Looks hardcore! Wow‼️You are not new to yoga and it was beating you up. Great video Sky‼️✨Thanks for that. I was waiting for it and it was worth it. Peace & love.
I've been curious about it for some time and now your video stimulated my interest further. I'll see what I can find in the small town where I live. Also, I look forward to seeing your follow up after you learn more about the founder's controversy. Like you, I have my misgivings about anything that revolves around one figure. I underwent a vipassana meditation retreat and one of the things that held me back from throwing myself all the way into the experience was the constant presence of the founder SN Goenka in the practice. Thanks for your work!
@@georgegasmatron1 if you have trouble finding a class near you, you could try out a video on Gaia! www.gaia.com/portal/skylife - very interesting about Vipassana. Also something I really want to try! Thanks for sharing :)
I love kundalini yoga, but I only practice it at home. It does work well to change your mood uplift your spirit, give you energy etc. I love it for this. I do understand that controversy around it. But I maintain an open mind bc I know that anyone can taint anything, even a "good thing". So through just the actual practice I know it works. It does always suck when someone's name get attached and ruins a good practice like this. I have seen it many times. A legit whole hearted beliefs that is wanting to be shared is ruined by controversy that isn't even fully known if it is true or not. Our minds are obsessed with something being "good or bad". What I have personally learned I am now 35, is that people will all search for truth but that is something that can only be found with in. We cannot take other peoples words and opinions and create our truth, this is seeking validation in the external and it will disappoint. I do enjoy your video's and open mind a lot but I feel like many times our "culture" has closed our minds to many things . Sat-Nam
I agree about home practice. If you are a regular practitioner you will feel the room's energy, sometimes that isn't productive for your personal journey. Granted, yoga classes are great for those just starting off and learning. Also, classes are not a substitute for a personal practice, if you can't do it each day then what bother at all.
I have only just started the video but before I forget I just wanted to add that I have studied classical Kundalini yog in India and it’s not at all like the Yogi Bajan Kundalini. Kundalini is essentially creative life force energy that runs through all of us and there are many ways to activate and express it. You do not need to follow any exact science to know or understand it. When I looked into studying it I was put off my Yogi Bajan himself as he seemed to be driven by ego and it was a red flag to me. I am so happy I studied it from the ground up in its ancient and classical sense which does not come with rules or strict movements but more of just an understanding and education around it. Excited to get stuck into your video x
Sarah it was called Shiva Tattva Yoga school in Rishikesh. You can also read books on it too. Our school gave us this book to study also while we were there: kundalini Tantra by swami satyananda saraswati xx
Sky Life pleasure! My kundalini teacher explained people are activating their inner kundalini energy all the time without even knowing it... dancing.... sex.... so many things.... it’s simply a creative energy force which we can tap into in many many ways. I guess Yogi Bajan simply created a specific method to tap into it. I just find it a shame when people put so many rules and strict methods around it as it can put people off. Also... spiritual egos are just so off putting to me as it shows such a lack of humility and congruence with their teachings which I feel yogi Bajan suffered with. As do many others. I would love to see you do a video on this topic!! X
I did kundalini yoga to fix my back issues and it totally fixed my body and built up my stamina and third eye, I just did the yoga with a small group and the teacher was very good and attentive and not weird or creepy at all
The god father of yoga is Patanjali who wrote the 'Yoga Sutras', which describe the 8 limbs of yoga. Only two of those branches deal with posture and breathing, the other 6 limbs deal with moral behavior and mostly have to do with controlling the mind and attaining higher spiritual states. When 'Sky Life' said "Kundalini yoga is a lot more spiritually minded than most western forms of yoga. It's just completely different than most of these trendy, fitness based forms of yoga..." She might as well have said, "While Kundalini yoga stays more true to the universal roots of all yoga, trendy western styles are a hallow shell to the deeply spiritual path of enlightenment which is yoga."
Thank you so much for doing this incredible video. As a kundalini yoga teacher, I can say you did an amazing job of covering Kundalini yoga. I sent you an email and IG message about my thoughts. I hope you'll be able to see it.
It taps into the potential of the human body, like a workout for the nervous system, lymph, and endocrine systems that reset hormones and parasympathetic rhythms like sleep.. also the spine, lungs, heart, liver all get massively flooded with oxygen. The benefits are full-spectrum. Its a boost for the whole human vehicle. Also, everyone comments on skin quality and complexion. Complexion is an indicator of heart, and overall circulatory system health. This is what Chinese medicine calls our fire energy. Most of us sit or stand in the same places all day, or burn ourselves out anxiously running around. Kundalini is the boost we’ve all wanted to physically and mentally upgrade our day to day. Dogma and all other stigmas not included!😊✨🧡 namaste y’all
Another epic video! I love how you really 100% throw yourself into everything you do while still remaining clear headed and balanced. You’re very skilled Sky! Love it!!!!! And I LOVE that you felt such a big difference mentally afterwards!!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 X
Sky Life always Sky!! I really appreciate how talented you are and also how skilled you are at yoga and ice baths and basically everything you put your mind to! It’s inspiring 🙏🏻
It’s important to find your own yoga. Each body has its own expression. Doing choreography gives you the experience of the original maker of that sequence. It is not something bad, but for your own evolvement, your yoga is inside, and unlocking it is a part of your path
@Trinity M -.-" It's funny how we make judgements about people from one comment on the internet. Probably with this in mind "i know all there is, so I must be rigth." It all depends on your perspective, my journey is not equal to your journey. Good luck with that perception of yours.
Hello Sky... You've touched on one of my favorite all-time subjects, since my twenties when I started practicing yoga. I became fascinated by Kundalini and how the ancient yogis/mystics would describe it as having the potential to catapult ones spiritual awareness and enlightenment. But I think the appeal may have been in the shroud of mystery surrounding the mystical phenomena, as it wasn't necessarily attainable by everyone, so yogis would meditate long hours every day for most of their lives in search of this elusive energy. So of course, I was convinced I had to experience this for myself as well! I guess you could say I just had to know if it was real or just folklore, and the journey began. But unlike the curious minded young rebels of the 60s/70s, I was skeptical of the "gurus" who came over from India to enlighten us, with the exception of Paramahansa Yogananda, who came over to America earlier in the century. I practiced Hatha yoga and meditation on a regular basis. I tried Kundalini yoga, but it didn't resonate with me, probably for the same reasons you mention here about it feeling cultish around Yogi Bhajan. I was not one to follow anyone exclusively and felt the knowledge was inherently in each of us. Fast forward 20 years later, almost 40 yrs old, I was meditating late one evening when I felt the classic burning sensation at the base of my spine and I knew immediately what was happening. Kundalini had awoken, and once awoken, you cannot stop the process from unfolding, though you can slow it down, which really only prolongs it. The experience will vary for everyone, just as a session with ayahuasca will reveal different things to different people because we are all at various levels of awakening and our needs are unique. Fast forward another 10 years and I can say I still do not fully comprehend how Kundalini works or what it is exactly. Some want to believe it is a form of possession while others want to believe it is grace that has fallen upon us. I'm more practical about it and simply believe it's what happens when we open a biological doorway to this energy which is never truly dormant, but rather fuels our being with the energy we need to operate on an average day. But what I have learned from Kundalini, is that we have access to this powerful creative energy that can do all sorts of amazing things like heal and allow us to perceive reality in a whole different way. The takeaway from all this, relating to your video anyway, is that Kundalini yoga is designed to strengthen the body and mind for when and IF Kundalini decides to awaken. It can be traumatic mentally and physically as I can attest. So for anyone interested in pursuing this experience, I would say Kundalini yoga is a good way to prepare, in addition to meditation and "right" living, as Buddhism would have it. Kundalini magnifies all that is in our psyche, positive or negative, it doesn't judge nor care. So there is good reason to heed caution with this level of energy, but not to be afraid or think it evil. It's part of our biology and when handled with care, can allow us to achieve what are considered "miraculous" things today, but in time after some further evolution, will be considered quite normal for the human race. Thanks for the videos and inspiration Sky.
I have only taken one class of Kundalini yoga out of interest and I fell in love with it right away. During my first chanting exercise I couldn't stop the tears rolling down my face.. this practice definitely releases whatever stagnant energy residing within the body. I had never felt so energized the way I did after my session.. one thing I have to mention though, it IS super intense and I almost passed out from the breathing exercises..and I was doing beginner breath work! Definitely recommend though.
I appreciate this reminder, in 2018 I dated a man who introduced me briefly to kundalini yoga. Because I have chronic pain, it was nearly impossible back then to ‘push through’ not do I ever condone teaching that, unless a student wishes to do so on their own and within reason. I feel ready to try it again, but this time without putting pressure on myself to try to keep up. I’ve don’t a lot of inner work in six years to love the skin I’m in. Nothing to prove, everything to gain!
I teach Kundalini yoga here in Ft Lauderdale :) and thanks for bringing awareness on this Yoga. Kundalini is a 3 and a half coiled serpent at the bottom of our spine (Just dormant energy) which exist in everyone and should not be judged with how it looks from outside :)
I loved kundalini yoga and it helped me so much and then when I took kundalini teacher training from 3HO, it was very clear it WAS a cult and Yogi Bhajan was an abusive narcissist. It was right there in the Masters' Touch book how he treated people. Followers made excuses for him because they were trauma bonded. I quit teacher training. I was saddened because the yoga itself helped so much, but I felt duped and betrayed and abandoned the practice.
Lori Wilde I had a similar experience. I liked the classes, because they were quirky and different, but I can’t say it “helped me”. I did the training to add to my variety of teaching styles. After paying around $3000, I soon found out that I joined a cult. This is much more than a yoga practice it is a religion. They tell you how to eat, when to sleep, (which is very little), how to roll over in bed, get up, take a freezing cold shower, gag yourself 3 times, then go about your 3 am -5 am exercise/meditation bs that your teacher assigns you. I was told that dreaming is a weakness. My teacher spoke of YB like she was in love with him. We were forced to watch videos of him each class. He was so vulgar, so angry, a total narcissist. If you asked a question in class that had a tone that might even question this technology, you were made an example. I was pulled by my limbs in all directions by my classmates. It was a total mind fuck. I could see the brainwashing all around me, and I felt like I was in a punk reality show. Oh, your not supposed to shave your legs, pluck your eyebrows or cut your hair. The white tantric yoga was ridiculous, painful, and embarrassing. To me YB was laughing as he made up some of these ridiculous kriyas. They were made to shame, humiliate, and cause pain. You are basically hyperventilating the whole class, then made to do exercises far too long, so you are grateful and relieved when they are over. The spirituality was something I couldn’t take seriously, because it came from that awful narcissist YB. I quit 2/3 of the way through, and was so very proud of myself that I did. Now I feel very relieved that this jerk is called out, finally.
@@bunnyr9598 You are absolutely 100% percent right in my estimation. I made them give me a refund too. I threatened to expose them on social media. The first thing I did when I left was to go get bangs.
Bunny R wow your story hear is what I hoped to find from sky's vid, a proper look right into it from a mindful person unafraid to speak the truth. I wanna kno more abt there buisness practice, God bless sky an all but she wants in on all that dollar to, it lets her down each thing she tries works in the end and it like she must get kick backs
I just found your channel the other day and I'm hooked! You cover the most fascinating subjects. I am struggling with my (Catholic) faith right now and the more I research, the more I am finding a whole new way of seeing things. Thank you :-)
Love the video, love you Sky. Bhajan, is just one dude who happened to do the form, he certainly was a strong motive factor, but just that, and human...very human. The practice embodies more than just his approach, and as always with these things, all men are strawdogs. As Bruce Lee wisely said "take what is useful...discard what is not."
