Kundalini Yoga

The daily practice of Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini as a practice is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline based on different paths of yoga which are based on the pillars of the Sanskrit text: Yoga Sutra, Bhakti (divine devotion) and Tantra.

Kundalini according to Hinduism is an intangible energy symbolically represented by a serpent-dragon sleeping in the "muladhara" (the first of the seven chakras located in the perineum). It is believed that when the serpent awakens, the yogi controls life and death.

Yogis use different spiritual techniques such as the recitation of mantras, asanas, pranayamas, daily meditations, kriyas, as well as disinterested service to others to activate the energy that remains dormant in us and raise it slowly but steadily towards the " Sahasrara"  chakra,  which allows us to achieve happiness, liberation from all our dormant potential and the full awakening of cosmic consciousness.

The practice of Kundalini Yoga requires patience, daily practice, commitment and unwavering will, as well as the constant cleansing and purification of the nadis, a network of channels in the astral-spiritual body through which prana flows. If you wish to advance in any type of yoga, including the Kundalini, it is necessary to purify all the nadis of the body one by one.

Kundalini Yoga is one of the oldest, complex and complete forms of yoga, and is also a wonderful power tool to help you achieve all your short and long term goals. Yoga nourishes the body, the mind and the spirit cell by cell, Kundalini yoga works in the same way, trying to awaken all your spiritual potential in a more objective and complete way.

The worldwide diffusion of this ancient discipline during the twentieth century was due to the work of the teacher Yogi Bhajan. Formerly, the sacred practice of Yoga Kundalini was taught secretly and by oral tradition directly from the teacher to the pupil (disciple) provided they showed a constant dedication and respect to that practice.

Each class of Yoga Kundalini usually begins with the chanting of a specific mantra, the "Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo". This powerful mantra synchronizes our essence with the essence of an entire chain of Kundalini Yoga teachers, called the golden chain, and also with our own inner teacher. That allows us to receive these sacred teachings from our higher consciousness.

Yoga Kundalini helps us to awaken our consciousness through a multitude of meditations and kriyas (a mixture of exercises, breaths and sounds) that allow us to become aware of our subconscious and unconscious patterns, to get rid of our old fears, to open ourselves to love and leave us Guide in perfect confidence, by our intuition.

The mastery of the mind is vitally important in this ancient practice, since every thought has a vibration and that vibration determines the way you live and what you bring into your life.

The purpose of practicing physical disciplines is not only to develop the body and mind, but to awaken the soul. The awakening of the soul, thanks to the rise of the Kundalini energy, allows to radiate creativity and infinity in all aspects of daily life, to be guided by the soul and not by the ego. At the same time, the development of the meditative mind or "Budhi", through Yoga allows us to be fully aware of our own potential.

Happy practice!

Smudging whenever you can.

Smudging whenever you can.

A "smudge" is a bunch of dried herbs (usually white sage and cedar) that are tied together to form a small bundle, this bunch of herbs is burned as a complementary part of a ritual or purification and protection ceremony.

The correct term is "smudge stick" for non-indigenous people who perform this cleaning ceremony originating in North America. The use of scented smoke and smoke (such as incense) in religious rites is a common element in many different cultures around the world.

When we feel stuck or depressed, we are usually channeling energy and / or spiritual stagnation that is reflected in our own emotions and even in our environment. When this happens it is necessary to carry out an energy cleaning, and a smudge is one of the most traditional ways of doing so, stagnant or negative energy can have extremely damaging effects on your mental and physical state and even ends up turning to our aspects of work, Blocks our chakras, stagnates the correct functioning of our karma and this leads to physical illness and cancellation or delay of our projects.

A herbal stick or 'smudge' can easily help us combat this negativity, cleanse the energy of our surroundings and help us in turn to properly retrace the path to start from scratch. A smudge is perfect for cleansing the aura, chakras, karma, our divination objects, various magic and sorcery tools, bless common spaces as well as sacred altars, and even to clear esoteric obstacles and astral larvae.

The specific objective of smudge is to clean the space around us, it is especially suitable for use before and after a magic or spiritual ceremony, it will help remove astral larvae and all kinds of negative entities, it also channels the energies of the mother Earth and this gives us a perfect atmosphere of calm and serenity highly charged with positive vibrations.

