February 2014: Special Events

We have a lot of new, exciting and soul-nourishing events lined up for this February. Come take a look and find the events that resonate with your soul's needs!

All of our special events are on every Tuesday and 3rd Saturday of the month, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. The price for each event is $15 per person. To register, please visit www.yogaphoenix.com, browse under Workshops and Events. Visitors are also welcomed to come and pay at the door. Yoga Phoenix is located at 2308 N Richland St, Phoenix, AZ 85006

Spectacular Kundalini Yoga event with the super trio!

Tuesday, February 11: Rise Up! An Ecstatic Journey Into Kundalini Yoga
A juicy fusion of chanting, meditation, kundalini yoga with didgeridoo, drumming and gonging galore!
Join Dr. Dharma Geet Kaur (Kayla Gayle), Japjot Singh, and Andrew Ecker for this mind/body immersion into the heart of soulful connection. This special event will combine Kundalini yoga with didgeridoo, gong, and drumming. Through breath of fire, kriya, and chanting you will heal and activate your glandular system. Leading you to access your own true self and embodied creativity to mantra yourself awake.

For more info: Dr. Dharma Geet Kaur: 855.964.9642 or Email: 9642Doc@gmail.com

Comments from students on the Full Hour Chakra Gong event.

Saturday, February 15: Full Hour Chakra Gong Healing with Jaap Kaur
Students love our special gong events! Come experience for yourself the powerful healing effect of gong meditation! Students will do a little bit of yoga, and then lie down to enjoy the divine and healing vibration of the gong. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a mat or blanket.  

This month's theme: 

Feel sense the subtle, allow it to serve you!  And first we will get our limitations and thoughts out of the way so we can create mastery.  Clear mystery and frustration of trying to feel through our filter. Let the heart rule!

   Gong will help clear out any clutter from body, mind, & spirit, & align chakras so we can build our energy strong and connected to flow with ease!  Nothing slows us down or holds us back!

  Do little powerful breath and movement to get your energy flowing; then relax and let the Gong do the work for you!  Effortlessly benefit from the gong.  Manifest prosperity on all levels.                                    

 Life is short, take time to receive the gifts of nurturing support of the gong and clear the past.  Treat yourself each 3^rd Saturday of the month.

“In your life, the worst thing that eats you up inside is when you remember your past – it is very anti-God.  Yesterday is gone.”  Yogi Bhajan

 

Guru Simran Singh

Tuesday, February 18: Meditation and Mantra with Guru Simran Singh 
White Tantric Yoga is just around the corner. Do you need help getting ready for White Tantric Yoga? Don't know what to expect and need support from an experienced teacher? Want to enhance your experience with chanting and White Tantric Yoga? Come join Guru Simran Singh for Meditation and Mantra! Guru Simran Singh has over 10 years of teaching experience and will help you to get ready for White Tantric Yoga. 

More information: 
"In this class we will explore White Tantric Yoge:

What is White Tantra?  Who is the Mahan Tantric?   What are the protocols and procedures for Whita Tantric.

Then we will do the  KY kriya Basic Spinal Energy Series to complete;y warm u p and loosen the spine  This kriya also introduces the bandas (muscle locks) and Sat Kriya.

Lastly, we will do a series of of pre-tantric meditations to bring our mind into that state of awareness." - Guru Simran Singh

The Feldenkrais Method is for all level of movement ability.

Tuesday, February 25: Awareness Through Movement from The Feldenkrais Method
Erin Finkelstein teaches lessons from the Feldenkrais Method every 4th Tuesday of the month. Topics in each session will include breathing, moving through space, skeletal organization, differentiating, weight bearing, balance, and a general investigation of relationships within you.

Specifically designed movement lessons by the scientist Moshe Feldenkrias are gentle sequences that bring about awareness and new options in thinking, sensing, moving, and imagining. Awareness Through Movement lessons attempt to make one aware of his/her habitual neuromuscular patterns and rigidities and to expand options for new ways of moving while increasing sensitivity and improving efficiency. Many are based on developmental movements and ordinary functional activities. Some are based on more abstract explorations of joint, muscle, and postural relationships. The lessons consist of comfortable, easy movements that gradually evolve into movements of greater range and complexity. No experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothes. For more information email Erin at: Feldyfink@gmail.com.

Community Event: Guru Ram Das Chanting

Guru Ram Das Chanting
Date: Every Friday 
Time: 7 pm
Location: 2325 N 9th St, Phoenix, AZ 85006

 

Every Friday night, come join our community members, Soul Singh and Meher Kaur in the Guru Ram Das chanting.  Anyone who is interested is welcome to participate and be part of a beautiful community! 

The Guru Ram Das mantra is a mantra of humility, relaxation, self-healing, and emotional relief. 

