Kundalini Yoga

By Claudia Fernandez

My name is Claudia Fernandez and my spiritual name is Tera Dhyan.

I have been practicing Kundalini Yoga for 8 years. This practice came into my life through a comprehensive nutrition training.

From the first class I noticed the change in me. In 3 minutes I was freed from stress and tension, I cleared my mind and cleaned my electromagnetic field. As time went by, practicing Kundalini Yoga, I realized that I was more focused, more efficient and concentrated on the present.

By practicing Kundalini Yoga and connecting with the Angelic Reiki healing system, everything was much clearer and deeper for me. I felt that the resistances that sometimes occur were not there, but energy flowed easily and harmoniously.

Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of consciousness. It is a technology that helps us transition to the Age of Aquarius, developing our neutral mind and balancing our glandular, endocrine and sensory systems.

I have been working in an addiction recovery center for 7 years, where we practice pranayamas, breathing, and kriyas, a series of exercises that help patients go through the first weeks of recovery and detoxification. For patients, it is a wonderful tool that allows them to have breathing techniques at their fingertips with which they can control their mind and emotions.

It is said that a single Kundalini Yoga mantra can change your destiny, and I believe so because I have observed it, you can reach very deep meditations that take you to a very high state of consciousness.

For Kundalini Yoga, the slower the pace of breathing, the more control you have over your mind. That is why we train through different breathing techniques to expand our lung capacity.

Breathing in Kundalini Yoga works the subconscious and the unconscious state of neutrality, so if we learn to breathe we can control our mind and emotions.

Of all the positive changes a person can make, learning to breathe deeply and fully is probably the most effective tool for developing higher consciousness and for increasing health, vitality and connection in life.

In Kundalini Yoga we use different techniques such as rapid nostril breathing, mouth breathing, tongue breathing, etc. Long slow or fast. They all end with a band, the bands are used to anchor us to the body and the present. Squeezing the anus, genitals and navel inwards and upwards, Mulahbanda for example.

Breath awareness begins by recognizing the breath as both the gross physical breath and the subtle life force of the body and mind, called prana. A Kundalini Yogi examines and breaks the habit of ignoring the breath. He thinks about the breath in broader terms than just a breath. He sees the breath and its movements as being connected to the movements of all emotions and thoughts.

Breath and the Word are intimately related. They form the platform from which all things begin, and they shape the form and direction of one’s life. They govern our communications and our relationships with ourselves and others. If we can consciously control the pattern, forming capacities of breath and sound, we can creatively direct our lives and potentials.

A YOGI IS ALWAYS AWARE of the dual nature of perception and experience. Breath is both gross and subtle. It is both “mine” and “not mine.” It is both automatic and conscious. Breath shares the nature of both earthly and heavenly perspectives on things. Breath and Word interact to create the matrix of our life and consciousness. Breath and Word are intimately intertwined. In the etheric realms of metaphysical creation of the universe, the first thing, after the existence of God, is the Word. The Word is a manifested pattern, which is the seed necessary for anything to exist. After that infusion of cosmic genetics, there is the energy of prana or subtle breathing. That energy moves the gunas, the three qualities of the Trinity, which weave and compose all our experiences in their varied mixtures. So, in Heaven, first there is the Word, followed by its servant the breath, prana. On Earth we first learn to breathe and then to speak, so we must learn to breathe in order to speak the highest words.

Claudia Fernandez

Teta Dhyan

Master Teacher of Angelic Reiki and Master of Kundalini Yoga

The Earth Trembled

By Sara Neves de Sousa

Imagine you are fast asleep ang get awaken with everything around you trembling.

That is what happened in the 26^th of August this year.

I have lived in Lisbon for three years now and I have heard lots of people talking about earthquakes and how scary they felt, but I have never experienced something like that until now.

This kind of experience makes you think and rethink a lot of things, but the main one is how fragile we are against a force like this.

It makes you think what now? If this was more severe, what could we have done?

