Mind and Meditation

Deepen your practice of meditation, clarify the relationship between you and your mind, and explore the basic nature and dynamics of the mind. Our relationship to our own mind is pivotal in effectively realizing our true nature and fulfilling our potential. Yogi Bhajan often reminded us that we come to Earth to experience our humanity and recognize the One Infinite being that creates all and which is in all. The greatest power is the ability to act with a Neutral Mind, to use intuition along with applied intelligence and to lean on the Infinite through the sacred science known as prayer.

Key Topics:

• Enhance the depth of your understanding of meditation and experience deep meditations on the nine aspects of the mind.
• Focus on your relationship to your own mind.
• Increase your ability to observe neutrally, to become still, to clear your mind of distractions and intrigues, to recognize when you establish a state of shuniya, and to recognize the different functional parts of your mind.
• Experience and practice the use of intuition as a primary skill of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation.
• Learn the structure of the mind and examine the impersonal minds, the qualities of the mind, and the nine aspects of the mind.
• Understand how to use the 27 projections of the mind.

Be able to use the functional minds with fluency, understand the influence of the impersonal minds, cultivate shuniya and apply intuition and intelligence with ease and flexibility. Understand Nanak’s pauri, Man Jeetai Jag Jeet. Conquer your mind and conquer the world. Come into a relationship with your mind and the Self which transcends time and space and relates to the oneness of your identity with Infinity. Become one with the One.

Course Affirmation:

I commit to refine my meditative capacity. I invite my mind into my conscious presence, investigate its nature, and learn to master it so that it serves my consciousness and my soul. I will follow the road map laid out by Yogi Bhajan to recognize and develop the many parts of my mind. I integrate and apply the functional minds to my daily habits and behaviors so that I develop a clear, intuitive, and effective mind. To conquer my mind is to cultivate a relationship to its actions and an awareness of its functional parts. I form a relationship to my own awareness, self, mind and Infinite being. My life blossoms with unlimited blessings.

What do we mean by communication? The definition of communication is a practice that creates a “common notion” with another person or object of attention…At what level do we communicate? Did you ever learn that your existence is your communication? Your projection is your relationship? You are the power? But life is often sour. There is no happiness, because your communication has no purpose of Self. You communicate to impress someone. You don’t communicate to relate you to someone. That’s why you suffer now. You don’t communicate consciously. —Yogi Bhajan

Key Topics:

• Recognize and contrast conscious communication with other types of communication
• The role of silence and shuniya in communication
• The art of deep listening—sunni-ai
• Mastering the Fifth Chakra
• Recognizing your shadow and overcoming your blocks through applied consciousness
• Communicating with the Infinite and the nature of prayer
• Use your communication skills to create a common notion with others—even those you disagree with.
• Communicate your whole Self, with awareness, kindness and fearlessness.
• Listen—don’t just hear.
• Elevate your communication to the power of creative dialogue so that life becomes a flow, in harmony with the Infinite.

Course Affirmation:

I have integrated conscious communication into all areas of my life. My communication uplifts others to their own consciousness.
I represent my whole self directly. I speak each word consciously, understanding that it is witnessed by my own consciousness and supported by the Cosmos. I create harmonious communication even with those who oppose me. I am heard in the hearts of others as I hear and qualify my own words as I speak.

In this course, we will delve in the practical disciplines and attitudes that let you steer a course toward an extraordinary life and explore and understand your relationship to your destiny cycle. In this 50 hour course, cultivate the core skill for this coming age. Discover mystery and mastery through every cycle of life.

Key Topics:

• Identify habits, attitudes and practices that help or hinder your life in the present, past and future.
• Examine and map out the stages and cycles of life.
• Learn to deeply understand our death. Confront the fear of death and learn to live weightlessly.
• Renew your self-concept by discovering your purpose and destiny for living an extraordinary life.
• Explore you and your relationship to your destiny cycle. It is about practical disciplines and attitudes that let you steer a course toward an extraordinary life.

Course Affirmation:

I cultivate promoting habits that are in balance with the natural stages and rhythms of my life and environments. I invite success by having a clear purpose and sense of self. I accomplish my goals with progressive, proportionate actions. I am aware of how to live and die consciously. I continuously clear my subconscious so I can act intentionally with grace and purpose.

In this 50 hour course, cultivate the core skill for this coming age – the ability to recognize stress in ourselves and others and develop the tools to transform it and balance it with conscious relaxation. Kundalini Yoga prepares each of us to be teachers who act with undaunted spirit, exalted caliber and character, and the vitality to cross every crisis. This course is a chance to look closely at how we react to, cope with and master our vitality.

Key Topics:

• Explore Your Vitality and Recognize Consciousness as the Core of Vitality
  Identify Your Stress
• Heal Cold Depression and Emotional Fatigue
• Relieve, Relax, Recharge
• Realize the Victory of the Spiritual Warrior
• Explore the nature of our stress identity as individuals and cross-culturally.
• Use kriyas and meditations as well as other processes to identify our stressors and the tools you will need to balance and uplift ourselves and others.

Course Affirmation:

I cultivate my core vitality to honor and use the opportunities that come with each breath—to receive them as a gift. I recognize the value of my physical and energetic bodies and take steps to maintain them. I thrive under stress and challenge; I am a spiritual warrior who leads, uplifts and delivers effective decisions. I practice a lifestyle that incorporates continuous preventative habits for vitality and victory. I have the mental and spiritual endurance to cross every crisis and be a beacon to navigate and excel in the Aquarian Age.

Integrate authentic relationships into your life and your teaching. Explore and understand how we form, sustain and honor relationships. Our success as Kundalini Yoga teachers and as conscious human beings depends on our capacity to be authentic and respond from our hearts; our primary objective is to examine our relationships and improve our effectiveness, authenticity and awareness within them.

Key Topics:

• Explore what an authentic relationship is and what it’s not
• Relate to your soul as the foundation for authentic relationships
• Understand the special challenges that long-term relationships and marriage face in the Aquarian Age
• Identify the common ways we make relationships fail
• Develop self-love as a key to authentic relationships
• Identify our core paradox and transform it from problem to opportunity
• Create a conscious relationship with your own masculine and feminine energies
• Develop Sacred Community
• Use awareness, contemplation and meditation to revision your relationship to self and other. Forgive the past and heal the present.
• Release yourself from the wounds of love and begin to live authentically.
• Recognize the patterns that keep you from expressing your true Self and create a new template: give and receive love from abundance, consciousness and ease.

Course Affirmation:

I have integrated authentic relationships into all areas of my life. My relationships are held in a manner that uplifts everyone and does not let anyone down. I have befriended my own soul. I recognize myself and I am in a creative, dynamic relationship with my Infinite Self, which is God. My ability to love myself is the foundation for authentic love with others. I understand the dynamic of polarities in relationships and I respond to them creatively and authentically. I act from my true self to project love and wisdom and conquer any fears and defenses that may taint my relationships. I cultivate my intuition, scope and caliber and apply them to every relationship. I have forgiven all hurts and injuries and act with integrity to friend and foe. I understand that my soul chose my family and I creatively interact, heal, forgive and relate to my lineage as human beings who like me want to be healthy, happy and holy. I act from consciousness, beyond polarity, to honor the masculine and feminine within me and around me. As a teacher I form all my relationships in the grace, honor and integrity of the Golden Chain to fulfill my destiny.