What to do after White Tantric Yoga? 40 days of Transformation November 23, 2009
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Sat Nam,
A message to the participants of White Tantric Yoga.
Congratulations ! And just like food keeps cooking when you take it out of the oven so do you keep changing and growing 40 days after White Tantric Yoga !
If you allow it, these next 40 days can be a special time of profound transformation. Here are some self-care things you can try in the next 40 days. (based on Guru Rattan Kaur’s list)
40 Day Post Tantric Self Care
- do not make any life changing decisions in these 40 days
- choose a personal meditation and do it for 40 days
- Ask God ( Guru, Universe, Angels , Higher Power etc) for daily guidance
- Avoid Small Talk
- Be conscious of your choices especially if using alcohol, smoking, or drugs
- Bless Mother Earth every day
- Commit to daily sadhana practice
- Connect with teachers and healers for support if needed
- Choose what you want to manifest for the next year –( healthy romantic relationship, more prosperity, right livelihood) be sure to write it down
- drink lots of water, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables and respect your body temple.
- establish clear boundaries with friends and loved ones
- receive massages, other body work that heals you
- go deeply into the silence every day, no music, radio, TV, conversations.
- ground yourself, your subatomic particles are spinning at a different rate in different configurations.
- treat yourself like your own best friend
- pay attention to feelings of fear and anxiety to see your patterns
- purge your home and workspace of unused broken or wanted items so that you can allow for the new energy to come in
- read uplifting sacred texts – remembering and reflecting on the wisdom of the ancients.
- sleep more or take short naps during the day
- smudge and keep living areas clean and graceful
- surround yourself with people who support your core virtues and values
- take long baths
- connect with nature
- tithe money, do seva to expand your prosperity
- write anger, grief letters when strong negative feelings come to the surface.
- practice Kundalini Yoga and Meditation !
Peace and Love to ALL,
Catalyst Yogi
Stiff Joints – Try Golden Milk November 9, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in recipes.Tags: joint problems, yogic recipes
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Golden Milk is a tasty drink that will lubricate your whole system and work to break up calcium deposits. It is very good for students who are challenged sitting cross – legged for long periods of time.
Give it a try !
GOLDEN MILK RECIPE
1/8 tsp Turmeric
1/4 cup Water
1 cup Organic Milk
2 tbsp Almond Oil
Honey to Taste
- Boil turmeric in water for about 8 mins until it forms a think paste. (if too much water boils away, add a little more water)
- At same time, bring organic milk and almond oil to a boil. As soon as it boils remove it from the heat.
- Combine 2 mixtures and add honey to taste
For a change blend the golden milk in a blender (lowest speed) until frothy and serve with a little bit of cinnamon.
You can also prepare a reserve supply of turmeric paste by boiling a large quantity and storing in the fridge up to 40 days.
The oil provides lubrication and energy to the system, while turmeric makes the bones and joints more flexible.
Support Your Troops – 5 Ways to Stay Healthy During Flu Season November 4, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Aquarian Age, Stress, Vitality, mind.Tags: flu, health, pranayam
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The newspapers, television and internet are filled with coverage of the latest flu bug with nary a mention of our own innate ability to fend off disease.
We have a powerful cavalry of virus warriors called the immune system.
The troops of your immune system have been with you since birth and are tirelessly working to keep you healthy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are more than equipped to handle the battle. However, your immune system needs your support to work effectively.
Time to give your Immune System the ‘shot in the arm’ it needs from you.
5 Ways to Stay Healthy During the Flu Season
1. Energy always precedes Matter. All disease impacts your aura (electromagnetic field) first. Keep your aura strong by keeping your thoughts positive and uplifting. Indulging in fear, doubt and worry will steal three feet from your aura and that makes you more vulnerable to physical illness.
