Stress Backpack Meditation #6.

As a teacher in training through KRI's Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, Level 2 Module, Stress & Vitality...I am basically 'interning' as healer and teacher to elevate myself through CHERDI KALA! This is the process of healing and uplifting myself and others, as a return for the 'gurprasad' - the gift of the guru, the divine teacher within. This meditation was assigned to us this weekend at the end of training, to be completed in 90 days.

To begin the meditation, we sit in easy pose, half lotus, or full lotus, with the hands in gyan mudra: Index and thumb pressing together, palm face up on the knees. We sit in awareness and chant the following mantra, inhaling completely before each line.

Ek Ong Kaar
Sat Naam
Kartaa Purakh (let the whole breath go through the nose)
Nirbho, Nirvair
Akaal Moorat
Ajoonee
Saibhang
Gurprasaad
Jap (let the whole breath go through the nose)
Aad Sach (release breath with a hiss)
Jugaad Sach (release breath with a hiss)
Haibhee Sach (release breath with a hiss)
Nanaak Hosee Bhee Sach (release breath with a hiss)

Each time you inhale you must do so to the maximum capacity and each phrase must use up the entire breath. On words like Akaal Moorat, where the sound isn't really extended, release the breath through the mouth with a light "uhh..." sound. On Kartaa Purakh and Jap, release the breath through the nose. This is the whole secret: the last four phrases are ended with the breath released through the mouth so the "ch" sound in Sach is like the extended sound of a hissing snake.

TIME: Chant for a minimum of 11 times a day for 90 days. Since each person has a different lung capacity, this meditation should be done individually instead of in a group. It can take anywhere from 40-45 minutes to an hour.

COMMENTS: To brighten your auric light, have a radiant face, and prevent yourself from aging, practice this meditation. This is one of five meditations given specifically "to prepare for the gray period of the planet and to bring mental balance."

Today, on January 21st, my last day at Sat Tirath Ashram in Kansas City, Missouri with my teachers for this training module, I began this meditation while sitting right outside the Gurdwara, the Sikh Temple containing the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy Book where these words are the beginning of the gift of the naad, the healing sound current, the place where all the mantras used in Kundalini Yoga come from. You do not need to be a Sikh or an American Sikh to practice this form of yoga, but I am, and so being outside the Gurdwara felt like home.

This meditation left me feeling peaceful, expanded, full of breath and life and joy! Cherdi Kala! Spiraling ever upwards, ready to lead in the Aquarian Age that we are in...