YOGA at WHOLISTIC AWARENESS CENTER

CEDARS OF MONROEVILLE CAMPUS

3rd floor Cedars Hospice Center

4365 Northern Pike, Monroeville, PA 15146

Wednesdays at 5:30PM

Satyajeet Singh teaches a Kundalini Yoga class that is energetic without students getting into pretzel shapes. The class is approximately 60 minutes with breath work and exercises. Mature adults at every level of conditioning may participate. For a description of a typical yoga class, read on below, or go to Eight Limbs of Yoga

Pricing is $12 per class or $40 for four classes.

Checks payable to "Hospice Yoga" or cash may be brought to class, or you may pre-pay and advance register at Eight Limbs of Yoga

• No Charge
• Hospice patients either at the Hospice Center or in the Community, and their families
• Family members currently served in the 13 month bereavement program
• Half Price
• Hospice Volunteers
• Employees of Cedars Community Hospice, Cedars Hospice Center, and employees of participating organizations
• Full Price
• All others who desire to establish a regular weekly practice

This Yoga class is open to all individuals in the community regardless of affiliation with Cedars.

Satyajeet Singh

ABOUT KUNDALINI YOGA

Kundalini yoga is known in India as the yoga of householders. Householders are those immersed in the every day world of working for a living and parenting children. This distinguishes Kundalini Yoga from other Yogas that teach one to retreat from the world in some form of solitude or self denial of worldly pleasure.

Hence, Kundalini Yoga classes are packed with methods to quickly energize oneself. A class begins with a very short chant for centering, may include some warm up exercises, always includes a series of exercises (a "kriya") to accomplish an energetic purpose, and always includes meditation, which may be silent or chanting a Mantra. Class ends with the Sunshine Song, recited below. In the yoga classes taught by Satyjeet Singh, there are breathing exercises that every student can take home or to work to self-create mental calmness and clarity when emotions around you get complicated or volatile. Satyjeet Singh also plays the Gong during the deep relaxation that ends an exercise set. Many exercise sets include breath work, and there are a number of exercises which are meditative.

A Kundalini Yoga class functions to clear and balance the energy centers, known as Chakras, through out the body.

The idea is not for a teacher to become someone's guru. Teachers of Kundalini Yoga do not regard Yogi Bhajan, the person who brought Kundalini Yoga to the United States, as a guru, but as a Master of the technology. Teachers of Kundalini Yoga are taught to share the technology with students to enable students to find their essence or inner truth. In Kundalini Yoga, no one goes to a guru for a blessing. We as teachers simply present the technics and methods for students unfold, find, or reveal to themselves their essence or inner truth so that each may bless her or him self and feel the joy of life.

Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, carries one through these fast moving full days with grace and gratitude.

* Kundalini Yoga defines yoga as connecting one's finite self with the infinite. This goes beyond the traditional concept of yoga as the binding of body, mind and spirit.

* Kundalini Yoga is a technology which includes exercise sets and meditation in every class, and either the exercise set or the meditation includes breathing or pranayama. The exercise sets are designed to clear our energy centers, or chakras, and the meditations balance the chakras. This type of class opens us to self-healing. There are specific exercise sets and meditations for self protection, projection, immunity, mind-heart balancing, prosperity, etc.

* For mature adults, Kundalini Yoga is great because the exercises and poses do not require going into pretzel like positions.

This is the song given by Yogi Bhajan, an Irish blessing, to end class:

May the long time sun shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you,
Guide your way on.