Kundalini Yoga is one of the most powerful tools available for tapping into your deepest consciousness to achieve a balanced mind, body, and soul. Practicing regularly will help you unlock your full potential to live a happy, healthy life.
So, how does Kundalini Yoga impact your physical and mental health? How can you to transform your ideal lifestyle into a reality?
Physical Health Benefits of Kundalini Yoga
Strengthen your nervous system.
The challenges and obligations of everyday life have a physical effect on the body you may not be aware of. Sensory input translates into nerve impulses that radiate throughout the body and create tension and stress in the nervous system. Regulating what you take in mentally and physically using breathing techniques, kriyas (exercises), and meditation, will help you relax and calm the body, the nerves, and relieve pain.
“If you make your body very strong, really strong, it can fight off anything.”
-Yogi Bhajan
Increase lung capacity.
Focused breathing techniques are a key component of Kundalini Yoga. Long, slow, deep, rhythmic breathing (Pranayama) puts you in tune with your body and soul. Pranayama also works to expand and purify the lungs. As you feed your body more oxygen, you will improve circulation to your major organ systems and boost overall immunity.
“There’s no better vitamin than breath.”
–Yogi Bhajan
Mental Health Benefits of Kundalini Yoga
Reduce stress and anxiety.
Kundalini Yoga uses tools to help clear your mind and regulate your response to stress. By learning how to relieve symptoms of anxiety, you can help prevent them from developing again in the future. Along with calm, regulated breathing and meditation, your mind can be balanced through chanting mantra to process emotions. Practicing Kundalini Yoga has also been shown to boost serotonin levels—the feel-good neurotransmitters—in the body.
“Stress fades away your judgment. Under stress you are not competent to perform.”
-Yogi Bhajan
Awaken creativity.
When you learn how to control your anxieties, you open yourself up to limitless possibilities. Kundalini Yoga is known as the yoga of awareness, for its ability to help you get in touch with your inner self and find inspiration. Targeted breathing stimulates the left and right hemispheres of your brain equally, forging balance and allowing your mind to surrender to its full creative potential.
Take your first steps toward achieving harmony within your mind, body, and soul—sign up for a Kundalini Yoga class with Daya Kaur! We use Kundalini Yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditation, mudras, chanting, foods, and lifestyle choices to help you find inner peace and become the healthiest, liveliest version of yourself. Please contact us to begin your journey today!
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”
-Yogi Bhajan