Category: Mudra

Baisakhi 2017 Attracts Thousands 

The Sikh community of California came together to celebrate Baisakhi, April 9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, with over 15,000 people attending the grand festivities.

In Sikh tradition, it’s a time of renewal and rekindling of spirit. The celebration commemorates the day in Punjab in 1699 when the unique form and discipline associated with the Sikh way of life was codified by its leader, Guru Gobind Singh. It also syncs with the festival of spring gathering, birth of Khalsa and the Sikh New Year.

The event, which was open to the public, began before sunrise at 4 a.m. at Guru Ram Das Ashram with Asa di Var (devotional morning music, chants, prayers) leading to 7 a.m. as the sunrise morning unfolds with a motorcade procession which ushered the Sri Guru Granth Sahib to the Los Angeles Convention Center. Gatka martial arts performers danced with their swords while the sounds of tablas and conches echoed throughout the halls of the Concention Center as the Sri Guru Granth Sahib was carried overhead and set in the elegantly decorated Gurdwara Hall that anchored the celebration festivities. 

Gatka martial arts performers danced and flashed their swords while the sounds of conches and drums echoed through the halls of the convention center as the Sri Guru Granth Sahib was carried overhead and set in the beautifully decorated serene Gurdwara Hall that anchored the festivities.

Kirtan (spiritual music) program continued till the afternoon featuring performances from some of the most inspiring Ragi Kirtan Jathas (musical groups) from around the world. Ragi Jathas and children’s Jathas from Southern California Sikh gurdwaras were also represented, and lectures and speeches were heard from renowned guests. 

The busy  Baisakhi Bazaar had goods for sale. Clothing was the most popular item, decorative clothing boutiques. Other booths featured decorative items, healing modalities such as Sat Nam Rasayan, essential oils, ramalas, and paintings for the home, devotional items, jewelry, books, CDs, as well as insurance and dental service products. 

The langar hall served a hot vegetarian meal. With several serving lines, the large crowd moved efficiently and last minute food preparations outside made it look easy to keep up with the huge demand.

The celebration concluded with a colorful Nagar Kirtan mile and a quarter parade through the heart of downtown Los Angeles from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Floats created by local gurdwaras highlighted Sikh themes, values, lifestyles. 

Thousands of visitors have been attending the festival for decades as part of an annual Los Angeles tradition shared with friends and family.  

We were happy to be a part of it. love, #krishna 

The Hidden Magic in Joshua Tree 

Deep in the desert, searching for enlightenment at a spot that’s filled with Joshua trees. This area, we love its name, monzogranite rock formations and the triad of cholla, cactus and prickly pear that prick my legs, it feels like acupuncture. 

Joshua Tree National Park, we have become so amazed of these wondrous surroundings,  also appreciating the floral delights.  

In this particular portion of southeastern California Joshua Tree became a national park in 1994, and that is named for the yucca trees native to the park. It’ll tell you that Joshua Tree’s grow quickly and that you could eat the buds. But here’s what I’ll tell you: the name ‘Joshua’ was decided on by Mormons who thought that the tree’s natural form mimicked that of Joshua praying to the sky in an episode of the Bible, and that the sun sets on the rocks just right and that you can get great tacos in the small town right before you drive in. I’ll tell you that there’s a candy store in town and that you can freely camp and cook and wake up to snow in the desert. We can tell you this, because it’s real: the hidden gem of Joshua Tree is  something you have to experience to believe.

love, #krishna 

Three Reasons Why To Attend The Sat Nam Festival 

Here are 3 Top reasons why we are  looking forward to attending the Sat Nam Fest: 

1) MUSIC: World renowned musicians such as Snatam Kaur, Mirabai Ceiba, Simrit, Ajeet Kaur, Aykanna, and Jai-Jagadeesh all encompass the healing power of the sound current Naam. They perform passionate concerts that uplift and inspire. 


2) LIKE-MINDED SOULS: The Kundalini community is one of the strongest yoga communities in the world; practitioners deeply connect with each other through yoga ​practices, sadhana, and seva (selfless service). During the festival chanting the mantras and practicing the kriyas together, personal individual efforts are amplified to create a beautiful and powerful healing group energy. 

3) YOGA: Sat Nam Fest West expects to see more than 1,000 people this year. With 3 stages, there will be opportunity for everyone to jump into the vortex. You’ll see a lot of people wearing white, but there’s no dress code. Wearing white is a part of the technology of Kundalini yoga. It boosts your aura and helps you feel radiant. Spirit Voyage suggests bringing something to cover your head during meditation, but it’s not required. It’s best to wear what brings you joy and elevates you! 

