Love From Lotus

If aliens landed on earth tomorrow and offered to take you home with them, would you go? I’ve always been in love with yoga, touched with its grace and bliss since my very first Ali MacGraw VHS tape when I was eight years old and a long journey through Ashtanga, Anusara, Iyengar, and Vinyasa. But the first time I tried …

In 1 sentence, what was your first impression of Kundalini Yoga? Thought I got hit by a truck. If aliens landed on earth tomorrow and offered to take you home with them, would you go? And leave it all behind? No. Tell us your love story with Kundalini Yoga. Over 20 years ago, I happened upon a group filing in …

In 1 sentence, what was your first impression of Kundalini Yoga? It was weird yet felt familiar in my body and sparked a deep connection with God I had not experienced since I was a child. If aliens landed on earth tomorrow and offered to take you home with them, would you go? Yes. Tell us your love story with …

In 1 sentence, what was your first impression of Kundalini Yoga? WTF just happened?!!!!!! If aliens landed on earth tomorrow and offered to take you home with them, would you go? Nope, definitely not. Tell us your love story with Kundalini Yoga. Kundalini Yoga came to me at a time in my life whenI had reached my metaphysical bottom. I …

Tell us your love story with Kundalini Yoga. I loved yoga since I can remember myself, but kept wandering around and experimenting with different styles: Iyengar, Ashtanga, Sivananda, Bikram… what not. The moment I entered a Kundalini class for the first time I knew: the search was over, I finally found what I have been looking for the whole time. …

“I love Kundalini Yoga because it always brings me back to me. It gives me that place of peace and security that is often lacking in the outside world. Knowing that this place exists makes it easier to face life’s daily challenges. It has helped me cope with spending months in a hospital environment, dealing with other people’s emotions. When …

“Kundalini Yoga came to me at a time in my life when I had reached my metaphysical bottom. I had spent years suffering in silence while doing my best to cope with symptoms I, at the time, had no language for. I later learned that my experiences could be summed up with four words—anxiety, depression and body dysmorphia. For years, …

I have always wanted to be a devout yogi and tried for over a decade to connect to a style, and more importantly, a studio, that I felt met my needs. I found many of my experiences to fall flat, that there was more of a ‘scene’ than a practice that tended to my mind, body AND spirit. Then came …

Sat Dharam Kaur practiced Long Chant as a daily meditation for 40 days, for 2.5 hours each day. These are excerpts from her journal. When chanting the sound “Naam” I am aware of my throat and that with every word I utter I am creating something. The enormity of that awakens in me. Which words will I utter to not …