power levels

[DavidL]

I'm very new to Kundalini yoga, and to yoga in general, I had bits of exposure over the years, my total time of practice is only a few hours.

I've had over 30 years of continuous Tai Chi Chuan practice, total practice time logged must be over 30,000 hours (weird, first time I added these up).

The immediate difference that I felt in the KYoga seminar here in Rogers that Mahtab and Guru Karam presented a few months back was the immense level of prana (chi for TCCers) experienced as a result of the practice of KYoga.

Last week-end at a White Tantra yoga I zoomed UP, and Pam has to insist on me grounding myself, immediately, which I resisted for quite a while, since I had such a good time.

I'll hasten to say that this is not a measure of either system, just a side note.

[Pamela]

David IS very sensitive to the energy flow, and really was flying high there for a bit. He knows how important grounding is but, like he said, he was enjoying himself. Since I teach and practice K-Yoga I suggested a few modification as to what he was doing (he said "well, that's the way Yogi Bhajan was doing it" ... and I said, well, yeah, he is the master and has been practicing at the time of the DVD for probably 60 years!).

K-Yoga, in the Yoga tradition, is known as the "fast track" to change (dare I say enlightenment?) -- but practiced according to the teaching of YB, safe. It IS a WOW though. My dear friends, Dotti and Larry, experienced it for the first time almost two years ago (yes it was that long, David) when Mehtab and Guru Karam came by my invitation to teach a workshop here.

We'd done a little K-Yoga at the studio, but I wasn't teaching a regular class at that time. They weren't sure they could do a whole weekend of any kind of Yoga, but particularly Kundalini Yoga which they'd had little exposure to. They did GREAT -- and now Larry teaches occasionally at the studio, has a gong and went to gong training with Mehtab (and offers a gong meditation at the end of our K-Yoga classes )and will be going to training this fall.

Yep -- one can get hooked ... And David will ALWAYS be primarily a Tai Chi player, but he's going to delve a little deeper in to Kundalini Yoga now too.