looking to learn Kundalini

[Guest guest]

I have been interested in practicing Kundalini for years and found a book " the

Kundalini Yoga

Experience " . The day after I bought it, 15 Kundalini's boarded my flight from DC

to

Albuquerque on their return from India. I took that as a good sign to start

looking into

Kundalini. I live without a car near clarendon metro station in Arlington VA and

am hoping to

find a metro accessible and affordable practice close by. Any advice greatly

appreciated. I

practiced Korean Zen for seven years at the Cambridge Zen Center In Cambridge,

MA. I

enjoyed the freedom of practice with their regular daily practice available 3x a

day with a

donation box in living room and two blocks to Metro (T). Then I became a flight

attendant

and found it easier to find a gym with yoga classes than a zen temple during my

layovers. So

for the last 6 years Ive been practicing Hatha / Vinyassa yoga (with a 5 month

volunteer at

Kalani in Hawaii) which is great but I really want to have more spirituality in

my practice with

chanting and breathing. I feel that Kundalini would bring my Zen and Yoga

practices

together. I wish I could find a place like the Cambridge Zen Center for

Kundalini practice. An

Ashram that had a regular practice schedule that is open for drop in practice

but doesnt cost

$20 a session (my CEO took a $40 million bonus after canceling our pensions and

cutting our

pay substantially) I dream of the day when the neighborhood churches pull out

the hard

benches to open the space to practice yoga, chanting and meditation with a

community in a beautiful spiritual environment anytime day or night close to

home or hotel.

[Guest guest]

Jim,

 

The great thing about Kundalini is it is the " householders yoga " , so

even if you don't have a center nearby, you can keep up a daily

practice and get all the same benefits.

 

Of course, the fastest way is in a group with a good spiritual guide,

but Kundalini itself is already pretty fast on its own.

 

That being said, it's important also to have a good guide and teacher

to start you off on the right path.

 

Perhaps starting with some of Yogi Bhajans videos or a few Kundalini

DVDs would give you a good foundation, and then some online research

might give you some structure where there is nothing else available

(But I'd undertake anything not sanctioned by the KRI institute with

caution).

 

Once you find a place to take a few classes in the basics, you can buy

any number of official KRI books with meditations and kriyas contained

within which will give you an infinite number of possibilities for a

home practice.

 

One thing that may help you in general, is a general overview of a

typical practice structure.... Usually this goes: Tune In, Warm Up,

Kriya Set, Deep relax, Meditation, Tune out. And if possible we try to

practice early at 5am-7am or in the setting hours of the sun at

5pm-7pm, although anytime is good as long as you are doing it. And if

possible, try to do the same set everyday for at least 40 days

straight to get the full benefit.

 

I'd be happy to help you some more with the basic concepts. My goal is

to one day build out a learning " 101 and beyond " website for Kundalini

with videos that would be professional and useful for those without

access to a studio... (I have the URL, but it's just in the idea phase

now)

 

Good luck on your new voyage. It's usually takes a person with quite

an elevated state of self-awareness to just discover Kundalini in the

first place... I'm sure everything else will fall into place in time.

 

Patience pays.

 

Truly Yours,

Filip