How is the practice more than just his approach when it is impossible to find out about the lineage. He could have easily made it all up.... he did study NLP in the 80s though..lol
@@samanthab6642 it's definitely both. There is much in Tantra that has been written and in oral tradition, but he (and many who studied with him, even more), developed a lot of it. It is decidedly much different than NLP :-)
@@kuoppa2559 You should research on ascended masters and lives of some ancient monks, saints and yogis such as Swami Vivekananda, Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji, Jesus Christ, Buddha, etc. There are certain breathing techniques where you push all the sexual and lower energies from the Root, Saccral and Solar Plexus upwards the spine against the force of gravity into the Heart, Throat, Third Eye and finally Crown center right below the crown area of your skull. These are not to be tried without a guru or advanced spiritual master as the air / breath / "prana" / life force might get stuck and form bubbles in the CSF and cause fatal brain injury. It's a very slow process and to get there, one must do "Pranayama" which is a type of breathing practice followed by "Nadi Suddhi" which is meant to revitalize and rejuvenate all the nerve endings or energy centers of the body. The whole process takes at least a minimum of 1 year and in some cases longer. Once you master these 2 along with few yoga poses, you can proceed to open the 2 extra sensory organs hidden in the brain by carefully breathing out the into the brain while at the same time coiling the kundalini upwards. It's surely not easy and may take a lifetime or more to achieve this. But, that's the only way to end the spiritual journey through a final death without pain and suffering to permanently tie a knot at the end of the spiritual thread to reach God.
I became interested in this yoga for 30 years ago and even translated a book called:Sat Nam Rasayan in my own native language Dutch. A divine healing and all about sharing a sacred space. Through the whole process of doing the exercises i became gradually aware of the huge benefits of this energy system and yoga. Still those findings are with me this day in time. Thank you Sky for sharing your experience and footage.
I love this form of yoga. This video is lovely. Thank you. I feel it's important to not "throw the baby out with the bath water" when it comes to corrupt gurus ♡
I love Kundalini Yoga. Out of all Yoga forms I have tried I like Kundalini Yoga the most. I love chanting mantra's, breath of Fire makes me feel powerful. And now that I have started Kundalini Yoga again and am on the 24th day of Mariah Gancheva's weightloss program I feel better, stronger and more flexibel. I can see my arm muscles become stronger. The back of my legs were hurting a bit yesterday.
Hey Sky, I love your videos. Its really awesome seeing someone engage in all these personal growth practices and openly share their experience and knowledge on youtube. I've been doing Kundalini Yoga for the past year now and I've also experienced some of the dope benefits you mentioned in this video. Although, I haven't had to engage in any mantra, pranayama or kriya techniques in order to reap these benefits. If i'm correct all those techniques are used in order to awaken or stimulate the kundalini energy itself. But it might take awhile to achieve a full awakening going down this route. What i've been practicing is called simplified kundalini yoga whereby a person's kundalini life force is awakened by a trained master's touch and moved to their higher level chakras (third eye, crown, etc.). After the awakening the person can start to meditate on their life force at each chakra and reach the really beautiful, expansive, and subtle states of consciousness everyone's after lol I've recently been initiated into the crown chakra level and OH MAN...words truly cannot fully capture the experience I have when I do this meditation. Its awe can only be understood until you experience it for yourself. That being said though my life isn't all rainbows and sunshine. I still suffer from a fair share of social anxiety, isolation and depression not unlike many others around the world. However, the 40 mins of pure joy and universal love I experience everyday during my meditations has helped me immensely in so many different ways. I encourage everyone to search up about simplified kundalini yoga or just straight up traditional kundalini yoga (like the one in this video) and give it a try for yourself. Anyway, that was my (very long) two cents haha Be blessed by the Divine Mother y'all!
Great video, love the quality production and how you were able to meet with & practice with some great teachers. I am a kundalini teacher but not officially trained through 3ho. I feel these days are different than when kundalini first came to the West .These days, I feel we have deeper responsibility for people's and students safety + safe use of these powerful modalities such as kundalini. We need safe communities + students that feel comfortable speaking up. Anyone who wants to try it, definitely make sure you feel safe with the teacher you have, and you feel connection + care, it is very important in my opinion! Also, you can begin just through doing a 5 minute meditation per day rather than needing to do a whole 1.5-2hr class per day. Simple can sometimes be even better! x Blessings to you. thanks and great channel! x
Dear Sky-All of these techniques and rituals stimulate the energy body but all of this action will eventually lead up to a burnout point where it seems more and more work from the conscious person must be done and the conscious person will eventually have to admit that they just don't know what they are doing and ultimately they do these rituals to connect with the higher self who is often not able to communicate with the individual because they use logical thinking and too much inner dialogue/self talk meaning the mind is always busy and thinking blocks the flow of energy from spirit. Start with 15 minutes a day (or try the whole day if you're brave if you fall back into internalizing then just get used to the difference in both states) where you drop the belief that you need to think and talk to yourself or use logic to solve a problem. Start exercising clear knowing by being fully in the present and you should feel mentally that you have more space and that frequency especially if you can maintain a state of peace and non-judgemernt and stay in the present-even if good ideas and realizations come keep staying in the present and eventually you'll tune to the Gamma state the way that was meant to be and you can then clearly "hear" the higher minds message which feels like super good feeling and logical bursts of insight. I was programming once and just couldn't solve the problem so I just gave up and stared at the problem until the solutions popped like magic in my head that presence with no ego is a different frequency fully in the moment where the higher mind is. It's called being in the flow where you are fully in the present and distractions and ideas are acknowledged but not allowed to snowball. Echart Tolle mentioned his discovery when he asked himself who is the person talking in my head. Practice that state everyday a little it especially in nature or when tackling a hard problem and you'll be training different brain muscles and eventually you'll hear the higher minds guidance and you're whole life's purpose will become clear because the higher mind can be talked to directly rather than just "felt". Human's have always been trying to fill that emptiness or loneliness for ages with tools, rituals, imaginary friends but they are not designed to do the job of the higher mind no matter where you go, even in the lucid dream the goal never changes it's always about finding the higher guidance which can be done in the physical here and now with a shift in thinking into present living with some practice you'll get used to it and no longer need to squeeze your brain so much to figure everything out and synchronicity will blow up. -Someone who has tried everything. TLDR: Do something creative that you love to do where your mind quiets into the present and you might feel a lot of mental space and maybe tingling in the head and more of this and you'll begin to change somehow.
Silver Neon you have never done KY my friend. It clears your mind and launders you’re thoughts in a way that you are able to see beyond what your eyes can see. If practiced consciously one becomes aware of one self sabotaging patterns. I’ve done yoga since I was 4-5years old. All sorts of yogas hatha, yvengar, vinyasa, what they call yin yoga, asthanga, Darhma and Bikhram. I’ve also done a little of Qi Gong and Tai Chi. I’ve also learned to meditate during my time at Uni and meditated quietly for years! But nothing has been so revealing and kept me so conscious, present and aware of life than KY. it just works! Maybe YB invented it by putting bits and pieces together but It Works! It’s a real technology to keep you in line with being what you really are.
It’s really sad about all these revelations about YB. If one reads through his speeches one can find profound stuff and also a lot of things that are long outdated and yes a big ego too, but whatever he did with this ky it just works!
@@layhingsiu-munro8810 The technique I described is all that is needed. It's called the flow state and it's basically like a meditation while doing something. Yoga Techniques are good and all for providing temporary gains but to get a permanent gain ones lifestyle habits have to change forever because this is about a fight with Law of Attraction and whether or not the things you do are for your expansion or instead take you backwards. People who play piano, artists who paint and draw, athletes, woodworkers as well-anything creative that is a reasonable challenge will eventually get you into the flow assuming your ego/all mind chatter that's not yours is silent and there is no music in the background or stuck in your head because it's all about getting to a certain high and peaceful frequency and snowballing it-living this way because YOU ARE THAT FREQUENCY-that is who you really are and when you can maintain and live like that and you might have to say goodbye to some enjoyable activities then at some point once it has reached a certain point and you'll feel really at peace then you can ask questions and get answers like magic. I have found personally that music stuck in the head is one of the biggest roadblocks for getting in the flow-most people who attempt to enter the flow will immediately get shown what their current frequency is and usually it's not the flow but if they stay with it long enough law of attractions momentum will fade the stuff away and they will begin to enter the flow-once your in the flow it's easier to maintain it as long as you don't introduce what corrupted that state in the first place (listening to music when you feel really good (music is like a drug-feel good now pay later).
Great great presentation and summary! I dabbled in kundalini yoga in 2003-2004. But was still a little sceptical. I even stayed up the at night when Yogi Bhajan passed and did some of the prescribed chants. I did kriyas and had positive shifts but still kept it st arms length even I genuinely liked it. I’m going through difficulties now and was about to turn to kriyas to help when this video showed up in my recommendations. Now I feel much more empowered and excited to revisit this old friend. Thank you!
You inspire me Sky, you are actively pursuing practices and ways to maximize your potential. You are surely tapping into the higher and better version of yourself.You so adventurous and liberated!! So envious of your journey!! Love and peace✌
I have been practicing daily for 10 years now, love it. A couple good jokes ive hear about it are calling it "kinda-looney yoga" and "Aquarian sadhana, the only place you can show up at 4am and still be late" ha! Indeed some seemingly very silly practices
You are seriously my current favourite channel to watch. Go get em girl. Happy to see your subs have doubled since I first discovered your channel. You will have 1 million within less than two years from now, im pretty sure.
