Follow your passions. Whether it is dancing, writing, hiking or surfing, when you are enjoying yourself you move into alignment with your soul.
Have you ever noticed that inspiration and fresh perspective come to you when you are relaxed and having fun? Remember, you don’t have to work at intuition.
Life is about enjoying yourself, and when you remember to play you remember your spirit and why you are here. You say an inner Yes to yourself, and to Life as well!
The spirit of Yoga Shala West shares a deep love for ashtanga yoga. Every morning becomes magical stepping into this sacred sanctuary which holds an omnipotent space quite strongly. With gratitude, to the founder of Yoga Shala West, Pranidhi Varshney for opening mysore-style shala in the heart of West Los Angeles. Doors open before sunrise for early morning mysore risers. It feels special to connect to our divine aspect, opening the mind to gain clarity, connection, and compassion in our relationship with our self and the world.
This hidden gem offers morning, afternoon and weekend mysore. The traditional practice that cultivates the mysterious healing power of synchronizing breath with movement. In addition to mysore, the studio also has intriguing events, sound healing baths, led classes, guest teachers, mantra, singing, and harmonium that accompanies many classes. Pranidhi teaches morning mysore, and on Fridays’ devotional music is played, a personal favorite honoring spiritual traditional music like contemporary Indian, Sufi, devotional chanting, vedic chanting all with an omniscient experience of isvarapranidhana. Devotion to the Divine. This devotion means a surrender of all thoughts to the Divine, a merging with the Divine being able to completely surrender our individual ego identities to our own higher self. This unique method of yoga practice allows everyone with varying physical abilities to create a sacred space together.
This five-star community ashtanga yoga shala is highly recommended. Afternoon mysore is rare to find in any city and Nina Collins who loves teaching and sharing the mysore tradition method with her students, has an afternoon mysore program. Her love for teaching shows and she brings a sense of inspiration, focus, and commitment to the practice. This is indeed a fine way to live an authentic compassionate life.
“Practice and all is coming.” Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
For more information or if you happen to be in West LA and want to check it out visit yogashalawest.com
By Kelly Krishna Dunn
Morning meditation with the smell of nag champa mmm.. enhances your meditation and creates a sacred atmosphere in your own home or @ the yoga studio.
We know just what to do … burn nag champa incense. Its aroma will transport you to the spiritually elevated surroundings of tranquil Buddhist and Hindu monasteries where generations have blended secret mixtures of this calming floral aroma. #meditationmonday #krishna
The adrenaline rush that snowboarding gives me lights a fire inside my soul and I know it will be something I do for many years to come. Just like surfing, snowboarding is a board sport that encompasses an entire lifestyle. I am completely in love with the way it makes me feel so in tune with a movement focused on feeling alive. #snowboarding
Sometimes you may just need to do a handstand. Aside from bringing out your inner child and just being fun to do, there are actually multiple ways handstands can benefit your health, especially if you do them on a daily basis.
Whether you do them against a wall or manage to do freestanding ones, here are three reasons why handstands are good to do everyday:
1) they increase balance.
2) they build core strength.
3) they make your upper body strength superpowerful.
#adhomukhavrksasana #handstand
#love, #krishna
Snowboarding season is one of our favorites. All three sports, snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing.
Snowboarding, in Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada area, is our top choice for Ski/Snow Winter Escapes _snow_ escapades #californiasnow #cleansnow
Lake Tahoe has become a second home during January’s winter and summer house time by the lake in Emerald Bay, four seasons in California is magical.
California snow self-expression’s shines at snowfall, majestic energy, grateful to you and enlightenment vibes because Lake Tahoe is a vortex for healing.
To Healing,
The lake shines as aquamarine, bright healing color, very grounding for sensitive people. Mystical language from Lake Tahoe, beautiful Native American Spirit.
New Year Blessings,
K 🙂 kelly krishna
Ajna or third-eye chakra is the sixth chakra in the body. Ajna translates to “command” and is considered the eye of intuition. It is the power that has to do with recognition, imagination, visualization, dreaming, and perception. When a person has developed a strong Ajna, one can see the unseen and come from a deep inner state of knowing. You will sense when the Ajna is unbalanced it can result in rigid/one-way thinking, insensitivity, poor concentration, denial, and inability to see the future.
