The Wonderful Regeneration of YOU

Sat Nam Everyone,

This Tuesday night December 11 at 7pm, you'll have the opportunity to do a lot of good for yourself. If you are feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, or if you feel lately as if you're a hamster in a wheel...you're not alone.  FYI this class will work like a charm; helping you to relax and re-circulate your energy to give your body a new life.

How do we achieve this?  By working directly on the Pituitary Gland which will recharge you, deepen your energy reserve, and boost your intuitive powers.  You can exalt your own self with these ancient exercises and meditations...and leave the class feeling renewed and full of energy.

This time of year is always supercharged; with the winter solstice approaching, all the "holidays", and with the addition of 12-12-12, the super crystal activation date coming up in two days (watch my teacher Harijiwan's video below)...everything is intensified.  Also bear in mind that the Mayan Calendar "resets" after 12-21-12, the last day of the Mayan Calendar.  Many have thought of this date throughout history as the end of the world...and yes, it is the end of the world as we know it.  Big changes are in store for us all, and the changes are POSITIVE and consciousness-altering.  You can be a part of the positive transformation!!

We just left the Piscean Age. We are NOW in the Age of Aquarius; an age of higher consciousness, awareness, and heart-centered living.

“The time has come not to search for God, but to be God. Time is not to worship God, but to trust and dwell in the working God." ~Yogi Bhajan

1. Recognize that the other person is you.
2. There is a way through every block.
3. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.
4. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
5. Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos shall clear the path.

These are the 5 sutras to live by that Yogi Bhajan has given us for the Aquarian Age.

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Tomorrow's class is the LAST CLASS OF 2012. We will resume after the holidays on January 8th. 

Classes are by donation ($15 recommended). 7-8:30 pm and Yogi tea is served after class.  Bring  a mat, blanket or cushion for sitting and introduce a friend to Kundalini Yoga!  Take note of our NEW IMPROVED WEBSITE!

www.eaglerockkundalinicenter.webs.com

sat nam,

Raghubir

Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.

"As a Buddhist monk, the cultivation of compassion is an important part of my daily practice. One aspect involves merely sitting quietly in my room, meditating. That can be very good and very comfortable, but the true aim of cultivation of compassion is to develop the courage to think of others and to do something for them." -The Dalai Lama

Thursday night January 12 at 7:00 pm is the last of the series of classes on the Aquarian Sutras of Yogi Bhajan. Tomorrow night's class will explore the sutra "Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times."

This sutra brings up two very important questions: 1) What is Compassion? and, 2) What are "the times"?

Compassion is the opening of our hearts to the feelings of others without allowing our judgments to get in the way. How do you start the opening of your heart? The Dalai Lama says "By removing the greatest hindrances to compassion: anger and hatred.

As we all know, these are extremely powerful emotions and they can overwhelm our entire mind. Nevertheless, they can be controlled. If, however, they are not, these negative emotions will plague us - with no extra effort on their part! - and impede our quest for the happiness of a loving mind."

"Compassion does not mean we do not see the mistakes others make; it means we have sympathy and understanding for their difficulties, knowing we are not really different from them. We are all born and live in this human realm in which ignorance and delusion strongly influences our lives."-Rev. Kinrei Bassis

When Yogi Bhajan came to the West with the message of the shifting from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age, he taught people how to prosper with the new flood of energy and cope with the changes in how human beings behaved with one another.This is a list of characteristics of the times that Yogi Bhajan compiled. You can see that there is a general shifting from the ME to the WE and this is where compassion comes in.

THE CHARACTER OF THE AQUARIAN AGE

• Change and learning is continuous and life-long. We must maintain mental. emotional. and physical flexibility.


• Intellect is not enough. We need a new relationship to intuition, emotion and instinct.


• Information is not enough. Neither is knowledge. We need wisdom.


• Learning is not enough. We must learn how to learn.


• Complexity is increasing as is our need to deal with it.


• Our sense of personal identity and its foundation is shifting.


• This is an age of paradox-more global and more individual. with fewer boundaries and more demand for political separations. Everything is faster and we have less time. We need far more love and unity, for we have more fear and tremendous insecurity.


• Stamina and constant peak performance are the common benchmarks to evaluate all people and their work, and the need is to go inward and regenerate.


• We require a reconciliation and integration of the spiritual side of life with the technological and material sides-a spiritual fitness to sense values and meaning.