@@livingtheskylife Its your concious curious mentality that wins people over. You dont go out there doubting or believing too much. You really have an open mind. Good luck to you
I absolutely love this video. Thank you for addressing the controversy that is coming to the fore. I think it is important to remember that this practice is about so much more than Yogi Bhajan. We need to remember he was NOT the founder of this practice, he brought the teachings to the West and to people in general. It had before, like many other forms of yoga been taught only to a selected few. Yoga in itself is not about getting the perfect body, it is about working with your mind and living your true potential. The West has distorted yoga and taken it away from its true meaning. I was cautious in the beginning as do not believe in hero worship in any form and as a teacher have been very quiet with the 'as taught by YB. The fact is Kundalini yoga is not for everyone, it can be intimidating. That is exactly why it works. You will find it when you are ready. I will continue to practice till my last breath. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Sat Nam
Thank you for this. I started Kundalini and helped me get put of a chronic depressive state of being and it sparked my awakening. I am very grateful for this. And I began sharing the practice with my students. However I did not know about this cult-like beginnings, I am very sorry about this and it is hard to let it go, but I want to focus on the good that it is bringing us all, as a society. I do not feel called to follow or impose anything about how you should dress and I do not force anybody to sing anything they do not feel comfortable singing. I love that my students and myself remain in freedom of who we are, what we choose and what we do. Again very grateful that you are sharing all of this♥️🙏🏼 love your work. PS, trap music, personally, brings uneasy feelings and does not promote an open state of listening and digesting information. i am aware this is a very personal suggestion, but I would very much love it if the background music would be more easy listening ♥️
It's funny I practice Kundalini and I've never heard of this Yogi even. But that's because I practice what my body intuitively wants to do, and when something happens or seems like it did. I then go look it up and see what's going on. I'm glad I've taken this approach because it's made it so that I don't have my results muddied by expectational influences of what people tell me is going to happen. Kundalini yoga is absolutely a science. There's tons of scientific research very easy to understand. The one thing they don't mention in any of these studies though, is the fact that you could give yourself a psychotic break or things like that if you're trying to awaken it and your body in mind is not ready. So I was seeing that they were telling you to just push through. That can be absolutely horrible advice. If you're experiencing too much pain, you can call some serious medical problems. Like as serious as they come. Mental and physically. The reason this isn't talked about that I think, is because when you tell people it unfortunately can put them down that negative pass thinking it's going to happen. So I think they kind of lightly talk about it. It's something that they don't really want to mention because they don't want you to think It's dangerous. And it's a very beautiful practice that I really feel everybody should be engaged in. But at your own pace. The whole push through thing can be the worst advice you ever receive. But at the same time sometimes you do need to push through because some people are kind of wimps. So pushing through to them isn't really pushing through anything. But then if you tell somebody like me to push through you're basically telling me to do something until I black out or die. Because I will do something until I black out. Which can be horrible advice. And from experience and poorly practicing certain Kundalini breath work. I absolutely resurfaced a lot of trauma that caused me a lot of problems. Now this trauma needed to come up so it was a happy accident in the end. But it was only a happy accident because I figured out what was going on. If I didn't figure out what was going on I probably would be in a psych center. Put some contacts to this. I have PTSD from almost passing away several years ago and it kind of sparked this whole situation going on. And I already had trauma coming up so I was doing things to take care of it. And bring it up slowly. But because I have major muscle cramping problems, it was very difficult for me to do some of the breath work practices. So I was putting too much effort into them and bringing too much fire and my practice was unbalanced. And this started leading to some very serious problems. Which I adjusted and fixed but there needs to be more discussion on this stuff.
I love kundalini yoga and Guru Jagat. I went to Scotland with Rama and it was amazing! The prosperity kriyas are so powerful and I feel so ME with Kundalini.
I have been doing kundilini yoga since 2011, i love it - i dont use the yho tbh i just go from class to class or online, but mostly myself - very powerful it has made me so strong
I had the same thing happen to me ... I was leading a group of women spirituality ... kundalini was part of this class i shot a video ... and then the controversy! Had to do the same... stop 🛑, reflect, record a new opening! Great video
Hi Sky - Nice video. Truth is, most of the stuff people here in the West think of as Yoga is just Hatha yoga and physical exercises. Yoga is so much more then that. Truly, Hatha yoga is just meant to keep the body healthy and supple so that one can meditate and go deeper. IMHO anyway. As far a the whole Guru sex thing goes -- been there - done that. Not personally though, lol. Still working on coming to terms and balancing it all out. Seems like most popular gurus have some skeletons popping up these days. I lived down the street from the Yogi Bhajan Ashram at a Jain Ashram in Long Beach. Even back then in the 80's there were rumors swirling around about weird, "not so Dharmic," stuff going on down the road. All hearsay - no proof at that time. That being said, meditation works and even though some dark stuff comes up with the leaders of these things, it does not mean the practices all suck. Again, IMHO. This world is both dark and light and shit comes up. This does not mean I condone or defend these guys by the way. And as we know, power can corrupt humans quickly. Truth seems to be that we are all the real Guru, just trying to realize that as we grow through this crazy/cool world seems to be the key. Again, I don't claim to know the answers, just my 2 cents. Sorry for the long diatribe. And just to be clear - no weird sex stuff that I know about happened at that Jain Ashram I mentioned. Don't want anyone to get the wrong idea.
Great video! Love Guru Jagat! On topic though, same has gone down in the Ashtanga community. Sexual abuse by the Guru Pattabhi Jois. Very sad. As far as the practice, I find it's magic and has helped my Digestion exponentially. I have been a Yogini for over 20 years...it's all good.
Namaste🙏 discovered your video this morning..I discovered kundalini 7 years ago, yogi bhajan aside, the actual yoga changed my life in a positive way, it brought me to the present spiritual awakening, and i would advice anyone to try it 💯💥🙏🙏
I've just done a bit of this yoga and I felt amazing while doing it. Personally since he is dead I just want to enjoy the yoga. I've been to the centres and they have never tried to convert me
I can put you in touch with Guru Singh who lives in LA and teaches at Yoga West. He was Yogi Bhajans first student and teaches the teachers training. My wife and I have been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 2006 which is when Tony Robbins introduced me to Guru Singh. Guru Singh would be the best person to speak to about Kundalini Yoga.
One of my biggest takeaways from 2020: our nervous systems capacity to safely and wholly feel & release +/- sensation is DIRECTLY correlated with our ability to *attract/receive* whatever it is we are trying to manifest!
Hi sky I Just wanted to say i Love your Channel and you I love your videos they are so fun yet so informative at the same time Im 12 years old and from Australia ♥️
I actually started out with this type of kundalini yoga practice way back in 2013. Nowadays I'm mostly practicing a mix of hatha yoga, vinyasa flow and kriyas by sadhguru. But this video kind of makes me wanna give kundalini yoga "yogi bjajan style" another go. Great reporting skills btw.
Love love LOVED this!!! Trying a beginner kundalini video today! Thank you for the inspiration! I’m also looking forward to your follow up video ☺️ Love and light ✨
I don’t know why I waited so long to watch this video. I just didn’t think I was prepared to begin this journey because I know how inspiring you make your videos and now I need to get on Gaia and give this a chance! Thank you for all the work you put into this video and sharing your experience 💕
Kundalini yoga may lead to a Kundalini awakening. This is VERY VERY SERIOUS for the person especially if they are not prepared or have the support system in place. It's a reality shattering experience. After an awakening you will need to have a perfectly clean life. Please get informed if you want to do this. K (kundalini) is an incredible gift but not one without a price tag.
As somrone who had an accidental kundalini awakening a year ago (and is still not able to function) Im glad at least some people warn others about the dangers of practices like these. It seems very forceful You really want to prepare well and really think what you might be getting yourself into. It seems to me that the teachers aren't telling their students about the potential dangers of these practices
I’ve been doing kundalini yoga for years and never met another student or teacher who had a kundalini awakening of the kind you seem to be suggesting that sounds a bit like a psychotic episode. People I know just felt happier, more serene, less depressed and more energetic. Kundalini yoga seems like a very safe framework in which to work with kundalini energy. I don’t think it has anything to do with spontaneous kundalini awakenings people describe.
I personally love love kundalini yoga! I'm not a part of a group or anything, I do it alone just from youtube and it makes me feel amazing, I'm someone who has had multiple kundalini energy rising experiences and have experienced states of bliss. No matter what these negative yogis turned into, it's great for your body and breathwork is amazing for anyone and it makes me feel so good. So I try to just look at what it means for me and my own intentions while doing it. I don't like the westernized "let me get a hot body" type of yoga, i was seeking the most spiritual type of practice and i found it lol
Had my first Kundalini yoga class yesterday and here is your video 🙂 First I came across the music of Ajeet and Santnam Kaur, then I had a great Kundalini experience with plant medicine. It seems to be a part of my way, will definitely continue to raise the Kundalini energy 😇
Thank you so much for shedding light on what’s going on in the Kundalini community. I’ve been so confused and just hearing about the book has cleared up questions I have. I would love an update on this once you’ve done more research. Kundalini is an amazing practice that I love, so it’s important to me that I have all the information also.
In answer to the question "Is Kundalini Yoga a Cult or a Powerful Practice", I would say that 3HO is a Cult of Devotion to the late Yogi Bhajan whereas "Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan" is a copyrighted system of Yogic exercises. Whether you buy in to the cult or you just engage in the practice, it is purely a question of personal commitment. Many people have been victimized by cultish leaders. But many of these so-called victims actually GAIN INSIGHTS into their own being as a result of their commitment to the cult and come out the other side of their experience better off than they were when they went in. This is because organizations like Scientology, 3HO, Rajneesh, TM, MAGA, the Freemasons and the Roman Catholic Church offer VALID opportunities to learn and grow as a human being even if some of their members are engaged in less than saintly behavior. This is not to excuse abuses committed by cult leaders or followers. Abuse is abuse whether it is inflicted upon a child by a parent or is sanctioned by a twisted Constituency. I think we can all agree that forced physical sexual abuse is inexcusable. Being a victim of such abuse, I can speak to the damage that it does to a person's emotional well being. But life is more than this and so are most "Cults". We can't excuse the abuses committed "in the name of Jesus by Priests". Nor can we excuse those who would enforce contracts of indentured servitude upon willing yet unsuspecting innocents. But we can and must move on from this. Even if we can't forgive our abusers, we must move on. We have no choice. This moment of life, in the Mother Reality of the here and now, is the Prodigal Child of Father Future. Let us be still and will our consciousness forward in time into the next moment of becoming. Release the Past and BE closer to the instant of Creation. In the realm of future probabilities, in that place BEFORE we are circumscribed into our next moment of "real", let us be THERE at Peace with what is to come and let us postulate that the next moment of becoming is full of Light and that Love is here and there and everywhere forever. Just do it. See if that doesn't change things (at least until the phone rings). In the words of Jai Uttal, LET ME BE SKY. Thank you Beautiful Sky, for offering us a platform on which to speak of these things. E
Dear Sky, I would love for you to one day spend time with the intense ascetic orthodox christians in the desert who chant nonstop and live with nothing. It would be amazing to see what kind of transformation you experience! एकचक्र❤
I have been practicing cobra breath, which pulls Kundalini energy up to third eye, my teacher Cynthia Rothchild is very awesome. I have also practiced Shaolin monk meditations before Tantra. It seems chi and Kundalini are the same, just used differently. I watch a video that is Tantra yoga, but not as extreme as in this video. It's main goal is to activate your energy, when I was doing hot yoga, my energy was out of this world, and loved every minute of it. I may get some backlash, but it's my opinion. I know my teachers always said Kundalini and chi are completely different, I have tapped into both which felt the same, just the way you used the energy is only different. Maybe that's what they meant, maybe not lol. I am open to all though, just saying one practice is right, doesn't feel right to me. I still practice shaolin monk meditation too
I've been practicing Kundalini Tantra since 1999 and prior to that other modalities of human transformation in which I had some moderate success. The Shakti erupted in me in the early year of 2000. Since then I have spent 20 years in researching this subject, fortuitously I am university trained in research. By grace I stumbled into several tantra practicing sanskrit scholars who have translated relevant tantras from the perspective of experienced meditators. Christopher Wallis and Alex Sanderson are two. From that body of work I can safely say the modern take on kundalini bears little resemblance to classical tantra in many important ways. Yogi Bahjan's practices are a random collection of various practices which as a whole also bear little resemblance to classical tantra. However the Bihar school of kundalini tantra in India is more similar to the classic way. Having seen the video and assuming nothing about the practice has been left out I would say this. In no way am I suggesting that this practice would not bring benefits such as health and vigor. My concern is that there are other essential practices not mentioned here that go hand in hand with the more physical asana some of which I recognized and many I didn't in this video. I live in an area where some people put themselves out as kundalini yoga teachers who have never experienced the kundalini. This is no small matter. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of having a teacher who has a completed kundalini. It will accelerate your transformation, deepen your transformation and be a grounding rock for you in the event that your kundalini rises. I have several students, some have been with me for years. I don't advertise or charge a fee of any kind. I don't wear the uniform and would be rightly identified as an ordinary person by those that meet me. If your interested in health and vigour then this group would serve that purpose. However if you have a deep yearning for more than that I suspect you will need more than they can offer. God bless.
