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Hey Everyone I joined this group after my first white tantric yoga classand

was inspired to write this story. To all that attended, thank-you for

sharing your vibrations with me . Nova

Yogalini

It was just past 6 A.M on a Saturday morning when I saw my yoga

instructor’s car role up. We were soon on our way to an all day white

tantric yoga class in LA., which I had almost no idea about. Regardless, I

had called every coworker twice eventually finding someone to cover my

shift, paid 163 dollars, bought a white top and bottom, which remains the

only white cloths I own, and hopped into a car with three people I had never

socialized with.

Sometimes the best way to get into the water is to just jump in.

If you know too much it often leads to the agony of anticipation and all the

doubts and worry which accompany it.

And so here I was, in a car full of people in white cloths and

turbans; I wondered what my mom would think if she could see me now?

According to Karen my Kundalini yoga teacher, the turban has been

proven to be excellent at stimulating certain pressure points around the

head. White, the reflection of all colors, helps to unite the charkas and

balance the physical and spiritual body.

Entering the conference room filled with two hundred people dressed

in white was still quite a sight. My mischievous mind was envisioning water

balloons filled with cool aid.

For some reason I had expected the people that I would meet that day

to be very eccentric and well, weird. To my surprise they were all extremely

normal. The commentator was an uninhibited eighty-year-old woman with the

wit of Robin Williams and the wisdom of a sage.

My teacher Karen had spent most of her life as real estate shark,

doing everything from selling mansions to running large corporations. She is

presently shifting gears and developing a yoga and massage business.

The day began with about twenty minutes of kundalini yoga then

everyone was paired off, each row consisted of two people facing each other.

Ideally it is supposed to be a row of men facing a row of women. As there

were almost twice as many women, quite a few females in the men’s line, yet

according to Karen there were far more men than normal.

The woman to my right was another yoga teacher with her student and

to my left was a young couple, very much in love. If you came by yourself

you would be paired off with another single as it is important to have

unbroken lines for the energy to move through the room.

We then assumed a kiyra that consists of sitting cross leg(asana),

holding our hands in a certain position(mudra), looking into the eyes of the

person across from us(mental focus), breathing through the nose(pranayama)

and chanting a mantra

– for 62 minutes continuously.

I clearly remembered reading that each kiyra lasted 31 or 62

minutes but my mind did not comprehend this as it seemed impossible to me.

Even as we began I did not expect to chant for 62 minutes without loosing my

voice. Amazing how effective the mind is at disregarding undesired

information.

At the end of the first set I was still in disbelief; we were to finish two

62 minute and one 31 minute kiyra before lunch then three 62 minute sets

after lunch – a total of 5 &1/2 hours of sitting, chanting, holding hands

and staring. Would I be able to speak or lift my arms to massage people for

my eight-hour shift at the spa the next day?

By the middle of the second set despite my twitching and shifting,

the vibrations of two hundred voices began to penetrate my being. There were

moments when I was at one with the puling, vibrating sound, as I swam in the

blue ocean of Karen’s eyes - totally at peace.

After lunch, I got curious; I wondered if it would be possible to

sit and chant without moving for the remaining three hours. I only moved a

couple times the first kiyra, the second one I did not move at all but could

barely move out of my position during the intermission.

My body was stiff, partially numb and sore all over but I was excited to

have accomplished my goal. During the last set my body began to burn and

pulse with pain, I was sweating and my body shook erratically as I strained

to hold still.

Just when I felt the pain was most intolerable a shift occurred. My

body became a cool fluid ocean and all pain was transcended. A pain in my

back, which had been bothering me for about a month, left that day and has

not returned.

A friend described my experience as a yoga orgasm and I wouldn’t

disagree. Likewise, the idea of falling in love should not be limited to

romantic relationships as it is equally possible to fall in love with an

experience. When something helps you become a better person by showing you a

part of yourself that you have never know, this is love in its most sincere

form.

I depart from this experience feeling energized with a renewed sense of

self and again I am amazed by the foreign places within, to be discovered.

Sat Nam (truth

is my identity)

Nova Lee

 

 

 

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Sat Nam Nova,

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your sharing on your white

tantric yoga experience. Wow!!! If it is okay with you ,I will share it with

some of my students who are thinking to go to Summer Solstice.

 

Much light and love.

 

Sincerely yours

Hari Sant Singh

 

Give up your sense of mine and yours and become the dust of the feet of all. God

resides in every heart.

 

 

 

 

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Sat Nam Nova:I always wanted to know what the term white tantric yoga meant.

Now I not only know what the term means, I get a sense of the experience from

your description. What a fantastic experience it must be.

 

Thank you so very much for sharing it. My question to you is now that the

actual day of the experience is in the past, how has that experience affected

you in your day to day life? Lyn

 

 

 

 

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Sat Nam Nova Lee...I got a serious case of the giggles...reading

your lovely story! I'm a "fan" of White Tantric, as well...and

could very much relate to your first experience, as mine was

very similar.

There's a line in the movie "Shadow Lands" where one of the

characters says, "we read to know, we are not alone"....it

always delights me to hear someone, a world away, tell

basically the same story....it reminds me, that we are

in this soup together and of our interconnectedness....no

feeling or experience is wholely unique unto ourselves....none

of us are foreigners to the human experience!

Dreaming of White Tantric....

Sat Sangeet

 

 

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