Beyond the Mind - Waking up your Inner Vibration with Mantra

with Viriam Kaur

  • Saturday 9 February, 2008
  • 2:00-5:00
  • 700 RS

"Love is the door. Chanting is the key."Bhagavan Das

Viriam KaurTo create change within ourselves, we have to go beyond the mind and detoxify ourselves on all levels - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Mantras offer the key. When we chant we offer ourselves up for healing, for awakening. Mantra is as much about listening as it is about chanting - you start to listen to your body, your soul, your own inner acoustics and you start listening to the sonic vibrations all around you through the natural world. Mantra is primal power, it returns us to the source. We can see ourselves as we truly are.

This workshop will focus on the quantum technology of mantra and sound vibrations. Free your voice, free your soul. We will also work with breath and posture to open up the body, clear blocks and tone the body as an instrument of sound.

Chanting calms the mind and the emotions, but it also has a direct effect on the body. The beat of the mantra and the repetition can calm and slow the heart, it works directly on the nervous system. Through mantra we can create a direct healing experience, as we can speak to the limbs and organs of the body. Mantra tunes us into universal life force energy - prana - and we can direct the healing flow of prana to wherever it is needed in the body. As mantra is vibrational, it works on the subtle bodies as well as the physical body. Energy naturally follows intention, so through the process of chanting we can create a physical manifestation of the mantra. It takes you from the polarity of the positive-negative mind and takes you to Universal, neutral mind. It cleanses the mind and clears our divine path. We can use mantra to focus ourselves and create space so that we can see and feel our potential and take steps to realizing that potential.

"The tongue stimulates those meridian points, and they in turn stimulate the hypothalamus which makes the pineal gland radiate. When the pineal gland radiates, it creates an impulse, the entire glandular system secretes and a human being attains bliss. This is the science!" says Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini Yoga.

Viriam Kaur is a yoga nomad currently living in Goa . Having danced and played with kundalini energy for years working with shamanic trance dance, she discovered Kundalini Yoga. She has been teaching for four years in London , Goa and Thailand . Viriam studied with the SKY School of Kundalini Yoga and has also worked as an assistant to teacher Amoda with trance dance and meditation workshops for nearly ten years. She also writes regularly for Yoga Magazine (UK) and Essence of Life. Viriam is also working on a mantra album.

"Viriam Kaur is my spiritual name given to me by Yogi Bhajan. Viriam Kaur means the Princess who is the Courageous Warrior of Truth. It is my daily meditation. my own personal path to celebrating both masculine and feminine - learning to be courageous, to be a warrior, to follow the path of truth, with grace. The Warrior and the Princess. Shiva-Shakti."