Hunting for Self-Mastery

A Special evening class during Guru Jagat’s NYC residency. It focuses on prana. Practice breath work including alternate nostril breathing.
Breath is life. When you have more breath, you feel better. It will help you reset your parasympathetic nervous system. This series is to revitalize and replenish your yogic anatomy. There is a yogic science as to how you can replenish your reserve force (otherwise known as life force). You begin to have so much of it that when you become stressed or fatigued, you can deal with the challenge. Because you have so much available, you also develop the ability to be one step ahead of the challenge and remain stable and clear minded. You want to have this ability, so you don’t have a meltdown every time you are faced with stress. The kundalini technology helps you not only regenerate places where you have lost your reserve force but also to put your strength, consciousness and aptitude beyond the time pressurized moment and go into the future in a calm way. This is in your physiology. All breath work is good for this because it allows you to get the pranic vibration throughout your whole physical body.
In between your joints there are areas that hold pranic reserve. That is why you use mudra and move in certain ways with your practice. The amazing thing about kundalini yoga is that there is a physical foundation to spirituality. It’s not about morals. There is a science behind your goodness, regeneration, and your ability to show up more powerfully and calm. That is the strength of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Kundalini yoga including Swan Kriya, Camel Pose (12:47) + pranayama (21:58) and gong relaxation (44:03)
RA MA New York Residency

Receive guidance on how to work with resistance. You can be either respectful or irreverent of your own resistance depending on what you need in order to move through it. You have to know yourself and that is what the Kundalini technology is for. Use this practice to pay attention to how your brand of resistance shows up. Then you can know how to dance with it. You may need some rest or some pushback. The subconscious mind is very intelligent and you have to know how to work with it. This is when major breakthroughs happen. Deepen your practice and your whole incarnation can change. Your subconscious mind has already detected the enlightenment and that is why you feel you don’t want to mediate or do your practice. Your subconscious is designed to protect you. It was formed in childhood and is protecting you from those traumas that aren’t actually real now.

You know things are getting good when you are pushing up against the razor’s edge in your life, self, and practice. Something big is on the other side of that. Kundalini yoga trains you for this. It gives you the ability to create art with your childhood traumas and grow up. To bring the best out in yourself and others is a skill set and that is what you are developing.

Gyan Chakra Kriya (35:06). Cat Cow (47:38). Sarbang Dundees (51:04).  Kriya: Power of the Mind Over Body. Mediation with O-mouthed breath (1:02:30). Meditate on what a majestic being you are (1:24:33).

We have a certain amount of prana in our life, so it is important to regulate our finite reserve of it. We want to use our pranic energy throughout the day that is intelligent, and to do so we need to understand what it is, how we are feeding it, and how we are wasting it.

A great deal of prana is expended in communication, so we want to guard against losing it to habitual overwhelm, and speaking from the stress personality.

In this class, work on getting the old fatigue out of the system, so we can be more skillful with how we move through the day. Are we increasing our energy or others? Are we being in service to our destiny?

"We need all the energy we can get; How can we consciously move... not just in another way of creating more violence in the world? Because a lot of it is physical or outward but most of it is more subtly happening. Just by your complaint and by your unconscious chit chatter and other ways you're not paying attention to what's really going on around you - you're creating violence and pollution in the environment that you're in." -- Guru Jagat

Tune in and yoga set (23:13); 9-minute chanting meditation (34:00); sarbang dandes (45:33); 11-minute spinal flex and relaxation (56:19); 8-minute addiction meditation (1:13:15).