Many people are trained at an early age to not trust their own intuition. This could have been from parents or peers who made you believe that your senses were not valid, which created doubt. Children that were abused will disconnect from their lower chakras as a survival mechanism which causes them to over develop their higher chakras. An imbalance between the lower and high chakras can cause these children to escape reality through imagination and visualization. The long-term effect of this will cause people to be dreamers rather than doers. One must have balanced lower chakras as an anchor in order to have a properly functioning Ajna.
The Ajna also has to do with our perception. We all have perceptions and this is created from our upbringing, environments, and our beliefs. When perception is mistaken for intuition, we can get into trouble. Perception isn’t always reality. It is our limited reality. To balance the Ajna, we must challenge our perception and always seek reality no matter how uncomfortable it is.
Strengthening and balancing the Ajna is a process but can be done and requires daily meditation to function optimally. The results are very subtle and when they are not paid attention to, they can go unnoticed. The important thing when coming back into balance with the Ajna is to learn to trust your intuition and what you see in meditation. You will begin to know the difference between thoughts, perception, and intuition.
Ajna is a true gift and to have a fully functioning one will make you limitless. Check out this Kriya called “To See the Unseen” This specific technique helps with gaining Intuitive Vison. And everyone will have their own experience but this experience turned out to be a a visual intuitive experience.
Sit in easy pose with the right arm out in front parallel to the floor with the elbow straight, but not locked.
The palm to the right hand is facing up and slightly cupped as if catching rain.
The left hand is in Surya Mudra (ring finger touching the thumb) with the elbow at the aide and forearm facing out.
Close your eyes and focus on the tip of the chin. Strongly press the tip of the tongue to the palate behind the teeth
Mentally chant, “Wahe Guru” in silence.
Breath long and deep.
Practice for 11 minutes.
To End – Make panther claws (bend the fingers into the mounds of the hand). Inhale and turn to the left, then back to the center and exhale. Then inhale and turn to the right, then back to the center and exhale. Sat Nam.
When the Third Eye is activated we can command our own mind and command a Destiny. To see with crystal clarity. It’s been said that one’s Destiny is written on one’s forehead, more accurately, when the Ajna is activated we can live our life with an overview and navigate easily towards where our Destiny lies.
To crystal clarity,
Kelly Krishna Dunn
10/10/16
This time is a great expansion of consciousness that seems to bring with it – new challenges to humanity that we have never encountered before. The ancients have warned us to let go of the old ways now – that is living by the mind and ego.
The ego/mind is made up of thoughts and beliefs from the past (unreality) and it is not equipped to guide us into this new age.
It is time to rely on the strength of your own Soul and to live from your heart. If you commit to living from this place you will experience Life as exciting and filled with endless possibilities to further your highest potential.
To live by your Soul means to listen to your Intuition. Your intuition is the voice of your own inner Teacher that guides you from darkness. (unconsciousness) into Light (expanded consciousness).
Many people ask, “How do I know these messages are coming from my intuition and not from the ego/mind?”
Voice of Intuition vs Voice of EGO
1. Ego is Logical – Intuition is Creative
Often the ego’s voice will sound logical and rational. The advice is based on a past that no longer exists.
It may sound like, “Of course do this because it worked for you in the past” Intuition rarely sounds logical or rational. It is the creative voice & the solution or message that seems to come out of left field.
2. Ego is Fear Based – Intuition is based on Love
Ego voice example, “Keep that job that exhausts you – it gives you a regular pay check otherwise you will have no home – how will you live? The intuitive voice is rooted in love and reminds you that you have the support of the universe every step of the way. It is step by step often with intuition you do not receive the whole picture all at once.
3. Ego Sounds Judgmental – Intuition is Neutral
The ego’s voice is judgmental to the point of being abusive – criticizing yourself to make you believe that you are a bad person. This will make you treat yourself in disrespectful and unloving ways. Intuition is neutral in energy and these messages makes you treat yourself in loving and respectful ways.