For me, a guru is someone so clear and well defined about the spiritual part of them that it's easy to connect to their intelligence, mindset or whole bodyset. Then you can use that accessible intelligence to deal with your own problems, it's not about believing in them or agreing their opinion. I gess people keep images of gurus around them to facilitate that accessibility and feel thankful to the non physical tool these people left in the world.
Never tried kundalini yoga but definitely have activated my kundalini through Hatha, anusara and tantra practice. I have healed on so many levels emotionally, physically, energetically and spiritually. I believe any form of yoga other then fitness western yoga has the ability to do this healing and self realization effect. It ultimately is participant that needs to have the devotion and dedication to the practice. Happy for you Sky, I’m definitely going to give it try see if I’m missing anything that I have not yet discovered through my practice. Did they at all discuss if this practice it pita provoking? Thanks for sharing.
Intrigued you were getting strange vibes from Bhajan, and sure enough.. I'd never heard of him but would have been off put my his constant presence as well. The self is the one and only true guru.
This was a really great video! Question - did you ever ask why Tibetan Buddhist thangkas (among other objects) adorned the walls of the studios? Is there a particular relationship that the yogis had with Tibetan Buddhism, or was it more like... holy decoration? Thanks so much for sharing/filming!
Kundalini yoga is just a another path alongside other ancient practices which can help you to awaken your Kundalini. Bhajan was just another leader, the enlightener who showed the way but in order to awaken you have to follow your own path and find your own way to the truth trough healing, transformation, rebirth etc.
Thank you so much for this video, Sky! I saw it right when I needed to. ❤ Blessings! 🧘♀️ 🐍 🌪 ✨ P.s. You’re such a lovely young lady! Such an inspiration seeing your dedication through anything you put your mind to!!! Xo
I've been practicing Kundalini Yoga for about 13 years. It changed my life for the better, in unbelievable ways actually! Yogi Bhajan may have been the messenger of KY for the west, but it existed long before him. It's an ancient and timeless practice. Use your discernment. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater as they say.
Traditional (ancient, if you like) Kundalini yoga practices are quite different from what YB taught. He mixed up yoga kriyas, delusional ideas about energy bodies and new aged thinking. So nobody could verify whether these things were true or not, he calls them ancient newly discovered practices. He was a fraud and the practice of kundalini as most know it today is not authentic know kundalini yoga. It’s people doing ridiculous things that generate energy in the body and is no more special or spiritual than doing jumping jacks or running or any other sport.
@@SusanHopkinson My knowledge comes from experience not from reading books or articles, not from following the teachings of Yogi Bhajan or any "Guru." Everyone's path will look different. There is no "right" way that leads back to Source 🙏❤ Like I said, this path changed my life. I cannot dismiss what I've experienced because the messenger turned out to be a shady guy (like most spiritual leaders). I've learned over the years how to discern what is from Source and what is not 🙏❤
Yogi Bhajan had no active lineage nor relationship with his former gurus. He invented many of the practices and ripped the Sikh people of their identity and prayers. I would not recommend Kundalini Yoga in order to develop a safe Kundalini sadhana. Authentic Hatha (tantric) yoga comes from Gorakshnath line of Siddhas and Naths -- Shantinath
Your first sentence is incorrect. Yogi Bhajan was a Yoga adept and a Master of White Tantra who relied heavily upon the influence of his early teachers to become a Teacher in his own right (and how do you know he wasn't in communication with his Teachers?) Your second sentence is patently untrue. Yogi Bhajan WAS a Sikh and drew upon his religious tradition to formulate his methodology. He was also a member of the Khalsa Order and, in accordance with the tents of this sect, he spent his entire life devoted to the task of bringing the light of Sikhism to the Western World. Thus, he didn't rip anybody off --- he was teaching and practicing what was his own religion in the first place. He did not do this to establish some sort of controversy about the validity of any particular kind of yogic practice --- as you seem to be doing. "Kundalini Yoga As Taught By Yogi Bhajan" is not a Hatha Yoga Practice. It is based upon the teachings known as "Sukshma Vyayama" which can be found in the Upanishads. These particular teachings are also set forth prominently in portions of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Hatha Yoga is not mentioned in the Sutras at all, it being a development that post-dates publication of the Sutras. The only "posture" recommended in the Sutras is "Yoga Mudra" which, in Patanjali's inimitable fashion and stark simplicity of exposition, explains the entire lexicon of Hatha Yoga postures.* By this I do not mean to denigrate the wonderful teachings of Hatha Yoga. I have been practicing these teachings for more than 50 years and have also benefited from a lifelong study of Kundalini Yoga techniques and I find nothing negative in either school. I wonder why you feel the need to snark about this subject, and though I hesitate to ask, is that what YOUR line of teachers inspires YOU to do? * This is a good-natured joke about Patanjali that only adept readers of the Sutras get to laugh about. Sutra 1.1 was translated by Swami Vivikananda to read "Now, concentration is explained". Some students interpret this phrase to mean that the following 195 Sutras, taken together as a whole, explain the concept of "Concentration". But that is the hard way to interpret this phrase. If one can focus their attention on the ever unfolding passage of the moment of "NOW" --- together with all past events leading up to that moment --- and all events that proceed away from it into the future --- and can hold that position throughout Matter, Energy, Space and Time --- without need for further explanation or less direct components of practice --- THEN the notion of Concentration will be fully explained --- and one will have no need for the following 195 Sutras. This is actually a VERY simple idea that is almost impossible to grasp. Those who can achieve this understanding on the first go are to be greatly admired. The rest of us find the ensuing lexicon of examples to be most enlightening. If you doubt this interpretation of Sutra 1.1 I ask only that you consider this: the 195 other Sutras consist of --- methods of achieving concentration --- and of guidelines for recognizing and exploring the states of consciousness that perfect concentration will bring about. And many of these methods and procedures include the phrase “… and if this doesn’t work, then try …”. This implies that none of these methods and explanations are needed if you can just do Sutra number 1.1. So Sutra 1.1 must ALSO be an instruction on how to achieve perfected concentration. Thus it is proved that Patanjali was an inveterate comedian. Namaste right here right now. E
@@erikmeyer2323 Dear Erik, I am sorry if it offended you, but it's the factual truth of history which is not easily found in books or in your KY trainings. I suggest you learn a bit more about it, Sikhs never did Yoga practices because their religion forbids them. You have to dig a little, concerning the story about the gurus, I'd suggest reading the bombshell article of Philipp Deslippe, titled "From Maharaj to mahan tantrik, the construction of Yogi Bhakan's Kundalini Yoga" It is easy to find online and by far the best source to explain the whole story. Hope you find peace and don't stop doing Yoga the problem is not Yoga it's Yogi Bhajan; he lied extensively to build his reputation and follower base, would you trust a lying guru? I wouldn't.
@@Shanti_devi19 No offence taken ... I am not a Sihk or a member of 3HO, nor am I a devotee of ANY Guru. I am a long time Yoga practitioner and a student of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These ancient teachings are not religious in nature. Yoga is a contemplative PRACTICE. It does not deal with the subject of God. That is why, traditionally, yogis only speak of seven Chakras. I am also a student of Engineering Science. Engineering Science does not deal with the subject of God either, but, it helps me design buildings that don't fall down and kill people. Religion is a belief system. Personal belief in God is an essential requirement for membership in any Religious community. But "Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan" is not a religion any more than Engineering Science. It is a unique (and I think valid) interpretation of the Yoga Sutras as applied to the exigencies of modern culture. As far as Sihk prohibitions against Yoga go, please read the following excerpt: "Guru Nanak admonished the yogis of his time that they were on the wrong path, teaching them that leaving their families, leaving this world and practicing austerities would not merge them with God. This is true. He did not teach that yoga itself is bad or in any way incongruent with the life of a Sikh. In fact, the internal process of merging with the Infinite that is described in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib is identical to universal principles of union with God which were taught by the ancient yogis." I agree with this statement. The Yoga Sutras describe methods of achieving concentration and the states of consciousness that may result from practicing those methods. But, the methods represented in the Sutras were not ever intended to be prescriptive as witnessed by the many "schools" of Yoga that have proceeded from these writings --- including Kundalini-Yoga-As-Taught-By-Yogi Bhajan. There is more to be gained from finding good in the ancient teachings than there is in fearing the parts you disagree with. Eschew controversy. It is not the way. Find Peace, know Love, spread Light. E
What do you think of kundalini yoga? Let me know!
Looks hardcore! Wow‼️You are not new to yoga and it was beating you up. Great video Sky‼️✨Thanks for that. I was waiting for it and it was worth it. Peace & love.
sounds perfect I must try this
Can't wait to try!!
I've been curious about it for some time and now your video stimulated my interest further. I'll see what I can find in the small town where I live. Also, I look forward to seeing your follow up after you learn more about the founder's controversy. Like you, I have my misgivings about anything that revolves around one figure. I underwent a vipassana meditation retreat and one of the things that held me back from throwing myself all the way into the experience was the constant presence of the founder SN Goenka in the practice. Thanks for your work!
@@georgegasmatron1 if you have trouble finding a class near you, you could try out a video on Gaia! www.gaia.com/portal/skylife - very interesting about Vipassana. Also something I really want to try! Thanks for sharing :)
That was very wise of you to do a intro like that. Much respect.
Agreed 👍
I love kundalini yoga, but I only practice it at home. It does work well to change your mood uplift your spirit, give you energy etc. I love it for this. I do understand that controversy around it. But I maintain an open mind bc I know that anyone can taint anything, even a "good thing". So through just the actual practice I know it works. It does always suck when someone's name get attached and ruins a good practice like this. I have seen it many times. A legit whole hearted beliefs that is wanting to be shared is ruined by controversy that isn't even fully known if it is true or not. Our minds are obsessed with something being "good or bad". What I have personally learned I am now 35, is that people will all search for truth but that is something that can only be found with in. We cannot take other peoples words and opinions and create our truth, this is seeking validation in the external and it will disappoint. I do enjoy your video's and open mind a lot but I feel like many times our "culture" has closed our minds to many things . Sat-Nam
I agree about home practice. If you are a regular practitioner you will feel the room's energy, sometimes that isn't productive for your personal journey. Granted, yoga classes are great for those just starting off and learning. Also, classes are not a substitute for a personal practice, if you can't do it each day then what bother at all.
How do you not have millions of subscribers ?? Your content is so well thought out, analytical, high quality
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15:40 "You gotta have a type of neuron velocity and intelligence to make your life better and start to experiment with what that looks like"
I have only just started the video but before I forget I just wanted to add that I have studied classical Kundalini yog in India and it’s not at all like the Yogi Bajan Kundalini. Kundalini is essentially creative life force energy that runs through all of us and there are many ways to activate and express it. You do not need to follow any exact science to know or understand it. When I looked into studying it I was put off my Yogi Bajan himself as he seemed to be driven by ego and it was a red flag to me.
