TO EXPERIENCE INFINITY

What are we up to tonight? First we'll open up and supercharge the pranic channels and then we'll balance the glandular system so the physical body is in perfect equilibrium. When our radiant and physical bodies are working together in harmony, we'll have the magnetic power to pull in what we need and the physical strength to sustain and maintain it.

The meditation we'll be doing is the Yoni Kriya of which Yogi Bhajan said, " Do it normally and within ten to eleven minutes it can change the total glandular system. It is an unbelievably effective meditation and exercise". It's very relaxing and will make you feel GREAT.

Bring a mat, blanket or cushion to sit on, and a donation ($15 recommended). Bring a friend, too! Tea is served afterwards and you are welcome to stay and chat.

You can VISIT THE WEBSITE for information on past classes and teachings and if you RSVP if you ARE coming, it is really appreciated! raghubirkk@gmail.com

Sat Nam,

Raghubir

CREATIVELY FLOWING

Yogi Bhajan said, in so many words, that the Kundalini energy was our creative potential and that the purpose of life was to find and utilize this creative flow within us to uplift and help ourselves so that we would be able to help humanity.  That's a consolidation of about 200 lectures and teachings, but really....that's what it's all about.

I do a fair amount of reading about creativity in relation to yoga or yoga in relation to creativity and one thing I've learned is that our job as yogis is to open and maintain the channels of energy within so that the divine, infinite creative force can move through us. The goal of ALL yogas, Kundalini Yoga included, is to unite our finite selves with our infinite selves.

One of the most effective ways to do this is by practicing

the Laya Yoga meditation. This beautiful meditation enables us to consciously remember and experience the link between our finite selves with the Infinite.  It will go deep into your subconscious and give you the memory and experience of your true identity. It makes you feel vibrant, energized and blissfully aware.  It opens the channels so that your creative self can be seen and heard.  It's a powerful practice to do for 40, 90, or 120 days and we are going to practice it tonight. For more info, please visit the website.

Gong relaxation and yogi tea always served. Donation class ($15 rec). Bring a blanket, mat, a friend.  

Sat Nam,

Raghubir

“THE CREATIVE FLOW IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE. WE

CREATE FLOWS; WHETHER THE FLOW LEADS TO

CORRUPTION OR ENDS UP IN DISASTER, ALL FLOWS ARE

OURS. BUT THERE ARE FLOWS THROUGH WHICH WE

CREATE IDENTITY CRISIS AND THERE ARE FLOWS

THROUGH WHICH WE CREATE IDENTIFICATION.

SOMETIMES WE CREATE SUCH A POWERFUL IDENTITY

THAT WE CREATE THE TRENDS, WE CREATE THE FLOWS,

WE BECOME THE SOURCE. AND THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL

ABOUT”– “IDENTITY AND THE CREATIVE CRISIS” – YOGI BHAJAN MAY 28, 1984

Happy New Year

ELEVEN THINGS YOU CAN DO TO MAKE THIS THE BEST YEAR YET!

1. Think of what you can do to help others. Doing something good for others with no thought of reward or return is real service. If you help others from your spirit/your soul, it’s always a win-win situation. Make this a daily practice.

2. Consciously BREATHE.  If you can control your breath, you can control your mind. Taking long deep breaths throughout the day can change your mood and your attitude for the better.  You can take notice throughout the day of how many times you are NOT breathing.  We often hold our breath when we are nervous or have to make a decision.  If you have this awareness, try breathing deeply when you are under stress or have an important decision to make and see what happens.

3. Move the body.  Walk, dance, exercise, do yoga, do something.  If you don’t move the body, the energy will get stuck.  When the energy gets stuck, it causes discomfort, disease, and emotional issues.  In fact, if you feel “bad”, the best thing you can do is to move the body.

4. Think positive.  Start to track your thoughts.  Every time you have a negative thought, catch yourself and replace that thought with a positive thought.  It takes some practice but eventually you will find that you just might get happier.

5. Try not to indulge in negative demoting habits.  You can change your habits slowly and surely if you make an effort to indulge in positive promoting habits.