 

Soul Singh and Meher Kaur have been hosting the Guru Ram Das chanting every Friday night for the past 18 years! In her own words, Meher Kaur told us how this tradition started 18 years ago:

 

It was the Saturday night after Summer Solstice ended. My husband Soul Singh and I had been inspired on hearing that the Herndon ashram was having Guru Ram Das chanting every night. We decided that we would begin to host chanting every Friday night from then on.

I went off to KWTC and Soul Singh went back to Phoenix and started a tradition that has continued unbroken for 18 years.

 

Over the years we have had such wonderful musicians as Bibi Bhani Kaur, Snatam Kaur, Guru Ganesha Singh, Vickram Singh, Sangeet Kaur, Sat Kartar Kaur, Dev Suroop Kaur and many others.

 

Our community has counted on the chanting for celebrations, praying for those in need, and experiencing the coziness of community.

 

We are always being thanked for hosting the chanting, but it has brought more blessings to us, and our home than we ever could have imagined, all those years ago.

Blessings,

Meher Kaur

Rise Up: An Ecstatic Journey into Kundalini Yoga

Next Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 7 pm to 8:30 pm, we will be hosting a very special event that combines chanting, meditation, kundalini yoga with didgeridoo, drumming and gong in this one enchanting evening! 

Join Dr. Dharma Geet Kaur (Kayla Gayle), Japjot Singh, and Andrew Ecker for this mind/body immersion into the heart of soulful connection. This special event will combine Kundalini yoga with didgeridoo, gong, and drumming. Through breath of fire, kriya, and chanting you will heal and activate your glandular system. Leading you to access your own true self and embodied creativity to mantra yourself awake.

For more info please contact Dr. Dharma Geet Kaur: 855.964.9642 or Email: 9642Doc@gmail.com
 
This event is only $15! Register online at www.yogaphoenix.com or pay at the door. 

Bright, Beautiful, Bountiful Human Being

Yogi Bhajan once said: "To be honest with you, I'm not interested in how bad you are. All I'm interested in is how good you can be. I see goodness and I want everybody to have it." 

What can we do to be good? How can we all become bright, beautiful, bountiful human beings? 

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Embrace your spiritual nature and connect with the Divine. One way to make that connection is to chant the Long Ek Ong Kar. 

You can follow this link for more information and to learn how to chant the Long Ek Ong Kar.

Chanting your favorite mantra will also help building a connection with the Divine.

Regarding the Long Ek Ong Kar, this is what Yogi Bhajan said:"All mantras are good, and are for awakening of the Divine. But this mantra is effective, and is the mantra for this time. So my lovely student, at the will of my Master I teach you the greatest Divine key. it has eight levers, and can open the lock of the time, which is also of the vibration of eight. Therefore, when this mantra is sung with the Neck Lock, at the point where prana and apana meet sushmuna, this vibration opens the lock, and thus one becomes one with the Divine."

2.  Perform Seva. Seva is selfless service, and it can come in different forms. Volunteering at the soup kitchen or in your own community, praying for others, sending reiki/healing energy to those in need...etc. These are all examples of seva, and some only require a little bit of our time in the day. So it is possible for us to perform seva anytime and anywhere! All that it takes is for us to focus on our intention. So take some time to pray, or in your own mind just send out good energy to all around you!

 For those who are interested, here is a story about seva. 

3. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Life is a gift, learn to appreciate everything that we experience. Every experience, whether it is good or bad, carries a lesson. Learn from every situation and be thankful for life's lessons. 

If you are looking for a meditation to cultivate an attitude of gratitude, 3HO has a good one on their website. Follow this link to learn the Attitude of Gratitude Meditation. 

4. Keep up with your daily sadhana practice! Kundalini Yoga gives us all that we need to be bright, beautiful, bountiful human beings:

“The beauty of Kundalini Yoga is that if one set is done A to Z for plus or minus three minutes, it totally reinvigorates your whole system. It brings to you all energy and all balance to prana and apana. There are twenty-two forms of yoga and they all lead to one thing: raising the Kundalini. Purpose of raising the Kundalini is not that we start flying in the air and all those gimmicks. When the Kundalini is raised, a person is super alert to everything. One becomes an acknowledged human being in every field of life one touches.

It is for the householder. It allows us to marry and have children. You can take your life pressure absolutely nicely and still be young, beautiful, healthy, and able to keep going. That is the purpose…It is a very day to day, living experience. With all our mistakes and with all our weaknesses, still we can make ourselves healthy, happy, and holy. That is the purpose.”

                                                                                    - Yogi Bhajan

 

White Tantric Yoga 2014

 

 

White Tantric Yoga is coming to Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, February 22, 2014. 


This year we are hosting White Tantric Yoga at:

Point Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, 7677 N 16th St, Phoenix, AZ 85020 (1 mile West of 51 and Glendale intersection on Glendale, North on 16th St for 1/2 mile).  

Note: Special room rental rates available for participant -  $119/night. 