And the answer is simple we can do nothing, it’s not possible to go against such force of nature, we just have to let go I hope for the best. Fortunately, it wasn’t severe enough to destroy anything, because it was only a few seconds, the longest seconds I have ever felt, but it could be felt, if this was something like what happened in Lisbon in 1755 we would have been left with nothing.

This immense and powerful force can destroy everything you know and only a person that has felt something like this can understand it and realise that we are so fragile in front of this powerful force of Earth.

Experiences likes this makes you wonder what are we doing with our lives, what is the purpose of being here? I don’t have an answer for you, but I can tell you that it put a lot of things in perspective for me. We go about our lives most of the time in autopilot, we don’t stop to “smell the roses” so to speak, we do things as we always did and don’t even think about what we are doing, how and why we do it.  Did you ever feel something like this? Well, I did! And it made me want to be more conscious about what I do and why I’m doing it.

And then a few weeks later came the fires that destroyed a lot of forests, and with it animals and houses too. It will take a few years until that land can restore itself again and it makes you wonder; can we survive without all that Earth has to gives us? Could we survive without trees and animals? No, we can’t. We need it to survive, but for some reason we still don’t respect earth enough to prevent this kind of situations, we still regard this beautiful nature as something to own, something that is ours to take and it isn’t, we need her more than she needs us. My hope is that we, as a species don’t realise this too late, because then we will have nothing to help us survive.

And with these fires came the same feeling, the feeling of hopelessness. Fire can be a good thing, because it can warm you when it’s cold, but in this kind of situation it destroys everything in it’s path, helped sometimes by the wind. When I looked at the images of houses destroyed, I can only imagine the despair of those people watching their lives going up in flames, because we don’t only have houses, we create homes and being left with nothing must be a terrible feeling.

I’m trying to stay out of the drama and think that everything has it’s purpose but sometimes it’s difficult to do it.

This is what I have for you this edition of the Newsletter, see you in the next one.

And keep in mind, it will all be alright in the end!

Love Blessings,

Sara

Sara Neves de Sousa
Angelic Reiki Master Teacher, New Shamballa Master Teacher and Golden Heart
Merkabah of Creation Master Teacher

Some Zen Wisdom
Abraxas continues its exploration of posts from Kevin Core’s blog, which he started in January 2008 and focuses on a book by Tim Freke called Zen Wisdom.

Below you will find a quote selected from Tim’s book which is followed by Kevin’s explanation.

You may also like to visit Kevin’s blog at shamballazen.blogspot.co.uk

Shamballa Zen

11th March
Vimalakirti asked Manjusri what was the Buddha's doctrine of nonduality. Manjusri
answered, “The doctrine is realised by one who sees beyond forms and who knows
beyond argument. This is my understanding – what is yours?” In response to this
question, Vimalakirti closed his lips and was silent.

The Zen masters would often teach by non-doing. Duality is an expression of mind.
By remaining silent the master shows that non-duality is stillness that cannot be
expressed.

15th March
Just get rid of the false and you will automatically realise the true.

Ho-shan

What is displayed here is the world of opposites. By the release of the false, the truth
will be automatically revealed. For me, however, these are opposite sides of the
swinging pendulum. The still pendulum is the balance between the two, yet partakes
of the nature of both. The pendulum at rest is Zen.

17th March
Hakuin boldly calligraphed the character for the word “DEATH”, and then added, “If
anyone can see into the depths of this word he is a true hero.”

For me, to be a hero one must undertake an heroic act. To embrace this word, and
find out who is it that will die, is truly heroic.

18th March
Shall I compare this life to a lightening flash or a drop of dew? Before I have even spoken these words, it has passed.

Sengai

Life as identified by self can dissapear in an instant. The realisation of Truth can occur spontaneously by observing either of the above and realising they are you.

Thank you

We hope you’ve enjoyed the newsletter and we’ll be back for the winter solstice edition.
In the meantime, to get in touch about any of the articles or share any AR experiences, please contact Sara who will love to hear from you.

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