October 2007
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Cleansing

Dear Awareness Center Family,

A blessed Fall to you and yours! Guru Darshan and I just got back from a short trip up to Quincy, CA to visit my sister and future brother-in-law. It was quite a dramatic shift in pace and landscape. If you’ve ever been up to the High Sierra’s, you know that it is a string of small mountain towns filled with farmers, ranchers and good mountain people. We spent our time hiking, harvesting the organic produce from the garden, gathering fresh eggs from the hens, playing board games and putting away vegetables for the winter. There is nothing like connecting to the authentic rhythm of the season and honoring the internal need to slow down, drink hot tea, read good books and prepare for the coming winter. Coming back to Los Angeles, I am struck by how far we have strayed from our seasonal rhythms and what an impact that can have on an emotional and psychological level. Remember this and do what you can to cleanse and slow your pace this month. Your body, mind and spirit will thank you for it.

A warm welcome to the new Teacher Training students – class of 2007-08!

Sat Nam,
Wahe Guru Kaur and "Team Awareness" (AC Staff and Teachers)


EVENTS

Dream Manifesting Circle
Mon. Oct. 1st, 7:30-9:00pm
$15

Join Basia/Haridass and Marcia/Nimrita for an evening of setting intentions and manifesting your dreams!
Included in the Dream Manifesting Circle:
-Mantras and Meditations for manifestation and prosperity
-An 8-step manifestation process
-Universal laws and their effects
-Proper “languaging” to ensure manifestation
-Support through future bi-monthly circles

Upcoming dates: Nov. 5th, Dec. 3rd



6 Week Beginner Series
with Dr. Santokh Singh Khalsa, D.C.

Six Wednesdays, beginning Oct. 3rd 7:00-9:00pm.
$69 (no refunds or exchanges)

Each week includes a lecture and yoga set focusing on the specifics of postures, breath work, hand positions and more. Dr. Khalsa has been teaching Kundalini Yoga for over 30 years and is a Master Teacher and Chiropractor.
Lectures include:
-History of Kundalini Yoga -Mantras
-Mudras -Breathing Techniques
-Relaxation -Stress Reduction
-Chakras -Yogic Diet
-Healing



The Secrets Behind “The Secret”
Movie Night and Open Discussion

Tues. Oct. 9th, 7:00-9:00pm
FREE

Have you ever heard about “The Secret” and wondered how you can manifest your dreams? Watch the movie and join others interested in manifesting their desires. The evening includes prosperity meditations and additional information to assist you in manifesting your best life. The Secret Movie Night will be held on an ongoing basis on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.



Reiki Essentials
with Devmurti and Haridass

Sat. Oct. 13th, 12:00-1:30pm
$25 if registered by 10/10; $30 thereafter

This workshop offers you a basic understanding of Reiki. Learn to stimulate energy to heal yourself and others. Learn a powerful Reiki meditation that provides a sense of energy flow within each of us. Workshop attendees are invited to stay for an amazing FREE group healing after the workshop.
• Open the flow of Universal Energy
• Learn hands-on healing techniques
• Discover your innate healing abilities
• Clear negative energy


Soul Flow: Creative Dance
with Haridass Kaur

Fri. Oct. 26th, 8:00-10:00 pm.
$20...or 2 for $30

Join Haridass Kaur/Basia for a wholesome and soulful evening! This eclectic event includes creative dancing with a healing journey through the chakras, flowing music, group interaction and playfulness, and a meditative closing circle.
Upcoming dates: Nov. 16th, Dec. 14th


Healing Breath - Private Sessions
with Wahe Guru Kaur

Appts. available Tues. and Thurs.
11:00am, 2:15pm and 4:00pm
$108 - 1 hour, 15 minute session
“I feel like we just unwrapped my heart.”
-Janice Duellman, Manager- Car Max

A private “Healing Breath” session with Gisela is a life-altering event, to say the least. Each session is unique. The basic format is; talking briefly and setting your intention, then doing the three-part “Healing Breath”, a pranic healing technique. She will guide you through a clearing of the seven major energy centers of the subtle bodies. During this process she will use her gifts as a clairaudient (communicating with your subconscious self), sound, chanting, mantra, channeling healing energy through her hands, essential oils, crystals and whatever else is needed for you to remove blocked energy, pain and fear. You will leave feeling peaceful, connected and often with a completely altered way of looking at your life.


Healing Treatments
with Haridass Kaur/Basia Tacik, MaEd

Appts. available on the last Friday of the month, 11:00am-3:00pm
Starting Oct. 26th
$108 - 1 hour session
Soul Reading Sessions
Begin with a "Healing Expansion", chakra balancing with guided imagery. A card layout with "Spiritual Voyager" cards bring clarity and harmony. The overall reading, and essence remedy, awaken and stimulate your truth and awareness.

When the reading is complete, a custom-blended essence remedy is dispensed from the "Soul Quintessence System". An "essence" is a tincture infused with energetic vibrations and/or formulated from trees and flowers. The "soul quintessences" are also co-created at sacred power points around the globe during significant planetary alignments.

