For new and experienced students, practical guidance in kundalini yoga for happiness, health, and fulfillment Kundalini is a universal life force within each of us that, once awakened, holds the power to transform every facet of our lives. Kundalini yoga is the art and practice of activating this radiant energy. With Essential Kundalini Yoga, Karena Virginia and Dharm Khalsa present the core principles and practices of this revered tradition in an inviting and accessible guide. “Kundalini yoga opens joyous space for connecting deeply with the energy states of our being,” write Karena and Dharm, “It brings vital health to the body and opens our consciousness to new potentials of awareness.” Created for the modern practitioner, this book offers clear, comprehensive instruction in the key insights and practices of kundalini yoga. From philosophy and lifestyle, to working with anatomy and physical asana, to activating our energy bodies, Essential Kundalini Yoga is a uniquely practical and in-depth manual. Highlights include: Gorgeous photos illuminating step-by-step instructionsDetailed instructions, explanations, and illustrations for core kundalini practices—mantra, pranayama, bhanda, asana, kriya, meditation, and moreSeven traditional kundalini yoga routines, including a pituitary gland series for intuition, yoga for the immune system, and detoxing for radianceUnderstand the science of the practice, including its effects on the glandular system, spine, nervous system, and skeletonMeditations, mantras, and yoga poses to activate each of the chakras and bring health to your energetic bodyRemedies for common emotional challenges—dealing with fear, shame, and depression, among othersKundalini secrets for getting better sleep, aging gracefully, enhancing fertility, cultivating vitality, and more Rooted in tradition and infused with a sense of infinite possibility, Essential Kundalini Yoga is a joyful invitation for practitioners of all levels to awaken the vital energy within and receive the gifts that emerge from connecting more deeply with your own potential for creativity, abundance, and joy.

The Kundalini Yoga Book by master yogis ANA BRETT and RAVI SINGH is your ultimate guide to this dynamic inner and outer yoga system. Ravi and Ana share these techniques in their much loved fun, accessible and non-dogmatic style. Supercharge your life with dozens of beautifully photographed workouts to help you profit from your practice, streamlined, symmetrical, inspired, and on top of the world.The Kundalini Yoga book is designed to help you get your essential practice in no matter how busy you are. Each chapter features easy to follow instruction as well as insider information about the benefits of each exercise. Nourish yourself with food for the soul as well as cutting edge alignment tips. Draw inspiration from Ana and Ravi's candid and entertaining stories about their own path and process. In addition, the ancient and modern history of Kundalini Yoga (based on years of research) is presented..

Two leaders in pregnancy yoga share useful yoga techniques to guide expectant mothers from bump to birth and beyond Authoritative yet thoroughly accessible, this user-friendly book provides yoga techniques for pregnancy and beyond, helping expectant mothers to deal with all the physical and emotional changes you experience along the way. Authors Tara Lee and Mary Attwood—both leaders in the field—explain the important fundamentals of pregnancy yoga, such as: • Using breathwork to relax your body and reduce stress • Guided meditations and visualizations to help you feel calm and positive • Illustrated step-by-step routines to energize you and relieve muscle tension and pain • Beneficial postures for a range of common pregnancy-related conditions, including back pain, breathlessness, and swollen ankles • Advice on preparing for labor and childbirth • Post-natal exercises to get you back in shape and energized as a new mother Most importantly, Tara and Mary emphasize how every woman can take charge of her whole self to ensure a happy and healthy pregnancy and birth. The foreword by internationally celebrated Dr Gowri Motha, creator of the Gentle Birth Method, reinforces the message that pregnancy and childbirth is a positive experience to cherish and enjoy.

What Kundalini Is and Why We Need It Kundalini yoga is an accessible practice for sharpening your mind, finding balance in your daily life, increasing your body's strength, and developing a connection to the divine. Filled with quick one-, three-, and eleven-minute exercises, this book is designed to help you begin or embolden your own personal Kundalini practice. Explore simple breathing techniques to bring the hemispheres of the brain into equilibrium. Work through postures (also known as asanas) that move your body into proper alignment. Discover mantras to amplify your intentions and activate the energy center of the chakras as well as mudras to direct the intention of your practice and create lasting change. In easily digestible chapters, Erin Elizabeth Downing shares Kundalini basics, nutritional wisdom, tips for balancing the masculine and feminine energies of the body, and much more. You will discover more than fifty hands-on practices for specific physical and spiritual needs, such as detoxifying your body, pushing past blockages, and expanding your vital life-force energy throughout your body.

Introduction to Kundalini Yoga and Meditation is a brand new 2 volume guide suitable for students of all levels. Guru Rattana combines the essence of Yogi Bhajan with her own knowledge and unique insights, gained from 40 years of personal practice, study and teaching. Her wisdom will illuminate your path, taking you deep within on an amazing journey of transformation and self-discovery, to a destination of self-love, inner peace and oneness with all. "This introduction is beyond perfect. This is True Kundalini! You have taken everything from my heart and understanding, and placed it in print with your yogic history! YES!!!! It creates awe." - Siri Bandhu Kaur, OttawaBegin and Deepen Your Practice describes in detail the techniques used to awaken the Kundalini. It includes the basics to be learned by beginners and perfected by more advanced students, including♦ understanding the mind and meditation♦ guidelines for practicing Kundalini Yoga♦ how to design your personal practice ♦ tips to optimize your progress.You will find kriyas and meditations to deal with stress, addictions, depression, sleeping, spinal health, mental clarity, activating your navel center, and opening the heart. You will discover how to direct your attention and guide your inner journey to health and happiness.Guru Rattana is also author of Transitions to a Heart-Centered World, Relax and Renew, and Sexuality and Spirituality. Her more recent books are The Destiny of Women Is the Destiny of the World, The Inner Art of Love, The Gift of Womanhood, The Power of Neutral, and Your Life is in Your Chakras (expanded edition 2014). She began studying with Yogi Bhajan in 1977. A KRI certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, she has taught in 15 countries, including many Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Courses.