Gurdwara, you will need to cover your head as a part of the tradition. Covering the head helps to raise the Kundalini energy up the spine, makes meditation more effective, keeps you grounded when you’re doing a TON of powerful pranayama and chanting, it makes many of us feel great! Kundalini yoga can be done by beginners and yogis at any level. There are often things that a beginner won’t be able to do…but you just do the best you can. If you can’t get into a pose, don’t worry… just do your best. Kundalini yoga is very non-competitive and is just about your personal, private experience. You definitely will be able to enjoy the yoga in Ramdesh’s relaxation workshop with Ashana. She’ll be doing lots of gentle movement and lie-flat-on-your-back relaxing gentleness. But most of all jump in and have fun no matter which class you opt for! 

Amla Oil: Miracle Oil 

Amla, known as miracle oil since ages and for its goodness in terms of hair growth. Amla or aka Indian gooseberries is a fruit that has been used in many recipes and  known to be effective for hair loss treatment, scalp related issues, and promotes hair growth, massaging the scalp is a way to increase blood circulation and massaging the hair with amla oil does that more effectively. Apart from that amla oil helps in opening up the pores allowing the scalp to produce natural oils. You can learn how to give yourself a scalp massage. 

Do you wonder how it’s made? Amla Oil, is made traditionally by immersing amla fruit in oil. Coconut oil, sesame oil or mineral oil. After soaking for few days, experience the oil,  after removing the fruit and purifying the oil. 

How to make amla oil with amla powder?
You will need:

2 teaspoons amla powder.

5 tablespoons coconut oil (or any other oils you wish)

Combine amla powder and coconut oil in a stainless-steel pan. Place the pan on the lowest heat setting and occasionally keep stirring. When it starts to bubble, cook for another minute, then turn off the heat, cover the pan, and then when ready you can strain it into an amla bottle of your choice and apply.  

It makes a good hair potion! love, #krishna  

Gemstones and Crystals to Create Positive Relationships 

Gemstones and Crystals can be used to create positive relationships. Building strong and positive relationships is a major component for happy living. Because of the variety of personality traits and human emotions within each other, this is not the easiest to do. To keep in mind the feelings and wishes of others, and to be self-aware of how you treat and react towards others.

By being mindful of your relationship and your role in it, you may find some qualities within yourself, or the relationship, that you wish to strengthen, develop, or change in order to keep the relationship healthy, happy, and strong. 

Stones and crystals can be of service in accomplishing this as their energies can help to enhance certain relationship qualities. They can help you to bring harmony, nourish love, work through conflicts, and transmute negative factors into positive ones.


Gemstones and Crystals can be of assistance for every relationship. There are many kinds of relationships, such as those between lovers, family members, friends, coworkers, neighbors, or community, group members. All are vital to your own health, happiness and spiritual growth.  

Love is the main ingredient to any relationship. To strengthen, develop, or change in order to keep the relationship happy, healthy, and strong, Crystals and Quartz can be of aid in accomplishing this as their energies can help you to enhance certain relationship qualities. 

When you love yourself, your heart becomes receptive to love, and the way is open to attracting a soulmate, restoring a broken friendship, nurturing a new relationship, improving your ability to communicate and socialize with everyone around you and that will develop and strengthen those qualities needed to build a relationship such as understanding, warmth, kindness, compassion, appreciation, acceptance, forgiveness, gentleness, caring and intimacy. Each facet of love can develop by practicing it in your daily life. 

Here are a couple of our Gemstone  and Crystal suggestions 

Rose Quartz for Self Love

Moonstone for Empathy

Charoite for Acceptance

Amazonite for Trust

Chrysocolla for Tolerance

Aventurine for Compassion

Jade for Generosity

Amber for Loyalty

Prehnite for Forgiveness

love, #krishna 

Light It Up Blue

This April 2, 2017 marks the ninth annual World Autism Awareness Day and April is World Autism Month.

Every year, autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events. The autism awareness ribbon is multicolored, with a puzzle pattern in different shades of blue, yellow and red, according to The Autism Society. The puzzle pattern is meant to reflect the complexity of the condition and represent the diversity of people and families affected by autism and related disorders.

 

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The color Blue represents Autism Awareness as we will be Lighting It Up Blue. Join the thousands of people across the world who wear blue in honor of the millions of individuals and families affected by autism. Don’t have blue gear? Check out the Autism Speaks e-Store

 

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#LIUB to share your experience across social media and light it up blue this April!!!

How will you celebrate?

 

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Music- Cosmic Co-Creation 

You, the essence of who you really are, the real you, loves being expressive. The amplification of that which you give life to is realized. You can’t help but be expressive. You can’t help but make choice after choice about what you will pay attention to – which is how you are expressive. That feeling of being expressive is expanding all of life. It’s magnificent and all of life dances to your tune. 

Life is orchestrating each and every choice and what you focus on can come about in your manifest experience. But you are how it comes into manifest experience; through resonance and allowing. 

When you are living intuitively in a way that gives you pleasure, that feels good, that makes you happy, that lets you feel joy in your life, you are cooperating with All That Is. You are a harmonious element in this universal orchestration of all life! love, #krishna