I am so happy I studied it from the ground up in its ancient and classical sense which does not come with rules or strict movements but more of just an understanding and education around it. Excited to get stuck into your video x
Where did you go in India as I am interested to learn as well from the ground up.
Sarah it was called Shiva Tattva Yoga school in Rishikesh. You can also read books on it too. Our school gave us this book to study also while we were there: kundalini Tantra by swami satyananda saraswati xx
This is so interesting! Thank you so much for sharing!
Sky Life pleasure! My kundalini teacher explained people are activating their inner kundalini energy all the time without even knowing it... dancing.... sex.... so many things.... it’s simply a creative energy force which we can tap into in many many ways. I guess Yogi Bajan simply created a specific method to tap into it. I just find it a shame when people put so many rules and strict methods around it as it can put people off. Also... spiritual egos are just so off putting to me as it shows such a lack of humility and congruence with their teachings which I feel yogi Bajan suffered with. As do many others. I would love to see you do a video on this topic!! X
my thoughts exactly! learning from the origins and source of KY! Bhajan creeps me out too.
I did kundalini yoga to fix my back issues and it totally fixed my body and built up my stamina and third eye, I just did the yoga with a small group and the teacher was very good and attentive and not weird or creepy at all
The god father of yoga is Patanjali who wrote the 'Yoga Sutras', which describe the 8 limbs of yoga.
Only two of those branches deal with posture and breathing, the other 6 limbs deal with moral behavior and mostly have to do with controlling the mind and attaining higher spiritual states.
When 'Sky Life' said "Kundalini yoga is a lot more spiritually minded than most western forms of yoga. It's just completely different than most of these trendy, fitness based forms of yoga..."
She might as well have said, "While Kundalini yoga stays more true to the universal roots of all yoga, trendy western styles are a hallow shell to the deeply spiritual path of enlightenment which is yoga."
Kundalini yoga has kept me sober and sane for many years! It’s a powerful and wonderful practice!
Thank you so much for doing this incredible video. As a kundalini yoga teacher, I can say you did an amazing job of covering Kundalini yoga. I sent you an email and IG message about my thoughts. I hope you'll be able to see it.
It taps into the potential of the human body, like a workout for the nervous system, lymph, and endocrine systems that reset hormones and parasympathetic rhythms like sleep.. also the spine, lungs, heart, liver all get massively flooded with oxygen. The benefits are full-spectrum. Its a boost for the whole human vehicle.
Also, everyone comments on skin quality and complexion. Complexion is an indicator of heart, and overall circulatory system health. This is what Chinese medicine calls our fire energy. Most of us sit or stand in the same places all day, or burn ourselves out anxiously running around. Kundalini is the boost we’ve all wanted to physically and mentally upgrade our day to day. Dogma and all other stigmas not included!😊✨🧡 namaste y’all
Another epic video! I love how you really 100% throw yourself into everything you do while still remaining clear headed and balanced. You’re very skilled Sky! Love it!!!!! And I LOVE that you felt such a big difference mentally afterwards!!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 X
so happy you liked the video!!
Sky Life always Sky!! I really appreciate how talented you are and also how skilled you are at yoga and ice baths and basically everything you put your mind to! It’s inspiring 🙏🏻
It’s important to find your own yoga. Each body has its own expression.
Doing choreography gives you the experience of the original maker of that sequence.
It is not something bad, but for your own evolvement, your yoga is inside, and unlocking it is a part of your path
@Trinity M -.-" It's funny how we make judgements about people from one comment on the internet. Probably with this in mind "i know all there is, so I must be rigth." It all depends on your perspective, my journey is not equal to your journey. Good luck with that perception of yours.
Hello Sky...
You've touched on one of my favorite all-time subjects, since my twenties when I started practicing yoga. I became fascinated by Kundalini and how the ancient yogis/mystics would describe it as having the potential to catapult ones spiritual awareness and enlightenment. But I think the appeal may have been in the shroud of mystery surrounding the mystical phenomena, as it wasn't necessarily attainable by everyone, so yogis would meditate long hours every day for most of their lives in search of this elusive energy. So of course, I was convinced I had to experience this for myself as well! I guess you could say I just had to know if it was real or just folklore, and the journey began.
But unlike the curious minded young rebels of the 60s/70s, I was skeptical of the "gurus" who came over from India to enlighten us, with the exception of Paramahansa Yogananda, who came over to America earlier in the century.
I practiced Hatha yoga and meditation on a regular basis. I tried Kundalini yoga, but it didn't resonate with me, probably for the same reasons you mention here about it feeling cultish around Yogi Bhajan. I was not one to follow anyone exclusively and felt the knowledge was inherently in each of us. Fast forward 20 years later, almost 40 yrs old, I was meditating late one evening when I felt the classic burning sensation at the base of my spine and I knew immediately what was happening. Kundalini had awoken, and once awoken, you cannot stop the process from unfolding, though you can slow it down, which really only prolongs it. The experience will vary for everyone, just as a session with ayahuasca will reveal different things to different people because we are all at various levels of awakening and our needs are unique.
Fast forward another 10 years and I can say I still do not fully comprehend how Kundalini works or what it is exactly. Some want to believe it is a form of possession while others want to believe it is grace that has fallen upon us. I'm more practical about it and simply believe it's what happens when we open a biological doorway to this energy which is never truly dormant, but rather fuels our being with the energy we need to operate on an average day. But what I have learned from Kundalini, is that we have access to this powerful creative energy that can do all sorts of amazing things like heal and allow us to perceive reality in a whole different way. The takeaway from all this, relating to your video anyway, is that Kundalini yoga is designed to strengthen the body and mind for when and IF Kundalini decides to awaken. It can be traumatic mentally and physically as I can attest. So for anyone interested in pursuing this experience, I would say Kundalini yoga is a good way to prepare, in addition to meditation and "right" living, as Buddhism would have it. Kundalini magnifies all that is in our psyche, positive or negative, it doesn't judge nor care. So there is good reason to heed caution with this level of energy, but not to be afraid or think it evil. It's part of our biology and when handled with care, can allow us to achieve what are considered "miraculous" things today, but in time after some further evolution, will be considered quite normal for the human race.
Thanks for the videos and inspiration Sky.
I have only taken one class of Kundalini yoga out of interest and I fell in love with it right away. During my first chanting exercise I couldn't stop the tears rolling down my face.. this practice definitely releases whatever stagnant energy residing within the body. I had never felt so energized the way I did after my session.. one thing I have to mention though, it IS super intense and I almost passed out from the breathing exercises..and I was doing beginner breath work! Definitely recommend though.
As a long time Kundalini Yoga practioner, I say hats off to you for your open mined documentary. So well done, I love this practice.
Love love love kundalini. After 6-7 sessions i started to feel the electricity in the air and my body would feel like it filled the room
Spiritual practices are different than power hungry people who use methods and ideologies over other people. Tale as old as time.
I appreciate this reminder, in 2018 I dated a man who introduced me briefly to kundalini yoga. Because I have chronic pain, it was nearly impossible back then to ‘push through’ not do I ever condone teaching that, unless a student wishes to do so on their own and within reason. I feel ready to try it again, but this time without putting pressure on myself to try to keep up. I’ve don’t a lot of inner work in six years to love the skin I’m in. Nothing to prove, everything to gain!
I teach Kundalini yoga here in Ft Lauderdale :) and thanks for bringing awareness on this Yoga. Kundalini is a 3 and a half coiled serpent at the bottom of our spine (Just dormant energy) which exist in everyone and should not be judged with how it looks from outside :)
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I loved kundalini yoga and it helped me so much and then when I took kundalini teacher training from 3HO, it was very clear it WAS a cult and Yogi Bhajan was an abusive narcissist. It was right there in the Masters' Touch book how he treated people. Followers made excuses for him because they were trauma bonded. I quit teacher training. I was saddened because the yoga itself helped so much, but I felt duped and betrayed and abandoned the practice.
Lori Wilde I had a similar experience. I liked the classes, because they were quirky and different, but I can’t say it “helped me”. I did the training to add to my variety of teaching styles. After paying around $3000, I soon found out that I joined a cult. This is much more than a yoga practice it is a religion. They tell you how to eat, when to sleep, (which is very little), how to roll over in bed, get up, take a freezing cold shower, gag yourself 3 times, then go about your 3 am -5 am exercise/meditation bs that your teacher assigns you. I was told that dreaming is a weakness. My teacher spoke of YB like she was in love with him. We were forced to watch videos of him each class. He was so vulgar, so angry, a total narcissist. If you asked a question in class that had a tone that might even question this technology, you were made an example. I was pulled by my limbs in all directions by my classmates. It was a total mind fuck. I could see the brainwashing all around me, and I felt like I was in a punk reality show. Oh, your not supposed to shave your legs, pluck your eyebrows or cut your hair. The white tantric yoga was ridiculous, painful, and embarrassing. To me YB was laughing as he made up some of these ridiculous kriyas. They were made to shame, humiliate, and cause pain. You are basically hyperventilating the whole class, then made to do exercises far too long, so you are grateful and relieved when they are over. The spirituality was something I couldn’t take seriously, because it came from that awful narcissist YB. I quit 2/3 of the way through, and was so very proud of myself that I did. Now I feel very relieved that this jerk is called out, finally.
@@bunnyr9598 You are absolutely 100% percent right in my estimation. I made them give me a refund too. I threatened to expose them on social media. The first thing I did when I left was to go get bangs.
sure. but, speak for yourself.
mpchead621 we are speaking about our experiences, and it feels so good to be free to be heard.
Bunny R wow your story hear is what I hoped to find from sky's vid, a proper look right into it from a mindful person unafraid to speak the truth. I wanna kno more abt there buisness practice, God bless sky an all but she wants in on all that dollar to, it lets her down each thing she tries works in the end and it like she must get kick backs
I just found your channel the other day and I'm hooked! You cover the most fascinating subjects. I am struggling with my (Catholic) faith right now and the more I research, the more I am finding a whole new way of seeing things. Thank you :-)
Congratulations! Ex Catholic here? God is everywhere!!❤️
im recently an ex christain and ik how you feel!!!
Love the video, love you Sky. Bhajan, is just one dude who happened to do the form, he certainly was a strong motive factor, but just that, and human...very human. The practice embodies more than just his approach, and as always with these things, all men are strawdogs. As Bruce Lee wisely said "take what is useful...discard what is not."
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How is the practice more than just his approach when it is impossible to find out about the lineage. He could have easily made it all up.... he did study NLP in the 80s though..lol
@@samanthab6642 it's definitely both. There is much in Tantra that has been written and in oral tradition, but he (and many who studied with him, even more), developed a lot of it. It is decidedly much different than NLP :-)
@@kuoppa2559 You should research on ascended masters and lives of some ancient monks, saints and yogis such as Swami Vivekananda, Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji, Jesus Christ, Buddha, etc. There are certain breathing techniques where you push all the sexual and lower energies from the Root, Saccral and Solar Plexus upwards the spine against the force of gravity into the Heart, Throat, Third Eye and finally Crown center right below the crown area of your skull. These are not to be tried without a guru or advanced spiritual master as the air / breath / "prana" / life force might get stuck and form bubbles in the CSF and cause fatal brain injury. It's a very slow process and to get there, one must do "Pranayama" which is a type of breathing practice followed by "Nadi Suddhi" which is meant to revitalize and rejuvenate all the nerve endings or energy centers of the body. The whole process takes at least a minimum of 1 year and in some cases longer. Once you master these 2 along with few yoga poses, you can proceed to open the 2 extra sensory organs hidden in the brain by carefully breathing out the into the brain while at the same time coiling the kundalini upwards. It's surely not easy and may take a lifetime or more to achieve this. But, that's the only way to end the spiritual journey through a final death without pain and suffering to permanently tie a knot at the end of the spiritual thread to reach God.
