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#Yoga radiant series

A kriya is a series of postures, breath, and sounds that work toward a specific outcome. The literal translation of the word ‘kriya’ from Sanskrit means “action of the soul”. To awaken our kundalini energy, students practice chanting mantras, meditation, breath work and kriyas. This energy is often symbolized by a snake which travels, once awakened, up the spine through our chakras. Kundalini yoga is a school of yoga that is rooted in awakening our kundalini energy, located at the base of the spine. It seems about time to illuminate the principles and essence of kundalini yoga, which works with the so-called ‘ten bodies’. Practitioners of kundalini report results ranging from discovering their life’s purpose and activating their fullest potential to complete life-transformation. Students from all over the world are flocking into classes, practicing so-called kriyas, chanting “Saaaaat-nam” (meaning truth is my essence) and exiting classes levitating on clouds of pure bliss. But the hype for kundalini classes is unstoppable and is comparable to the hype of strong vinyasa flows yoga studios experienced in the past. Of course not literally, the differences between these two styles of yoga couldn’t be bigger. There’s also no such thing as a “perfect pose” there’s only being with the body exactly as it is.Kundalini yoga is today what vinyasa yoga was ten years ago. They can have tried everything under the sun – traditional yoga, Pilates, boot camps, martial arts etc, or never have sat on an exercise mat in their life. I love that RWB Yoga “is for every body”: students can be rigid as a board or flexible as putty.

#Yoga radiant free

Here I am a few years later, having taken multiple teacher trainings, totally free of back pain, and LOVING teaching Radiant Well-Being Yoga! I’m continually amazed at how quickly it helps my students, and I love how the practice feels for me as I continue to go through the sequences myself. But me? A yoga teacher? It seemed the weirdest idea!

None seemed interested so I hummed and hawed about taking the training myself. In the meantime, I started talking to the few yoga teachers I knew, hoping to interest them in Kaiut Yoga so they would take the teacher training and start teaching in Edmonton. I attended my friend’s classes twice per week until she went traveling, at which time she offered me recordings of some of the classes we had done together which allowed me to continue doing Kaiut Yoga on my own. There was something about Kaiut Yoga that my body loved, and it calmed my nervous system in a way nothing else ever had. I can’t explain it, but right from my first class, I was hooked.

She was, and invited me to join the classes she was teaching at her home. I wasn’t available to attend but asked if she was teaching any Kaiut Yoga classes. Then a friend invited me to a weekend workshop she was offering that included Kaiut Yoga – something I had never heard of. No matter how often I went to the chiropractor, the pain persisted so I decided to get back to Pilates and do some yoga to see if that would help. In January 2017, I started having problems with my S.I. I have not done much yoga in my life – a class here and there, some home videos… It always felt good but I tended to prefer Pilates because it incorporated both stretching and strengthening. RWB Yoga is excellent for inflexible, hyper flexible and aging bodies it is especially user-friendly for men who think they can’t do yoga, and it has proven surprisingly enjoyable for people who say they “don’t like yoga”. Each student’s restrictions are respected, and time in each pose gives the nervous system time to feel safe, relax into the pose, release restrictions, and create new patterns. There is also no such thing as a “perfect pose”. Forcing the body and ideas like “no pain, no gain” have absolutely no place in RWB Yoga. When a pose is difficult for a student, it is modified so the student can benefit from the variation while remaining safe.

Very consciously developed class plans take students from one pose to another, with each pose preparing the body for what is coming next.Īnyone can do RWB Yoga because poses are done only as each body is able.

#Yoga radiant full

It is based in traditional yoga but is very different from “regular” yoga because rather than focusing on stretching muscles, it focuses on getting the joints moving in their full range of motion. Radiant Well-Being Yoga is a user-friendly method of stretching and strengthening that rehabilitates and increases mobility in the joints.