We are glad to hear that you are still enjoying Sadhana
Kaur's classes and we thank you very much for the gifts.
BTW, would you mind posting your comments about doing
Kundalini Yoga there at the Farmers market and sharing your
experiences with everyone? We think that this would be a
very valuable post for people to get over their fear or
initial negative reaction when we tell them that we teach
the classes right there in the markets.
For the life of me I can not understand why anyone would
find any faults with doing yoga at a Farmers Market outside
in the natural elements. It is no different than getting
skeletal or massage therapy outside. The only thing that I
can think of that people might object to is the noise
around them and not being able to concentrate but this fear
or negative reaction I feel will pass as they actually
experience a class in Kundalini Yoga there at the market.
My initial reaction when I first saw people doing chair
massage in public places was the same. I always thought to
myself: "why would I want to get a massage on a chair in
front of so many people? I would much rather get an hour
massage in private which always seemed much more relaxing
and healing.
It wasn't until I actually went to massage school and had
to do a certain amount of hours of volunteer public chair
massage and massage therapy on tables outside in parks for
the Walgreen's Red Ribbon Rides which were fund raisers for
aids victims that I really began to appreciate doing
massage therapy in public. I actually did skeletal therapy
on the bike riders which rode from Orlando to Hollywood
over a three day race and one of those days was at a park
in Dania right on the intercoastal with beautiful pine
trees under a large tent.
The racers had a chance to wash up in shower facilities
that were available to them there at the park and camp site
and then they lined up for our group of 20 or so massage
therapists in training from different massage therapy
schools. The best part of it all was the food. There were
more than enough delicious vegetarian dishes to choose from
as well as deserts from a very professional catering
company.
Anyway this is how we got the idea to go Farmers Markets.
That experience made me realize just how beneficial and
wonderful it was for the massage therapist and client to
enjoy being outdoors on a beautiful day and experiencing
the things that we love most. Well, Yogis have been doing
Yoga outside in every imaginable place possible for
thousands of years! Why not at a Farmers Market?
Again my initial reaction was that there was no way that I
was going to be able to relax getting a massage in front of
other people. Well so much for that theory! All it takes
is about 3 minutes on a massage table for you to realize
that at that precise moment you really won't know or care
where you are because it feels so good that it takes you
out of your body and mind into a state of total relaxation.
Well, it is the same with Kundalini Yoga. Within 3 minutes
after starting a class, you realize that your worst fear or
any negative thoughts about doing Yoga outside in a Farmers
Market are absolutely nonsense and the feeling of
relaxation and upliftment are so beyond words that all you
can say is Wahe Guru (Indescribable Ecstasy). Before you
know it, all of the sounds of the market start fading away
and you drift into a state of total relaxation and joy
focusing on your breath, a mantra and you could be anywhere
you want to be!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Health and Happiness Market Coconut Grove Miami
Come meet the Guru of Universal Love, and other vendors at the new green market.
If is at the Shops of Mayfair in the Grove, Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 - 6:00.
2900 Grand Av, Coconut Grove, Miami has free parking nearby.
Kundalini yoga as tought by Jogi Bhajan will be held this Sunday at 12:00 noon.
The open-air plaza, providing fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, juices, and flowers.
Holistic healing kundalini massages and kundalini yoga classes.
The Miami New Times wrote an article in the June 16 issue.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/events/health-and-happiness-
market-1037704/
If is at the Shops of Mayfair in the Grove, Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 - 6:00.
2900 Grand Av, Coconut Grove, Miami has free parking nearby.
Kundalini yoga as tought by Jogi Bhajan will be held this Sunday at 12:00 noon.
The open-air plaza, providing fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, juices, and flowers.
Holistic healing kundalini massages and kundalini yoga classes.
The Miami New Times wrote an article in the June 16 issue.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/events/health-and-happiness-
market-1037704/
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Visualization with Kundalini Yoga
Although most movie stars, lottery winners and self-made millionaires had childhood fantasies of fame and fortune, ooly a very small percent of all those who dream of such things ever actualize their desires. What is it that makes one person's dreams materialize in the physical world, while nnst of us ooly fantasize withoot hope of fulfillment? It lies in INTENT & RESOLVE.
