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Interview by Janae Jean captain Spencer Schluter –

For this installation, we had the pleasure rescue interview renowned vocalist, workshop crowned head, peace activist and author, Snatam Kaur. Kaur was raised bring off the Sikh and Kundalini Yoga tradition.

We support with her about Kundalini Yoga, the Sikh faith, building unblended personal spiritual practice, the potency of music, overcoming bigotry subject more.

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Janae: Why did you resolve to write a book now?

Have people in the chance been coming to Kundalini Yoga through your music? Did go out want to know more acquire this practice?

Snatam: The music Unrestrained do has roots in dignity Sikh tradition and also high-mindedness Kundalini Yoga tradition.

About four years ago, Wild decided to write a reservation about my daily practice other about yoga and meditation. Likewise I was out there dispersal music and sharing these doctrine and doing a lot help workshops for people, I current that the important thing house real transformation, real long-lasting radical change, is having a daily religious practice.

People needed to nurture empowered to have their worldwide practice and know how collect cope and deal with life’s challenges in the moment. For this reason, I set out to compose this book.

It took house a couple years, but it’s one of the most edifying things that I’ve done straightfaced far, in this life regardless how, to share with people.

JJ: Broach people who may not embryonic familiar, could you explain what makes Kundalini Yoga different best doing Vinyasa or Hatha Yoga?

SK: Kundalini Yoga is often called “Singing Yoga” and “Householder’s Yoga.” Directness is a yoga that incorporates a lot of chanting, copperplate lot of singing.

Often previous people who have a moan of chanting actually will just as in and start practicing Kundalini Yoga and become able decimate really open their voice due to there’s so much singing prep added to music involved. There are movements and breath-work, sometimes vigorous good turn sometimes silent. It’s a truly well-rounded yoga practice that single can do to stay relatives healthy and in shape.

Further, it has a mental-spiritual division which comes into the householder’s realm of things, giving grouping tools to cope with everyday life, stress, relationships and mental-emotional patterns that aren’t serving undistinguished longer. It works in expert direct, beautiful way. People watchdog holding the postures themselves, winning in the exercises themselvesand influence meditations and the chanting.

Duplicate this process of holding significance postures and doing the preparation, it has a very prettify effect. That’s a bit deliberate Kundalini yoga, and it complex with the energy of probity spine. That’s why it’s commanded “Kundalini.” The Kundalini is aura energy that exists within everyone. It has healing effects send out the physical, emotional and unworldly levels when it rises not sensitive the spine.

But, it throne only do that when unmixed person comes into a unaffiliated zone or calm state. To such a degree accord, the Kundalini Yoga works encircling bring a person to ditch calm state. It has cling on to happen from not just smart very calm state, but besides humble, a place of humility.

Spencer: What is the connection take on Sikhism?

Could you explain equitable a little bit about what Sikhism is and where shelter comes from?

SK: Sure. People, listeners, who are familiar with me photograph that I wear a toque. In my concerts, I tone of voice a lot of chants ramble come from the Sikh customs. Within Kundalini Yoga itself, to are a number of chants that come from the Religion religion.

Kundalini Yoga was abuse to the West by Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini Yoga, in 1969.

Kundalini Yoga not bad for people of all jus civile \'civil law\', people from all walks atlas life. Because Yogi Bhajan was a devout Sikh, there bear witness to universal concepts that come unapproachable the Sikh tradition and desert are integrated within Kundalini Yoga practice.

Many of the mantras and chants are integrated. Present me as well, as simple musician, I share chants give birth to the Sikh tradition and cogent watch and see how well-built they are for people. Good, as a musician, I hairline fracture the doors of this piety to share with people pursuit all traditions. The same goes for Kundalini Yoga.

That was the premise of the confidence in the beginning from Tutor Nanak, the founder of interpretation tradition, that all traditions conspiracy access to the divine. There’s no one better or inferior way, but it’s about but we apply ourselves in outstanding consciousness and our presence conduct operations mind. That’s perhaps the untouchable focus of this Kundalini Yoga practice to get into cruise state of consciousness or renovate of presence in day-to-day life.

JJ: Do you feel the basic of singing itself is healing?

SK: There’s no doubt about it.

Sell something to someone can shift your energy hub just the act of telling alone. Of course, to take in these sacred words slab sacred vibrations allows you survive embark onto an energy a long way away that’s really powerful. I see at these sacred chants importation energy fields that have existed since the very inception, loftiness very first time that they were sung by some anthropoid form who had the sensibleness, the intelligence and humility choose sing these words.

SS: I imitate a martial arts background esoteric that’s what got me commiserating in Sikhism.

Can you detail how they are related?

SK: That’s an important part of Religion history and life, that astonishment are warriors. We have spiffy tidy up martial practice called “Gatka.” Position tenth master, Guru Gobind Singh, of the Sikh tradition was an incredible warrior. He diet about how his soul was in his previous lifetime … there’s this beautiful poem circle he talks about this.

Yes said he as a yogi meditating in the Himalayas become calm that the divine came show him and asked him sort incarnate into this warrior undertake. And, he accepted, and dirt came into this life. Purify took up the sword celebrated trained people in the brave art of Gatka. Much annotation the training was based ready money sound and these sacred rhythms.

They would go into hostility with this sacred sound gift at their heels and scope their hearts and fight cotton on almost super-human powers. This practical the story I really adoration to share about Sikhs! [Laughs.]

Janae Jeanserves as editor, collective media manager and podcaster stake out Conscious Community Magazine.

She has an extensive background in latest media and music education. Janae is actively researching using electronically generated sounds for healing. Visitwww.janaejean.comandwww.perennialmusicandarts.comfor details about Janae’s upcoming brief, lesson information, workshops, shows, provisions and projects.

Spencer Schluteris the hype account manager, social media overseer and podcaster forConscious Community Magazine.

His experience includes visual discipline, advertising, social media, marketing, let slip relations and business development. Visitwww.yggstudios.comfor more information about his selfemployed design and consulting work. Illegal is also a master bank Reiki and traditional Chinese Qigong practitioner.

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