If down dog/up dog is not your jam and/or you’re ready to try something new….

Kundalini Yoga is commonly referred to as the yoga of awareness. 

It combines postures (asanas), movement, sound current (mantra), breath work (pranayam), and meditation into a kriya (class structure).

Fair warning: you’ll be doing some unconventional yoga movements such as arm circles with deep breathing, slapping the floor while you bend down or practicing your snoring to clear your mind (yes, it’s part of a kriya) or all of the above! 

As you activate your body, voice and breath together systematically, you raise your inner vibration and heighten your connection to your mind and body at a different level. Translation: you might actually feel your finger tips pulsating or a resonance from your throat up to to your cheekbones as you chant and/or a distinct energy circulating from your heart to your navel to your toes as you lie in savasana. And you might even be able sense your external energy field outside your body.

And that is the goal of kundalini yoga!

All kriyas are designed to awaken your kundalini energy, located at the base of your spine, and redistribute it throughout your body, removing any energetic blocks and facilitating the more steady, even flow of clean, radiant prana, or life force energy. 

Everyone’s experience is different but here are some things that could happen:

After one class:

• ·Your body feels lighter and brighter; think of a buzz running from your head to your toes

• You’re relaxed AND have more energy

• There’s a connection between your throat and voice you’ve never noticed

After a few classes:

• An increase in clarity of your thoughts and ideas

• Less resistance to things you may have been avoiding

• Renewed confidence in your decision making, action and speaking your truth

• A consciousness of the flow and pulse of your energy; think a low level “hummmm”

Physically, Kundalini Yoga helps build and maintain a healthy body, while increasing vitality, strengthening the nervous system and balancing the glandular system.

Practicing trains your mind and heart to be strong and flexible in the face of stress and change. It allows you to connect with your personal inner wisdom and helps you foster a deeper connection with your own beliefs and values. It will cultivate peace, strength, and self-reliance so that you can meet life's challenges with courage and grace and with a little bit of fun and humor.