This is a special all day meditation workshop (7 am - 6 pm) that packs a lot of powerful energy, especially when done with a large group of people. Sometimes it is described as the "car wash for the soul". The experience of White Tantric Yoga is profound. Ask anyone who has participated in White Tantric Yoga before and they can tell you all the amazing things that White Tantric Yoga has brought into their lives (ex: more prosperity flow into life, relationships being healed...etc. Also, check out Tommy Rosen's article about his personal experience with White Tantric Yoga at 3HO.org) 

Let's begin the new year with this powerful energy of White Tantric Yoga. Whatever that you are seeking in life, come work with this energy for your own benefit: transform yourself, create love, peace, beauty, and prosperity in your life. Let go of all ugliness and blockages that keep you from being yourself. Come join us, be party of a community, there is great strength in number! At White Tantric Yoga you will find the strength and courage to conquer everything, to move forward in life with dignity and grace.   


To register for White Tantric Yoga please follow this link and click on the Festival/Workshops tab. 
Or stop by Yoga Phoenix to register in person. We are located at 2308 N Richland St, Phoenix AZ, 85006. You can also contact us at 602-271-4480. 

Register now for White Tantric Yoga before February 17: $165 per person. 
After February 17: $180. 
Vegetarian lunch included. 

Schedule for White Tantric Yoga, Phoenix 2014:

Sign-in: 7 am
Warm-ups: 8 am
White Tantric Yoga: 9 am until 6 pm 




More info on White Tantric Yoga 2014, Phoenix AZ: 

This year, the facilitator for White Tantric Yoga in Phoenix is Sat Nirmal Khalsa, she will be guiding us through this workshop.

Sat Nirmal Kaur Khalsa is a certified teacher of Kundalini Yoga and a minister of Sikh Dharma. She has been a student of Yogi Bhajan since 1973 and has traveled extensively teaching Kundalini Yoga to business executives, students, children and teens. She traveled with Yogi Bhajan as a member of his personal security team, both nationally and internationally. Sat Nirmal Kaur is an accomplished musician, studying piano, viola and voice since the age of 5. She has learned the Sikh traditional music, gurbani kirtan, and has participated in kirtan programs world wide. She has produced a musical version of Guru Gobind Singh's Jaap Sahib which is available on CD. Sat Nirmal Kaur lives in Espanola, New Mexico with her husband of 32 years, Daya Singh. They are active participants in the Santa Fe and Rio Grande Valley communities, often hosting guests and dignitaries. Their dog Buddy often accompanies them on their hikes in the Espanola Hills. They have one daughter who resides in California and is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and Kundalini Yoga teacher. 

The mantras that will be used in this year's White Tantric Yoga are Bountiful, Blissful and Beautiful, and Guru Ram Das Lullby. To download the mantra sheet please click here. 

Love Your Soul

If you must choose, choose happiness over misery, choose to love yourself.
If you must quit, quit self-damaging habits. 

Remember this: You are made of love, and you are meant to be happy. Follow your Sat Nam. 

(Sat: truth. Nam: Identity) 

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2014!

We are very thrilled to be back, and we are ready to serve and uplift all with the technology of Kundalini Yoga. Let's begin the new year with good vibration, positivity, and prosperity! 

This month we begin our weekly special event with the Double Gong Healing event. Sangeet Kaur and Hari Nam Singh are back on January 7 to bring you the healing, divine vibration of the cosmos! 

Last year we finished up our Aquarian Age Readiness- A Year with the Master series. This year Adi Singh is back with a new series: Creating Prosperity. On January 14, come join Adi Singh to learn how breathing contributes to your prosperity.

Full Hour Chakra Gong Healing with Jaap Kaur is back on January 18. This month's theme is: Building prana (life force) and using it to heal and support prosperity on all levels - chakras, physical body, mind, and spirit. Clear uneasy thoughts and feelings, peace.

Another new series that we are offering this year is Meditation and Mantra  with Guru Simran Singh. This series begins on January 21 with Intro to Mantra & Chanting. Guru Simran Singh will teach us how to restore our original voice through chanting mantra.

 

Finally, taking place on January 28 is something different but still related to yoga: Awareness Through Movement with Erin Finkelstein. Erin will be teaching specifically designed movement lessons by the scientist Moshe Feldenkrias that are gentle sequences that bring about awareness and new options in thinking, sensing, moving, and imagining.  

 

Our regular Kundalini Yoga classes are back in session as well. Please visit our site for more information and find the class that you like! Our official website is yogaphoenix.com. 

We hope to see you soon! May your new year be filled with love, peace, good health, prosperity, and all things good for your soul! 

 

 

 

 Special Events January 2014:

Double Gong Healing with Sangeet Kaur and Hari Nam Singh

January 7

7pm - 8:30pm

 

Creating Prosperity with Adi Singh

January 14

7pm - 8:30pm

 

Full Hour Chakra Gong Healing with Jaap Kaur

January 18

7pm - 8:30pm

 

Meditation and Mantra with Guru Simran Singh

January 21

7pm - 8:30pm

 

Awareness Through Movement with Erin Finkelstein

January 28

7pm - 8:30pm