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Trouble Sleeping?

2/20/2019

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by Savitree Kaur
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Try the following:

Avoid watching or reading news at the end of day. "Catch up" on it during the day instead. 
Have dinner earlier, and ideally before 8 pm (try sometime between 5 and 7 pm). The later you eat, the more your body has to work during sleep time to digest the food-- that's exhausting! If at all possible, having a lighter dinner than lunch is a better set-up for better sleep. 
Massage your feet under cold water for a few minutes. Let one foot massage the other. 
Brush your hair before bed. 
Drink hot water before bed. 
Avoid lying in bed with social media. But if you must, turn it into gold. Tune into #meditatewithme with SachKiret Kaur (Anna Gratzl on FB) on Wednesday nights at 10 pm. Then practice it for the rest of the week until the following Wednesday when she introduces the next meditation.
Meditation is a wonderful way to end the evening, to quiet the mind for a peaceful snooze. It's a way of taking out the trash at the end of the day so that your body may have a better chance at working on restoring rather than processing. After meditating with SachKiret, commit to put your device down once it's over. No last minute scrolling. Let your head hit the pillow, and give your mind and body permission to dwell in the clarity that comes with this ritual.

Sat Nam. 
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Do you have to, or do you get to? The purpose of karma yoga

2/18/2019

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We often do things because we have to. And if we're lucky, we get to do things because we want to. At the end, it's all in the mind whether we have to or want to. The energy or intent that we bring to everything we do matters, both in the experience of it, and evidently, what comes back to us. Here's what yogi, mystic, and author, Sadhguru, has to say about it. You may want to read this several times. And then maybe pay attention to see how this rings true in your life.  

Karma yoga has unfortunately been described as service, but it is not so. It is a way of undoing the impressions that you have gathered. If you can joyfully involve yourself in any activity, that is karma yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma will come, no yoga will happen!
Generally it is through various activities that you perform that you get entangled and enmeshed with life. But if the activity becomes a process of liberation instead of entanglement, it is karma yoga. Whether it is work or walking on the street or talking to someone, the nature of the activity is not important. When you do something only because it is needed, where it does not mean anything to you but you are capable of involving yourself as if that is your life, it transforms you and action becomes liberating.
​--Sadhguru


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Three 1000-day worthy game changing practices

2/11/2019

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by Savitree Kaur
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There are 3 meditations in kundalini that are game-changing. 
  1. Sat Kriya
  2. Kirtan Kriya
  3. Sodarshan Chakra Kriya

While they don't have to be practiced in that order (I didn't), they build on each other that way. 


The Sat Kriyacleans you out. It detoxes your mind and body, balances your lower triangle, strengthens your nervous system, and calms emotional disarray. It essentially prepares you for acceleration into your next most radiant Self.  

The 
Kirtan Kriyarewires your brain and changes your thought patterns and habits. 

​The Sodarshan takes you to a new level of neutrality, to being able to see trajectory, and strengthen communication. This is an advanced practice. Come to us first to make sure you are ready to take this one on. You may want to precede this with the 
Suspension of Breath Series. 

While you can do these for shorter periods of time, I encourage you to level up and do more for yourself. You are more than worth it. 11 minutes, 22 minutes, 31 minutes. 90, 120, 1000 days. We are here to support you and to celebrate your commitment. 

What a 1000 day practice does.
When you brush your teeth, you don't ask yourself, how many more days?
It becomes a part of your life. You may be too tired to do it some evenings, but you do it (hopefully). It's good hygiene, and it equates to good health and wellness. 
Same with these practices. 
When we stop saying to ourselves, how many more days?and carve out sacred time for spiritual hygiene, no matter how much we tantrum or how much the world pulls at us, we emit a certain radiance that turns us into a beacon of light for others to follow in our example. We start dropping the justifications and start building constancy and self-authority. We start seeing more potential and beauty in the world, which changes the world accordingly. We become the change agents simply through our own inner change. 

With Love, Grit and Gratitude,
Savitree Kaur
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KYTT: What if you knew that you were enough?

2/2/2019

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by Savitree Kaur
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I just listened to a powerful Rich Roll podcast episode with guest Dr. Zach Bush (who is phenomenal). Dr. Bush, who's had experience bringing patients back to life, said that, no matter where they came from, and whatever their background, these patients had the same first thing to say, which was: Why did you bring me back? 

As they recalled their experience on the other side, they went on to tell their families, "Being in the white light... I felt completely accepted for the first time in my life." 

His take-away: We are all walking around lonely as hell. 

What if we could know that we are enough?  What if we could know this before we die? 

This is what we develop through Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, which starts in less than 2 weeks. 

Through our teacher training, you get to experience this at a cellular level, allowing you to live inspired, engaged, connected and feeling more whole. In so doing, you become a teacher through your very presence. You get to experience the knowingthat you are enough. 

It is both an amazing gift and a responsibility to heal and transform yourself, and in so doing, this planet. 
Won't you take the call?


With love, grit and gratitude,

Savitree Kaur
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