BEGINNING AGAIN with KUNDALINI YOGA
Author: Karuna
Kundalini Yoga and Meditation gifts you with actions necessary for these times, to begin again, breathe again, balance again. When we apply a particular mantra along with the physical aspect of posture, we activate the breath automatically, helping to bring inner peace and resolution.
What makes mantra so important? How is it powerful personally and in community?
When you listen to music, it gives you an automatic download of dopamine into the brain, into the cellular system, allowing you to remove the dead cells, awaken to the abundance of love, and by repeating in mantra (japa), it enhances any experience of joy, resulting in peace and happiness.
Our body, mind and spirit collectively collaborate with mature awareness or even a beginner’s approach. The Light, the chakras, and the breathing techniques begin to shine through and assist.
How are the Gunas, Tattvas and Chakras working together in Kundalini Yoga?
Bringing you into divine Balance, the three gunas – Manas, Ahangkar, Buddhi – each give rise to an impersonal mind to function to a universal mind. The Tattvas – earth, ether, fire, water, air – in increasing density, represent the transition from most pure to most tangible. The Chakras, or energy vortices specifically aligned with the ten bodies, activate to heal pain and rescue and restore well-being. The practice of Kundalini Yoga brings all this together.
Bringing health and happiness into the equation is necessary when we switch up the digestive juices into balance. Food is medicine, and we are what we eat.
What role does Ayurveda play in Yogic Health? How does understanding our Doshas assist in physical, emotional and behavioral balance?
Essential knowledge in these healing modalities of nutrition guides you into a perfect balance of your Gunas. Doshas are vital in knowing yourself more intimately, to recognize when your body is out of balance and its needs to come back into balance. From a Yogic perspective, it is applied to find this balance. The vast knowledge of Ayurveda in conjunction with Kundalini Yoga has been proven to assist and support the growth and development of healthy, wholistic practitioners. While readily accessible and simple to follow, it takes deep dedication to cultivate this lifestyle.
Everything comes forth for us in retreat (Costa Rica Retreat 2025 | Light on Kundalini | Boulder, USA). We hear differently the inner vibration and feel deeply into the power of listening to find the many answers within. Workshops (Breathe Again Tickets, Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite) provide the different tastes and experiences and are the true gift to be together and sit with each other; sharing our thoughts with others is the sacred Aquarian Way! We chant; we move; we discover from CCC-Constant Conscious Conversation-how to raise our consciousness to a new frequency which helps us to thrive, find our authentic voice, and experience exuberant joy! Join us and begin again, breathe again, balance again.
How does Kirtan function in Kundalini Yoga community? How does it bring people together?
When we gather in group consciousness, chanting the sacred, ancient, historical mantras that allow change and awakening to happen, the sound current of the instruments are particularly vibrating a frequency of higher vibration into the communal atmosphere of gathering that gives each and every participant a Voice again. To share the Voice again, is the universal activation which works environmentally to supply enough frequency needed for change.
Read more from Karuna at her website or in her new book, Light on Kundalini: Your Lifestyle Guide to Yoga and Awakening, available in multiple formats on Amazon. Also coming soon, Light on Kundalini’s companion volume: The Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual, available through www.lightonkundalini.com.
“As you journey through this book and experience its lessons, you will find that Kundalini Yoga is incredibly powerful, guiding you to access, harness, awaken, and work with the very flow of Divine energy within your own bodies. It is available and accessible for all, and the practices are sure to benefit people of all ages, all walks of life, and all levels of experience. The wisdom and practices offered in this book and its companion, The Light on Kundalini Yoga Manual, compiled from decades of Karuna living, embodying, and teaching Kundalini Yoga, are part of the culmination of her life’s mission to guide anyone who is called to undertake this metamorphic journey, illuminating each step with clarity and depth.”
– Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati (International Director, Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh; Director, International Yoga Festival; President, Divine Shakti Foundation)