• There is no isolation. Each action we take must be considered ecologically, and globally, because each person does affect, directly or indirectly, vast networks of people, and other living beings and places.

Thursday's class will root out anger and open the heart so that experiencing COMPASSION will be the natural result. We'll get rid of the major hindrances, anger and hatred ( that the Dalai Lama spoke about) so that you can start to feel the infinite connection with all you encounter. As the world changes and we are becoming more sensitive and aware, we need to open our hearts to put that sensitivity and awareness to good use. If you shut down your heart and ride the wave of mass fear and aggression ...the new age will be a mind-blowing challenge. If you open your heart and figure out the direction of the wind, you can sail your ship effortlessly towards your soul's purpose.

Bring a blanket, pillow, or mat. class is held on a donation basis ($15 rec). Yogi Tea is served after class. for more info visit www.eaglerockkundalinicenter.com

Sat Nam,

Raghubir Kaur

NO CLASS DECEMBER 29 - RESUME JANUARY 5

Sat Nam!

For those of you who are planning to come to the Thursday night class tonight, there WILL NOT be a class tonight on December 29. Classes will resume on January 5th at 7:00.

These 5 Sutras were given by Yogi Bhajan in order to help us navigate through the Aquarian Age.

1. Recognize that the other person is you

2. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times

3. There is a way through every block

4. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off

5. Vibrate the Cosmos, the Cosmos shall clear the path.

We will resume an exploration of these Five Aquarian Sutras by designating our next class on January 5th to "When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off".

There's no better time than the new year to get rolling on your resolutions, turning over a new leaf, out with the old and in with the new kind of thing. Many times we make promises to ourselves and then we find that we are stuck, or more often, we just can't get started. This class on January 5th will help you clear away your self-imposed road blocks and imagined disabilities that prevent you from "starting". Getting to you goal, whatever that may be, will be so much easier once you get going!

A body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion...unless an outside force acts upon said body. The law of inertia is a powerful one and energy, no matter in what form, is affected by this "law". If you are stuck and you want to move and are not moving, you are going to stay there and feel all kinds of things like guilt, anger, repressed emotion, self-hatred, blame, and all kinds of pressure... until you do something.

I remember a time in the not so recent past when I was feeling particularly powerless and immobile about a certain issue in my life. I kept feeling like i was a truck stuck in the mud just spinning my wheels and going no where. The more I "spun my wheels", the less I went anywhere and the pressure continued to mount. I spoke with a dear friend of mine about my predicament and she said "Why don't you just get out of the truck and walk?"

This was a revelation to me. You mean...I had the power to change the location of my feelings by doing something different than the behavior I was accustomed to that wasn't working? WOW!

Spinning your wheels and going nowhere is a perfect metaphor for being stuck...and if you have something you need to do and you can't seem to make it happen, just start walking in the direction you want to go. The law of inertia will keep you moving in your chosen direction... and with your INTUITION, your own personal GPS device, the momentum you initiate by STARTING, will get you there!

See you on January 5th!

xoxo

Raghubir Kaur

for more info visit www.eaglerockkundalinicenter.com

RECOGNIZE THAT THE OTHER PERSON IS YOU

These 5 Sutras were given by Yogi Bhajan in order to help us navigate through the Aquarian Age.

1. Recognize that the other person is you

2. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times

3. There is a way through every block

4. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off

5. Vibrate the Cosmos, the Cosmos shall clear the path.

At last week's inaugural class, we delved into "there is a way through every block" which was perfect considering we had a major power outage and conducted the class in candlelight (not a bad thing, actually) without music, heat and creature comforts. I lit a fire and sang a capella. That's definitely taking the opportunity to find a way through a block if there ever was.

THIS WEEK we're going for Number One on the list. RECOGNIZE THAT THE OTHER PERSON IS YOU! Our yoga set and meditation will help you to experience this sutra on a profound and lasting level. Be prepared to merge into the group consciousness. If the reason we have relationships with others is to have a bigger experience of ourselves, then the other person gives us the chance to see who we are....good or bad, big or small. It is the symmetry of this reflection which is so compelling to us...and why relationships are such good teachers.

Let's start the ball rolling by paying attention to each other. Why do some people drive you crazy and push your buttons? Could it be that you are recognizing yourself in them? The same is true if you absolutely adore someone. Isn't it just the adorable in yourself that you are experiencing?

