Kundalini Rising
As I mentioned before I teach yoga as P.E. at a private school in El Segundo. The kids found out I blog about my experiences once in a while so they requested that I write about our experiences in class. First of all let me warn you they are teenagers and not very censored in their comments. Most of the time there is not a lot of thought on the words that leave their mouths. Last week Ben, one of the more colorful students, told me how much he hated me. Honestly the look on his face made me burst into a fit of giggles. Granted it was while he was holding Warrior 3… for 5 whole breaths. I had to laugh out loud because I though back to when I first began taking classes I thought a couple times how much I “hated” the teacher while I held chair…forever. Actually even now sometimes in the middle of arm balance sequencing with Jerome at Santa Monica Power Yoga I think to myself…what am I doing here?
So today I decided to try a little Kundalini Yoga with them. Not usually a style that we practice it was educational to say the least. I tried to explain about the “serpent” that lives in the base of our spine and is awakened as we practice breath and repetitive movement. We’ll if you’ve ever practiced Kundalini you know that the feeling that happens can be very energizing. You may feel lightheaded or even dizzy if you are not able to stay grounded in your practice. I mentioned it was like a natural high, and they took that comment and ran with it. So now everything that we did was an alternative to “the other high”. One of the kids, Jason, went so far to demonstrate the scenario of his mother walking in on him practicing Kundalini in his room. She asks concerned, “what are you doing?”. His answer, “Don’t worry mom, it’s legal..it’s kundalini”.
Stay tuned…tomorrow we are doing Partner Yoga.
