Prana Mandir Yoga

08/22/2024

Foundational & Devotional Practices

Thursday Live at 7am / 10am PT Replay will be available too.
Kundalini Kriya Yoga

Have you observed how some sounds absorb and other resonates?
When we embody the practices they are our are acharyas - our special teachers.

Giving your whole attention to what sacred sounds do in your mind and body, great spiritual energy is released - into you - into your aura - and into the world. ..............................................

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07/27/2024

Blessings to H.H The Dalai Lama!! OM Mane Padme Hum

MEDICAL BULLETIN - His Holiness the Dalai Lama is now in the fourth week post-surgery. The surgical incision has completely healed without any complications. The physiotherapists have said His Holiness is making good progress every day and are very satisfied with the speed of His Holiness’s improvement. His Holiness’s overall health status is stable and very satisfactory.

Dr. Tsetan D Sadutshang and Dr. Tsewang Tamdin
Physicians to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
July 24, 2024

(Photo of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Upstate New York, USA - July 23, 2024)

07/25/2024

Those of us in the Kundalini-Yoga-world have known for quite some time that some ground work needs to be done to clear the field for new understanding of “what’s what.”

Join me for a rare and wonderful opportunity on Sunday to begin at the start of the system called Shabd Kriya Yoga, the Sikh lineage tradition from which Kundalini Yoga came.

Learning the introductory, or Preparatory Practices practitioners will be introduced to specific, centering, devotional and eye opening sequences. As shared by Guvinder Singh this path is "a simple and direct way for humans to embody the experience of light and sound, as a manifestation of Primordial Awareness."

Sunday, July 29
9:00am PT / Noon ET
Two-hour, online class.

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How to attend this practice:

The replay will be avaialable too.

By donation: Venmo@Lea-Kraemer or Paypal.me/pranamandiryoga
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07/10/2024

My explanation of the Great Shakti Conduit, formerly known as "Ego Eradicator" is a technique to bring good pranic fuel to the navel, rejuvenate the aura, strengthen the meridian system, and renew the psyche with expansive delight!

What else do you receive?

Yogis take this practice for 3 or 5, 11 or even 23 minutes!

Excerpt from an online class, of a favorite Kundalini Yoga practice that can be extended up to 5, 11 or 31 minutes, or even beyond! This practice is excellen...

07/06/2024

Kundalini KRIYA YOGA! ONE HOUR practice on SUNDAY morning - 9:00am PT / Noon ET

Sunday is governed by fire + water, the Pitta Dosha, and Sun energy
On this day yoga practices which increase our vibrant qualities are wonderful.

But …. we also need to be cautious around our fire energy! In the Summer, being outside, biking, hiking, gardening, dancing, are all heaven on earth, but we don't want to burn out mid-season. It’s good not to overload on foods and drinks that are heating, like hot sauce.

And energetically, it’s good not to spend more than you can create. Watching over your yoga practice in the Summer months is about learning to conserve your Shakti! As we burst into the bright days, Yogis can release old stagnancies and melt away old emotions and concepts. But the Summer energy can also help you learn how to watch over, and balance the tides of experiences in the body, mind and spirit!

So.... what does a great Summer Yoga practice feel like for you? Let’s ask:

What takes you toward meditation?

Is your inner state light and stable?
Is the flow of your breath even?
Do your movements feel smooth and continuous?
How do you feel in your heart?

How freely does the Prana, the life-breath-energy move?
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venmo -Kraemer

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07/01/2024

Curious about thrIving in an online class?
In Kundalini Kriya Yoga offerings, here are some wonderful replays to try:

1. NAVEL ENERGY AND THE POWER OF YOUR VOICE
90 minutes of meridian strengthening asana practice, meditation, and chant to the Creative Divine.

When you speak, what do you hear?
Explore your resonance.
Truthful, spontaneous communication ( 5th Chakra ) takes patience and balance (3rd Chakra ) to become an art that is harmonious in our everyday lives.

2. MEDITATIONS FOR WHITE TARA
48 minutes of divinec breath work and devotional mantra for the Goddess who holds the elxir for all human suffering. Prayers for the Mother of all Bodhisattvas!

3. MERIDIAN OPENING Yoga SERIES AND KRIYA SERIES FOR THE LIVER A 70-minute complete & balanced practice, mostly seated. Begins with a quote & contemplation about therapeutic yoga.
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Pay what you can but honor the exchange.

Suggested $15 - $25
paypal.me/pranamandiryoga or
venmo -Kraemer

06/20/2024

Gurupurnima, July 21, 2024
On this day, the full moon has deep significance. It is the day to thank your Guru, the pure light along your path, even when every direction shows darkness.

If you do not know if you have a Guru, that is ok. Your prayers and gratitude may be expressed from the lotus of your heart!
On this special day we thank the true Gurus, the knowledge-givers and Light-holders, the wise Sages, enlightened Rishis, Shamans, renunciate Monks, loving Mothers, true Teachers, awakened scholars, Rabbis, celestial beings and venerable Lamas who have offered us immeasurable life times of spiritual protection and shelter.

Would you like to celebrate?

06/02/2024

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Mahasiddha Virupa's profound realization.

