Your Body as Your Teacher: Embodying Intuition

A Kundalini Yoga & SpiritDance Collaboration
Ellen Watson, Daphna Dor

April 2012 • Desa Seni Eco Village Resort
Canguu, Bali, Indonesia

Ellen writes, “It’s taken me years and years to learn to honor the sense, the knowing, the voice of intuition.  Now that I’ve discovered this sense, my life flows more easily, I save myself countless hours, days, perhaps years of avoidable challenges by tuning into this voice of knowing.  

Kundalini Ecstatic Dance - Click to view video

 Please join us for our second retreat at Desa Seni. Through the alchemy of these two centuries old moving meditation practices, yoga and ecstatic dance, we will explore and discover where our intuition is located in our bodies, how to cultivate this awareness, and support each other in listening to this voice.”

Daphna’s lightness of spirit and embodiment of Kundalini Yoga are a teaching in and of themselves. She has created a variety of sequences that support our inquiry into the nature of intuition. Through skilled direction, we will move our bodies to rhythms from around the globe chosen specifically to free our spirits, as we let go of the past, and move into the present moment. When we experience embodied presence, our intuition is assessable.  


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SpiritDance is dance for everybody, a mind, body and spirit fitness practice,catalyzed by music from around the world, powered by your breath and your heartbeat, you’ll sweat your prayers, dance your dreams, and have experiences that move you to the depths of your soul. Ecstatic Dance is the oldest form of dance on our planet.. No prior dance experience necessary. This is Dance for EveryBody, every age, every shape. We sweat, laugh, play, pray and sometimes even shed tears of joy or sadness. We create a safe space for each of us to dance our prayers, our visions & dreams. This is an ideal way to experience & create a holistic health & wellness practice for yourself. This is movement/exercise physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fitness.

Kundalini Yoga, brought to the West in 1969 by Yogi Bajan, is the Mother of all yogas.   Below is a description of Kundalini energy and Kundalini Yoga, written by Guru Rattana, Ph.D.

Kundalini is the energy of our soul. Kundalini is the energy of consciousness.
Kundalini is the awareness of the higher self. 
Kundalini is our emanation of infinity.
Kundalini is the energy of the cosmos within each individual.

Kundalini is our creative energy Kundalini is imagined as a coiled serpent lying asleep at the base of our spine.
 Kundalini is the dormant energy within us that expands our awareness. Kundalini is the greatness of which we are each capable.

When we tap our Kundalini what do we become aware of? We become aware of our creative capacities and our radiant caliber. 
We become aware of our finite relationship with infinity.
Kundalini makes it possible for us as humans with finite identities to relate to our infinite identities.
What makes it possible to experience Kundalini energy?  When the glandular system is activated and the nervous system is strong the energies of the two systems combine to create a movement or flow in the spinal fluid a sensitivity in the nerve endings.  The " brain in its totality receives signals and integrates them."
What is the result?
A new clarity expands our perceptions.
We understand the effect and impact of an action before we take it.
  We are at choice whether to act or not to act.
Awareness brings choice.
  Choice brings freedom.

What is Kundalini Yoga?
Yoga is about relationship. What is the nature of our relationship? Yoga is the science of creating a relationship between the human and the infinite. Yoga is the art of merging our individual energy with universal energy. Yoga means to join together or unite what we are trying to unite with. Yoga is the union of the individual’s consciousness with the universal consciousness.

The Yoga of Awareness

Kundalini Yoga is an ancient technology designed to expand our awareness. Our capabilities and choices are determined by our awareness. As we expand our awareness, we are able to go beyond our perceived conscious limits, we are empowered to make more daring choices, and we have the energy to create bountiful and exciting lives.

Kundalini yoga is about tapping our infinite potential. Within every human is the capacity to be outrageously creative. Within every human mind is the reality of the infinite.
Within every human is the capacity to be outrageously creative. Within every human mind is the reality of the infinite. How do we expand our capacity and realize our divine caliber? We bring all the aspects of our being: our mental faculties, our emotional energy and our physical structure into equilibrium and alignment.  As we do so we open up our capacity to experience, to express, and to share our infinite Self.

Kundalini Yoga is about understanding who we are. What does it mean to be a human being? Normally, we experience ourselves in very limited ways. We have the habit of seeing ourselves through restricted lens. Kundalini yoga awakes us to our Soul, our original Self, to our infinite origin and identity.

Kundalini Yoga is about the unfolding or our true nature. What blocks our growth?

The practice of Kundalini Yoga melts our attachments, makes the unknown known, expands our perception of reality, gives us the strength to replace unhealthy habits with healthy ones, heals our wounds with the power of love, and gives us the experience that we are complete and whole.

The Yoga of Experience

Kundalini Yoga is about direct, personal experience The thoughts and ideas of our mind cannot sustain us. Knowledge becomes real wisdom only when we have experienced it: in our own heart, in our own body, in our own being.   It is the experience of this integrated wisdom that ultimately sustained and consistently supports us. 
 

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