Class from Aug 31, 2011

Pranayama is not just mechanical, it has a heart component. Just like a relationship, if you ignore someone they ignore you, but if you create an interest in someone then there is an energy flow that goes back and forth. In pranayama you’re doing the breathing but you’re also remembering that this oxygen molecule that you’re taking into your body came thru billions of years of evolution and amazing experimentation. It’s the total epiphany of I CAN. All the blocks that have tried to stop this evolution, then finally the ingeniousness of creation giving you the ability to exchange gases with trees. The remembrance of this and developing the appreciation of this is what opens up the pranayama.

The idea in Kundalini Yoga is to create a personality that allows you to crossover the border between conscious and super conscious. It’s a personality that has very little weight in this world, yet it takes care of business. It allows you to remain wakeful in your dream state and it requires energy, and it requires discipline. By doing these exercises with the breathing will give you the energy and discipline. When you carry yourself over to the other side and consciously enter the dream state, the shared subconscious of all of us, the responsibility is great. You become influential in that state of consciousness. It requires service and humility. The idea is to raise thru the higher centers of consciousness and to elevate the entire planet and all of humanity.