Beginning KY student

January 23, 2003

Sat Nam everyone -

This is my first posting on this list...so happy to have found you

all. I've spent the last couple of weeks reading the archives and have

come away with some wonderful insights. Thank you all!

My question is this: I'm preparing to take teacher's training here in

the Twin Cities this upcoming April and was wondering what I can do to

prepare for the training. I've started the cold showers - are they to

be alternated with warm showers, or is it exclusively cold? I've done

Gurmukh's video tape daily for about 3 weeks now (have never felt

better). My diet is ammenably vegan...only some fish sometimes for

protein (I'm 50). Beans/pulses do not agree with my digestion. I

meditate for about 15 minutes after doing Gurmukh's video. I've

purchased Gururattan's "Transitions to a Heart-Centered World",

"Introduction to Kundalini Yoga" by Yogi Bhajan, and "The 8 Human

Talents" by Gurmukh. I've also purchased "The Complete Course for

Beginners by Nirvair Singh Khalsa". Are there any other preparations

or advisements any of you could make? I've been a Hatha Yoga

instructor for nearly 28 years (studied with Lilias Folan) and am so

utterly joyous at 'discovering' KY that I often wonder just how it is

that it never crossed my path before.

Namaste and thank you for any consideration/guidance,

Carol

January 23, 2003

Namaste Carol and welcome!

How long have you been practicing KY for? and I'm interested from a Hatha yoga

teacher perspective what is it about KY that draws you?

The only other guidance I could share with you about preparing for KY training

is that "becoming" a teacher is something that begins in the heart...it's a

calling...and it cultivates over time with the addition of knowledge that you

aquire and the gaining of experience that goes along with living the teachings.

As you know from teaching yoga already for many years!

One of the first things my teacher every said in class was "the proof is in the

pudding" meaning don't believe me about anything I tell you about these

teachings...practice and know for yourself! Give yourself the experience.

At one point in my practice, I had read so many books, I was swimming in

information and then I realized the time had come to begin living what I had

been reading about. I knew much in my head...but it was time to know in my

heart. I stopped reading and began practicing, listening, witnessing, observing

and transforming...

If there is one thing KY will do for you...it's give you an experience!!

So I think the advice I'm giving you is to just keep practicing!

(also read "The Mind" & "The Master's Touch" by Yogi Bhajan) Two of my favorite

books!

May the journey you are embarking on be full of experience! and elegant,

graceful change and transitions...much luck,

Sat Sangeet Kaur

"Matthew & Carol Erwin <vaivasvata" <vaivasvata

wrote:Sat Nam everyone -