Visualization without intent, decision and resolve is mere fantasy. To validate a fantasy for actualization, it with "gut level" intention: the firm decision to acquire or attain a desired condition! In Kundalini Yoga this -= involving the Navel chakra, the ring center of the subtle body. Prove it to yourself: Fantasize a cherished desire and flesh in the details (how it will look, smell, sound and even imagine touching things in the image). 1hen validate it! lbld the image and pull firmly 00 the navel point (allowing navel energy to join the picture) as you firmly decide to actualize it. Do you feel a difference?
The following technique is nnst effective with an open Heart O1akra, and a power_ ful Navel Center (See Transitions to a Heart Centered World for Heart & Navel exercises), and especially in the m:ments following meditatioo when the positive mind can effectively project desires and solutions.
1. First, clearly see and experience where you..l are doing, aware of each cell in the body connections to the envirorment and to the past and future. (Living in the past or future withoot. conections between them or an anchor in the present can cause anxiety. Serenity, cooversely, arises fran awareness of the here and I0סI, relationship to surrounds, connections to goals, and absorbtion in what you are doing. Contact with reality can be made by simply looling at one's hand or by feeling oneself sitting. Verify this by remembering a situation in which you were calm and notice how connected you then.)
2. Next, clearly see and experience why you want to be in a destination, a resolved problem, a realized achievement or cherished desire. Feel as you will feel, see
what you will see, hear what you will hear, and touch sanething. Experience satisfaction and serenity fran being where you set out to be.
3. Hold the vision and add resolution by finnly pulling in on the navel p:Jint and beaming a bright golden light from your 3rd Eye between where you are now and where you want to be. Feel the connection between present and future and try to feel them as one, in the same time dimension - the present.
4. Finally, visualize the steps you will take to get where you want to be. Make a visual plan. If the process is a simple one, one set of steps is enough. A canplex project may require several possible plans. As soon as you see the appropriate steps, you will begin to feel calmer.
a. Be sure not to add negative qualifications or doubts that may block manifestation, like "but I don't have enough noney to do that".
b. Establish a posi ti ve image of yourself, with the sense that you deserve the desired condition, and that others (especially spouse or parents) will support this decision, for we can block manifestation by negative prog_ ranming such as feeling unworthy or that others think you are undeserving, or unlucky.
c. The visualization may be as general or specific as feels appropriate. If specific steps must be taken, include them but if you can feel that "it is being taken care of by the Universe", you needn't specify each step.
d. Allow each step or problem to be resolved along the way, merge into the light and feel it transform problems into solutions
5. Now, relax and let the Universe go to work. Let go of any concern and feel confident and optimistic and then forget it for now, adapting an attitude of gratitude for a happy result. Relax and allow you positive feelings to attract the result - feel your whole body merge into a golden light and project this energy from. the 3rd Eye and the Heart chakra. Vibrate with the Universe, acknowledging its benevolence and love.
Visualization without intent, decision and resolve is mere fantasy. To validate a fantasy for actualization, it with "gut level" intention: the firm decision to acquire or attain a desired condition! In Kundalini Yoga this -= involving the Navel chakra, the ring center of the subtle body. Prove it to yourself: Fantasize a cherished desire and flesh in the details (how it will look, smell, sound and even imagine touching things in the image). 1hen validate it! lbld the image and pull firmly 00 the navel point (allowing navel energy to join the picture) as you firmly decide to actualize it. Do you feel a difference?
The following technique is nnst effective with an open Heart O1akra, and a power_ ful Navel Center (See Transitions to a Heart Centered World for Heart & Navel exercises), and especially in the m:ments following meditatioo when the positive mind can effectively project desires and solutions.
1. First, clearly see and experience where you..l are doing, aware of each cell in the body connections to the envirorment and to the past and future. (Living in the past or future withoot. conections between them or an anchor in the present can cause anxiety. Serenity, cooversely, arises fran awareness of the here and I0סI, relationship to surrounds, connections to goals, and absorbtion in what you are doing. Contact with reality can be made by simply looling at one's hand or by feeling oneself sitting. Verify this by remembering a situation in which you were calm and notice how connected you then.)
2. Next, clearly see and experience why you want to be in a destination, a resolved problem, a realized achievement or cherished desire. Feel as you will feel, see
what you will see, hear what you will hear, and touch sanething. Experience satisfaction and serenity fran being where you set out to be.
3. Hold the vision and add resolution by finnly pulling in on the navel p:Jint and beaming a bright golden light from your 3rd Eye between where you are now and where you want to be. Feel the connection between present and future and try to feel them as one, in the same time dimension - the present.