2. Practice Kundalini Yoga + Meditation – it strengthens the glandular and immune systems, among other things. Download a FREE Meditation to Strengthen the Immune System (PDF). (tune in with the Adi Mantra – “Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo” – three times and end your session with a long sat nam)
3. Food as Medicine – Eat only healthy foods. Give up the sugar and processed foods that only weaken the immune system. Try drinking Jalepeno Milk. (taken from Yogi Bhajan’s Foods for Health & Healing)
4. Monitor your Mind – it is a powerful tool for manifestation. If you worry incessantly about getting sick – the stress will diminish your immune system and you are more likely to get sick! When worry arises –redirect your thoughts – focus on gratitude for your health in this moment.
5. “The best vitamin pill you can ever take is a full breath” – Yogi Bhajan
Pranayam (breath control) is important to keep your cells nourished with oxygen. Here is an easy pranayam that will strengthen your immune system in less than 3 min.
Jalapeno Milk Recipe November 4, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Aquarian Age, recipes.Tags: cold, flu, health, recipes
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This is a good drink for heading off a cold or flu when you can feel one coming on. Be careful it’s hot ! If you are trying it for the first time use the minimum number of jalapenos. You can also lesson the hotness by drinking it from a straw.
2-5 Fresh Jalapeno chiles
1 cup organic milk
Chop jalapenos and blend with milk.
Fight Viruses by Strengthening your Immune System October 29, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Kundalini Yoga, Vitality.Tags: breath, health, pranayam
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We all have a natural ‘kick ass’ disease fighter inside us called the Immune System.
A quick, easy way you can naturally strengthen your Immune System is through a Yogic Breath called DOG BREATH.
Here is How You Do It
- Sit up with a straight spine, chin in and chest out.
- Stick your tongue out all the way
- Begin panting like a dog through your mouth ( rapidly breathing in and out through your mouth)
Continue for 3 – 5 mins
To End: INHALE hold breath for 15 sec while pressing the tongue against the upper palate. EXHALE and repeat two more times.
It’s going to feel ‘weird’ – you will feel tingling all over your body – this means that it is working!
Are You Your Worst Judge ? October 21, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Aquarian Age.Tags: be yourself, judgement, self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-love
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“The strength of your judgment is the only enemy you have.”
- Yogi Bhajan (master of Kundalini Yoga)
Does any of this sound familiar?
I should be doing this. I should have said or done that. I should be somewhere else in my life. I should be making more money. I should be with someone else. I should be happy right now. I should have another job. I should be skinny. I should……fill in the blank.
These shoulds are judgments and have no place on the Spiritual Journey. When we are in judgment, we are not accepting ourselves and this can be very damaging to our pure essence. All shoulds only come from the mind and ego not from the pure being which is you.
This is at the root of why we judge others – we are only projecting how we feel about ourselves on to others.
5 Ways to Bring Acceptance Into Your Life Right Now.
1. Explore your unique should - it often means you are seeking approval from an outside source such as a parent, authority figure or your community. Start to seek approval only from your higher consciousness. This is your life – stop living someone else’s dream.
2. Learn to accept yourself – warts and all. There are 7 billion humans on the planet and only one of you. It would be boring if we were all the same. ‘Be You’ is the only thing that will work in the Aquarian Age.
3. Accept everything that is going on in your life right now as perfect. Stop resisting what is – there is no good or bad – it is thinking that makes it so. This alone will free a lot of creative energy for you to manifest.
4. Start to look at yourself and the world through the light of your soul. Appreciate your uniqueness and remembering you are a spiritual being having human experiences. Begin practicing loving yourself unconditionally in every moment.
5. Practice the Kundalini Yoga Meditation to Conquer Self-Animosity
(as little as 3 minutes)
Gain Self Esteem in 3 minutes October 16, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Aquarian Age.Tags: Aquarian Age, confidence, ego, leadership, self-esteem, self-love
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“The moment you value yourself, the whole world values you !”
Yogi Bhajan (master of Kundalini Yoga)
Self-respect, self-value and a healthy dose of self love adds up to self- esteem. Self-esteem is a key ingredient for a Leader of the Aquarian Age.
How Can I feel good about myself ?
Start by dropping the story that your ego tells you about yourself. This story does not define who you are and who you can be.
