Kundalini Yoga balances the glandular system, strengthens the 72,000 nerves in the body, expands the lung capacity, and purifies the bloodstream. It brings balance to the body, mind and soul. It teaches positive, self-empowering attitudes. It builds inner strength and self-awareness so you can fulfill your highest potential. In Kundalini Yoga we harness the energy of the mind and the emotions so we can be in control of ourselves rather than be controlled by our thoughts or feelings.

This is a yoga for householders, for people who have to cope with the daily challenges and stresses of holding jobs, raising families, managing businesses. It gives results in the shortest possible time. Kundalini Yoga is for everyone at every physical level who wants the skill to cope successfully with the challenges of living in this day and age.

" Kundalini Yoga is the science to unite the finite with infinity and it's the art to experience infinity in the finite." Yogi Bhajan. Yogi Bhajan (Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, Siri Singh Sahib) brought Kundalini Yoga to North America in 1969. He now lives and teaches in New Mexico. For more information about Yoga Bhajan, log on to www.yogawest.ca or www.3HO.org.

Kundalini Yoga is known as the yoga of awareness and is a true Raj yoga. It incorporates many aspects of the yoga tradition - hatha (asana or postures), meditation, mantra (internal and chanting), pranayama (breath concentration) and yogic lifestyle.

The kundalini is said to be the dormant energy that awaits awakening at the base of our spine. Through the kriyas Yogi Bhajan has taught this energy can be stimulated in a conscious manner to create deep inner awareness. The asanas, pranayama, meditation, mantras and mudras he has taught work to strengthen and build our physical, mental, emotional and auric bodies so we can be the aware beings we were meant to be and fulfill our deepest potential.

Many people have experienced a Kundalini Yoga class as "that's the class where you do all the breathing." In Kundalini Yoga there is more than Ujai breath, you will also experience, Long deep breathing, breath of fire, snake breath, lion's breath and more. Conscious breath in asana and meditation can move the consciousness into awareness with greater speed than asana alone.