It's time for another yoga post...yesterday I experienced my first Kundalini yoga class ... it was super-groovy but surprisingly challenging. Basically, we worked in chairs and moved our upper bodies with breath in a supremely mindful manner. It was very tai-chi with the whole moving around energy idea....I have copied and pasted part of the Wikipedia entry on Kudalini yoga below - it's interesting to say the least.
I am also finishing up Eat, Pray, Love in the India portion and loving it. I have decided if I ever get the opportunity to go to India with Dave I must find an Ashram.
I know, I know - it's quite eastern!
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Kundalini yoga is a physical and meditative discipline, comprising a set of techniques that use the mind, senses and body to create a communication between "mind" and "body". Kundalini yoga focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body's potential for maturation, giving special consideration to the role of the spine and the endocrine system in the understanding of yogic awakening (Sovatsky, 1998).
Kundalini Yoga concentrates on chakras in the body in order to generate a spiritual power, which is known as kundalini.
Kundalini is the potential form of prana or life force, lying dormant in our bodies. It is conceptualized as a coiled up serpent (literally, 'kundalini' in Sanskrit is 'That which is coiled.' (Sanskrit kund, "to burn"; kunda, "to coil or to spiral") but some claim that it should be translated 'lock of hair of the Beloved') lying at the base of our spine, which can spring awake when activated by spiritual disciplines.
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