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Suggestions on what to do if you’ve had a Kundalini Awakening

May 9, 2011 By 12 Comments
Kundalini Awakening

It can be scary, disorientating, dislocating and downright awful when Kundalini awakens. Sometimes a Kundalini Awakening will look like mental illness, physical illness or emotional difficulties. It can be difficult to figure out exactly what's going on, all you know is something freaky is happening. My own awakening began in 2000 and proceeded more or less unnoticed by me, except for strange jerkings of the body and poppings in the spine. A dangerous mix of emotional avoidance and LSD … [Read more...]

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What is a Kundalini Awakening and have I had one?

April 27, 2011 By 5 Comments
Kundalini Shakti

The following information is not gospel - it's just my reflections and my understandings based on my own experience of Kundalini Awakening. As always, don't believe a thing I say unless it resonates in your heart and works for you. Except maybe the bit about checking in with a medical professional if you have any physical symptoms - do that regardless! So... what is Kundalini? Kundalini is the feminine, creative, evolutionary force of infinite wisdom that lives inside every single one … [Read more...]

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Dude, where’s my Guru?

April 18, 2011 By 14 Comments
Where's my Guru?

Last week's article, Dude, where's my teacher, totally surprised me.  I didn't expect people to resonate with it so much. There were all kinds of comments, as it flitted around the social media sky. The weird thing was, I'd written it on the Sunday night, exhausted, out of time, just wanting to go to bed, and I thought it had sucked. I knew I hadn't captured the most important  nuances of my search for a Real Yoga Teacher. So I'm back to dish up those nuances and set the record … [Read more...]

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An interview with Rachael Lowe on her up-coming Kundalini Workshop ‘Experience Your Innocence’

October 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
Rachael Lowe in Cambodia

There is a quote from Yogi Bhajan on the poster for Kundalini Yoga Teacher Rachael Lowe's Wellington workshop that reads: The best way in life is simply to be. Let the spirit, let the soul, let the self shine like sunshine Oh only if it were that simple! Yet it is that simple for children. Watch a group of five year olds play, or a baby crawl around the house exploring, and they're just being, just shining, just living. It's this quality of innocence that Rachael is set to help people … [Read more...]

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Kundalini Yoga – the Yoga of Consciousness

April 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Yogi Bhajan

  by guest author Amanda Reid, of Samadhi Yoga.   Each soul has a role to play. Each human has something to say. May consciousness prevail so we can come through the veil of arrogance and ignorance to the joy and happiness of life. May we count our blessings to be beautiful, bountiful and blissful. - Yogi Bhajan   Kundalini Yoga is an ancient and powerful school of Yoga utilising the science and technology, and reaping all the benefits, of Hatha, Raj, Mantra and Laya … [Read more...]

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Wellington Yoga Teacher: Melissa Billington of MYOGA

February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Wellington Yoga Teacher Melissa Billington

Born and bred in the United States, Melissa now calls New Zealand her home. You may have caught her on TV One's Good Morning Show, distilling her wealth of yoga knowledge and understanding down into a five minute snippet digestible and accessible to the daytime TV audience. It's something that takes considerable skill, but Melissa was brought up immersed in yoga and spiritual practice. She's used to translating traditional practices for a contemporary world - without losing the … [Read more...]

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