Headstart For Happiness weaves together the Enneagram System of Personality with Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan to create a guide book for deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you. This guide book leads you through your personality and the personalities of those around you, focusing on the unique strengths and gifts each type has to offer the world. Providing you with tools for compassion, this book offers a path to a more harmonious, peaceful world. If you believe most conflict in the world is based on misunderstandings, this book is for you. Headstart For Happiness includes: 1. An Enneagram type overview for each of the nine distinct personality types. 2. The unique gifts each type offers to the world. 3. Tools for compassion if you have someone of the type in your life (what you NEED to know). 4. The internal experience of each type as reported directly by people of the type. 5. Next steps towards happiness. 6. A Kundalini Yoga kriya and meditation mapped to each Enneagram type. The physical practice of Kundalini Yoga accelerates the growth path for each Enneagram type. Rooted in the narrative tradition, this guide draws on over 100 panel interviews in which people of each Enneagram type describe their experience as their specific type. Based on the idea that nothing is more powerful than someone talking about their direct, personal experience, this guide book leverages the testimonials of hundreds of people. Mapping that direct experience to Kundalini Yoga kriyas and meditations to address the sensitive issue of each type, this manual offers a path towards happiness. Highly accessible, Headstart for Happiness can be used by absolute beginners to advanced practitioners alike. No prior knowledge of either system is required. Each Kundalini Yoga kriya and meditation includes full instruction and can be practiced by people of all physical conditions and abilities. If you can breathe, you can do this practice.

"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.... Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such states is even more timely now than then. As R. D. Laing stated... 'It was Jung who broke the ground here, but few followed him.'"--From the introduction by Sonu Shamdasani Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation. With sensitivity toward a new generation's interest in alternative religions and psychological exploration, Sonu Shamdasani has brought together the lectures and discussions from this seminar. In this volume, he re-creates for today's reader the fascination with which many intellectuals of prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. Reconstructing this seminar through new documentation, Shamdasani explains, in his introduction, why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop. He goes on to orient today's audience toward an appreciation of some of the questions that stirred the minds of Jung and his seminar group: What is the relation between Eastern schools of liberation and Western psychotherapy? What connection is there between esoteric religious traditions and spontaneous individual experience? What light do the symbols of Kundalini yoga shed on conditions diagnosed as psychotic? Not only were these questions important to analysts in the 1930s but, as Shamdasani stresses, they continue to have psychological relevance for readers on the threshold of the twenty-first century. This volume also offers newly translated material from Jung's German language seminars, a seminar by the indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented in conjunction with that of Jung, illustrations of the cakras, and Sir John Woodroffe's classic translation of the tantric text, the Sat-cakra Nirupana. ?

Sexuality and Spirituality offers both men and women the prospect of great sex with deep intimacy, contentment, satisfaction, and divine connection. This amazing manual reveals previously secret Kundalini Yoga sets and meditations from which you can find the means to achieve your greatest joy and fulfillment.Our sexual energy impacts all aspects of our life: How we relate to our sexuality is a determining factor in how we relate not only to our partners, but also to our family, friends, children, and all those with whom we interact. We are all sexual beings, so this book is for everyone - regardless of age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, spiritual path, or level of sexual activity.This updated and expanded 2nd Edition offers new material about Tantra, man's and woman's sexuality, how to practice the locks for sexual pleasure, polarity balance for men and women, and opening the heart to sacred love. It also retains the much loved Kundalini Yoga sets and meditations from the original 1989 edition, in what remains the only published source of much of this amazing material from the early classes of Yogi Bhajan.We miss a lot when sex is reduced to building up stressful desire and releasing it. Spiritualizing our attitude toward our sexuality delivers us to the universal creative dimensions of existence. How we create in life is a function of how we are able to sustain and interact with the unfolding of our life, relax into our own rhythm, and find satisfaction while moving through our daily activities.Learn how to open your heart - to yourself, to others and to all life. Love happens as you embrace all life's challenges, as well as its joys. Practicing the technology and absorbing the wisdom offered in this manual will change your life, by raising your frequency to the vibration of sacred love.

Premka: White Bird in a Golden Cage is a compelling and beautifully unfolding tale, offering a haunting look into a teacher/student relationship. This intimate memoir, written by one of Yogi Bhajan's prized teachers and exalted students, is full of devotion, love, dedication, betrayal, loss and the healing unification of the self. It also reads as a love letter to a unique time in history-the '60s in Los Angeles and New Mexico, where love, music, art, spiritual exploration, often led to self-transformation. As a historical treatise and a spiritual mystery, this book offers unique insight into the origins of the Western Sikh movement and the proliferation of Yogi Bhajan's kundalini yoga.