6. An Attitude of Gratitude will get you a lot of bang for your buck.  Try looking at your life from a perspective of being grateful for whatever comes your way.  This is a LIFE CHANGING tool.  There will always be problems, challenges, and obstacles but you can be more effective in how you handle them.  You can become more neutral, less reactive by raising your consciousness, taking a higher perspective, and having an attitude of gratitude. When you start to see whatever comes your way as an opportunity instead of a challenge, you will begin to experience REAL PROSPERITY and HAPPINESS.

7. Nourish your body with healthy food preferably organic and fresh.  If you are not a vegetarian, try to eat less animal products and more plant products. Try to eat to live, not live to eat.  Drink lots of clean water and when you eat, sit, enjoy, and relax.  “So there is no disease. It doesn’t matter if you give medicine; you can give food instead.  It will heal. You can give water. It will heal.  Some spiritual healers take a glass of water, put their hand on it, chant a mantra over it, and hand it to you. You can call it quackery, but it works.” – Yogi Bhajan

8.  Cultivate positive and healthy relationships.  Toxic relationships can literally make you sick.  Enjoy the company of people who bring out the best in you, not the worst.  Laugh, lighten up, enjoy yourself and the magical people in your life.

9. We need goals to have them happen.  Be clear about them.  Be sure of what you want and make sure you’ve got everything covered.  For example if you want a house, make sure the money to keep up the house is included in qualifying your goal.

10. Try injecting MANTRA into your life.  The sound current of a mantra can remove negative thoughts, clean the energy of your living or work space, improve your health, improve and change the dynamic in relationships, reset brain patterns, help to bring awareness and clarity to your life and many other wonderful things.  The mantra elevates consciousness through its meaning, the sound itself, by its rhythm, tone and the reflexology of the tongue.   

A simple mantra you can add to your breath is SAT NAM.  Chanting this mantra awakens the Soul and it means Truth is My Identity.  Try mentally chanting Sat on the inhale and Nam on the exhale when you are going about your day, when you are walking, working, being.   If you would like further information on mantra, please contact me at raghubirkk@gmail.com. You can also play recorded mantras in your home or at work all the time.  A superb recommended practice is to sleep to a recorded mantra throughout the night.  The volume doesn’t need to be loud, just audible.

11.  We are now in the Aquarian Age and we have new energies and frequencies to harmonize with.  In order to live our lives to the fullest we need a healthy body, strong nervous system, a powerful electromagnetic field, and balanced and open chakras.  We need mental and emotional flexibility, intelligent and compassionate detachment, and an open and activated heart center.  We need to be sensitive and intuitive and we need to be strong and clearheaded.  Kundalini Yoga and Meditation produces all of this in a relatively short amount of time.  When you are feeling powerful and in command, you are more capable of uplifting and helping others. 

Have a terrific 2013 and remember that YOU have the birthright to be HAPPY and HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS and that no one can take that away from you.  

LOVE and SAT NAM.  AND A REMINDER - CLASSES RESUME JAN 8 TUES NIGHT AT 7PM

Raghubir Kaur

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

Regenerate Your Nerves with Shabd Kriya

Tonight at 7pm we're going to explore the relaxing, nerve regenerating and mind expanding meditation, Shabd Kriya.  It's a wonderful way to experience the beauty and magic of Kundalini Yoga and also to learn how to get a good night's sleep!  If you ever want to put things in perfect balance, feel calm and contained and at peace...this is the meditation for you. Join me tonight as we do some gentle yoga and then meditate using the beautiful Shabd Kriya.  

What It Will Do for You

The best time to practice this kriya is every night before bed. If it is practiced regularly your sleep will be deep and relaxed and the nerves will regenerate. After a few months, the rhythm of your breath as you sleep will be subconsciously regulated in the same rhythm! You will think better, work better, share better, love better, and fight better. This rhythmic mantra will eventually progress so that even in daily activities you will automatically hear the mantra and take on the breath rhythm.
Mystically the effect is understood in numerology. The number 11 is the number of infinity in the world of material and the conqueror of the physical realm.The number 22 is the infinite number of longing and mastery of the mental realm. The breath is regulated in 22 beats and gives the mind the power to stretch to the infinite.
There cannot be enough praise of this meditation and its growth promoting effect on the personality. It gives radiance and the radiance gives patience which is the first condition of real Love. In Love you give without attention to all the mistakes of another as the sun gives light and warmth to all people. The incorporation of this practical universality in the personality comes with the disciplined practice of Shabd Kriya.

