CPD07 Therapeutic Application of Kundalini Yoga

A Continuing Professional Development Specialty Intensive

I refer to yoga as a form of mind-body hygiene.
We are starting to understand where meditation takes place in the brain and what other aspects of the brain are influenced. We know that, when we focus our attention, we are engaging what we call the prefrontal cortex. This is in the executive lobes of the brain, in the frontal lobes, where our executive functioning is. And we know that there are connections between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system. The limbic system is the emotional brain, and these are inhibitory connections. So the more you engage the prefrontal cortex, the more you are exerting sort of a controlling effect over the limbic system. And that’s what we talked about: self regulation of stress and emotion. That is how this is happening – neurophysiologically. In fact, not only are there changes in activity over time that people who are long term meditators and yoga practitioners have better stress and emotion, regulation, and more activity in the prefrontal cortex and the attention networks, but they have less activity in the limbic system because they’re no longer reacting to their own thoughts.

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD. A Harvard Medical School researcher & Director of Kundalini Research Institute.

Known as the “Yoga of Awareness” Kundalini Yoga is considered most comprehensive and combines meditation, mantra, pranayama, and posture (asana) within each single practice – there is a flow of energy and consciousness within Kundalini that cannot be sourced from other yogic techniques. More specifically, Kundalini Yoga Therapy offers a range of exquisite and various techniques for creating lasting mental and physical change – a process of integrative medicine that combines intuition and science; a Yoga Therapy that cultivates lasting mind-body change, vitality and calm.

For the last two decades, we have seen outstanding results from the research into Kundalini Yoga through the dedicated work of Sat Bir Singh Khalsa and other researchers.

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, is the Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute and has been fully engaged in biomedical research on the efficacy of yoga and meditation practices for improving physical and mental health for over twenty years now. With a major in the field of Mind-Body Medicine, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa evaluates the clinical effectiveness and basic psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the practice of yoga and meditation techniques. He has conducted clinical research trials evaluating yoga treatments for insomnia, human sleep cycles, addiction, back pain, anxiety disorders, performance anxiety, drug addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic stress, and operated a yoga program in public schools to determine benefits in mental health in adolescents.

Extensive Kundalini Yoga research has offered validity and credibility to its time tested methodologies. The ever increasing rise and popularity of Kundalini yoga in the West, in combination with the latest research, has made the practices more accessible than ever before to everyone, regardless of one’s belief system.
BIYOME is excited to host Kundalini Yoga Therapy and Meditation Training for Yoga Teachers with Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Counsellor Samantha Lindsay-German.

Join BIYOME as Samantha guides you through various kriyas and meditations from the Kundalini tradition to attend to specific therapeutic applications of body, mind and heart. Through the practice of kundalini meditation as a therapy, you will be able to offer both yourself and your students a steadier frame of mind and a valuable holistic yogic framework for well-being, including increased vitality, calm and improved mental and physical health.

Creating virtuous life cycles through the scientific application of angles in asana and kriyas for meditation is part of the kundalini experience. You will explore the subtle body teachings of nadi, chakra and prana to affect kundalini. You will learn how to apply and teach sound (naad), bodily gestures (mudra), breathing techniques (pranayama), eye gaze (dristhi) and mental focus (dharana) to create long-lasting personal transformation.

You will also learn the ethical principles of the therapist and transference as it applies in kundalini yoga. A deeper understanding of the confidence and leadership skills that the yoga therapist requires will be imparted. You will consider the role of raising your own consciousness as a yoga therapist and teacher in seeing transformational change occur in your students.

It is our combined hope that you advance your general knowledge of yoga and meditation from a medical and spiritual perspective, as well as to teach yoga and meditation basics from the tradition of Kundalini. This course is presented with solid state-of-the-art scientific knowledge of how Kundalini Yoga and Meditation work, thus allowing you to build a multiplicity of skills into your teaching repertoire.

Course Code:

CPD07

Next Date Offered:

This course is not available Face to Face.

Course available to be taken online at anytime.

What You Will Learn

  • Understanding the philosophy behind Kundalini Yoga postures including the science of angles and application of kriya’s to generate virtuous life cycles, understanding Mudra to experience the qualities of different hand positions. Gyan, Buddhi, Shuni and Ravi mudras as well as Venus Lock and their relationship to mastering the elements that lead to personal transformation for you and your clients.
  • Understanding the physiology behind practice including metaphysical anatomy as it relates to understanding Drishti to focus the mind for meditation, Dharana, or concentration – including benefits and applications of the eye focus including the Third Eye, Lotus Point, Moon Centre and more. As well as understanding the breath and Pranayama techniques to bring the mind to stillness; breath retention and the vital use of body’s bandhas to assist in pranayama
  • Understanding the psychology behind practice including conceptualising Naad and the conscious Power of sound and mantra to raise the Kundalini, both ancient and modern principles of meditation as medicine and the nature of the student teacher relationship.
  • Understanding from a complete immersive experience the foundations, applications, and teaching methodologies of kundalini as a therapeutic practice, including but not limited to:
    • A range of Kundalini yogi Kriyas and meditation techniques that carefully support the mind and body with precision and awareness
    • Meditation techniques as taught by Yogi Bhajan tailored to specific applications
    • Meditations to reduce stress and anxiety, reduce depressive tendencies and addictions
    • Meditations to open the heart and lead a more heart centred life
    • Meditations to increase vitality and improve health conditions
    • Delve into the subconscious mind and cleanse the mind
    • Employ the use of breath, mantra, mudra, bhandha to focus and still the mind.
    • Understand the yogic framework for health and disease
    • Experiencing subtle body and teaching others to do the same.
    • Ethical principles of the therapist, transformational role and consciousness of yoga therapist.

BIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours, and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs), allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do, however, differ. Please contact us for more information.

Should you wish to complete a full meditation certification (110 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 1000 hours), please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings. Details are available here.

Further Information & Requirements

SAMANTHA LINDSAY-GERMAN
Kundalini Yoga
  1. Singh, K. D., Stauth, C., & Borysenko, J. (2002). Meditation as medicine: Activate the power of your natural healing force. New York, NY: Fireside.

There are currently no required props for this intensive.

Your CPD07 Investment

Face-to-Face

Full investment upfront $1,588
or choose a payment plan:
1x deposit payment $499
2x additional monthly payments $644
Certificate of completion / registration is not offered without complete payment

Online Learning

Full investment upfront $1,208
or choose a payment plan:
1x deposit payment $499
2x additional monthly payments $454
Certificate of completion / registration is not offered without complete payment

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