For a complete schedule of classes at our new yoga center, click HERE!
Energize and uplift yourself with Kundalini Yoga & Meditation! You’ll build a healthier body, reduce stress and make contact with your infinite self. Kundalini Yoga is a complete technology for transforming your body, mind and soul. Each class uses postures, breath work, chanting and meditation to provide you with the experience of your innate inner wisdom and joy. Kundalini Yoga & Meditation make you radiant, peaceful and strong so that you can meet life’s challenges and win! It’s like no yoga you’ve ever done before!®
Please join us! You’ll enjoy it! And your body and soul will love you for it!
Here’s the Kundalini Yoga class schedule at our Forest Park location:
Classes are be drop-in rather than in 6-week sessions, so you will pay for each class you attend and not lose money when you have to miss a week.
$10 for a 75-minute class. Such. A. Deal.
Although we won't sell classes as a session package, we will still build a month or two of classes around a specific theme, allowing us to go deep and broad in our experience and understanding.
Photos above and below by Narinder Kaur/Cara Bazen, who graduated in June 2010 from the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Program at Spirit Rising Yoga in Chicago. The pictures were taken during training weekends. So it's NOT a Kundalini class in Forest Park -- but it COULD be!
Congratulations to Nora Jenkyns/Siri Amrit Kaur and Erin Langan from Oak Park Kundalini classes! On June 5, 2011 they completed Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and are now certified Kundalini Yoga instructors. Way to go, Nora and Erin!
Susan and Tom have both completed a 200-hour Level I Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Program. Tom has gone on to complete a second 200-hour Level I program, giving him over 400 hours of training in teaching Kundalini Yoga. Susan is close to finishing KYTT Level II, working toward her 500-hour certification, which requires completion of five separate 60-hour modules over the course of a minimum of two-and-a-half years. Both Susan and Tom have served as mentors to students in KYTT Level One, and Susan has also served as the Coordinator of a Mentor Program.
"We teach Kundalini Yoga & Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan. In that spirit, according to his instructions, we emphasize the teachings and not the teacher. You will find our classes to be practice-based, not personality-centered. If you are longing to be a kundalini groupie, don’t get off the bus at this stop!"
do not go into the direction of despair; i tell you, Suns exist.
4:30 – 6:45-ish am Church of Religious Science 6832 W. North Avenue 2nd Floor
NW corner of Newcastle & North Ave. Just west of Amarind’s Thai restaurant in the tall dark brick State Farm office building (For security: Street door open 4:20 - 5:00 only) Free parking in the lot behind the building, or park on North Ave.
The Oak Park Church of Religious Science is graciously donating the use of their cozy meeting space to the local Kundalini Yoga community so that we can do early morning practice together. Join us!
There is no charge for sadhana, although donations are accepted and all money donated will be passed along to the Church.
Sadhana means spiritual practice. Daily Sadhana is an essential component of an integrated, healthy, balanced life. It is daily maintenance during the early hours of the day, the "Amrit Vela", the Nectar Time, @2½ hours before dawn, when the world is transitioning from sleep to wakefulness and is deeply still.
People in many different yoga and spiritual traditions cultivate the habit of rising early to meditate, do yoga, and generally “attend to their souls” before the busy-ness of the day sets in.
Many Kundalini yoga practitioners do a personal, private sadhana, alone in their home. This is a great way for each person to focus on mastering a kriya and a meditation that are relevant to a challenge they are facing or a character quality they would like to build into their being. Solitary practice is often the only option for many yogis, and they maintain the habit with tremendous benefits.
BUT – when we have the opportunity to practice together – WOW! We help each other to be strong, disciplined, committed. We are a “reality check” for each other: “If you say you’re serious about practicing regularly, then – c’mon – practice!” [We are also a soothing balm for each other. We help each other to be clear about what we need, and to state it without guilt: “I need to take a break from group practice for awhile.”]
If you want to establish yourself in daily practice, there’s no better way than signing on for a group experience. If you need a refresher, a re-motivator, in daily practice, come lean on the group – draw on the energy of other practitioners – get re-inspired.
Sit in the stillness of the gradually lightening morning and look around you at the faces of the beautiful souls who have made good on their pledge to become more conscious, more aware, more conscious and aware of their connection to the Infinite. Know that for many of them, maybe even for all of them, the decision to take this action has involved inconvenience, sacrifice, hard choices, less sleep . . . And the opportunity to experience indescribable Bliss! Feel gratitude for being among them. Feel your own body and mind rejuvenated from the yoga and meditation. Feel yourself calm, clear, energized, at peace. Hold those feelings in your self and walk out to face the day.
