Parasympathetic Rejuvenation
Class Description
Your internal resources have to be developed when the external pressure is on. Your nervous system, a top resource, can hold you in a mood of reactionary stress (sympathetic) or calm (parasympathetic). The whole world is sympathetically dominated: what’s happening now? What’s next? Where’s the next place I have to be? When’s the next shoe going to drop? We have the tools to reset ourselves in Kundalini yoga. The gong affects your nervous system directly. When played wrong, it sets you into nervous anxiety, flight-or-fight mode. When played well it’ll put you into instant parasympathetic rejuvenation. Pranayama and meditation also give you the ability to reset yourself. You can shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic instantly, allowing you to handle any scenario, no matter the pressure.
“The most powerful people in the world know how to stay relaxed in extenuating circumstances. And that is parasympathetic dominance or sympathetic strength. So we want to develop this because also, all of the things that you think that you want… they’re going to require more of everything. There’ll be more whatever it is – more money, more love, more accolades, more whatever – but that’s going to require more of YOU. If the internal power you have doesn’t meet the external pressure, what is that? Stress.” – GJ
11-minute inhale left exhale right nostril (15:04), Preparatory Exercises for Lungs, Magnetic Field and Deep Meditation (26:45), with long gong relaxation (01:14:08).
