Kundalini yoga integrates active movement with held stretches, breath techniques, deep relaxation, meditation, mudras (or hand positions), and mantras. Called the Yoga of Awareness, it encourages self- acceptance whatever your level of fitness.

Kundalini yoga is fun and incredibly efficient, challenging yet "doable" for practically everyone! It can be used to break through old patterns, elevate the spirit, increase endurance, clear the mind, heal the body, and build energy. The three basic goals of Kundalini Yoga are health, happiness, and spiritual progress.

What's particularly appealing about Kundalini yoga today is its speed: Kundalini yoga works very, very fast. By using its techniques for only a few minutes a day, you can change your body, feelings, and thoughts noticeably and positively. In an hour a day, the entire patterns of your life can transform very deeply.

As Kundalini yoga teachers, we do not expect you to perfect forms or poses. In contrast to the pop-culture hype about attaining a perfect body, we view your body as ideal now. At this moment you already are in the perfect body to learn what you need to learn in life.

Kundalini yoga brings natural feelings of contentment and ease. It helps you to feel accepting about who you are and where you are and at the same time to push beyond previously held limits.

As you become kinder to yourself through practicing Kundalini yoga, your whole system can begin to heal, sometimes more rapidly and wholly than you ever would have imagined possible. Kundalini yoga can help you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, become more flexible, look younger, get stronger, act compassionately toward yourself and others, overcome disease and illness, have more vigor and vitality, and feel glad to be here.

Kundalini yoga draws upon a vast body of teachings—over 2,500 yoga sets and more than 5,000 meditations—brought by Yogi Bhajan from India in 1969. Yogi Bhajan broke with tradition dramatically by teaching Kundalini yoga to the public. He believed that everyone has the right to study this powerful yoga form. When questioned about his decision, he said, "I'm in the desert and I have a little water: I'm going to share it."

As Kundalini yoga teachers, we view the teachings as a golden chain, passed on for more than five thousand years and seeming fresher and more applicable today than ever. Expect fun surprises in Kundalini yoga class—sets vary tremendously and can contain everything from aerobic, strength-training moves to singing and dancing to quiet, reflective meditation.

We welcome everyone who is willing to learn with heart, mind, body, and spirit. Kundalini yoga is not a religion, but rather a practice that can be integrated with any religion or belief system. It's open to everyone who wants to grow.