your Kundalini practice!
- Kundalini Yoga for Energy & Super Radiance -Kundalini Yoga to be the bright being you were born to be!
- Kundalini Yoga Cardio, Stretch, & Strengthen -Get set to sweat and grow!
- Kundalini Yoga Transformer All-In-One Workout - An amazing inner/outer workout. Featuring "Born Free," and more!
- Kundalini Yoga Solar Power All-In-One Workout - An amazing set to open the solar plexus plus Awaken Your Senses.
- Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Beginners & Beyond - Grow you inner life and burn brightly in this world!
- Kundalini Yoga Body Electric All-In-One Workout - Optimize your energy. Streamline your body. Glow!
- Kundalini Yoga Flow Bootcamp All-In-One Workout Turn the tables on inertia. Move your energy, move your life!
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 Questions of the Month
Disappointed
Dear Ana and Ravi, Rather than feeling inspired by this most recent beauty theme, it has mostly made me feel depressed and drained. By showcasing beauty products that would cost half my monthly salary to buy and admonishing me to "KEEP UP AND BE BEAUTIFUL," I have felt like "beauty" is something impossibly expensive and out of reach and yet something I must absolutely work for. The last comment from your reader about how one never sees an angel unkept was like an arrow through my heart, as if by not grooming to perfection I was setting myself up for spiritual failure.
Women are surrounded by marketing strategies that target their insecurity about being beautiful and youthful enough and then admonish them to "keep up" by selling them overpriced products. Please consider whether it is responsible to use a Kundalini Yoga newsletter to promote products for wealthy/celebrity women as if they are a spiritual necessity. Disappointed,
We are so sorry to hear that you are feeling depressed! Our last 2 newsletters, "Shallow Questions for Deep Women," as the title implies, were meant to be lighthearted and fun. It's so true, that the way in which women are perceived, and perceive themselves, is something which needs to be transformed! These issues are too big to be resolved in one email, and it seems like things are becoming worse than ever, but, in this dawn of the Aquarian Age, we believe new ways of seeing and being are on the rise! In that spirit we wanted to make a point of showing how organic ingredients are now finding their way into mainstream product lines. We celebrate this huge leap in consciousness! Its such a fantastic first step in a positive direction as more consumers are becoming AWARE of what they are putting on their skin. For far too long women have been spending too much money for luxurious creams and unwittingly rubbing potentially harmful chemicals into their, and their children's, bodies!
Unfortunately, it's true, the prices for the organic creams are just as pricey as their chemical laden cousins but, with a little research and ingenuity you can create your own face and body nourishing lab. Both Ana & Wah are aware that not everybody can afford costly cosmetics. They are also aware that it is possible to give your skin the very best natural skin care while spending hardly anything at all. They made sure to mention some lower cost products in the newsletters. Olive oil, one of the best skin and hair softening lotions we know, is probably already in your kitchen cabinet. Also, please see our archive post on essential oils which can be used to blend together your own inexpensive lotions and balms. Ultimately the real beauty lab is inside of us. If we keep our cells clean and vibrant via the breath, Kundalini Yoga and a fresh natural cleansing diet we will glow with good health which is the real definition of beauty!
We agree too, that women are bombarded with slick advertising and prompts to look a certain way and we grow up feeling extreme pressure to conform to that image. The answer is to keep looking inwards and to nourish our inner beauty and radiance. Yogi Bhajan said, "The part of you that is radiant is not you. It is your soul shining through!"
Re; the "angel." What she was seeing was inner beauty. Everything else was her own projection.The phrase 'Keep up and be beautiful,' was sort of tongue in cheek. Although it's true, that when we keep up with our K. Yoga practice, beauty radiates.
Teacher Training & Finances
Ok...I actually do have a question! I am just gonna go ahead and put this "out there to the Universe"-- I really want to take a class of yours and I really, really want to become teacher trained BUT I have had to use my moola for other things (in the past for crazy hospital bills and then recently backruptcy). I feel great and I FEEL prosperous but I do not know how to physically find and then give the amount of money needed to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks for reading and many blessings to you.......ya'll are doing Great!
Thanks for writing and for sharing your exuberance re: Teacher Training! We suggest that you keep putting that intention to serve (via teaching KY) out there to the Universe. We are sure that eventually you will find the means to make this happen. You might consider taking a portion of the Teacher Training and completing it at a later date. It is possible to pick up hours for a certification from us at any of the locations at which we offer a Training. Also, it is not too late to jump into our Memphis Training. Contact olivialomax@yahoo.com to discuss types of creative financing.