Daily sadhana is the root and foundation of everything we hope to accomplish for good in our lives.
“Your Power is in your Presence. Your Presence comes from your Practice.”
What to expect at Morning Sadhana:
4:30 am - 4:50 am ~ Japji Sahib Recitation of Japji, the "Song of the Soul" – of your soul - in Gurmukhi. An experience of connecting with the Soundcurrent as Guru. (Copies of Japji are available)
4:50 am - 5:30 am ~ Kundalini Yoga Tuning in with Adi Mantra, breathe, move, stretch, and deeply relax.
5:30 am - 6:32 am ~ Mantra Meditation Chanting the Mantras of the Aquarian Sadhana for 62 minutes. (Mantra sheets are available for participants new to sadhana)
6:32 am - 6:40 am ~ Silent Meditation/Inspirational Reading
Close: Long Time Sunshine Song
my heart, sit only with those who know and understand you. sit only under a tree that is full of blossoms. in the bazaar of herbs and potions don’t wander aimlessly. find the shop with a potion that is sweet. if you don’t have a measure people will rob you in no time. you will take counterfeit coins thinking they are real. don’t fill your bowl with food from every boiling pot you see. not every joke is humorous, so don’t search for meaning where there isn’t one. not every eye can see, not every sea is full of pearls. my heart, sing the song of longing like a nightingale. the sound of your voice casts a spell on every stone, on every thorn. first, lay down your head then one by one let go of all distractions. embrace the light and let it guide you beyond the winds of desire. there you will find a spring and nourished by its sweet waters like a tree you will bear fruit forever. ~ rumi
Having taken both of the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training programs currently available in the Chicago area, we strongly recommend that if you are serious about becoming a high-caliber certified instructor you arrange to take your training through one of these excellent programs:
Sevak Singh in Phoenix AZ ~ Lead Trainer for this outstanding Arizona program. Sevak sets the bar high and inspires and motivates by leading the way. More info at www.yogaphoenix.com.
Guru Raj Kaur in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ~ A jewel, a gem of a royal yogini. She will challenge you to develop your radiance and your steel and give you the tools you need to do it. One of the first training programs in existence, it continues to attract a large number of vibrant and vital participants each year. More info at www.yogawest.ca.
Karta Purkh Singh in Kansas City MO ~ A laid-back, down-to-earth, warm and cozy style is the hallmark of Sat Tirath Ashram in KC. Relax back into the atmosphere of love and acceptance and the encouragement to truly make these teachings your own. More info at www.kckundaliniyoga.com.
Pritpal Kaur in Espanola NM ~ An exemplary lead trainer who is an expert at teaching postures and cultivating optimism, she offers residential trainings in the Santa Fe and North Carolina areas. More info at www.pritpalkaur.com
OR you can plan ahead to join us in the Chicago area in the Fall of 2013 for a stellar Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training program combining the best that all of the teachers listed above have to offer! Stay tuned . . .
Life on the earth plane offers a multitude of opportunities for unfoldment toward our true Self. Coming in contact with the teachings of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation is a five-star potentiality NOT to be passed up or passed by!
Where are you on your journey back to Who you already are? Would you like recommendations for specific yogic tools that will enable you to rise to your particular challenges and overcome your particular shortcomings?
Have you been struggling with certain issues, habits, tendencies, ways of thinking, ways of acting and reacting to people and situations, and personality “quirks”, and wanting to reach a new level of leaving behind patterns that no longer serve you?
Kundalini Yoga and Meditation are amazing technologies for transformation. 12,000+ kriyas and 8,000+ meditations = a very large repertoire of tools you can use to connect and reconnect with your Infinite Self no matter what your circumstances or your issues.
We should talk! You can tell me who you want to be, what’s holding you back, what you want to let go of or get rid of, and what you want to bring more of into your life to be happier and healthier and more of an easeful blessing to the world around you. I can suggest a kriya and/or meditation for your personal practice on the basis of our discussion. We will do the practice together to get you started, to energize it, and to make sure you know exactly what you need to do on your own. I will give you recommendations for successfully beginning and sustaining your practice. You’ll leave the session with handouts and music as needed. I will be available by phone and email, and you can contact me with any questions or concerns, to schedule a follow-up session, or to say “This is working GREAT! I’ll call you again when I need you again.”
The archives have been re-located! If you’d like to read a little bit about our journey on the Kundalini path, please visit Nirvair's blog at www.nirvairkaurchicago.blogspot.com.