@@expiredentity683 Can you still eat meat doing this?🙏🥩
I became interested in this yoga for 30 years ago and even translated a book called:Sat Nam Rasayan in my own native language Dutch. A divine healing and all about sharing a sacred space. Through the whole process of doing the exercises i became gradually aware of the huge benefits of this energy system and yoga. Still those findings are with me this day in time. Thank you Sky for sharing your experience and footage.
I love this form of yoga. This video is lovely. Thank you. I feel it's important to not "throw the baby out with the bath water" when it comes to corrupt gurus ♡
Well said
I love Kundalini Yoga. Out of all Yoga forms I have tried I like Kundalini Yoga the most. I love chanting mantra's, breath of Fire makes me feel powerful. And now that I have started Kundalini Yoga again and am on the 24th day of Mariah Gancheva's weightloss program I feel better, stronger and more flexibel. I can see my arm muscles become stronger. The back of my legs were hurting a bit yesterday.
Hey Sky, I love your videos. Its really awesome seeing someone engage in all these personal growth practices and openly share their experience and knowledge on youtube.
I've been doing Kundalini Yoga for the past year now and I've also experienced some of the dope benefits you mentioned in this video. Although, I haven't had to engage in any mantra, pranayama or kriya techniques in order to reap these benefits. If i'm correct all those techniques are used in order to awaken or stimulate the kundalini energy itself. But it might take awhile to achieve a full awakening going down this route.
What i've been practicing is called simplified kundalini yoga whereby a person's kundalini life force is awakened by a trained master's touch and moved to their higher level chakras (third eye, crown, etc.). After the awakening the person can start to meditate on their life force at each chakra and reach the really beautiful, expansive, and subtle states of consciousness everyone's after lol
I've recently been initiated into the crown chakra level and OH MAN...words truly cannot fully capture the experience I have when I do this meditation. Its awe can only be understood until you experience it for yourself.
That being said though my life isn't all rainbows and sunshine. I still suffer from a fair share of social anxiety, isolation and depression not unlike many others around the world. However, the 40 mins of pure joy and universal love I experience everyday during my meditations has helped me immensely in so many different ways. I encourage everyone to search up about simplified kundalini yoga or just straight up traditional kundalini yoga (like the one in this video) and give it a try for yourself.
Anyway, that was my (very long) two cents haha Be blessed by the Divine Mother y'all!
Great video, love the quality production and how you were able to meet with & practice with some great teachers.
I am a kundalini teacher but not officially trained through 3ho. I feel these days are different than when kundalini first came to the West .These days, I feel we have deeper responsibility for people's and students safety + safe use of these powerful modalities such as kundalini. We need safe communities + students that feel comfortable speaking up.
Anyone who wants to try it, definitely make sure you feel safe with the teacher you have, and you feel connection + care, it is very important in my opinion!
Also, you can begin just through doing a 5 minute meditation per day rather than needing to do a whole 1.5-2hr class per day.
Simple can sometimes be even better! x
Blessings to you. thanks and great channel! x
Tejal V Patel taught me kundalini yoga 6-7 years ago and she is a very good teacher. Thank you for the video ❤️
Please make a video trying lucid dreaming and astral travel.
Agree 👍
Dear Sky-All of these techniques and rituals stimulate the energy body but all of this action will eventually lead up to a burnout point where it seems more and more work from the conscious person must be done and the conscious person will eventually have to admit that they just don't know what they are doing and ultimately they do these rituals to connect with the higher self who is often not able to communicate with the individual because they use logical thinking and too much inner dialogue/self talk meaning the mind is always busy and thinking blocks the flow of energy from spirit.
Start with 15 minutes a day (or try the whole day if you're brave if you fall back into internalizing then just get used to the difference in both states) where you drop the belief that you need to think and talk to yourself or use logic to solve a problem. Start exercising clear knowing by being fully in the present and you should feel mentally that you have more space and that frequency especially if you can maintain a state of peace and non-judgemernt and stay in the present-even if good ideas and realizations come keep staying in the present and eventually you'll tune to the Gamma state the way that was meant to be and you can then clearly "hear" the higher minds message which feels like super good feeling and logical bursts of insight. I was programming once and just couldn't solve the problem so I just gave up and stared at the problem until the solutions popped like magic in my head that presence with no ego is a different frequency fully in the moment where the higher mind is. It's called being in the flow where you are fully in the present and distractions and ideas are acknowledged but not allowed to snowball. Echart Tolle mentioned his discovery when he asked himself who is the person talking in my head. Practice that state everyday a little it especially in nature or when tackling a hard problem and you'll be training different brain muscles and eventually you'll hear the higher minds guidance and you're whole life's purpose will become clear because the higher mind can be talked to directly rather than just "felt". Human's have always been trying to fill that emptiness or loneliness for ages with tools, rituals, imaginary friends but they are not designed to do the job of the higher mind no matter where you go, even in the lucid dream the goal never changes it's always about finding the higher guidance which can be done in the physical here and now with a shift in thinking into present living with some practice you'll get used to it and no longer need to squeeze your brain so much to figure everything out and synchronicity will blow up.
-Someone who has tried everything. TLDR: Do something creative that you love to do where your mind quiets into the present and you might feel a lot of mental space and maybe tingling in the head and more of this and you'll begin to change somehow.
Silver Neon you have never done KY my friend. It clears your mind and launders you’re thoughts in a way that you are able to see beyond what your eyes can see. If practiced consciously one becomes aware of one self sabotaging patterns. I’ve done yoga since I was 4-5years old. All sorts of yogas hatha, yvengar, vinyasa, what they call yin yoga, asthanga, Darhma and Bikhram. I’ve also done a little of Qi Gong and Tai Chi. I’ve also learned to meditate during my time at Uni and meditated quietly for years! But nothing has been so revealing and kept me so conscious, present and aware of life than KY. it just works! Maybe YB invented it by putting bits and pieces together but It Works! It’s a real technology to keep you in line with being what you really are.
It’s really sad about all these revelations about YB. If one reads through his speeches one can find profound stuff and also a lot of things that are long outdated and yes a big ego too, but whatever he did with this ky it just works!
@@layhingsiu-munro8810 The technique I described is all that is needed. It's called the flow state and it's basically like a meditation while doing something. Yoga Techniques are good and all for providing temporary gains but to get a permanent gain ones lifestyle habits have to change forever because this is about a fight with Law of Attraction and whether or not the things you do are for your expansion or instead take you backwards. People who play piano, artists who paint and draw, athletes, woodworkers as well-anything creative that is a reasonable challenge will eventually get you into the flow assuming your ego/all mind chatter that's not yours is silent and there is no music in the background or stuck in your head because it's all about getting to a certain high and peaceful frequency and snowballing it-living this way because YOU ARE THAT FREQUENCY-that is who you really are and when you can maintain and live like that and you might have to say goodbye to some enjoyable activities then at some point once it has reached a certain point and you'll feel really at peace then you can ask questions and get answers like magic.
I have found personally that music stuck in the head is one of the biggest roadblocks for getting in the flow-most people who attempt to enter the flow will immediately get shown what their current frequency is and usually it's not the flow but if they stay with it long enough law of attractions momentum will fade the stuff away and they will begin to enter the flow-once your in the flow it's easier to maintain it as long as you don't introduce what corrupted that state in the first place (listening to music when you feel really good (music is like a drug-feel good now pay later).
Great great presentation and summary! I dabbled in kundalini yoga in 2003-2004. But was still a little sceptical. I even stayed up the at night when Yogi Bhajan passed and did some of the prescribed chants. I did kriyas and had positive shifts but still kept it st arms length even I genuinely liked it. I’m going through difficulties now and was about to turn to kriyas to help when this video showed up in my recommendations. Now I feel much more empowered and excited to revisit this old friend. Thank you!
You inspire me Sky, you are actively pursuing practices and ways to maximize your potential. You are surely tapping into the higher and better version of yourself.You so adventurous and liberated!! So envious of your journey!! Love and peace✌
I have been practicing daily for 10 years now, love it. A couple good jokes ive hear about it are calling it "kinda-looney yoga" and "Aquarian sadhana, the only place you can show up at 4am and still be late" ha! Indeed some seemingly very silly practices
You are seriously my current favourite channel to watch. Go get em girl. Happy to see your subs have doubled since I first discovered your channel. You will have 1 million within less than two years from now, im pretty sure.
This makes me so so happy! Thank you so much for this comment
@@livingtheskylife Its your concious curious mentality that wins people over. You dont go out there doubting or believing too much. You really have an open mind. Good luck to you
I absolutely love this video. Thank you for addressing the controversy that is coming to the fore. I think it is important to remember that this practice is about so much more than Yogi Bhajan. We need to remember he was NOT the founder of this practice, he brought the teachings to the West and to people in general. It had before, like many other forms of yoga been taught only to a selected few. Yoga in itself is not about getting the perfect body, it is about working with your mind and living your true potential. The West has distorted yoga and taken it away from its true meaning. I was cautious in the beginning as do not believe in hero worship in any form and as a teacher have been very quiet with the 'as taught by YB. The fact is Kundalini yoga is not for everyone, it can be intimidating. That is exactly why it works. You will find it when you are ready. I will continue to practice till my last breath. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Sat Nam
Thank you for this. I started Kundalini and helped me get put of a chronic depressive state of being and it sparked my awakening. I am very grateful for this. And I began sharing the practice with my students. However I did not know about this cult-like beginnings, I am very sorry about this and it is hard to let it go, but I want to focus on the good that it is bringing us all, as a society. I do not feel called to follow or impose anything about how you should dress and I do not force anybody to sing anything they do not feel comfortable singing. I love that my students and myself remain in freedom of who we are, what we choose and what we do.
Again very grateful that you are sharing all of this♥️🙏🏼 love your work.
PS, trap music, personally, brings uneasy feelings and does not promote an open state of listening and digesting information. i am aware this is a very personal suggestion, but I would very much love it if the background music would be more easy listening ♥️
Try another style of yoga that is not made up by some narcissist
@@4leafclover66 well, maybe yes. And maybe some times the message is what’s important, not the messenger. Don’t get caught up in the human shit.
