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Prenatal Yoga: Bring Prayer into your life & change your childs karma

October 17, 2008 – 7:34 pm

From the beginning of life to its end, it is only a mother who can vibrate for her child and change his destiny. It is only the other whose vibrations and prayers can affect like an arc beam, and the child’s written destiny only she can wipe out and rewrite.

- Yogi Bhajan

Transforming your own consciousness through prayer, mantra, pranayam and meditation can cleanse the karma of the child you are carrying. Your child’s soul is pure and radiant, and through polishing and shining your own subtle body, you can help your child’s radiance to shine more brightly. Mediation and prayer are the tools to help you. Try this very simple and beautiful meditation:

  1. Sit comfortably in Easy Pose with your legs crossed. (Sit on a firm cushion or folded blanket if you like.)
  2. Lengthen the spine, close your eyes, and gently roll them up to focus between the eyebrows. This is the Third Eye, the centre of intuition. The Third Eye is directly connected to the Third Chakra (the energy centre located at your navel centre), where your baby is growing. Focussing at the Third Eye enhances the psychic connection between you and your baby.
  3. Relax your hands onto your knees, palms up, thumbs and forefingers forming a circle (Gyan Mudra which promotes wisdom).
  4. Breathe slowly and deeply through the nose. Silently vibrate the mantra “Sat Nam”, inhaling “Sat” and exhaling “Nam”. This mantra means “Truth is my Identity”, and is a beautiful way to call forth your highest self, the purest, perfect “You”. The mantra stimulates specific nerve centres in your body to enhance well-being.
  5. Do this for 11 minutes each day to ground, center and relax yourself.

When you feel relaxed and at peace, send out prayers for your child. Pray for your child, your self and your family. No prayers are as powerful as those of a mother for her child. You have the power to advocate for your child right now. It’s a good habit to develop, and it will serve you well through all the challenges and joys of parenting.

Here is one of my favourite prayers that I say each day for my children:

May you walk with grace and may the light of the Universe shine upon your path.

- Anonymous

Love and blessings,

Jot Prakash Kaur

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Sadhana thoughts - October Rebirth

October 5, 2008 – 10:22 am

Sat Nam, dear ones.

This morning in Sadhana I was feeling the grip of it all: personally, in our community, in our country, and especially in the U.S. Fear… resignation… letting go of the old …. processing through all that…. seeing the new energies sprouting up…. people rising…. like a new birth…. and through it all, gratitude, for this path, this technology, Raj Yog Nivas… Our Land…. many things… You know what I mean—it is felt very intimately. Grateful for the Mind course many of us just went through, bringing a new clarity. (I’m deciding between two new names for the course: “Falling in Love With My Neutral Mind,” or “Mental intrigues: I Hate When I Do That!” Ha. ha.)

When I got home I read the Monthly Newsletter from Chuck Spezzano of Psychology of Vision that arrives at the beginning of each month. It inspired me so, and describes the situation so elegantly and intimately. I share it with you. And at this, Guru Ram Das’ Miracle-Time, I found it very appropo. Hope to see you in the evenings at Raj Yog Nivas, and especially on Thursday Morning Oct 9 4 am for the Special Guru Ram Das birthday chanting delight.

Here’s Chuck’s Message: Read More »

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Yogic Anatomy - The Ten Bodies

September 25, 2008 – 5:36 pm

“Why is my energy low?” “Why am I having trouble being heard?” “Why can’t I think more positively?” These are questions with which you can’t exactly approach your MD. And regardless of their medical validity, these questions plague a lot of people’s minds. Thankfully there are masterful ancient teachings to guide us on the yogic path, which help consistent health and wellness seem less illusive.

Part of the reason that we can’t seem to keep our wellness in balance is that it is a little more complicated that we think. It’s more complicated, because we aren’t just a physical body that can be treated with simple physical remedies all the time. More often than not, the physical manifestation of a problem is a symptom: the result of a circumstance that has been in the “body” for a long time. How can we understand this a little better? Let’s jump into Yogic Anatomy, and unravel some of the tangles. Read More »

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Prenatal Yoga - Writing a birth plan

September 9, 2008 – 4:51 pm

Giving birth is a very magical, feminine and sometimes challenging time.  As conscious parents we try to do what is best for the child in the conscious lifestyle we are attempting to create around us.  To help the process, you may consider writing a birth plan.

The process of writing a birth plan can assist you and your partner in sorting out your basic values and envisioning the type of birth you both hope for. Read More »

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Prenatal Yoga - Meditation of the Month

August 28, 2008 – 11:01 am

Today, I am pleased to introduce a new blogger to the Yoga West Blog!  Wecome Jot Prakash Kaur who teaches the Pre and Post natal class at Yoga West on Thursdays. She has kindly prepared a Meditation of the Month for pregnant mothers (and any woman or man really!  We should all bless ourselves!)

Look forward to hearing more from Jot Prakash on the topics of Pre and Post Natal Yoga.  Check out her Mom and Baby Class on Thursdays at 11-12:30pm and Pre-Natal, starting the first week of September at Thursdays from 1-2:30pm (schedule).

Meditation To Bless Yourself
(Suggested music: “Sacred Circle”, Amrit Kirtan (track 6))

  1. Sit in Easy Pose with the legs crossed comfortably.
  2. Place the left palm flat against your heart centre. Place right hand, palm facing down, 4-6 inches above the crown of the head (10th Gate).
  3. Close the eyes and begin to chant the mantra: Ong namo guru dev namo
  4. Continue for 11 minutes. For last 30 seconds, increase volume and resonance.

To end: Inhale deeply, squeeze your body tight. Hold 15 seconds. Exhale like cannon fire out of the mouth. Repeat twice. Relax.

Feel it is the Divine within you that repeats this mantra. Direct the mind to shoot like a missile straight up to vastness and infinity. Drop all limitations. - Yogi Bhajan

In order to prepare for the sacred and magical journey through pregnancy and labour into birthing and becoming a mother, you need to gather your resources, take stock of your many strengths, and reconnect with the all-knowing, wise, powerful Aki Shakti (Great Divine Mother) within you.

With pranayam and mantra, with asana and dance, with meditation and prayer, and in the company of other women, begin to shine and clean and polish every facet of your body/mind/soul/spirit.

Bless yourself to remember who you are (Sat Nam). Bless yourself to invoke the power, courage and grace to birth your baby with love and consciousness.  Bless yourself to be the strong, courageous warrior woman that you are. Bless yourself with creativity and joy, so that you may bring these qualities forth in the heat and intensity of labour.

Invoke the creative spirit of the Adi Shakti to move you, and to move through you. Bring Her deeply into your heart and feel Her melt your fears and doubts.  Bless yourself to be patient. The bright soul within you knows when to arrive! Bless yourself so that the gap between your mind and your heart dissolves.

Blessings,
Jot Prakash Kaur
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