Today was a great day.  I think moving to a hotel and sleeping in until 6 am was key to recovery.  Throat is still sore and had a slight fever today along with 1/2 of the other teachers in training here, but I think I’m going to make a quick turn around.  Back to the 3:30 am routine tomorrow.  It is expected that we attend all Sadhanas (morning practices) unless we are sick.

The sun finally came out and everyone got really happy.

We had super awesome teachers today, Nirvair Kaur and her husband Guru Nirvair.  I’m probably spelling the name wrong.  Apparently, if Yogi Bhajan decided you were a couple, then you somehow took that same name.   They have videos and Guru Nivair is in charge of the Kundalini Research Institute.  If you google KRI.org (i think) you will find a ton of Kriyas and meditations there. They, like Gurmukh and Guru Shabhd who are leading this, grew up with Yogi Bhajan.  They had awesome stories about back in the day which I’ll share with you when I get home.

One thing that I loved that they did today is we went through a kriya (designated set of postures designed to cause a specific effect) and at each posture, we stopped to feel what was really going on in the body.  Try it.  Ask yourself what glands and organs are being stimulated by a posture.  See if you can’t feel the energy changing as the postures change.  It was really insightful.  Kundalini is called the Yoga of Awareness.  It’s referred to as a technology and at this teacher training, they are stressing that they can only give us the knowledge, but we must find the wisdom through our own experience.

Another thing I’m loving is the total integration of the classroom.  You move as a unit. Even if the teacher is incorrect, you simply do what they say and always keep your mind innocent and student-like.   When chanting mantra, you join the group’s speed and simply submit to the energy.  When you can’t hold your arms up anymore, you simply put them down and let the energy of the group carry you.  It’s a lovely way to surrender.  There are 129 of us and I am actually getting to know everyone.  I didn’t think that would be possible.  It’s so fun.

One funny thing did happen today.  We all walked in silence with Gurmukh at the end of the day to the Ganges River and a huge statue of Shiva where you can imagine the tourist gather like crazy.  Of course 129 of us are dressed in white, barefoot, and silent.  We became the tourist attraction with people taking video and pictures of our meditation.  Weird.

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