It's funny I practice Kundalini and I've never heard of this Yogi even. But that's because I practice what my body intuitively wants to do, and when something happens or seems like it did. I then go look it up and see what's going on. I'm glad I've taken this approach because it's made it so that I don't have my results muddied by expectational influences of what people tell me is going to happen. Kundalini yoga is absolutely a science. There's tons of scientific research very easy to understand. The one thing they don't mention in any of these studies though, is the fact that you could give yourself a psychotic break or things like that if you're trying to awaken it and your body in mind is not ready. So I was seeing that they were telling you to just push through. That can be absolutely horrible advice. If you're experiencing too much pain, you can call some serious medical problems. Like as serious as they come. Mental and physically. The reason this isn't talked about that I think, is because when you tell people it unfortunately can put them down that negative pass thinking it's going to happen. So I think they kind of lightly talk about it. It's something that they don't really want to mention because they don't want you to think It's dangerous. And it's a very beautiful practice that I really feel everybody should be engaged in. But at your own pace. The whole push through thing can be the worst advice you ever receive. But at the same time sometimes you do need to push through because some people are kind of wimps. So pushing through to them isn't really pushing through anything. But then if you tell somebody like me to push through you're basically telling me to do something until I black out or die. Because I will do something until I black out. Which can be horrible advice. And from experience and poorly practicing certain Kundalini breath work. I absolutely resurfaced a lot of trauma that caused me a lot of problems. Now this trauma needed to come up so it was a happy accident in the end. But it was only a happy accident because I figured out what was going on. If I didn't figure out what was going on I probably would be in a psych center. Put some contacts to this. I have PTSD from almost passing away several years ago and it kind of sparked this whole situation going on. And I already had trauma coming up so I was doing things to take care of it. And bring it up slowly. But because I have major muscle cramping problems, it was very difficult for me to do some of the breath work practices. So I was putting too much effort into them and bringing too much fire and my practice was unbalanced. And this started leading to some very serious problems. Which I adjusted and fixed but there needs to be more discussion on this stuff.
I love kundalini yoga and Guru Jagat. I went to Scotland with Rama and it was amazing! The prosperity kriyas are so powerful and I feel so ME with Kundalini.
I appreciate your willingness to immerse yourself in different practices and then sharing what you learned. Thank you.
YEEES more yoga / spiritual videos like this amazing!!!
I have been doing kundilini yoga since 2011, i love it - i dont use the yho tbh i just go from class to class or online, but mostly myself - very powerful it has made me so strong
I had the same thing happen to me ... I was leading a group of women spirituality ... kundalini was part of this class i shot a video ... and then the controversy! Had to do the same... stop 🛑, reflect, record a new opening! Great video
Hi Sky - Nice video. Truth is, most of the stuff people here in the West think of as Yoga is just Hatha yoga and physical exercises. Yoga is so much more then that. Truly, Hatha yoga is just meant to keep the body healthy and supple so that one can meditate and go deeper. IMHO anyway. As far a the whole Guru sex thing goes -- been there - done that. Not personally though, lol. Still working on coming to terms and balancing it all out. Seems like most popular gurus have some skeletons popping up these days. I lived down the street from the Yogi Bhajan Ashram at a Jain Ashram in Long Beach. Even back then in the 80's there were rumors swirling around about weird, "not so Dharmic," stuff going on down the road. All hearsay - no proof at that time. That being said, meditation works and even though some dark stuff comes up with the leaders of these things, it does not mean the practices all suck. Again, IMHO. This world is both dark and light and shit comes up. This does not mean I condone or defend these guys by the way. And as we know, power can corrupt humans quickly. Truth seems to be that we are all the real Guru, just trying to realize that as we grow through this crazy/cool world seems to be the key. Again, I don't claim to know the answers, just my 2 cents. Sorry for the long diatribe. And just to be clear - no weird sex stuff that I know about happened at that Jain Ashram I mentioned. Don't want anyone to get the wrong idea.
Each singular session of Kundalini Yoga is intense. 40 days?! This is such a PROCESS. Sky, thank you! What a sacrifice. I always appreciate your work.
Its very well explained right in the beginning. Unlimited potential in us. Thanks Sky for this great video!
This video was absolute perfect- so perfect I sent you a wordy email telling you how much I loved it.
I throw on singing bowls and go on about my day, no guru, no mat, none of this stuff and I still love it.
Great video! Love Guru Jagat! On topic though, same has gone down in the Ashtanga community. Sexual abuse by the Guru Pattabhi Jois. Very sad. As far as the practice, I find it's magic and has helped my Digestion exponentially. I have been a Yogini for over 20 years...it's all good.
Namaste🙏 discovered your video this morning..I discovered kundalini 7 years ago, yogi bhajan aside, the actual yoga changed my life in a positive way, it brought me to the present spiritual awakening, and i would advice anyone to try it 💯💥🙏🙏
I am obsessed with the spiritual content you do ❤❤
I've just done a bit of this yoga and I felt amazing while doing it. Personally since he is dead I just want to enjoy the yoga. I've been to the centres and they have never tried to convert me
Absolutely love your channel and I appreciate each research you make! Your videos need to have more views!!! Good luck :)
so happy you like the channel!!
I can put you in touch with Guru Singh who lives in LA and teaches at Yoga West. He was Yogi Bhajans first student and teaches the teachers training. My wife and I have been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 2006 which is when Tony Robbins introduced me to Guru Singh. Guru Singh would be the best person to speak to about Kundalini Yoga.
Awesome!
I saw your face on the documentary and been looking for your channel again!
One of my biggest takeaways from 2020: our nervous systems capacity to safely and wholly feel & release +/- sensation is DIRECTLY correlated with our ability to *attract/receive* whatever it is we are trying to manifest!
So how do we attract wealth?
Hi sky I Just wanted to say i Love your Channel and you I love your videos they are so fun yet so informative at the same time Im 12 years old and from Australia ♥️
hello! I am so happy that you like the videos :D
I actually started out with this type of kundalini yoga practice way back in 2013. Nowadays I'm mostly practicing a mix of hatha yoga, vinyasa flow and kriyas by sadhguru. But this video kind of makes me wanna give kundalini yoga "yogi bjajan style" another go. Great reporting skills btw.
Love love LOVED this!!! Trying a beginner kundalini video today! Thank you for the inspiration! I’m also looking forward to your follow up video ☺️
Love and light ✨
Thank you for your disclaimer and taking the time to educate yourself. I have a lot of respect for this informed approach.
I don’t know why I waited so long to watch this video. I just didn’t think I was prepared to begin this journey because I know how inspiring you make your videos and now I need to get on Gaia and give this a chance! Thank you for all the work you put into this video and sharing your experience 💕
Kundalini yoga may lead to a Kundalini awakening. This is VERY VERY SERIOUS for the person especially if they are not prepared or have the support system in place. It's a reality shattering experience. After an awakening you will need to have a perfectly clean life. Please get informed if you want to do this. K (kundalini) is an incredible gift but not one without a price tag.
@@donjonbovi3840 What would you like to know? Check out r/kundalini on reddit.
I agree completely
yess that's what I need
As somrone who had an accidental kundalini awakening a year ago (and is still not able to function) Im glad at least some people warn others about the dangers of practices like these. It seems very forceful
You really want to prepare well and really think what you might be getting yourself into. It seems to me that the teachers aren't telling their students about the potential dangers of these practices
I’ve been doing kundalini yoga for years and never met another student or teacher who had a kundalini awakening of the kind you seem to be suggesting that sounds a bit like a psychotic episode. People I know just felt happier, more serene, less depressed and more energetic. Kundalini yoga seems like a very safe framework in which to work with kundalini energy. I don’t think it has anything to do with spontaneous kundalini awakenings people describe.
You have a very beautiful energy and you seem pretty open-minded. Wonderful combination. Glad to find your videos.
You were very perceptive about the obsession with Yogi Baja. You have very good discernment. Congrats.
I personally love love kundalini yoga! I'm not a part of a group or anything, I do it alone just from youtube and it makes me feel amazing, I'm someone who has had multiple kundalini energy rising experiences and have experienced states of bliss. No matter what these negative yogis turned into, it's great for your body and breathwork is amazing for anyone and it makes me feel so good. So I try to just look at what it means for me and my own intentions while doing it. I don't like the westernized "let me get a hot body" type of yoga, i was seeking the most spiritual type of practice and i found it lol
Had my first Kundalini yoga class yesterday and here is your video 🙂 First I came across the music of Ajeet and Santnam Kaur, then I had a great Kundalini experience with plant medicine. It seems to be a part of my way, will definitely continue to raise the Kundalini energy 😇
Thank you so much for shedding light on what’s going on in the Kundalini community. I’ve been so confused and just hearing about the book has cleared up questions I have. I would love an update on this once you’ve done more research. Kundalini is an amazing practice that I love, so it’s important to me that I have all the information also.
In answer to the question "Is Kundalini Yoga a Cult or a Powerful Practice", I would say that 3HO is a Cult of Devotion to the late Yogi Bhajan whereas "Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan" is a copyrighted system of Yogic exercises. Whether you buy in to the cult or you just engage in the practice, it is purely a question of personal commitment.
Many people have been victimized by cultish leaders. But many of these so-called victims actually GAIN INSIGHTS into their own being as a result of their commitment to the cult and come out the other side of their experience better off than they were when they went in. This is because organizations like Scientology, 3HO, Rajneesh, TM, MAGA, the Freemasons and the Roman Catholic Church offer VALID opportunities to learn and grow as a human being even if some of their members are engaged in less than saintly behavior.
This is not to excuse abuses committed by cult leaders or followers. Abuse is abuse whether it is inflicted upon a child by a parent or is sanctioned by a twisted Constituency. I think we can all agree that forced physical sexual abuse is inexcusable. Being a victim of such abuse, I can speak to the damage that it does to a person's emotional well being. But life is more than this and so are most "Cults". We can't excuse the abuses committed "in the name of Jesus by Priests". Nor can we excuse those who would enforce contracts of indentured servitude upon willing yet unsuspecting innocents.
But we can and must move on from this. Even if we can't forgive our abusers, we must move on. We have no choice. This moment of life, in the Mother Reality of the here and now, is the Prodigal Child of Father Future. Let us be still and will our consciousness forward in time into the next moment of becoming. Release the Past and BE closer to the instant of Creation. In the realm of future probabilities, in that place BEFORE we are circumscribed into our next moment of "real", let us be THERE at Peace with what is to come and let us postulate that the next moment of becoming is full of Light and that Love is here and there and everywhere forever. Just do it. See if that doesn't change things (at least until the phone rings).
In the words of Jai Uttal, LET ME BE SKY.
Thank you Beautiful Sky, for offering us a platform on which to speak of these things.
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Your videos are awesome. I love kundalini
Excellent video. Thanks for taking the time to film and edit it and of course for positing it for our benefit. Keep up the good work! -Migs
Kundalini yoga as taught by yogi bhajan is a fraudulent and abusive "system"--please do some research
@@4leafclover66 Can you elaborate? Any experiences?
@@Migs3 Sky also made a video about it after she realized the truth. It's been a hot topic over the past year.
@@4leafclover66 Who is Sky?
@@Migs3 Isn't she the person with this video?
this looks insane! so cool that you had the opportunity to explore this practice and share it with us :)
thanks Abbie! much love to you girl
Wonderful as usual! ♥️♥️ I always learn so much from these experiences.
Dear Sky, I would love for you to one day spend time with the intense ascetic orthodox christians in the desert who chant nonstop and live with nothing. It would be amazing to see what kind of transformation you experience! एकचक्र❤
The way you do what you do is so inspiring.
I love love love kundalini yoga!!!
I have been practicing cobra breath, which pulls Kundalini energy up to third eye, my teacher Cynthia Rothchild is very awesome. I have also practiced Shaolin monk meditations before Tantra. It seems chi and Kundalini are the same, just used differently. I watch a video that is Tantra yoga, but not as extreme as in this video. It's main goal is to activate your energy, when I was doing hot yoga, my energy was out of this world, and loved every minute of it. I may get some backlash, but it's my opinion. I know my teachers always said Kundalini and chi are completely different, I have tapped into both which felt the same, just the way you used the energy is only different. Maybe that's what they meant, maybe not lol. I am open to all though, just saying one practice is right, doesn't feel right to me. I still practice shaolin monk meditation too
I've tried kundalini a few times but never consistent enough to feel anything,but this makes me want to try again!
