We all know, from our personal, direct experience and in our observations of others, that a person’s habits define them. In Kundalini Yoga, we often practice meditations and kriyas (yoga sets) each day for a specific number of days to establish habits that help define our destiny. We practice for 40, 90, 120, or 1,000 days straight – and each period of time corresponds to reported benefits.

The number 40 is found in a myriad of spiritual and cultural traditions, including Eastern, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic teachings, mythic explanations, and practices. In Kundalini Yoga, by practicing every day for 40 days, we can learn to breakthrough negative habits that block us from expanding and that block us from connecting to our highest Self.

Beaming and Creating Your Future – 10/8/2024-11/16/2024

For this 40 Day Meditation – October 8 through November 16 – we will use a meditation titled “Beaming and Creating the Future.” This is a three-step meditation that includes specific, and very gentle, pranayamas (breath exercises) as well as two visualizations – the combination clears distracting thoughts and attachments and allows us to tap into our unlimited creativity.

A critical and uplifting part of being a person of consciousness is using one’s creativity to be a better person than the day before. Fortunately, your higher consciousness has a limitless creativity. Your daily experiences, while also unlimited, frequently are filtered by the lower mind and result in repetitive patterns of emotionality, negativity, and constriction of maneuverability. This meditation, repeated from day-to-day, is immensely penetrating, uplifting, reassuring, and expansive. Be prepared to let go – to grow – to flow!

There will be two full moons during this 40-day experience – on Thursday October 17 and on Friday November 15. We will use the energy of those full moons! On both of those evenings (from 6:00-7:30 pm) there will be a Kundalini class that will include the “Beaming and Creating the Future” meditation.

Two recommendations to enhance your 40-day meditation experience: 1) plan ahead of time to journal, or sketch images, of your experience after the meditation – even two minutes, or more if you have the time – your prosaic and/or visual recording affords a deeper integration of that day’s meditation, and 2) join the meditation’s sangat (spiritual group) on the WhatsApp text group that will be dedicated to other “Beamers and Creators” – the receipt and provision of mutual support broadens perspectives, connectivity, and consciousness. This is helpful to all… particularly those not able to attend one or more of the live sessions. An invitation to this WhatsApp sangat will be sent to all interested registrants.

Process:

We will meditate together on Zoom twice weekly – every Tuesday evening, 6:00-6:30 pm (Eastern), October 8 through November 12; and every Saturday morning, 9:00-9:30 am, October 12 through November 16. For the other days, you will practice on your own. Each session will be recorded and available for all registrants ongoing use. “Beaming and Creating” meditators are encouraged to use the biweekly recordings, as they will help with transitions among the three parts of the mediation… and the differing cues given during each session may prompt fresh mediation experiences.

Note: it is strongly recommended that you perform the meditation for the full 25-30 minutes each day. “Life happens” and sometimes that might not be possible – Sujjan Saroop will record one 10-12 minute version for your use on such days to enable you to keep the momentum of meditating on “Beaming and Creating the Future” for 40 consecutive days (or as close as possible!)

Tuesdays, October 8 to November 12 – 6:00-6:30 pm

Saturdays, October 12 to November 16 – 9:00-9:30 am

Thursday, October 17 – Kundalini Yoga* – 6:00-7:30 pm

Friday, November 15 – Kundalini Yoga* – 6:00-7:30 pm

* includes the “Beaming and Creating the Future” meditation

Fee: $65 – please pay at time of registration to Sujjan Saroop via Venmo or PayPal or Zelle, account name: shaering@gmail.com

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Full Moons occur when our Sun and our Moon are opposite one another, with Earth and its inhabitants in the middle of these two powerfully energetic celestial bodies. The opposition of these stark Yang and Yin energies can be intense – and this intensity provides opportunities.

As people of Consciousness, we Yogins use the Full Moon to look deeply within ourselves and into our current situations. The heightened illumination provides a time to become more fully aware – this may be about our progress toward short- and long-term goals; our passions and desires; our hidden selves and shadows… on whatever we intuit would serve us to pause and reflect upon. We then use the oppositional, yet complementary, solar and lunar energies to shift our positions (energetic, psychologic, emotional) in order to enhance our vibrations and consciousness.

There are two upcoming Full Moon offerings – October 17 and November 15 – they are combined within the 40-day “Beaming and Creating Your Future” meditation – see above.

Even if you are not part of the 40-day meditation Sangat, you can still join either or both of these Full Moon Kundalini Yoga and Meditation classes

• Thursday, October 17, 6:00-7:30 pm (Eastern)
• Friday, November 15, 6:00-7:30 pm

Fee: your option to  1) pay what you generally pay at your studio or online class, or 2) pay what you’re able to afford now.  Pay via PayPal or Venmo or Zelle to account   shaering@gmail.com upon registration

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