4. Finally, visualize the steps you will take to get where you want to be. Make a visual plan. If the process is a simple one, one set of steps is enough. A canplex project may require several possible plans. As soon as you see the appropriate steps, you will begin to feel calmer.
a. Be sure not to add negative qualifications or doubts that may block manifestation, like "but I don't have enough noney to do that".
b. Establish a posi ti ve image of yourself, with the sense that you deserve the desired condition, and that others (especially spouse or parents) will support this decision, for we can block manifestation by negative prog_ ranming such as feeling unworthy or that others think you are undeserving, or unlucky.
c. The visualization may be as general or specific as feels appropriate. If specific steps must be taken, include them but if you can feel that "it is being taken care of by the Universe", you needn't specify each step.
d. Allow each step or problem to be resolved along the way, merge into the light and feel it transform problems into solutions
5. Now, relax and let the Universe go to work. Let go of any concern and feel confident and optimistic and then forget it for now, adapting an attitude of gratitude for a happy result. Relax and allow you positive feelings to attract the result - feel your whole body merge into a golden light and project this energy from. the 3rd Eye and the Heart chakra. Vibrate with the Universe, acknowledging its benevolence and love.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Legion Park Miami Kundalini Yoga Class
This new green market continues to be a source of people networking and good friends and clients. Guru Jiwan Singh Khalsa's mother has been helping inform organize and schedule yoga treatments. You can see her seated here in the backround, but you can be sure, she is on top of the action! Ahhh family, the warm, secure, loving feeling. It is like a fireplace, or hearth. Come visit us Saturdays at Legion Memorial Park 6447 Ne 7th Ave Miami, FL 33138. You can't miss it, since it is right on the main road, Biscayne Boulevard at 64th. The traffic here is reminiscent of the interest generated at the Aventura Miami mall kiosk that Guru Jiwan is known for.
Monday, January 21, 2008
red tailed hawk or american kestrel?
Dear Reader,
in god we dwell andin his name we write these lines to you
sat nam
This is in response to a blog comment/question asking what is easier to train.
A red tail is easier to train as an apprentice. Red tails are very easy going and become trained very quickly when trained properly by a good falconer. Redtails are very mild mannered and good tempered birds. They are opportunists and just hang around on poles or trees until they see something to eat and then just swoop down on it. Of course they love to soar as well. They are big birds and are much more difficult to kill by not feeding enough. Kestrels are so small that they need to be weighed twice a day and the balance of feeding just enough food to them to keep them coming back to you is so critical that too little food will kill them quickly because their metabolism is so different from a big bird like a redtail in the sense that they burn up food really fast.
They really are cute little birds and all the ladies are fond of them because of this. my wife loved our kestrel. even after we released it the bird would still wake us up every morning outside our window for about two weeks wanting food before it moved on.
A kestrel though is the best bird to fly after you have had experience with flying a redtail successfully if you want to fly falcons because kestrels are easy to obtain as they are everywhere during the season.
hope this helps.
god bless you
sat nam
humbly yours
guru jiwan singh khalsa
in god we dwell andin his name we write these lines to you
sat nam
This is in response to a blog comment/question asking what is easier to train.
A red tail is easier to train as an apprentice. Red tails are very easy going and become trained very quickly when trained properly by a good falconer. Redtails are very mild mannered and good tempered birds. They are opportunists and just hang around on poles or trees until they see something to eat and then just swoop down on it. Of course they love to soar as well. They are big birds and are much more difficult to kill by not feeding enough. Kestrels are so small that they need to be weighed twice a day and the balance of feeding just enough food to them to keep them coming back to you is so critical that too little food will kill them quickly because their metabolism is so different from a big bird like a redtail in the sense that they burn up food really fast.
They really are cute little birds and all the ladies are fond of them because of this. my wife loved our kestrel. even after we released it the bird would still wake us up every morning outside our window for about two weeks wanting food before it moved on.
A kestrel though is the best bird to fly after you have had experience with flying a redtail successfully if you want to fly falcons because kestrels are easy to obtain as they are everywhere during the season.
hope this helps.
god bless you
sat nam
humbly yours
guru jiwan singh khalsa
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Miami Legion Park Green Market
In it's second week, the new market is very successfull, with many vendors and customers.
