Kundalini Buzz

Kundalini Kitchen--Solstice Soup

The following recipe is used in making gallons and gallons of soup for students who attend the annual Kundalni Yoga Summer Solstice celebration in New Mexico. It is served as part of breakfast during the cool morning mountain hours and promotes both mental balance and cleansing. It makes the blood slightly akalaline which is conducive for practicing mediation.

This recipe makes a bunch of soup but you could serve it for a few days if kept in the refrigerator:

Slice:
1 quart potatoes (leave on the skins)
1 quart celery
1 quart onions

Layer in pot with potatoes on the bottom. Fill the pot with water and add salt.

Saute in 1/8 cup of oil or ghee:

2 Tablespoons chile powder
Pinch of cayenne pepper
1 Tablespoon tumeric powder
1 Tablespoon cumin powder
1 Tablespoon coriander powder

Add to soup. Add 1/8 cup minced garlic before serving.

This is spicy strong and you will be able to jump over mountains if you eat it for breakfast for several days!

New Kundalini Teachers!

Here is a picture of Mandy, one of our new Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training graduates, teaching her practicum class to her classmates. Congratulations to the Kundalini Class of 2008!

Come join us for 09!

Kundalini Teacher Training Open House

This Saturday, May 31st at 1PM
Yoga Yoga South (1700 South Lamar)

Want to deepen your Kundalini Yoga practice? Maybe learn to teach? Or have an amazing transformational journey with a community of Kundalini students and teachers?

Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training is for you! Our next training starts this September and you can register now to reserve your space.

Want to learn more about it? Click here to check out the website.

Or better yet, come to our Open House and meet the teachers and other students in the program!

Saturday May 31 at 1 PM at Yoga Yoga South - see you there!

Kundalini Teacher Training Level 2

Authentic Relationships
Registration Now Open!

For all our Kundalini Yoga teacher training graduates and Kundalini teachers worldwide, we are offering a special Level 2 course at Yoga Yoga this Fall!

Authentic Relationships, an advanced course in creating satisfying and rewarding relationships in all areas of your life through the use of yogic techniques, will be held one weekend a month September through December.

Click here for more information.

Mehtab's Gong Book Goes to Press!

Look for a new book by Yoga Yoga founder Mehtab called Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment Through Sound. It is all about the gong, yoga, and Kundalini Yoga. It will be on sale at Yoga Yoga in about 8 weeks.

Here is an excerpt from the book's preface:
Houston, Texas 1973. It is the end of my first yoga class. I am lying on the floor of a former hippie communal house freshly transformed into a Kundalini Yoga ashram. My yoga teacher looks just like the friends I drop acid with - bearded, longhaired, sparkly-eyed - except he is dressed all in white, wearing a turban and waving a gong mallet over his head.

"Just relax," he says as he sits next to the gong, "and let the sound of the gong take you where you need to go." I closed my eyes. And then God started shouting in my ears with the first strike of the mallet against the gong. A choir of orgasmic angels was riding a fire engine to enlightenment, singing a soulful wail of ecstasy as wave after wave of sound pulled me out of my body and plastered me to the ceiling, altering my consciousness faster than you can say "lysergic acid diethylamide." I had just been gonged.

-- From Gong Yoga by Mehtab

And for your Kundalini Gong Heads, head on over to the Gong Weekend June 13-15th at Yoga Yoga Westgate. Get your chakras cleaned, your karmas erased, and your brain washed with the amazing sound of several gongs playing and playing and playing!

Click here for more information on the Gong Yoga Weekend: Healing Through Sound and Relaxation.

New Tunes!

The Journey Home, the debut album from a new artist, Gurunam Singh, has already become a new favorite after just two plays!

Here are what other Kundalini Kids are saying about this new release:

This album was my first real introduction to Kundalini Yoga music. It drew me in, and I have not been able to stop listening to it, and now looking further into the practice of Kundalini Yoga.
Daniel Bolton
This album is awesome all around. The Pavan Pavan is my favorite that is on CD. The Dukh par har is really upbeat and fun. It has yogi bhajan's voice on it which makes it special in a whole different way.
Hargobind Khalsa

Give a listen!

Mehtab

Heading for the Mountains!

Every year at the time of the summer solstice during the third week of June, Kundalini Yoga students and teachers from around the world gather in the mountains of New Mexico for a week long yoga retreat known as Summer Solstice.

Here is a great video preview to give you a peek into the magic, mystery and mastery that is the Summer Solstice experience.  (See if you can see me leading the warmup exercises for White Tantric about 5 minutes into the clip!)

Every summer about 30 Kundalini yogis from Yoga Yoga make the trip from Austin to the mountains to join in with 1800 other seekers.  Come join us!

Mehtab