How to Do It
A) Sit in any comfortable posture with the spine straight. Place the hands in the lap, palms up with the right hand over the left. (A 1) The thumbs are together and point forward. (A 2) Focus the eyes on the tip of the nose, the eyelids half-closed. Inhale in 4 equal parts, mentally vibrating the mantra SA-TA-NA-MA. Hold the breath, vibrating the mantra 4 times for a total of 16 beats. Exhale in 2 equal strokes projecting mentally “Wahe Guru.” Continue for 15 to 62 minutes.

taught April 1' 1974,, from Kundalini Mediation Manual for intermediate students

Classes are always by donation ($15 recommended). Yogi tea is served afterwards.  Our website is down for "reconstruction" so if you need to know the address, please email at raghubirkk@gmail.com.  Also it is helpful if you RSVP  to this address.  Thank you.

Sat Nam

Raghubir

The Art of Breathing

"You need fifteen breaths a minute; that's what you normally take.  And when you are excited, emotional, drugged, sexual, sensual, excited, whatever, you go up to twenty-four.  Sometimes you go to thirty-one, something like that.  It's very simple mathematics.  Suppose you have enough breath of life at the rate of one breath for one year, so you take one breath a minute, you can live fifteen years.  Supposed you have breath of life for one hundred years. At fifteen breaths a minute, at that rate, you can live 1500 years.  That's how yogis extend their life -- by practicing one breath a minute.  When you practice one breath a minute, then you become Pavan guru -- you become the light and knowledge of the prana, and then you know the universe, the universe knows you. " - Yogi Bhajan, The Master's Touch

Classes at Eagle Rock Kundalini Center resume with Tuesday nights at 7pm.  I am happy to be opening my door again, TONIGHT,  to East side yogis who benefit from getting together in a cozy and friendly environment to do gentle yoga and deep meditation. Yogi tea is served after class and there is always a  long gong relaxation/meditation at the end of every class.

Tonight's class is all about the Art of Breathing.  When you control the breath, you control everything. When you find yourself challenged in any way,  the first thing to do is to get control of your breath.  Your breath determines how you act (or don't act)  in any given situation,  When you need to calm down, you go to your breath.  When you need to be focused and "on point", you turn to your breath.   You use the breath if you need to expand your presence. Your projection, your caliber, your self-esteem, your everything is connected to your breath.  In other words, the quality of your life is directly dependent on the quality of your breath.

Twenty some odd years ago when I first began to take Yoga seriously,  a friend of mine and I signed up for private lessons with a local teacher.  The first class we were told to lie down on our backs and practice long deep breathing; Ujjayi breathing. Ujjayi is a diaphragmatic breath in which you first fill the lower belly, then the lower rib cage, and then the upper chest and throat.

 After 20 minutes, the teacher came into the living room and checked up on us.  "How's it going?" Then she returned to the kitchen and back to what she was doing. After about 45 minutes she said everything looked good and that we were free to go and she'd see us the following week.   The following week, even though we looking forward to starting the "real" yoga practice,  we were instructed to do the same.  Two private classes learning how to do that one breath alone; that's how important learning how to breathe properly is with regard to the practice of yoga. That is learning the "real" yoga!

We won't be doing that tonight, but we WILL be practicing several kinds of pranayam (breath exercises) that will give you a better understanding of how the mind and the breath work together to bring you into a particular desired state of consciousness.  If you are planning to come, please eat lightly and bring a comfortable mat or blanket to sit on.  We'll be doing some light yoga, so wear comfortable clothing.  

This is a donation class and $15 is the the recommended offering, but no one will be turned away for less.  I hope to see you tonight at 7.  

2727 El Roble Drive

Los Angeles, CA  90041

please RSVP if possible  raghubirkk@gmail.com

Sat Nam,
Raghubir

Classes starting up again

Sat Nam

After a very long hiatus, your encouragement, lots of phone calls from people on the East Side asking when the classes were gong to start up again and many other things, I have decided to start teaching on NOVEMBER 20 AT 7PM

Grab your mats, sheepskins, cushions, or whatever you need...grab your friends, too and bring them to class.

Tuesday evenings at Eagle Rock Kundalini Center

Kundalini Yoga and Meditation

Please RSVP

323-739-6097

donation only

($15 suggested)

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See you soon!

Raghubir