It is at the front of the park, and along the entrance. This week we had many yogic skeletal therapy clients, almost back to back. High exposure and local neighbors out for a stroll drove most of the foot traffic. Next week should be better, but this week had about 20 vendors.
It is held Saturdays, 9 to 3 at City of Miami: Legion Memorial Park 6447 Ne 7th Ave
Miami, FL 33138. You will see the white canapies, along US1, Federal Highway, or Biscayne Boulevard at 64th. All three phrases describe the road, but is easy to find. (Map to Legion Memorial Park)
It is at the front of the park, and along the entrance. This week we had many yogic skeletal therapy clients, almost back to back. High exposure and local neighbors out for a stroll drove most of the foot traffic. Next week should be better, but this week had about 20 vendors.
It is held Saturdays, 9 to 3 at City of Miami: Legion Memorial Park 6447 Ne 7th Ave
Miami, FL 33138. You will see the white canapies, along US1, Federal Highway, or Biscayne Boulevard at 64th. All three phrases describe the road, but is easy to find. (Map to Legion Memorial Park)
Friday, January 04, 2008
Red Tailed Hawk Corespondence
From: Therese Catanach
Actually, the gyr/pere/merlin is the opposite of inbreeding. Inbreeding is the mating of closely related organisms like siblings or child to parent etc. This is rather out-crossing- breeding an organism to something more distantly related than by random chance (such as outside of the species). Sorry for the textbook start, but this is sort of related to what I research :). Now on to your questions. Let me warn you now I have a tendency to drone on and on about some things- falconry and natural selection/speciation are both pet topics of mine so a combination of the 2 is really exciting. Hopefully I don't bore you and actually answer the questions before getting sidetracked.
I do not feel that loosing these birds is an issue- in the US by law hybrids mus be imprinted or sterilized. If its been surgically sterilized there there is obviously no chance of reproduction so that's one solution. Imprinting however is a little more tricky. In theory birds that are truly imprinted will not court or mate with other birds, instead they recognize humans as being the same as them and therefore court whomever imprinted them. This is not in reality always the case. I have heard of imprinted birds (and also birds that are imprinted but also raised around other birds or variations of that theme) court and mate with birds. So this has the potential for spreading hybrid genes. I do not thing that this is a big problem though based on the limited numbers of hybrids being flow (and lost) compared to the breeding population of the falcons in question. So lets say one bird (we'll say a gyr x peregrine) pairs up with a peregrine and successfully raises 4 young that (so they're 3/4 peregrine and 1/4 gyr). Of those 4, odds are only 1 will survive to sexual maturity and lets say it mates with a peregrine and it too raises 4 young (which are 7/8 pere and 1/8 gyr). By this point I believe you have diluted the gyr enough that there are very few gyr characteristics (if any) in the young. Hybrids occur naturally- off hand I can think of a few different instances of pere x prairie hybrids, along with a Swanson's x gray hawk, and also a Swanson's x red tailed hawk.
Next, I don't really think they would make the gene pool weaker. Natural selection would be in place for hybrids just like any other bird so if it can't cut it in the wild feeding itself and staying away from predators it would get killed and be removed from the gene pool. And actually the point of hybrids is that they have the best characters from the species in question. So while I do not thing the wild peregrine needs to be improved in any way (believe me if given the chance I'd be flying a passage pere right now) I don't believe a hybrid is really an inferior bird. For example, when restoring the peregrine falcon the P-fund used various subspecies of pere for their breeding stock. Part of the rational I have heard for this is that by doing so they put a variety of genes in the population and then let natural selection work out which of those genes were the best for the niche available.
As far as telemetry I have a Marshall Micro. They run about 250 bucks. My receiver is a modified HAM radio (I'm a HAM radio operator also, so I can have and use those) so that too was a couple hundred bucks. For a nice receiver you'll spend 500 or so bucks easy.
Hope this helps, I could go on and on about this, so if you want another round of torture let me know and I can go into species concepts and the fact that according to some abunch of the falcons should be a single species.
therese
dear Theresa
In God we dwell and in His Name we write these lines to you.
sat nam
we saw your post in the hunting hawks email group and are always looking for falconers that never tire of talking about falconry!