In the Kundalini Yoga tradition it is felt that an even exchange of energy should take place for receiving these Teachings. Money is a finite thing but it has an Infinite source.As an ongoing exercise on the Spiritual Path it is a test for all of us to see if we are able to trust that source and livewith the recogntion that, "All things come from God, and all things go to God."
Have you decided that being a Teacher of Kundalini Yoga is what your life is meant to be about? In terms of your ability to pay for the training: if you are not sure where your Destiny lies, look for signs, namely the Universe smoothing the way for it to happen. If you already know where your Destiny lies, then (our experience has shown us that) if you do whatever you need to do to make it happen, and don't look back, you will be supported in every way.
Finger Post
I notice that when we meditate between exercises in K.Y. we always have the index finger and thumb tips meeting. Is is okay to use the thumb and ring finger instead?
Thanks for writing. Yes, it is possible to use the ring finger instead of the index finger. The ring finger and thumb tips meeting is called Surya Mudra. It's for energy , balance in relationship, and positivity. The index finger and thumb tip meeting is called Gyan Mudra and it is for Wisdom and Expansion. The middle fingers and thumb tips meeting is called Shuni Mudra and it is for focus and discipline. The little fingers and thumb tips meeting is called Buddhi Mudra and it is for communication. These various mudras were meant to be used when indicated for the various energies they represent. If you feel that any of these areas of your life could use a boost, you can use the corresponding mudra when you meditate.Needs Less Sleep I noticed that I needed less hours of sleep (on average 6 hours) compared to my regular 8 hours of sleep since I started kundalini yoga. I do feel refreshed but am curiours to know why. thanks!
Yogi Bhajan often only slept 2 hours per night. Much of our need to sleep is based on the amount of subconscious processing which needs to be done. Kundalini Yoga does this in a more streamlined, non-stressful way.Also, much of our need for sleep is based on our the body's need for regeneration time. Kundalini Yoga makes energy availble more quickly so we don't have to spend so much time waiting for our energy to replenish.
You could also say that what you are experiencing is your soul's excitement. It loves being in the spotlight (as a result of you doing a Spiritual practice). Your happiness is its happiness.
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Long Ek Ong Kar Meditation
Ek Ong Kar, Sat Nam, Siri, Whahay Guru
 Sit with a straight spine. Your eyes are 1/10 open looking down and in towards the tip of the nose. Inhale and chant: Ek OOOOOOng (the Ong is very nasal) Kaaaaaaaar. Inhale again and chant Sat Naaaaaaaaaam, Siri (take a half breath), and chant Wah, Haaaaay Guru.
Move these sounds through the chakras: Feel Ek at the base of the spine, Ong in the pelvic area, Kar at the Navel, Sat at the Sternum, Nam at the throat, Siri at the brow, Wah at the top of the head, and Hay Guru above the top of the head.
This mantra translates as: There is One Infinite Creator, Who is your True Identity, Indescribable is that Wisdom, There are no words for this Ecstasy. It has eight syllables. The number eight symbolizes the movement from the finite to the Infinite. Eight is the number of Energy. The Source of All Energy is our Destiny and Destination.
This is the Meditation to which Yogi Bhajan attributes his primary Spiritual Awakening. It was taught to him by one of his important Teachers, Virsa Singh. It is on our A.M./P.M. Yoga DVD
You can practice Long Ek Ong Kars from 5 min. to 2.5 hours. It's said that if you do this for 2.5 hours, and start early enough so that you have completed your practice by 7 a.m., for 40 consecutive days, you will be liberated. That means that you have cleared the karma of lifetimes and that you have a clean slate and the Consciousness to make the most of this life with purpose and purity. It means that you have become a free being, not bound by the pain and patterns of the past, ready and able to live your Destiny. A Destiny is when you use your gifts to heal, uplift, and inspire, and leave the world a better place than when you arrived!
Practicing this Meditation will insure that you stay uplifted and positive. Practice this everyday and be witness to your own blossoming! When you practice this type of Meditation, everyone in your life, and in your sphere, as well as 7 generations before and after you in your family line are blessed. |
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We wish you an exhilarating, fun, and joyful March!
 All Best, Ana Brett & Ravi Singh
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