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Despite all of our efforts to keep healthy the body is complex and paradoxical. After the loss of our premature baby boy at 15 hours old it was revealed that my wife had liver disease from an unknown cause and needed a new one. Life’s big challenges, and a regular kundalini yoga practice, remind us that we are not our body or our mind, or the emotional ups and downs of life. We are a soul with a destiny and our soul lives on after we die. Since you won’t be needing your body

Healing from the inside out Considering the story of your life; every organ is a character with a special role to play. Depending on health and lifestyle choices, organs can become friends or foes. Learn how to harmonize your inner supporting cast; achieving inner health, harmony and peace. Your organs are people! The 10 major organs of the body are alive in us! The liver is the teacher, the heart is the emperor and the lung is the artist, and also the warrior. By getting to

Attitude and Energy There are many claims made for healing at an energetic level and many claiming ?everything is just energy? Thankfully most people don’t expect to be completely healed by visiting a health practitioner and often the most stubborn health issue/s (usually one or two) don’t ever completely resolve however long you have treatment for and however many practitioners you try. Energy Improves Despite this because the flow of energy improves so does your overall ene

Shabd Guru – the yoga of sound Kundalini yoga uses mantras and shabds during meditations and they form an important part of Kundalini yoga classes and teacher training. They are used because shabd guru is a particularly powerful solution to the problems of the times. Sha = the ego. Bd = to cut. It is a special sound that cuts the ego and puts us in touch with the longing of our soul. The sacred scripture known as the Siri Guru Granth Sahib which is Sikh in origin is where sha

Spirare is the Latin for to breathe and inspirare is inspired. Many other cultures express the connection with the breath, elevation and upliftment. The connection between the body and spirit is made because not only are the Lungs the highest organs in the body but they also connect with the most rarefied of substances – air. A lack of inspiration goes with being unmotivated. Great explorers, inventors and people who push boundaries do so because they were inspired to find an

How are you charging and discharging? Think of your Kidneys like the charge in a battery and you realize that your lifestyle is significant in how use choose to use this charge up during the course of a day and a life. If we consider that stress is; ‘the extent to which we let our external environment dictate to us what is important’ we realise that where we focus our time and energy is under increased pressure by all the things that are vying for our attention. Our external

LIVER –Transmutation, Transformation, Change “Hello” I ventured. “Who are you?” “I am a warrior, my name is Hun I am part of a tribe, a vast tribe of millions and my voice must be heard. My word is law but it is not always heard. I can reach through time to the lands of my forefathers and all the records of creativity contained there.” I didn’t know how to respond. He continued “If you are a pianist and you want to play like Mozart I can help you. I am Spring; the endless str

All of us are experiencing the struggle that goes with transition and transformation. In astrological terms we are on the cusp between the Piscean and Aquarian ages. In our human evolution we have passed through the summer season, it is now late summer when the heat is being burnt out through the leaves, and the autumn winds are blowing the trees bare (the hope is what follows is a peaceful winter rather than a desolate nuclear wasteland!). The stripping back that autumn brin

Detox There is a modern fashion with ‘going on a detox’, which normally implies restricting certain foods, a mono diet or even fasting on water and herbal teas or juices. It is counter-intuitive to think that if you have less you feel more – more energised and more light! The protein myth, in particular, perpetuates the idea that we need lots of protein and the meat and dairy industry obviously have a vested interest in perpetuating this myth. Actually, excess protein just pu

Although most of us have spleens, we do not typically suppose the manner they perform as organs in our bodies. You’ve probably heard people use the phrase “venting spleen” – not relating the piece itself, however as the simplest way to explain lease out anger or frustration. The word “spleen” has return to be used metaphorically as a equivalent word for “anger”. this is often as a result of in medieval times, the spleen was thought to be the literal, physical supply of a hot