Implementing the teachings of Yoga in everyday life

Before I found Kundalini Yoga, I was not very intrigued by the idea of yoga.

My whole life I felt like I needed to mold myself into forms I did not belong, do things to please others, smile when I felt like crying and finally I just wanted to integrate all the parts that have been abandoned, hurt and rejected.

So I dove deeply into the teachings of buddhism, taoism and tantra.

The essence of these teachings involve a loving kindness towards yourself and others, where everything that is, is included into the experience. The darkness becomes part of the experience and is integrated through unconditional acceptance (the light). Where we find our way back to wholeness. It is the Yin and the Yang. The light in the darkness and the darkness in the light. Always complete.

I found Kundalini Yoga in 2016 when I was looking for a book on the chakra system.

Instead I found a book by Gurmurkh Kaur which is called “The Eight Human Talents”.

I was so fascinated by the humanness and groundedness of her words and personal experiences with the chakras, that I immediately started the practises given in the book.

And there I was, feeling more energised than ever.

I started to attend beginner kundalini yoga classes by one of the elders in my city who has been a direct student by Yogi Bhajan who brought Kundalini Yoga into the west.

Everytime I left the class, I felt so much joy within me. So much groundedness and wholeness and a childlike sense of wonder that I would sit in the train back home and smile at everyone I meet while softly chanting the mantras we were singing in the meditation in the end. Now while still feeling lots of resistance and fear, especially during the kriyas (exercises), I felt how I could embrace these parts in loving kindness as I practised for some years and sometimes I would just see every emotion, every thought, every resistance flow through me and merge into so much bliss.

I took part in the yearly European Kundalini Yoga Festivals where I released more and more trauma from my earlier life experiences and transformed so many relationships with the people who where close to me through the beautiful practise of white tantra.

Fast forward, a few months ago I was living with a Guru from India in an Ashram in Sweden.

He asked us instead of practising yoga, to actually make it a living practise. “Stop practising, start living.” Seeing the washing of the dishes as one asana, picking apples and working in the garden as another. It was a completely different approach.

While in the beginning I still practised yoga every morning after the tea ceremony,

I slowly felt how I could integrate the asanas into my day.

Every interaction with the community members became a meditation, where instead of projecting, I would see so clearly how my perception clouded by past experience would determine how I interact with the person in front of me. And becoming more and more aware, I could let the past experience flow through me and approach every being with fresh eyes, just like a baby would.

“In life you need to learn to things: How to live with other people and how to be in your body.”

The guru who grew up with a christian mother and a hindi father, integrated the teachings of Christ, Buddha and Krishna. So we learnt to be present in every moment with a joy in our hearts and a loving kindness towards every being we encounter.

Which also included days of grief, sadness and fear which were all parts of the process and were welcomed in a space of unconditional love.

I found finally found a home inside myself. I found freedom, love, bliss, beauty and peace.

Still I felt called having other experiences and exploring different ways of living.

Now being back to the “normal” world, I practise most of the mornings while also using every other moment of the day as a form of meditation.

It is a true challenge. There are days where I feel almost being drawn out of my body, until I follow my inner voice, spend some time in nature or in quiet contemplation, to come back to my roots beneath my feet.

My vision is to create a world where we see clearly who we truly are beyond our own perceptions and projections of those around us and start living in a beautiful, innocent way of wonder and awe for the beauty that surrounds us.

Nothing is wrong. Because there is no right.

Nothing is bad. Because there is no good.

Everything is in perfect harmony with the ever becoming

always being presence.

Ever expanding.

And every experience

every being we meet

helps us to get to know ourselves

and gives us the chance

to meet the purity within

we’ve always been.

From love with love,

Lisa <3