Breathe Again: Powerful Pranayam (Breathwork) to Crack Locks (Bandhas) – Open in the Key of Ong
– Workshop Offered by Karuna with Special Musical Sound Guest, Katie Smith –
June 14, True Nature Healing Arts in Carbondale, Colorado
Breath is the principal of life. It animates, rejuvenates, calms, balances, heals, and sustains. If we look at our daily life, are we taking the breath deeply within ourselves and utilizing it to its fullest capacities and our greatest health and well-being? A lot of people hold the breath to white-knuckle it through or just take in enough to survive or ignore it all together. But what if you harnessed the power of the breath through pranayam to crack open, thrive, and find peace and happiness within?
If performed correctly, these pranayam will set your brain, specifically adjusting the thyroid that is responsible for beauty and keeping you young. Chanting the sound of Ong (the sound of Ajna Chakra, the 6th Center of Consciousness) fosters power, stamina and vitality. The specific sound of Ong (versus Om), is the sound of the infinite, and it pervades through the central nervous system, vibrating outward and giving the practitioner the great essence and joy of life.
The pranayam and meditation offered in this workshop are deeply personal and will develop slowly, gently, and with sophistication. No extreme effort or prior experience is required. All are welcome. The only requisite is an open heart and an ego left at the door.
In this session, we will:
- Open with a meet and greet in a sacred circle
- Perform light warmups with Kundalini Yoga (specific kriya with asana)
- Three pranayam accompanied with gong and singing bowls (sound and vibration applied to raise the frequency of the participants)
- Restorative, guided repose (Shavasana) accompanied with gong
- Important: Participants should bring a shawl or shoulder covering and a journal. They also are encouraged and welcomed to bring their own crystal (optional).
About Karuna
Karuna brings over 40 years of experience and her own unique brand of compassion, enthusiasm, and pure joy to every Kundalini Yoga practice. Based in Boulder, CO, she offers private, one-on-one teachings designed for each individual, holds weekend intensives on varying themes including rebirthings, relationships, women’s issues, practicing non-violence, understanding grief, and mastering challenges, and leads special events and retreats all over the world including an annual Reboot Retreat in Costa Rica. Her certification is with the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) including Level One, Two, and Three Teacher Training Programs and Prenatal Yoga. She practices Ayurvedic healing and is an ordained Interfaith Minister. A former Ford model and actress, Karuna is co-founder of Light on Light Publications and Media and host editor for its magazine’s annual Yoga editions in partnership with the International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations. Karuna’s Kundalini Yoga Teachings can be found on her Light on Kundalini website: www.lightonkundalini.com.
About Katie Smith
Emerging intuitive artist Katie Smith discovered her soul gift of inviting people to connect with the power of their inner wisdom and capacity for unconditional love through the energy of the open heart following her own spontaneous spiritual awakening in Mexico. Katie brings forward skills from her former occupations as a professional musician and speaker and recent training as a certified Wayfinder life coach, which she combines with shamanic practices and sound healing techniques gained through her own awakening and inspired by mentors she has been blessed to learn from along the way. The resulting unique frequency healing and energy activation sacred spaces she creates are her vision in action to be of service to the awakening of humanity starting at the individual and community levels. Katie’s philosophy is that we are each our own healer, and our first commitment is to our individual path of healing and expanding awareness so that we, as “cells” of the collective, may impact the greater health and consciousness of the whole. Light Anchor Alchemy