A "Soul Support Kit" is provided to fully integrate the soul reading and quintessences into your daily journey!

Reiki Renewal Sessions
Healing energy is transferred into various parts of the body. Guided imagery supports and empowers your intentions. This is followed by an acupressure touch therapy body treatment, with extra attention given to stress points in neck, shoulders and head. Please call for an appointment.


 

 

 

Family Yoga with Lee/Wahe Guru Kaur
Sat. Oct. 27th, 11:00am – 12:30pm.
$15 or 2 for $25.

Kids 12 years and under FREE
Join Lee/Wahe Guru Kaur to share the joy and benefits of doing Kundalini Yoga with your family! Come to The Awareness Center for an afternoon of wholesome exercise and playful fun with your children, parents and extended family members. This event will focus on basic postures, breath work and meditations that can be done together during class and then incorporated into your home life to enhance your time together as a family.



Sacred Breathing Circle
Theme: “Cleansing”
With Wahe Guru Kaur
Sat. Oct. 27th, 7:00-9:30 pm
$35

The Sacred Breathing Circle is a journey into the Self. It allows you to identify and release mental, emotional and physical blocks and bring light to areas that need healing. Experience an ancient pranic technique, called the “Healing Breath,” that promotes healing and regeneration on all levels. Please come prepared for a short Kundalini yoga set.

This is a time for clearing out the mental and emotional residue from the year, preparing yourself for the fall and winter. A time of turning within, to look to your inner guidance and direction, to reflect on all that has come to pass this year. As the weather changes, and the wheel of the year turns, it is a reminder to slow down and cleanse the body, mind and spirit.




Partner Yoga
With Bindu

Sun. Oct. 28th 1:00 – 3:30pm
$30 per person/$50 per couple, if paid by 10/24.
$40 per person/$60 per couple thereafter.

Our yoga practice is generally an individual, personal, internal practice of integration and balance. In Partner Yoga practice we can cultivate these important qualities in the push-pull context of relationship. True intimacy is always a matter of genuine presence. A sense of wholeness or completeness is experienced when we see our own stability and presence as a partner. This kind of partnership can be seen in terms of universal brother/sisterhood. From our closest most intimate relationships, to the seemingly most distant – we can learn to be a true partner. Please join us for this wonderful and illuminating practice! Bring a partner or come alone. In most cases partners of different weight and height can work together. This practice is appropriate for all levels of yoga experience.


Kundalini Teacher Training, Level 1
Begins Friday Oct. 5th, 2007

Space is still available - register this week.
"As a teacher, you must experience everything you share." - Yogi Bhajan

Kundalini Teacher Training is a profoundly life-changing experience. We are one of the only programs that hosts over ten Master Teachers originally trained by Yogi Bhajan. The wisdom, humor, compassion and stories they bring to each weekend will be some of your favorite memories. It is by being in the presence of a Master, that you learn how to connect with that mastery yourself. The Awareness Center's Teacher Training program is led by Dr. Santokh Singh Khalsa. You will find his approach very supportive and accessible. As a chiropractor and yoga master for over 30 years, he offers a depth of wisdom that is unsurpassed.



Ayurveda - Private Sessions
with Dr. Jaigopal

Weekly Sessions available on Thursdays
Appts. between 3:00-7:00pm
$100 -1 hour session

The ancient art of pulse examination is a comprehensive diagnostic tool. When an Ayurvedic physician performs the pulse reading practice, he precisely understands the body type, present state of health, family tendencies, state of mind, metabolic activity and many other intricacies. Following which a program is chalked out with respect to diet, lifestyle, breathing, yoga, detox, rejuvenation, herbs, gems and aromas to balance body, mind and spirit for vibrant health.

Each session of Pulse reading is 1 hour long and the record of your reading is documented for your reference. Other available treatments are: ABHYANGA
(herbal oil massage), SWEDA (herbal steam), KATI BASTI (lower back therapy), GREEVA BASTI (neck treatment), JANU BASTI (knee treatment). Call for an appointment.


New Class:
Beginning Hatha
with Bindu

Tues. 5:30-6:45pm
Starting Nov. 6th

'Hatha' means sun/moon, 'Yoga' means union. This physical posture practice is the harmonizing of all opposites in our experience, most obviously the balancing of effort and surrender. This balance could be considered the very definition of stability. Deeply exploring the relationships of skeletal alignment, and muscular alignment, supported and integrated with the power of the breath - this creates spontaneous meditation, a revelation in terms of awareness. As we learn to release and shed everything that is unnecessary to us, we unlock the freedom, and lightness which radiate from the core of our being. Everyone works at their own pace and level of ability.

Sadhana: Daily Practice
Every Morning. Every day.
4:15-6:15am
FREE

Begin your day in a new way with morning group Sadhana. This daily spiritual practice consists of reading the “Japji”, practicing a short Kundalini yoga set and chanting the Aquarian Sadhana chants. The Awareness Center offers Sadhana as a community service and whether you come every day or once in a while, you are always welcome! Please enter through the back door, off of the parking lot.

"Understanding and humility lead to the perfection of love, and God is love."

Yogi Bhajan


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