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“The flow of life is continuous. Like a heart, it continues beating. And that continuity needs devotion to keep it going. When there is no devotion, there is a tremendous amount of fluctuation.”  Yogi Bhajan

Early July, Har Bhajan, our son and I rode down on motorbikes to Durban. Shireen Govender from the Yellow Feather Yoga Studio in Chatsworth invited us to teach a Kundalini Yoga Workshop.

The topic that inspired me was “How do we yogis stay in a continuous process with grace?” The initial stages of yoga are a home coming and a love affair. We are delighted that we now have tools to move along our destiny path. When we have to re-evaluate behaviours and memories and clear them out, we are overwhelmed and stumped. It feels safer to stop what we’re doing;  but then we fault ourselves for “lacking discipline”.

16 yogis came, some of them dear friends with whom we have worked through the teacher training and most of them yoga teachers from different styles, some of them new to Kundalini Yoga and all of them ‘serious yogis’. One pregnant mom drove all the way from Nottingham Road. What a great crowd.

In the two days we covered a lot of ground. We discussed the essence of a yogic lifestyle and how to stay strong with the practice. We shared the feelings that occur ‘on the path’ and practiced kriyas as taught by Yogi Bhajan on how to allay fear and pain and gather your strength. The Silverglen Hall is in a quiet street right into Chatsworth’s beautiful ravines. Practicing together is magical, there is a precious synergy when people come together with intent and our nervous systems calmed and unraveled. I was very grateful for this course experience. We have plans of taking the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training to KZN.

By Pritam Khalsa

Here is a comment from one of the participants: ‘Words cannot describe how grateful I am to you and your dear Har Bhajan for the wonderful course you facilitated over the past weekend in Durban. Talk about “being in the right place at the right time”! Everything we practiced and everything you or Har Bhajan spoke about resonated with me profoundly. I wish I had taken a little voice recorder with me, there was so much information to process. But funnily enough, in a strange very deep way, it was all stuff that I somehow know, there were so many “Ah, of course I KNOW this” moments. So trustfully, even if I can’t remember verbatim what you said, I know I carry your teachings in my heart and soul. Some things can go beyond words.’

Pritam and Har Bhajan Khalsa created the vegetarian whole foods brands, FRUITS & ROOTS and EARTH PRODUCTS. They have been teaching Kundalini Yoga in Johannesburg since the mid eighties and via their international certification teacher training in Gauteng and in the Cape. Pritam authored the innovative yoga book in pictures, THE KUNDALINI YOGA FAN. She is also an EFT practitioner (tapping).

Read more on www.3ho.org and go to www.kundaliniyoga.co.za to find a teacher close to you.