Intuition sees the truth that we are all spiritual beings having human experiences.
Meditation for Intuition:
Tune in with the Adi Mantra 3 Times (Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo).
Interlace your fingers except the Jupiter Fingers (index fingers) point up.
Cross thumbs like so..
Eyes are 1/10 open.
Bring fingers just under your nose where you can see the tip of your Jupiter fingers.
INHALE -through ‘O’ mouth 4 Times.
EXHALE – once through the nostrils.
Use your diaphragm on the INHALE .
These exercises are time bound. Open up your chakras and open up your self sensory system.
Continue for 11 minutes-To End
Sat Nam (truth is my identity)
Kelly Krishna Dunn
Ayurveda Self-Care has changed me. Bringing a much greater awareness of how disordered eating has a negative impact on the quality of life. Much has already been said about anorexic ballet dancers, but that doesn’t mean the problem has gone away. Young girls within today’s culture experience crushing pressure to be thin and attractive. Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and EDNOS (Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified) can all have life-threatening consequences.
Dance is a highly competitive, high-pressure and physically demanding profession. I have been dancing since I was three years old, competed throughout childhood, selected for apprenticeships to Russian Ballet Companies and American Ballet Companies such as the New York City Ballet. NYCB presented a full-time contract when I turned 14 which is traditionally a difficult time when young dancers make the jump into a major company and go Pro.
You can imagine what the mantra or programming that was signaled every day to a professional ballerina. “Do Not Eat” This became engrained in my nervous system and learned to have a sense of control over my body and the competition which is thought powerful for ballerinas. The same discipline that a ballerina uses to master a skill after hours of practice is the same force of will she uses to deny herself food.
Eating disorders range from anorexia nervosa (deliberate self-starvation) and bulimia (recurring binge eating and purging) to disordered eating, and ritualistic compulsive eating problems. Within the demanding whirl of being a teenage professional dancer, developed an unhealthy relationship with food. I had lost any sense of a center for self-esteem and self-worth. I either was relying on my own perfectionist idea, or was basing it on the ballet world’s idea of success, which I wasn’t living up to because being skinny meant being worthy.
Since I wasn’t allowed to eat the development of discovering Ayurveda and how to eat healthy and enjoy the process was later on in my life. Ayurveda has brought in a new perspective about my relationship to food. Ayurveda understands all eating disorders are defined by having an unwholesome relationship with food to the point of negatively affecting one’s health. Ayurveda (India’s traditional and ancient system of health) has a unique perspective about eating disorders and may offer some insight to the individuals out there affected by them. Establishing more awareness about my inherent body constitution, satiating the absence of the feeling of love for oneself with food, or reinforcing the feeling of lack of self-love with food, are the underlying emotional reasons why a person develops this specific disorder. Ayurveda suggests that lack of self-love is the root cause for all types of eating disorders. During the course of Ayurveda Self Care Class I realized to add an exercise called Reverse Adi Shakti Kriya also known as Meditation for Creating Self-Love. Here you are mentally and hypnotically blessing yourself. This self-blessing is to affect and correct the magnetic field, you discover how strong you are, when you discover how strong you are, you can find the strength to overcome your personal demons.
Meditation for Self-Love
Sit in Lotus Pose with a straight spine. The right palm faces down, blessing you. This self-blessing corrects the aura. The left palm faces forward and blesses the planet.
The eyes are closed and focus at the lunar center (middle of the chin.)
Breathe long, slow, and deep with a feeling of self-affection. Try to bring the breath to one breath per minute: Inhale for 20 seconds, hold for 20 seconds, exhale for 20 seconds and repeat 3-11 minutes.
The Ayurveda system of medicine, nutrition and self-care creates a perfect alliance with holistic treatment, recovery, and healing from eating disorders and disordered eating. Ayurveda combines the Sanskrit words ‘avur’ which means life and ‘veda’ which means knowledge. As we recover from an eating disorder some of the most powerful results are the deep knowing of the self that allows for a more meaningful life.
Sat Nam -8/18/16-Kelly Krishna Dunn
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