The smudge is usually made with cedar and sage, but it is also common to find them with tobacco, sweet grass, sagebrush, pine needles, juniper, deer, cypress, royal feathers and rose petals.

The Mystical Court of the Witches

The Court of the Witches

Folklore tells us about the different magical courts that lead the world beyond the veil that separates the worlds, and that, moreover, is venerated by the spiritualists of the entire world in different ways and ways.

In much of Europe is venerated the "Court of witches" which is made up of the souls of witches burned at the stake and hanged in public for the practice of their magical art, the souls of these witches do not reach rest or can reincarnate for having been victims of tragic, ignoble and unjust deaths, for this reason the witches prevail trapped in the veil between the two worlds, as inhabitants of a magical infinite corridor that is virtually connected to all the trees and mirrors of the world, which they use to travel and communicate with our world.

These same witches, watch over the safety and learning of the youngest witches and sorcerers, trying to keep alive the honorable practice of nature in the hands of the living.

On the other hand, in Africa, the Yoruba people venerate the souls of the witches who have left, assuring that their presence prevails among us until their names fall into oblivion. Practitioners of the Yoruba faith, consider that the souls of witches are venerated and highly respected in the other world, from where they lead the births of new shamans and seers in the world.

The religions that descend culturally from Africa, as it is the case of the Santería, the Voodoo, the Hoodoo, the Candomblé, the Quimbanda, Umbanda, Palo Mayombe and Batuque, reunite very similar elements among themselves, venerating the souls of the ancestors that make up a magical court of animals that act through local mediums and the forces of nature.

In South America, the 'Court of Witches', which is composed entirely of the souls of the local witches of each country and whose names are venerated and passed down from generation to generation to keep their memory alive, is venerated in the mountains. magic and its essence among the new generations of practitioners.

The witches court leads the world of spirits and they have the power to exercise all kinds of changes in the life of living beings, influencing equally on love, money, health, and family. In the spiritualist tradition it is considered that a witch to die must be honored on the ground where he died (not where he lived) and it is there where he took the power to reconnect with his loved ones, old teachers and family, and from where he will start to undertake his path as a resident of the spiritual world.

In all Afro-Caribbean traditions, the witches court is conjured in the same way, with white candles where the written names of each of the dozens (or hundreds in some cases) of the names of those who make up the local court are burned. Once this is done by the practitioner, the witches court should be venerated and honored every Monday night, placing glasses with clean water, glasses with red wine, cups with hot coffee and a crystal ball, objects of divination, essential oils and perfumes, incense and candles that should remain lit all night in this magical spiritual vault.

The witches court will consecrate each and every one of these various objects in favor of the witch practitioner, and in exchange for their attentions, the practitioner will be respectfully served by the witches from the world of the veil.

Usually, and according to the magic tradition, the witches court is always attentive to every step that the witches make in their way, but they only act if they are called and invoked properly, because they can not interfere if they are not invoked from this side of the living, and that is through a due invocation clearly and loudly by an initiate in the occult arts.

On the other hand, working with the witches court is extremely easy, the promises made in his name must always be fulfilled before the next new moon and strongly punish those who forget to keep their promises in exchange for the favors granted, never grant nothing for free, no matter what you promise to the witches' court, the payment must first be given as a priority and then they will decide how to honor the deal.

Although the court of the witches is made up equally by men and women, by wizards, magicians, and initiated spiritualists, also only receive the name of Court of the Witches, because it is a more general term, the witches of certain countries can invoke separately to "the sorceress court", "the court of the magicians" or "the shamanic court", to refer to doing magical works with smaller groups that live within the same court.

The witches' court is independent of any pagan religion, neopagan or adverse to them, they also act independently to all the spiritual courts, deities and spirits, more like a huge group of local souls and animas than as a specific pantheon.

If you want to work with the witches court, it is always important to remember that their attentions are better received on Monday night than any other day, and they have no distinction of any kind towards groups or individuals who practice, but their veneration and practice must be constant and very serious.

I hope this Post will be very helpful in your daily magic practice.

Blessings.

Text: Elhoim Leafar

Pics: Александр Раскольников