Fw: 2009 IKYTA Membership and Meditation

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Sat Nam and Greetings from your 3HO InternationalKundalini Yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA), It’s cold and snowy here in Espanola aswe prepare ourselves for a fabulous Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration. We think the Isht Sodhana Mantra Kriya Meditation (below)is an excellent choice for this special time of reflection and preparingfor the New Year. No matter what your plans are for the Solsticeyou’ll be able to maximize the energies available to you– ENJOY! IKYTA at Winter SolsticeWe look forward to seeing you at 3HO’sWinter Solstice Sadhana Celebration. Please stop by the IKYTA booth. And, be sure to visit with us at a workshop designed especially forIKYTA members and conducted by Professional Member Shakta Kaur from Chicago’sKundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL) called ….From the Ground Up: Easy Tipsfor Marketing Your Yoga Business, Friday, December 19th, in theAir Pavilion, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Again, our thanks!If you have already joined or renewed yourIKYTA Professional membership for 2009 we ‘thank you.’ While youwill continue to receive our ‘membership’ e-mails there is no furtheraction you need to take at this time.Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)Paying your IKYTA Professional membershipdues via electronic funds transfer (EFT) guarantees that your membershipfor 2009 will be automatically renewed. You don’t need to do a thing!How much does IKYTA MembershipCost?Professional Membership in IKYTA is opento all KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teachers.Pay via check/credit card = $108.Pay via monthly Electronic Funds Transfer(EFT) and enjoy a nice savings = $90 or just $7.50 per month! Go to http://www.kundaliniyoga.comand click on Membership Registration.We are pleased to continue our work inservice to Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teachers everywhere.Many blessings,Guruka KaurExecutive Director3HO International Kundalini Yoga TeachersAssociation (IKYTA) MEDITATION—ISHT SODHANA MANTRA KRIYA(Miracle Mantra Series 1, Volume 2)Posture: Sit in easypose or in a chair with your spine straight. Apply Root Lock. Liftthe chesthigh, chin in (i.e., Neck Lock).Focus: The eyes arefocused at the tip of the nose.Breath: Will come naturallyas you chant.Mantra: Dharti Hai. Akash Hai Guru Ram Das Hai Mudra: Gyan Mudra.Time: Begin with 11minutes and slowly work up to 31 minutes.End: Inhale and hold… the grey of the earth, the blue of the ethers, your innocence andcompassion ... stretch up and shake outyour arms.Comments: DhartiHai: Fromthe naveldown, see a rich, solid grey; the dust of the earth. Saints feethave touched the dust of the earth. Perhaps you will be blessed totouch the very dust they walked upon. You will be elevated to theconsciousness to have a human body, a human vessel. Akash Hai: From the eyebrowsup, visualize the most beautiful sky blue, rich, royal and light; the unlimitedether, the vast heavens. Royal blue; totally open and free in alldirections. (The secret is to hold the image of the grey and theblue at the same time. Hold them both; hold the polarity.)Guru Ram Das Hai: Meditateat your heart center. See an absolutely bright, white, radiant light,shining, penetrating all of the above and below. This is the movementof compassion, the manifestation. This is your presence, the realityof the present. “Isht†is to have the concrete God, therealization.“Sodhana†to purify or straighten youout … to have the realization of “you,†the God. This meditationstraightens out “you,†the God. Become immersed in the sound of the mantra. If you honestly practice this meditation, your intention manifestseven if you forgot you had it; even if later you don’t know you wantedit! This meditation gives you the frequency to know before the actwith your intuition ... as a sadhu. As a sadhu, itis to be practiced at sunset for 40 days to obtain the Siddhis. It may be practiced for 40, 90,120 days. Yogi Bhajan said about this kriya: “Mydear ones, you want your prayers to be effective. You want your ultimatedestiny to manifest. This kriya can do it. I know there arethousands of kriyas that we do, but it just takes one done well and thisis the one for isht sodhana to manifest.â€