Kriyas and Classes in Kundalini Yoga

Our Beautiful Book about Kundalini Yoga Kriyas

Discover a journey through the wonderland of your own consciousness with our beautiful book: “Kriyas and Classes in Kundalini Yoga”

Dedicated to all yoga enthusiasts, this book is a treasure trove of Kundalini and Hatha yoga classes. Designed with precision and love, each class, each kriya, is a path to deeper self-awareness and spiritual evolution.

A book to be applied

I wrote and illustrated this book as a guide for our trainees in the Kundalini Yoga teacher trainings. It was important to me that our students have structured classes that they can use as a guideline when they start teaching, and so can slowly find their own style.

Inspiration for yoga teachers

These classes are not rigid instructions, but serve as inspiration – you can play with them, with the rhythm of the breath, with the sequence of postures, and develop your own style.

They are pillars on the individual path of yoga. Whether you are a yoga teacher and want to enliven your classes with new ideas or someone who wants to deepen their own practice – this book invites you to integrate, modify or expand the practice sets.

Ultimately, a practice must be alive in order to bear fruit in your life and in the lives of those you touch through your practice.

This book bridges the gap between traditional practice and contemporary yoga. It seamlessly blends classical Hatha and Kundalini yoga techniques to nourish the practitioner’s spirit.

Design Guidelines

The classes are based on the same principles as those set out in our training manual:
Symmetry and counterbalance

Each asana finds its counter-posture in the course of a class – both along the physical body axes and along the poles of tension and relaxation.

• Everything that becomes tense must find relaxation.
• Everything that is opened needs stability again.

Hatha yoga means finding strength in the center – the center as a dance between the poles.

The wheel of the day

Each class is a journey through your consciousness – and therefore a journey through your life, because life springs from your consciousness.
So each class is a way to understand each of your actions more deeply – an invitation to become more fully one with yourself.

Every class is therefore a journey through your life.

You can find out more about this in the second part of our yoga teacher training manual.

Transformational Yoga

Many of the classes in this book – especially the chakra series and the Divine Mother Sadhana – are designed according to the principles of Transformational Yoga.

Transformational yoga means that the class is a journey through the layers of your being. We start in the body, dive into the breath and prana, traverse the mind and finally sink into the heart.

Transformational Yoga uses specific techniques such as Kapalabhati and Bhramari – breathing techniques that help us to penetrate the deeper layers of our being.

You can find out more about this in our handbook – there is a whole chapter on transformational yoga.

Kundalini Yoga – Yoga of the Goddess

Kundalini Yoga is the yoga that honors the Goddess as the source of spiritual growth – the Goddess as the key to knowledge.

In our practice, there are two main ways to awaken the inner power – the Shakti:

• as Prana Shakti in the form of breath,

• as Mantra Shakti, also Śabda Brahman, in the form of sound.

We use techniques such as Bhastrika and Kapalabhati to activate the prana in the center and guide it upwards.
We also work with subtle sound yoga techniques to honor and connect with the power within.

Ultimately, Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of the Goddess – and the relationship with her is a relationship of love. That is why Kundalini Yoga is always bhakti – devotion – at its core. Without it, it remains unfruitful.

The Classes at a Glance

Pavanmuktasana series

In this book you will find newly illustrated representations of the famous Pavanmuktasana series by Swami Satyananda Saraswati.
These classes are an essential part of our training and offer valuable tools to create your own classes.

The series are Sukshma Vyayam – subtle yogic exercises – and are therefore also part of Kundalini Yoga.

They also include breath-intensive sequences, as known from modern Kundalini Yoga, and at the same time are technically broadly based – suitable for young people, strong and weak bodies, even for older people (e.g. the gentle joint series).

A great companion for every yoga teacher!

The sadhana of the divine mother

I had to practise this class with my teacher in India every morning for 108 days. It showed me a lot about the depth of subtle yoga – and I could feel the presence of the mother in it.

I wish – but do not demand – that my students also follow this path.

This class is a journey through the chakras and the koshas alike. It leads from the bottom up through the levels of our being – with the tools of Transformational Hatha Yoga.

This inner journey is also a journey through the body of the goddess – of which we are a part.

Sadhana is the path to the goal.
The class is the path to your inner goal – your heart, the place of ultimate contentment.

Chakra classes

These classes deal successively with the energies of the chakras – earth, water, fire, air and space within you.

Each class is a journey into yourself.
Take it, experience it – and write in the comments what each class means to you 😊

Classes for the five pranas

Apana, Maha, Samana, Udana and Vyana Prana are five transformations of prana – five forces that work in the body and at the same time five stages of inner development.

In the process of meditation and alignment with the highest goal, the prana changes:

• Apana & Maha – Exhalation & Inhalation
• Samana – holding and balancing in the middle
• Udana – the upward flowing current of Kundalini
• Vyana – unity with the universal

Our classes on the five pranas explore these movements of energy step by step.
At the same time, they are short classes (20-40 minutes), ideal for a lunch break or evening practice.

And therein lies – in addition to the energetic depth – its practical value for you as a teacher:
Short, inspiring sessions that you can play with – and that will inspire you.

The great Sukshma Vyayam

This series comes from the great Kundalini yoga teacher Dhirendra Brahmachari, who also taught Yogi Bhajan.

The Sukshma Vyayam is calm, static and intense – expansive and clearing – and leads you into the state of Vyana: a wide, still, meditative state of consciousness.

A journey to the roots of Kundalini Yoga.

Sound Yoga, OM & Śabda Brahman

Ultimately, we want to discover the sound – because the great secret of tantra is:

The goddess is sound at its core.

Those who know how to bring sound into the body know how to honor the goddess in her essence. She is God in the form of vibration – and this vibration encodes all forms of existence. She is passion – and therefore the source of all creation.

Experience these classes beyond words.