A perfect example of this is when we so-called fall in love with someone. When we are "in love" we think we are in love with another person, but the reality is that we are in love with ourselves... thanks to the reflection of ourselves that we see in the other person.

In order to experience this phenomenon we have to consciously observe, deeply listen, and open our hearts. And that's what we're up to tomorrow night in class.

This thursday and every thursday evening at 7:00pm, come for yoga, deep meditation, and stay for yogi tea. Bring a blanket, cushion, mat and even a friend. Recommended donation is $15. for more info visit the website.

Sat Nam,

Raghubir

Addendum to "THERE IS A WAY THROUGH EVERY BLOCK"

Given that there was a major power outage in Los Angeles and we were out of electricity for 48 hours, there were many challenges and obstacles where we got to practice the Aquarian Sutra, "There is a way through every block" given to us by Yogi Bhajan. A perfect situation presented itself on our inaugural voyage.

As an artist and designer who is dependent on electricity for many of the tasks that I do outside of the sweet convenience of a juiced-up home, I had to disconnect from certain obligations and just not do the work I usually do. This made me unavailable by telephone, internet, or fax and only able to work on un-electrified tasks in the light of day. With the IPhone as a computer substitute, I sat in my car several times a day to charge up its rapidly dwindling battery.

This was handleable with an assortment of fire logs, candles, and battery operated flashlights (and of course the IPhone), but it became clear to me how much electricity I use in my day to day life and take for granted. It was a bit like either living in another era or camping out in the woods. My dogs, cat and I huddled together in the windstorm on the first night and navigated through a dark house together afterwards. We sat by the fire and kept warm. But the real blessing that came out of it was having the first EAGLE ROCK KUNDALINI CENTER CLASS in candlelight and without the usual aid of recorded music.

A few travelled the dark roads and partook in the class designed to remove obstacles from within and clear the path for significant growth and elevation. The effect was deeply relaxing and we enjoyed the candlelight and the profound effects of concentrating on the breath and the silent chanting of the mantra "Sat Nam". The set had indicated the playing of a certain piece of Indian music throughout certain exercises--since I am familiar with the music, I sang it a capella. Let me tell you, it was an unusual experience for all of us!!!!!

Anyway, the space works, the gong sounds great, and I foresee a wonderful group of souls gathering on thursday nights to open new spaces in ourselves through the practice of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Suggested Donation is $15 and plenty of parking is on the street. And if we ever have a power outage again, you can be sure that class will be in session! For more info visit our website.

Sat Nam,

Raghubir

THERE IS A WAY THROUGH EVERY BLOCK

Sutras are aphorisms that convey the core teachings in this and in all spiritual disciplines. A sutra is like a puzzle; it's a complex concept that has been reduced to a handful of words which is easy enough to remember, but evocative enough to promote deeper examination and study.

These 5 Sutras were given by Yogi Bhajan in order to help us navigate through the Aquarian Age.

1. Recognize that the other person is you

2. Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times

3. There is a way through every block

4. When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off

5. Vibrate the Cosmos, the Cosmos shall clear the path.

Starting this Thursday evening, December 1, there will be a Kundalini Yoga and Meditation class at 7:00 in Eagle Rock at 2727 El Roble Drive, LA CA 90041. It is the beginning of the Eagle Rock Kundalini Center where souls can gather to practice Kundalini yoga and meditation, learn about the yogic lifestyle, purchase books, clothing, and accessories that help one's practice, and gather with like-minded individuals to discuss subjects (like the Aquarian Sutras for example), hang out, and drink Yogi Tea.

This week we'll examine Sutra #3 "There is a way through every block". Through the practice of meditation that removes obstacles and yoga sets that dissolve energetic blockages, you will find the clear path to your destiny. The beauty of Kundalini Yoga is that you can get to the neutral mind quickly and make clear and intuitive decisions that lead you in the right direction. Therefore when you encounter difficulties and challenges, you can maneuver through them with grace instead of crashing into them and getting nowhere.

Please come promptly at 7:00 and be prepared to do some yoga, meditate, and relax deeply to the sound of the Gong. Class is approximately 1 1/2 hours and suggested donation is $15. Parking on the street is plentiful. Bring a pillow, mat, or blanket and bring a friend. Beginners and seasoned practitioners....all are welcome. For more info call 323-739-6072 and/or visit www.atwaterkundaliniyoga.com