Born into a royal family in eastern India, Virupa entered the Nalanda monastery, where he excelled in the study of Sutra teachings before delving into Ta**ra practices and attaining high realizations. To disseminate and promote the profound teachings he received from human teachers and deities such as Nairatmaya, Virupa employed magical abilities and extraordinary methods to captivate and instruct disciples, including the famed master, Dombi Heruka. Virupa is counted as one of the 84 Mahasidhas and lineage gurus of the Lamdre teaching in the Tibetan Sakya tradition.

There are many tales of Virupa’s remarkable feats, such as the well-known story of Virupa halting the sun's movement to prolong his indulgence in drinking. In this work, Virupa’s gesture—a raised hand with a finger pointing up to the sun—refers to this episode. Virupa was on an epic drinking spree and agreed with the tavern proprietor to settle the bill at sunset. He then used his great meditative powers to stop the sun in its course until after several days without night the local ruler, fearful of a possible drought, paid his tab.
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Mahasiddha Virupa; Gongkar C***e Monastery, U Province, central Tibet; ca. 1659-1671; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art; C2004.14.1 (HAR 65340)

05/12/2024

Sunday Sunday
I invite you for class at 9am PT / Noon ET
One hour practice online / by donation

Each breath is a miracle!

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05/10/2024

It’s not just that plant-based medicine is becoming important again. It is not just that natural medicine is gaining acceptance and the public is more open than ever to cleaner medical alternatives.

It is that health-based medicine is what we need! We will not be able to get anywhere, we will not see our way to a thriving community of immune system empowered adults through chemical, big-pharma produced prescriptions, many of which are one step away from bio-weapons themselves.

There are two basic types of medical care:

Authority-based medicine expects to find docile patients who often feel like victims because of their diagnosis. This kind of patient still wants to be told what to do in order to feel emotionally more relaxed, and may pay lip service to self responsibility, but is basically waiting for their doctor's instructions to follow.

The second kind of medical care is consciousness-based and patients are encouraged to participate in and even to drive their own recovery. Taking heath care into their own hands often sparks an inner re-visioning of life's purpose.

For the second kind of medical care, Yoga Therapy is amazingly potent. Postures are physicalizations, symbolic of freedom in the body and mind!

Using postures and breath creates leverage ( and positive pressure ) in the body as internal energies are opened up. Then, the pace and strength of the healing process come from the patient or client themselves, because things can happen in the right way at the right time!

04/06/2024

There is something wonderful in the exchange between ayurveda and yoga.
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Ayurveda teaches a conscious path where any person, by respecting Mother Nature, following the tones of the Season, and knowing their Dosha/constitution can not only stay highly healthy but can cure many ills ....

When its hot, eat light and cool, when its Fall and things are blowing eat bitter, sweet, and astringent. (Not vinegar potato chips and caramel but sweet basil and tomatoes.)

Each day wash and clear ALL of your senses before eating.
Don’t spend time arguing.
Don’t force yourself to swim against the tide of life like someone flailing their arms.
Oh ... and wake up very very early with the Sun’s rays rising. Yoga says that part too and the intersection is palpable.
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Ayurveda’s advice is to stay the balanced path. In the daily journey between extremes, ayurveda helps people find real, steady wellness, and then to know themselves by fine tuning it all. Yet, treating the body and life too cautiously is not the goal.
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Yoga at its root is about transcendence of everything.
Taking concepts away,
taking toxicity away,
taking self limitations away,
taking stagnations away ....
bit by bit and often asana by asana, Shiva appears.

Yoga is the path to Self luminous Reality. And so millennia ago, some Yogins realized that a crazy strong mind, body and nervous system was needed for this journey, either that or created by it.
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I have always been enticed by Kriyas where poses are held up to 2 1/2 hours, or in the Ashtanga system where you fold “like a pretzel” until you can get there with long, silky breath. There is a method to going beyond what you thought you could do and who you thought you were.

Pushing the body is not the same as letting go of limits with the kindness and softness of non-judgement.
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99% practice and 1% theory it is said. The wisdom of repeating ancient steps captivates my heart. Yoga and ayurveda work hand in hand, overlapping like water currents to bathe and support each other.
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03/20/2024

Happy !

Storytelling is a main means of teaching in Buddhist cultures and includes morality tales, legends, and life stories of the Buddha. Tales of Buddha Shakyamuni’s past lives are often presented in a series of paintings, with each painting illustrating several of the 108 stories.

In this work, Buddha Shakyamuni is seated on a lotus, holding a begging bowl in his left hand and making the gesture of giving with his right hand. The scenes illustrate his teaching stories about principles of causality (karma) and depict episodes from his previous lives and his last human life in which he became the Buddha. The narrative scenes begin in the lower right section and move in a clockwise direction. They include an explanation of cause and effect regarding building stupas, an account of King Punyabala’s generosity, and the story of the trials of Kunala, King Ashoka’s son. These stories correspond to tales fifty-seven through fifty-nine of the 108.

For more examples of storytelling in Himalayan art, visit the digital platform at the link below! If you're in Florida, visit the traveling exhibition "Gateway to Himalayan Art," part of , on view now at Harn Museum of Art to learn more!

https://projecthimalayanart.rubinmuseum.org/themes/storytelling/
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Buddha Shakyamuni and Teaching Stories (Avadana); central Tibet; late 18th–19th century; pigments on cloth; F1996.27.1 (HAR 494); Rubin Museum of Art; gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation