Monday, December 1, 2014

Sharing White Tantric Yoga Experience: Amar Atma Singh Khalsa

Amar Atma Singh Khalsa is also a White Tantric Yoga enthusiast . He tells us the reasons: 


"I love White Tantric Yoga! Yogi Bhajan really gave us an amazing system to understand the body, mind, and soul and the wholeness of our being. We get such an integrative perspective of energetic physiology through the 10 bodies and White Tantric Yoga is an amazing piece of technology he left for us to heal. It works on all 10 bodies, and 8 chakras, and all aspects of being to bring what he says, “Renew to be new.” Of the 10 bodies, the most important piece for me is how White Tantric Yoga clears the subtle body, the 9th energy body. As a healer myself, it is very tough to heal. We search for healers, doctors, therapists, hypnotherapists, counselors and so on to clear out the misery in our life. Our pains and hurts and accidents all come from the nature of this subtle body. As healers, we are unsuccessful because you must transform your being and clear away the old patterns that trap you. I would love to do it for you, just as much as I would like someone to do it for me, but he said, this is a self-initiated path. How far and how deep you want to transform is up to you. 

Let’s break it down. This subtle body is container for our thoughts, feelings, and actions over all our lifetimes. Simply put, its our karma. It not only holds all the actions and thoughts we have but the habits, the perpetuation of the same thought patterns and actions, we have had over lifetimes. Those habits are like engravings on our soul. Have you ever heard the saying, Our life is determined by our passed actions? or You reap what you sow? These old sayings relate specifically to the subtle body. White Tantric Yoga shifts us at that deep of a level, in the old corners and shadows of our being so that we can renew to be new and live the life of infinity. In Japji, Guru Nanak says when you cleanse that deeply than a new color would appear that has never been seen before. (20th Pauri)

The subtle body can be a fog, creating misery and mystery to our life or it can be the avenue towards self mastery. We can react to life or we can respond to it. Either way, life is wishing to serve us because its a play of energetics of the subtle body wanting to cleanse. Like the old adage, we create our reality. It's true but in a more refined way, we can also shift our reality. The deeper we cleanse the more clarity we have to the profound nature of this infinite play. White Tantric Yoga deeply cleanses us at this most profound parts of our being and gives us a spring board to see ourselves beyond the fog and beyond the filters. With a steady habit of yoga and meditation in our life, we can melt those engraved habits, merge deeply with the sound current, and become our own alchemists transforming the lead of our life into gold. Thank God for Yogi Bhajan, he really left us with amazing tools to grow and heal. WaheGuru!" - Amar Atma Singh​

White Tantric Yoga, 2012 was also held at the Phoenix Zoo
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Winter Yoga Festival: Free Kids Activities


Our Winter Yoga Festival would not be complete without including children in the celebration.  
Parents will be happy to know that children of all ages will get to enjoy all kinds of fun and educational activities at our festival. Plus, these activities are free for all children! So parents, please feel free to bring the whole family over and have a wonderful time at the festival. 


Winter Yoga Festival 2014
Yoga Phoenix presents
Free Kids Activities
11am-5pm

Kids Activities Schedule: 


11:00am-12:00pm Kid's Yoga class

12:00pm-1:00pm Build A Children's Community Fairy Garden (Location: backyard of Yoga Phoenix, 2308 N Richland St, Phoenix, AZ 85006)

12:45pm-1:15pm Relay Egg Race

1:15pm-2:00pm Read Just A Snowman  followed by Snowman/Snowoman Craft

2:00pm-2:45pm Kid's Yoga Class (Teacher: Kewal Kaur)

2:45pm-3:30pm Read The Gingerbread Man followed by Gingerbread Man/Woman Craft

3:30pm-4:00pm Read a book on Paleontology followed by Dinosaur Dig

4:00pm-5:00pm Read The Secret Life of A Snowflake. An Up-close Look at the Art & Science of Snowflakes followed by a Snowflake craft

Follow this link to find out what else is available at the Winter Yoga Festival. 

Monday, November 17, 2014

New Concert in January 2015: An Evening of Soaring Sacred Sound to Open the Heart and Lift the Spirits

Come celebrate the new year with uplifting, divine energy! Come enjoy Sirgun Kaur's beautiful performance and open your heart to the flow of the divine! 

Sirgun Kaur is a multi talented chant artist. She will be performing at Yoga Phoenix on Saturday, January 10, 6pm-9pm. This concert will also feature music from Sirgun's newest album, "Dayaal".

Click on the video below to listen to Sirgun's Dayaal (Satigur Hoi Dayaal).



Registration for this concert is now open. Early registration is $20. Pay on the day of concert is $25. 
Follow this link to register for this concert.
 



About Sirgun Kaur:
There has never been any question in Sirgun Kaur's mind what she should do "when she grew up." From collecting nursery rhymes as an infant, to sharing her adolescent woes with a sympathetic piano, or touring the United States as a singer-songwriter in her early 20s, music has always been an anchor in Sirgun's life. It was not until she discovered Kundalini Yoga, chanting, and mantra, however, that she understood the transformative and healing potential of music. In a word: magical! Since then, Sirgun has released two albums of sacred chants, The Music Within (with Sat Darshan Singh), and The Cosmic Gift—each funded entirely through the generous donations of her worldwide fan base. If you have been to a White Tantric Yoga event in the past two years you have probably heard her song "Bliss (I Am the Light of My Soul)" being played during the breaks. Sirgun is infinitely grateful for the support she has received on her musical journey so far. She lives in Phoenix, AZ, with her husband, their baby boy and their dog.

"My childhood of constant travel, living as an expat in France, has taught me abundant gratitude for my voice. The human voice is the most portable, most readily available, and clearest expression of our soul. When we sing in a devotional way, we find the home we have always been seeking, inside our own heart. I knows how these sacred mantras can lift us beyond our limited reality, into a blissful and ecstatic space, and I live to share that experience with others." - Sirgun Kaur 

Visit Sirgun's website to learn more about her or to listen to some more of her music. 


Friday, October 24, 2014

The 21 Stages of Meditation

Date: November 1-3 & 7-9
Time: 8am-5pm
Location: 2308 N Richland St, Phoenix AZ, 85006
Cost: All 3 journeys - $1320 (including lunch, tea & snacks)
         1 journey - $500 (including lunch, tea & snacks)

Register at www.yogaphoenix.com. 
 
Whether you are a Kudalini Yoga teacher, a student or someone with an interest in meditation, you can take this course to dive deeper in to the art and science of meditation.

What are the 21 Stages of meditation? The 21 Stages of Meditation describes the different experience that one goes through during meditation. Learning about the 21 Stages of Meditation can help one to identify one’s strengths and weaknesses and what one can do to progress to the next stage and toward understanding one’s Self.

The 21 Stages of Meditation is divided into 3 journeys.

First Journey: The Crystallized Self
The focus of the first journey is to recognize, experience and crystallize the Self. The blocks are encountered in the first four stages: upset, boredom, irritation and frustration. The first ascent starts when we have a sense of our Self, separate from all the commotions, emotions and sensory impulses; we begin to focus and recognize a still point, a nucleus within, which is the Self. It is this crystallized sense of Self that is needed in order for consciousness to work.

·         Stage 1 – Upset
·         Stage 2 – Boredom
·         Stage 3 – Irritation
·         Stage 4 - Frustration
·         Stage 5 – Focus
·         Stage 6 – Absorption
·         Stage 7 – Experience and Crystallize the Self

Second Journey: The Expressive Self
In this second journey, the initial challenge is to develop a sensitivity to the Self, as we engage in relationships and participate in life. When we take the seed of our Self and our identity and project it into the world, it expands. In this second journey, we cultivate the meditative skill to merge with our projection yet still be able to distill our Self from the various roles we play; in this way, this second journey prepares us to maintain our integrity in action and ultimately to find the stillness within every action.

·         Stage 8 – Rasa
·         Stage 9 – Delight
·         Stage 10 – Politeness
·         Stage 11 – Humility
·         Stage 12 – Elevation
·         Stage 13 - Graceful Enlightenment
·         Stage 14 – Express and Be Your Self

Third Journey: The Transcendent Self
In this final journey, we recognize all that we are as the formless presence of the infinite Self. We open the dimension of our Transcendent Self. This journey requires us to go beyond differences and similarities
into reality and unity. By forging an elevated identity with our infinite Self within our finite self, we become spontaneous, creative and flexible. We excel in this infinite game of the soul. Love, compassion and kindness become the core of our experience. At the peak of this journey we become the nothing within the center of all that is. Mystery is now mastery. The sacred space opens up to intuitive presence, which serves innocence, loves life, blesses all, and praises the Infinite, the all within All. You become you, nothing more, nothing less. In this final journey, we become realized human beings.

·         Stage 15 - Presence Like a Beacon
·         Stage 16 - Everywhere Radiance
·         Stage 17 - Prayerful Stillness
·         Stage 18 – Preacher
·         Stage 19 – Teacher
·         Stage 20 – Sage
·         Stage 21 - Infinite Pulse

"Meditation is a duty toward the self. The moment you become aware of the self, you become beautiful to self because the moment you concentrate on self, your frequency changes and the universe around you changes also. This is a cosmic law." - Yogi Bhajan

(The 21 Stages of Meditation information from kundaliniresearchinstitute.org)



Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Sharing White Tantric Yoga Experience: Jasjeet Kaur

Kundalini Yoga teacher, Jasjeet Kaur, talks about White Tantric Yoga: 


White Tantric Yoga is a great opportunity to grow in your yogic practice. A full day of yoga with a partner gives one an experience of conscious cleansing as well as an opportunity to share and grow in the group energy!


Jasjeet Kaur teaches Kundalini Yoga at YMCA on 17th Ave and Missouri.



Related article:
Yoga Phoenix to Host White Tantric Yoga 2015 at the Phoenix Zoo!