NEXT 40-Day Session begins March 1, 2010

New 40 day bootcamp at Goldenbridge Yoga!

Patrick will be teaching a 40 day boot camp at Goldenbridge Yoga in Hollywood and Nancy Kintisch will be teaching the regular classes in Echo Park, Monday thru Friday at The Rec Center.  Please click here for more information and to Register

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Five Ways to Simplify and Solve a Problem: Sometimes Real Answers Are Obvious

Meditation is such an important tool these days because of the vast amounts of information being tossed at us. The mind can go on excessive journeys of calculation when the most obvious aspects of our human lives is right in front [...]

$400K experiment shows Yoga helps relieve chronic back pain | Los Angeles Times

It’s funny to see how much yoga is catching on day after day.  As a teacher I see articles like this and I’m glad the word is getting out, but it also makes me laugh a little bit because we’ve known it for a while through simple experience, that yoga works, even without the $400,000 [...]

Kundalini Yoga and The Immune System: a.k.a. The Funny Endocrine System

This week I’ve been teaching sets that clear the lymphatic system and strengthen the immune system. One of the greatest things about Kundalini Yoga and yoga in general for that matter is that it acts very directly on the glandular system. Also known as the endocrine system. (hang on while I google [...]

Where There's Anxiety, There is No Compassion

…in a relaxed state we become compassionate, and when we’re compassionate as a simple state of being, then our presence works. Our presence simply uplifts the others we come into contact with, simply by being there. Yet another example of how being excellent and living up to your best and brightest self helps the world around [...]

Kundalini Yoga Mantra Basics

I get a lot of beginners in my classes and I find myself explaining the basics a lot. Here’s the info on the mantras that are used in Kundalini Yoga Practice.

Feel free to DOWNLOAD A COPY of them and send them to students or anyone who needs them.

BASICS OF [...]

Getting High

The truth is, all anyone wants is a look over the fence to the other side. When you set out to get high, you just want to feel good. You want to feel something more than what you’re getting as you go through the day to day [...]

How To Digest A Problem

All problems are finite because they relate to the finite world of this and that. When you close the eyes and breathe slowly and deeply, you have an opportunity to induce the infinite vastness of your spirit. The breath is a charge of life (prana) and it is the connection with the infinite part of [...]

Stopping The Mind

“In Kundalini Yoga you are given a perfect key for the lock of consciousness. The incessant intellect acts like a file that rubs off the levers from the key. Intellectualizing the Truth to suit your own circumstances and to cater to your fears will never work.” –Yogi Bhajan

I remember starting out meditating [...]

Spiritual Food

The other night I was reading this meditation pamphlet by Elsie Sechrist I had bought several years ago at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz. It’s been on my shelf for years but I just looked into it. She made an interesting point that really stuck with me. She said, [...]

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