KaliKevin Should at least do it for 40 days😊
I've been practicing Kundalini Tantra since 1999 and prior to that other modalities of human transformation in which I had some moderate success. The Shakti erupted in me in the early year of 2000. Since then I have spent 20 years in researching this subject, fortuitously I am university trained in research. By grace I stumbled into several tantra practicing sanskrit scholars who have translated relevant tantras from the perspective of experienced meditators. Christopher Wallis and Alex Sanderson are two. From that body of work I can safely say the modern take on kundalini bears little resemblance to classical tantra in many important ways. Yogi Bahjan's practices are a random collection of various practices which as a whole also bear little resemblance to classical tantra. However the Bihar school of kundalini tantra in India is more similar to the classic way. Having seen the video and assuming nothing about the practice has been left out I would say this. In no way am I suggesting that this practice would not bring benefits such as health and vigor. My concern is that there are other essential practices not mentioned here that go hand in hand with the more physical asana some of which I recognized and many I didn't in this video. I live in an area where some people put themselves out as kundalini yoga teachers who have never experienced the kundalini. This is no small matter. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of having a teacher who has a completed kundalini. It will accelerate your transformation, deepen your transformation and be a grounding rock for you in the event that your kundalini rises. I have several students, some have been with me for years. I don't advertise or charge a fee of any kind. I don't wear the uniform and would be rightly identified as an ordinary person by those that meet me. If your interested in health and vigour then this group would serve that purpose. However if you have a deep yearning for more than that I suspect you will need more than they can offer. God bless.
For me, a guru is someone so clear and well defined about the spiritual part of them that it's easy to connect to their intelligence, mindset or whole bodyset. Then you can use that accessible intelligence to deal with your own problems, it's not about believing in them or agreing their opinion. I gess people keep images of gurus around them to facilitate that accessibility and feel thankful to the non physical tool these people left in the world.
Never tried kundalini yoga but definitely have activated my kundalini through Hatha, anusara and tantra practice. I have healed on so many levels emotionally, physically, energetically and spiritually. I believe any form of yoga other then fitness western yoga has the ability to do this healing and self realization effect. It ultimately is participant that needs to have the devotion and dedication to the practice. Happy for you Sky, I’m definitely going to give it try see if I’m missing anything that I have not yet discovered through my practice. Did they at all discuss if this practice it pita provoking?
Thanks for sharing.
My Reiki girl suggested that I do kundalini yoga to help me with my psychic gifts. I haven’t started yet, but I plan to.
Intrigued you were getting strange vibes from Bhajan, and sure enough.. I'd never heard of him but would have been off put my his constant presence as well. The self is the one and only true guru.
I really appreciate your taking the time to do your research
So interesting watching this after watching a video about guru Jagat and how she died and all the controversy around her. Wow.
Looking forward to the follow-up💜
Thanks for telling the truth .
Omg i love your chanell so much! Keep going girl!! You are so real !! :-) Wish you, your work and your way the best :-)
This was a really great video! Question - did you ever ask why Tibetan Buddhist thangkas (among other objects) adorned the walls of the studios? Is there a particular relationship that the yogis had with Tibetan Buddhism, or was it more like... holy decoration? Thanks so much for sharing/filming!
Kundalini yoga is just a another path alongside other ancient practices which can help you to awaken your Kundalini. Bhajan was just another leader, the enlightener who showed the way but in order to awaken you have to follow your own path and find your own way to the truth trough healing, transformation, rebirth etc.
Maybe I should try this Kundalini Yoga. Cheers Sky 💖
19:43 Damn look at that tempo, impressive stuff
lol I really went for it.
Thank you so much for this video, Sky! I saw it right when I needed to. ❤ Blessings! 🧘♀️ 🐍 🌪 ✨
P.s. You’re such a lovely young lady! Such an inspiration seeing your dedication through anything you put your mind to!!! Xo
Thank you sooo much for this beautiful video XXX
Sky your an amazing person! Your videos are so interesting to watch! Just found your channel few days ago. Thank you.
I am so happy to hear that and so happy you like the channel!
I've been practicing Kundalini Yoga for about 13 years. It changed my life for the better, in unbelievable ways actually! Yogi Bhajan may have been the messenger of KY for the west, but it existed long before him. It's an ancient and timeless practice. Use your discernment. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater as they say.
Traditional (ancient, if you like) Kundalini yoga practices are quite different from what YB taught. He mixed up yoga kriyas, delusional ideas about energy bodies and new aged thinking. So nobody could verify whether these things were true or not, he calls them ancient newly discovered practices. He was a fraud and the practice of kundalini as most know it today is not authentic know kundalini yoga. It’s people doing ridiculous things that generate energy in the body and is no more special or spiritual than doing jumping jacks or running or any other sport.
@@SusanHopkinson My knowledge comes from experience not from reading books or articles, not from following the teachings of Yogi Bhajan or any "Guru." Everyone's path will look different. There is no "right" way that leads back to Source 🙏❤
Like I said, this path changed my life. I cannot dismiss what I've experienced because the messenger turned out to be a shady guy (like most spiritual leaders). I've learned over the years how to discern what is from Source and what is not 🙏❤
Great great video!!
This was an pretty cool vid....thankyou Sky 😇
Kundalini truly does impact positively upon your psyche ... it no doubt makes you move through time and space differently
Any types of heavy breathings needs to be at outdoor especially with pack of group of people in a squashed space indoor
Yogi Bhajan had no active lineage nor relationship with his former gurus. He invented many of the practices and ripped the Sikh people of their identity and prayers. I would not recommend Kundalini Yoga in order to develop a safe Kundalini sadhana. Authentic Hatha (tantric) yoga comes from Gorakshnath line of Siddhas and Naths -- Shantinath
Your first sentence is incorrect. Yogi Bhajan was a Yoga adept and a Master of White Tantra who relied heavily upon the influence of his early teachers to become a Teacher in his own right (and how do you know he wasn't in communication with his Teachers?)
Your second sentence is patently untrue. Yogi Bhajan WAS a Sikh and drew upon his religious tradition to formulate his methodology. He was also a member of the Khalsa Order and, in accordance with the tents of this sect, he spent his entire life devoted to the task of bringing the light of Sikhism to the Western World. Thus, he didn't rip anybody off --- he was teaching and practicing what was his own religion in the first place. He did not do this to establish some sort of controversy about the validity of any particular kind of yogic practice --- as you seem to be doing.
"Kundalini Yoga As Taught By Yogi Bhajan" is not a Hatha Yoga Practice. It is based upon the teachings known as "Sukshma Vyayama" which can be found in the Upanishads. These particular teachings are also set forth prominently in portions of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Hatha Yoga is not mentioned in the Sutras at all, it being a development that post-dates publication of the Sutras. The only "posture" recommended in the Sutras is "Yoga Mudra" which, in Patanjali's inimitable fashion and stark simplicity of exposition, explains the entire lexicon of Hatha Yoga postures.*
By this I do not mean to denigrate the wonderful teachings of Hatha Yoga. I have been practicing these teachings for more than 50 years and have also benefited from a lifelong study of Kundalini Yoga techniques and I find nothing negative in either school.
I wonder why you feel the need to snark about this subject, and though I hesitate to ask, is that what YOUR line of teachers inspires YOU to do?
* This is a good-natured joke about Patanjali that only adept readers of the Sutras get to laugh about. Sutra 1.1 was translated by Swami Vivikananda to read "Now, concentration is explained". Some students interpret this phrase to mean that the following 195 Sutras, taken together as a whole, explain the concept of "Concentration". But that is the hard way to interpret this phrase. If one can focus their attention on the ever unfolding passage of the moment of "NOW" --- together with all past events leading up to that moment --- and all events that proceed away from it into the future --- and can hold that position throughout Matter, Energy, Space and Time --- without need for further explanation or less direct components of practice --- THEN the notion of Concentration will be fully explained --- and one will have no need for the following 195 Sutras.
This is actually a VERY simple idea that is almost impossible to grasp. Those who can achieve this understanding on the first go are to be greatly admired. The rest of us find the ensuing lexicon of examples to be most enlightening.
If you doubt this interpretation of Sutra 1.1 I ask only that you consider this: the 195 other Sutras consist of --- methods of achieving concentration --- and of guidelines for recognizing and exploring the states of consciousness that perfect concentration will bring about. And many of these methods and procedures include the phrase “… and if this doesn’t work, then try …”. This implies that none of these methods and explanations are needed if you can just do Sutra number 1.1. So Sutra 1.1 must ALSO be an instruction on how to achieve perfected concentration. Thus it is proved that Patanjali was an inveterate comedian.
Namaste right here right now.
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@@erikmeyer2323 Dear Erik, I am sorry if it offended you, but it's the factual truth of history which is not easily found in books or in your KY trainings. I suggest you learn a bit more about it, Sikhs never did Yoga practices because their religion forbids them. You have to dig a little, concerning the story about the gurus, I'd suggest reading the bombshell article of Philipp Deslippe, titled "From Maharaj to mahan tantrik, the construction of Yogi Bhakan's Kundalini Yoga" It is easy to find online and by far the best source to explain the whole story. Hope you find peace and don't stop doing Yoga the problem is not Yoga it's Yogi Bhajan; he lied extensively to build his reputation and follower base, would you trust a lying guru? I wouldn't.
@@Shanti_devi19 No offence taken ... I am not a Sihk or a member of 3HO, nor am I a devotee of ANY Guru. I am a long time Yoga practitioner and a student of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These ancient teachings are not religious in nature. Yoga is a contemplative PRACTICE. It does not deal with the subject of God. That is why, traditionally, yogis only speak of seven Chakras.
I am also a student of Engineering Science. Engineering Science does not deal with the subject of God either, but, it helps me design buildings that don't fall down and kill people.
Religion is a belief system. Personal belief in God is an essential requirement for membership in any Religious community. But "Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan" is not a religion any more than Engineering Science. It is a unique (and I think valid) interpretation of the Yoga Sutras as applied to the exigencies of modern culture.
As far as Sihk prohibitions against Yoga go, please read the following excerpt:
"Guru Nanak admonished the yogis of his time that they were on the wrong path, teaching them that leaving their families, leaving this world and practicing austerities would not merge them with God. This is true. He did not teach that yoga itself is bad or in any way incongruent with the life of a Sikh. In fact, the internal process of merging with the Infinite that is described in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib is identical to universal principles of union with God which were taught by the ancient yogis."
I agree with this statement. The Yoga Sutras describe methods of achieving concentration and the states of consciousness that may result from practicing those methods.
But, the methods represented in the Sutras were not ever intended to be prescriptive as witnessed by the many "schools" of Yoga that have proceeded from these writings --- including Kundalini-Yoga-As-Taught-By-Yogi Bhajan.
There is more to be gained from finding good in the ancient teachings than there is in fearing the parts you disagree with. Eschew controversy. It is not the way. Find Peace, know Love, spread Light.
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I was trained through Sivananda and now they are dealing with the same types of things. It’s so sad.