Try this meditation to Conquer Self-Animosity
Feeling like a ’scardey cat’ these days? September 23, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Aquarian Age, Stress, meditation.Tags: afraid, emotions, fear, meditation, release fear, Stress
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The intensity of life seems to have amped up a few notches this month.
As a humanity, we are experiencing major challenges and old ways of coping are no longer working. These challenges can be experienced as insomnia, anxiety, accidents, not enough time, addictions, health crisis, relationship upsets or financial difficulties.
CHANGE IS NOW RAPID AND MOVING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
With all these changes, we may feel stress. Underneath the stress is fear. This fear is the fear of the Unknown. What’s coming next? Can I handle another change in my life?
Once you understand that fear is simply an energy - a force – then can you transmute this energy for your soul’s journey.
5 Ways to Transmute Fear
1. Embrace the Mystery
The ancient yogis say that only 20% is known to our conscious mind and 80% is unknown to us. This 80% is what causes a lot of our fear. Embrace that 80% unknown in every situation – trust the Divine is guiding you each and every moment. Imagine yourself as a great adventurer on planet earth – a spiritual being here to have grand adventure.
2. Pranayam
One of the ten yogic bodies is called the Pranic Body. A strong Pranic Body keeps fear at bay. Consciously breathing will strengthen your Pranic Body. Slow down your breath. Inhale ten seconds. Suspend the breath for ten seconds and exhale ten seconds.
3. Kundalini Yoga Meditation
When you feel overwhelmed by life – practice this meditation anywhere or anytime. You can do this in as little as three minutes. MEDITATION TO RELIEVE FEAR. (3 MINS)
4. Take a respite from the news
Including newspapers, television and Internet. Read inspiring and uplifting books.
5. Express Yourself
There is a misconception that we are the only ones feeling fear and everyone else has it all together. We all feel the same range of emotions. Be authentic with trusted people in your life – share some your worries and fears – you will be surprised how similar we all are.
Let Go of Fear in Less Than 3 minutes September 20, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Kundalini Yoga, meditation, men's new moon.Tags: anxiety, fear, meditation, releasing fear
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The meditation will move you out of a state of Fear into a state of calm and neutrality. Easy to practice – anyone can do it.
As we face the many challenges in life , often we are flooded by feelings of fear
Use this ancient science to deal with your fears and always make choices from a neutral state of mind.
Are you in a Spiritual Recession? What is your Spiritual Currency? August 30, 2009
Posted by catalyst yogi in Kundalini Yoga, meditation.Tags: breath, catalyst yogi, Kundalini Yoga, money, recession, spiritual currency, value
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Everywhere you look these days, you hear about the recession and the shrinking economy. Recession is simply money not flowing – people, businesses, banks and governments are holding on to money out of fear.
As Above, So Below
We too are in a spiritual recession. What is our spiritual currency? The Breath. The ancient yogis taught us that we are born with a fixed amount of breaths. When our breaths are used up – we are up. It will be time for us to physically die.
Before we incarnate, GOD, Universe, Divinity (whatever word you use) gives us our breaths (currency) and says “Go down to the earth plane, have fun, pay your karmas, learn a few things, and then come back home” (Infinity). You choose how you spend your currency.
Through this recession people are learning the value of their money – and realizing they don’t need the daily $4 lattes, chocolate martinis, latest gadgets etc.
As we value our money, we need to value our breath (prana). For example, do you waste your breath with gossip, judging others or negative habits
5 Ways You Can Streamline your Spiritual Spending.
1 Don’t waste your breaths on gossip or judging others. This negativity will come back to you like an energetic boom-a-rang.
2. Take action on your intuitive messages. For example, if you are in a movie theater and within the first five minutes know that this movie is going no where – just leave and get your money back. How many times have we regretted not listening to our intuition?
3. Start consciously breathing, inhaling for 10 seconds, holding for 10 seconds and exhaling for 10 seconds. Better yet, go to a Kundalini Yoga class where you are reminded to connect with your breath.
4. Before participating in any activity ask yourself, is this aligned with my higher consciousness? Start to value your energy and time as precious.
5. Connect with your breath through Meditation for a Calm Heart.
