Guru Jagat - Invincible living: practical yoga for every body

This book is dedicated to the Golden Chain of Teachers,

Masters, and Artists who have given their lives, minds, bodies,

and art to the creation of beauty, kindness, compassion, and

the elevation of humankind. There are no words to express the

gratitude of the Great Treasures my Teachers Yogi Bhajan and

Harijiwan Khalsa have bestowed upon me. So I give this piece

of Dharma Art as an expression of this unending wave of Love

for what has been given to me so freely and generously.

Eternal gratitude to my deepest love John and dearest parents

Nansy, Rabbit, and Jamie. Thank you to Claudia, Libby, and the

amazing Harper Team as well Sharon Bowers extraordinaire.

Harmonjot you are a bright star and Shabadpreet and Julian thank

you for your ever present hard working loyal hearts. To Shane and all

the Gods de Love and Alive and Dead Poets Societyyou poets are

my brothers and sisters. Immense gratitude to the people who put their

time, money, and energy on the line to support my vision and continue

to do so. Thank you so so so much. And lastly, this book is dedicated to

the RA MA community filled with stunning, awe-inspiring humans.

CONTENTS

I am a modern woman, a yogi, a meditator, and in many ways my own version of a freedom fighter. I believe the new activism in this time is fighting for and freeing your mind, body, and emotions from the hypnotic media haze, denatured nutritional vitality suppression, and the general culturally accepted commotionality and subsequent fatigue we call living a life. From a very early age I have been studying the lineages of Great Masters and Teachers who made their life an example of what was possible for humanity. I grew up in a struggling family with a single mother, trying to make ends meetand at the same time all of us, my mother, brother, and I, were searching for community, spirituality, and creativity outside what religion was able to offer us. I was an avid questioner and seeker, and left no stone unturned to deepen my experience of questioning reality, my identity, and heightening creative expression through any means possible.

When I stumbled on the yoga scene that was happening in the early 2000s concurrently with some of my spiritual seeking, I was very put off by what felt to me, as a young person who came from a working-class background, to be self-centered and self-indulgent. It was similar to a lot of the spiritual scenes I was exposed to growing upa lot of people concerned about a lot of themselves, their suffering, and ultimately their own neuroses. I vowed to myself to become an example of a deeply committed and spiritual person who on a daily basis was not drinking their own or anyone elses Kool-Aid, as it were, that I would diligently and simply make my practice of infinity or spirituality about clearing myself enough of my own self-deception to be useful in any way to Society, to my family, and to anyone I came into contact with during the course of a day.

And then I came across Kundalini Yoga. It was post-911 New York City, and the whole collective consciousness had shifted dramatically. After twenty seconds of some weird arm-pumping posture, I had a physical experience of elevation and clarity that no other spiritual modality had even come close to touching. They all talked a lot about it. There was a lot of philosophy and rhetoric and theory about the elevation of human consciousness that I had listened to and read about over the years, but never had I had a real live experience of it so quickly and concisely in my own body.

I was practicing other forms of yoga for up to two hours a day at that point, and nothing like this had happened. Of course, I wanted to know more and experience more and I set out to practice as much as I could and go see the Master of this Lineage, Yogi Bhajan, at his ashram in New Mexico. He was still alive, and very sick at that point, but for two summers I was able to receive some direct transmissions of the experience of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation from him. How quick, effective, simple, and profound it is. It kept me hooked and wanting to learn and practice as much as I could.

I was very young at the time and didnt really know what I was doing or why, but had a keen sense of intuitive connection and a stubborn constitution that kept me glued to the path of discovering myselfmy true Selfthrough the profound practices and tools of Kundalini Yoga. And what I have discovered over the years in my own practice and as a giver of these gifts that have been given to me is how to create a sustained, stable, elevated experience of human existence that is deeply fulfilling. The how is the most important part to me personally, because we are in an unprecedented time on the planet. Just as Yogi Bhajan predicted, now more than ever people need a how to quickly and efficiently remind them that there is something so much more profound and satisfying about life, love, relationships, work, creativityabout what we all crave as humans to experience more deeply.

For the past fifteen years, I have watched the pressure of the Technology Age consume more and more of our fading attention span and vitality. With it, the firsthand experience of how the demands we are facing as humans in a span of a day have exponentially increased with the skyrocketing technology. In this pressurization, something (many things) incredible has emerged, mainly a viral need for wellness on a deeper and deeper level; a quick and efficient way to release the pressuremore long lasting than a cocktailan increased sensitivity to our interconnectedness as a planet, a galaxy, a star system; and the overwhelming momentum to find fulfillment as a human being that is not dependent on personal investment statistics, professional status, or what you look like.

The pressure is causing many people to look deeper into themselves to experience something more than the model of life stuck in a cycle of work, make money, have sex, have kids, travel a little, retire finally, and then get sick and die. To see that possibly there is a way to live that is more vital, more inspired, less based in fear and anxiety, and ultimately fulfilling for some deeper aspect of human life than survival of the fittest, war, competition, money, self-obsessed neurosis, and the suffering that a life full of turmoil creates on your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

There is a different way. And you dont have to subscribe to any religion or touch your toes to experience it. You canright now, in very little timebe connected to a deeper pulse of your life force, which manifests as instantaneous clarity, effectiveness, creativity, bravery, and the like. These are the pillars of Invincible Living, which are literally at your fingertips and take almost as much effort as picking up your smartphone. With the whole world, all information, and endless possibility available to you at the push of a button, we all need something that will help us to navigate this increasingly complex experience on planet Earth.