Kick start the New Year with this grounding Kundalini sequence that will engage your Root Chakra. Sarah leads a short mantra entitled “I call on my highest and best Self” and continues with several kriyas including life nerve stretch and rapid breath of fire. In addition to strengthening and toning your muscles, these exercises balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain and bring about harmony between acceptance and it’s “shadow side,” resentment.
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January 21, 2010 at 12:43 pm
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January 16, 2010 at 6:42 am
Rebecca
I love these kundalini sessions. And this one seemed to come along at just the right time for me. Keep them coming. You guys are doing a wonderful job.
Thank you
January 16, 2010 at 8:25 am
Susan
thank-you so much for more Kundalini!
January 17, 2010 at 7:32 am
Dharma_7
Thank you Sarah, I found this session very grounding. I was calmed and awakened at the same time. Great way to start the morning! Namaste!
January 17, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Lindy
I am so very thankful I found this site! Once again I am reminded that things come to me just when I need them most–Namaste
January 19, 2010 at 9:54 am
marquetta
wonderful!!!!!!
Could you do one of these classes for all the chakras???
January 21, 2010 at 7:25 am
Nan Kenyon
WONDERFUL way to begin the New Year. BLESS YOU ALL for donating to Haiti!! Hugs, Nan
January 21, 2010 at 8:58 am
Eva
Fantastic, thank you so much.
January 21, 2010 at 11:56 am
Kim
Thank YOU all for your beautiful comments and being a part of our sweet community of yogis. To answer your question Marquetta, yes! this is the first of a series of seven breakout sessions Sarah plans to teach focusing on the seven chakras:)
January 22, 2010 at 10:36 am
Rachel
this was great – a show finally to focus on the secret energy centers!
When she does more of them, Sarah should were the color that is associated with the chakras!
January 23, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Beth
Love having these shorter sequences on crazy days so I can still do yoga everyday!
I’m watching this for a second day to pick up what I missed yesterday. It would help to have the text for the mantra in your description for us visual folks. I also wondered if for each of the movements is the root chakra to be engaged on inhale and released on exhale? Sarah seems to mention it specifically for some, but not all.
Thank you,
Beth
January 24, 2010 at 12:06 pm
kim
Thanks for these encouraging lessons. I’m happy to have found this site. I’m getting back to things after a 4 year hiatus from any serious yoga structure – life interfering. My thoughts and physical capabilities changed during this practice.
The spiritual, emotional and physical practice/cleansing translates fine by the way on the videos. I was skeptical at first but you do a great job.
Best and Namaste,
Kim
January 27, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Barbara
Really wonderful class. Thank you Sarah for sharing Kundalini yoga with us – it seems so beneficial in so many ways! Namaste
January 29, 2010 at 8:11 am
Jenifer McVaugh
thanks very much – it’s so … grounded.
January 29, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Heather
This was a truly wonderful class, Sarah! You’re such a calming presence and this was a very grounding and emotion-filled class. I love the kundalini sessions!
February 3, 2010 at 3:24 am
Jack
Really wonderful class. Thank you
February 7, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Lisa
I love this video. I’ve been using it a couple of times a week and it gives me peace and focus. Oddly, the fact that my abs have tightened quickly – a big goal a month ago – now seems secondary. Thank you, Sarah.
February 8, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Michelle
Yes, thank you so much. Sat Nam.
February 11, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Sharon
This class was very helpful for me. I had been doing classes from Yoga Today last year, but faced some different challenges and got out of the routine. I am in my sixties and find many of the blogs are more accessible for me. This class helped me feel what I have been missing and left me just really hungry to continue. Thanks so much. Sharon
February 27, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Beth
I am a big fan. My question is how much liberty can be taken in kundalini kriya? (i.e. bent and straight leg body drops) Do people make up new ones?
And why no sanskrit names?
I love Sarah’s information on the exercises. Sat Nam!
March 25, 2010 at 7:10 am
Robin
Lovely class. I loved what Sarah said about the body being it’s own pharmasutical (sp?) company…we just need to know how to access it! Very grounding and uplifting.