You had mentioned that you had a gyr/peregrine/Merlin
what is your opinion on all of this inbreeding of falcons? our first sponsor back in 1987 is very much against it as he feels that when these birds are lost and end up in the wild that they are messing up the natural gene pool of wild falcons as they will ultimately mate with wild falcon and make the gene pool weaker which offsets the natural balance of life, kind of like gmos, (genetically modified organisms) which we try to avoid as much as possible. what is your opinion of this?
we look forward to hearing from you. Also it was interesting to hear that you have made so much of your equipment except bells and telemetry. what kind of telemetry did you purchase? we have heard the least expensive is the r10 unit receiver for under $300.00 on ebay.
god bless you
Peace To All, Life To All, Love To All
Sat Nam
Humbly Yours,
Guru Jiwan Singh & Sadhana Kaur Khalsa
Actually, the gyr/pere/merlin is the opposite of inbreeding. Inbreeding is the mating of closely related organisms like siblings or child to parent etc. This is rather out-crossing- breeding an organism to something more distantly related than by random chance (such as outside of the species). Sorry for the textbook start, but this is sort of related to what I research :). Now on to your questions. Let me warn you now I have a tendency to drone on and on about some things- falconry and natural selection/speciation are both pet topics of mine so a combination of the 2 is really exciting. Hopefully I don't bore you and actually answer the questions before getting sidetracked.
I do not feel that loosing these birds is an issue- in the US by law hybrids mus be imprinted or sterilized. If its been surgically sterilized there there is obviously no chance of reproduction so that's one solution. Imprinting however is a little more tricky. In theory birds that are truly imprinted will not court or mate with other birds, instead they recognize humans as being the same as them and therefore court whomever imprinted them. This is not in reality always the case. I have heard of imprinted birds (and also birds that are imprinted but also raised around other birds or variations of that theme) court and mate with birds. So this has the potential for spreading hybrid genes. I do not thing that this is a big problem though based on the limited numbers of hybrids being flow (and lost) compared to the breeding population of the falcons in question. So lets say one bird (we'll say a gyr x peregrine) pairs up with a peregrine and successfully raises 4 young that (so they're 3/4 peregrine and 1/4 gyr). Of those 4, odds are only 1 will survive to sexual maturity and lets say it mates with a peregrine and it too raises 4 young (which are 7/8 pere and 1/8 gyr). By this point I believe you have diluted the gyr enough that there are very few gyr characteristics (if any) in the young. Hybrids occur naturally- off hand I can think of a few different instances of pere x prairie hybrids, along with a Swanson's x gray hawk, and also a Swanson's x red tailed hawk.
Next, I don't really think they would make the gene pool weaker. Natural selection would be in place for hybrids just like any other bird so if it can't cut it in the wild feeding itself and staying away from predators it would get killed and be removed from the gene pool. And actually the point of hybrids is that they have the best characters from the species in question. So while I do not thing the wild peregrine needs to be improved in any way (believe me if given the chance I'd be flying a passage pere right now) I don't believe a hybrid is really an inferior bird. For example, when restoring the peregrine falcon the P-fund used various subspecies of pere for their breeding stock. Part of the rational I have heard for this is that by doing so they put a variety of genes in the population and then let natural selection work out which of those genes were the best for the niche available.
As far as telemetry I have a Marshall Micro. They run about 250 bucks. My receiver is a modified HAM radio (I'm a HAM radio operator also, so I can have and use those) so that too was a couple hundred bucks. For a nice receiver you'll spend 500 or so bucks easy.
Hope this helps, I could go on and on about this, so if you want another round of torture let me know and I can go into species concepts and the fact that according to some abunch of the falcons should be a single species.
therese
dear Theresa
In God we dwell and in His Name we write these lines to you.
sat nam
we saw your post in the hunting hawks email group and are always looking for falconers that never tire of talking about falconry!
You had mentioned that you had a gyr/peregrine/Merlin
what is your opinion on all of this inbreeding of falcons? our first sponsor back in 1987 is very much against it as he feels that when these birds are lost and end up in the wild that they are messing up the natural gene pool of wild falcons as they will ultimately mate with wild falcon and make the gene pool weaker which offsets the natural balance of life, kind of like gmos, (genetically modified organisms) which we try to avoid as much as possible. what is your opinion of this?
we look forward to hearing from you. Also it was interesting to hear that you have made so much of your equipment except bells and telemetry. what kind of telemetry did you purchase? we have heard the least expensive is the r10 unit receiver for under $300.00 on ebay.
god bless you
Peace To All, Life To All, Love To All
Sat Nam
Humbly Yours,
Guru Jiwan Singh & Sadhana Kaur Khalsa
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