Table Of ContentKundalini Yoga
Sadhana Guidelines
Create Your Daily Spiritual Practice
2nd Edition
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®
Kundalini Research Institute
ISBN 978-0-9786989-8-0
Managing Editor
Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa Senior Editor
Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
Director of Training Contributing Editor & Illustrator
Harijot Kaur Khalsa Book Design & Production
Ravitej Singh Khalsa CVO
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Rise Up
Rise Up, Rise Up
Sweet family dear
The time of Lord and remembering
Love is near
Love, love is all you say
If you'll awake and rise up
right away, hey hey
If you'll awake and rise up, right away The Lord will bless you
In so many ways
If you will rise up right now
Sing His praise Rise up, rise up sweet family dear
The time of Lord and remembering Love is near
Love, love is all you say
If you'll awake and rise up
right away, hey hey
If you'll awake and rise up, right away Guru Singh Khalsa
Acknowledgments
Kundalini Yoga Sadhana Guidelines would never have been possible without
our teacher, Yogi Bhajan. From cover to cover, these are his teachings and our
gratitude to him is infinite. I would like to acknowledge personally the input and
advice given by Kundalini Yoga instructors across the country who have used
the First Edition for their classes these past 30 years. It is through their
dedication and service that we've been able to update this timeless manual.
In addition, we would like to thank the tireless efforts of Harijot Kaur Khalsa,
who's dedication to the teachings has given birth to dozens of priceless yoga
manuals over the years and the drawings in this book; and to the work of Ravitej
Singh Khalsa, who created the original manual by hand more than 30 years ago
and is still serving the teachings today in designing and delivering this Second
Edition.
Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
Director of Training
Kundalini Research Institute
Dedication
This manual is dedicated to Yogi Bhajan and to the Golden Chain of teachers
and students extending from the Infinite to the One within, linking us all together
through time and space as we are each, in turn, students to our teachers and
teachers to our students.
Hukam
Hukam (Command) Say, what lies with a man to do or not?
Only the Lord causes to happen what He will.
If man had the power, he would seize everything to himself.
But he can do only what the Lord wants done.
Not knowing this, man dwells with illusion,
For if he knew, would he not save himself?
But deluded by doubt, he wanders in all directions, And rushes forth to explore
all the four continents.
When, however, out of His Mercy, God grants His love, Man absorbs himself in
the practice of the Name.
Foreword to the Second Edition
Originally a volume of the Kundalini Quarterly, Kundalini Yoga Sadhana
Guidelines is a revision of the still older Guidelines for a Successful Sadhana,
Volumes 4 & 5, of the KRI Journal of Science of Consciousness for Living in the
Aquarian Age, published in 1974. Both the original work and this newest edition
were compiled by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D., Director of Training,
Kundalini Research Institute.
This new edition includes an updated essay on Morning Sadhana from
Gurucharan Singh, outlining many of the essential points from his original essay
plus a review of all the sadhanas given to the 3HO community over the years
and a perspective on the Aquarian Sadhana as it is to be practiced through the
year 2012. The original essays from Yogi Bhajan on yoga and meditation can
still be found plus a wealth of kriyas and meditations that you have come to
know and love and a few new ones, favorites like Kriya for Morning Sadhana
and Tershula Kriya.
This also marks a new beginning in our effort to serve the entire international
community of trainers, teachers, and students. We will be publishing Kundalini
Yoga Sadhana Guidelines, 2nd Edition, in two languages simultaneously, with
further translations available in the months and years to come. We hope you
enjoy this new edition and that with it you can approach this coming Age with
gladness in your heart, steel in your veins, caliber in your character, and
awareness in your consciousness to serve and uplift everyone you meet—just by
your presence.
“Sadhana gives one a disciplined practice to integrate the body, mind and
spirit
–Yogi Bhajan
Contents
Foreword
by Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa, The Mother of 3HO
Introduction to the 2nd Edition
by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D
Introduction to the 1st Edition
by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D
What Is Yoga?
An Adventure in Awareness by Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D
Kundalini Yoga and Human Radiance
by Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D
Creative Meditation:
Individual Harmony—Universal Harmony by Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D
Morning Sadhana:
Looking Forward and Looking Back by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D
Models of Sadhana:
A Complete History of Sadhanas Given by the Master by Gurucharan Singh
Khalsa, Ph.D
Questions Often Asked About Sadhana
Basics
Tuning In
Pranayam
Asanas
Mudras
Mantras
Bandhas
Pranayam
Sitali Pranayam
Exercises to Make the Pores Breathe
Pranayam for Purification
Exercises for Expanding Lung Capacity
Basic Breath Series
Pranayam Series 1 &
Ungali Pranayam
Kriyas
Basic Spinal Energy Series
Sat Kriya
Sat Kriya Variation
Description:First published in 1974, Kundalini Yoga Sadhana Guidelines has become the best selling Kundalini Yoga manual of all time. Within these pages we hope you'll find something that inspires you to keep returning again and again, breath-by-breath, to your Self and to your practice. New to this edition: -A
