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In a dream My Maternal Grandmother came out of a hospital, handed me a red hair band and with earnest voice insisted, “It’s important you start with the Crane, you need to start with the Crane.” I had been contemplating two different Chinese Medicine Qigong Programs in Portland at the time. I did choose to [...]

By far the post on Manifesting With Elephants has been the most popular as of late on Beyond Zen. Since that post I myself see the little guys everywhere from my dreams to stickers on a car. Is the message that I need to be more like Elephant or that I am like Elephant and [...]

be Conscious now just posted a great story and description on what Kundalini Awakening is from her sperspective. Great post! Namaste, Kris

During one of my Sacred Serpent Spiral Qigong (taught by my friend Christina Bjergo) classes I saw a vision of an elephant, which came at a good time as I found that elephants as guides are to help with manifestations and removal of obstacles. After doing some research I came across this meditation that felt [...]

As you can see from the last few posts, I’ve been working more and more with Kundalini energy and awakening it. As readers, do you have any experiences with Kundalini? If so, please post your experiences in the comments area. Namaste, Kris

One of the blogs I subscribe to and read often for inspiration is Mastery of Meditation. In a recent post New Kundalini Yoga Classes and The Courage To Live Dangerously I was excited to see some great words on having conviction of vision and moving toward success in anything one decides to do. Here are [...]

Kundalini, that potentially coiled energy in all of us, unlocking so much; it’s a journey to unlock but even just a small unlocking bring so much to a person. It’s effects are huge, so much in fact that much of what is written on unlocking this energy is related to the physical manifestations that may [...]

Disclaimer, this topic may be a bit “Woo-Woo” for some but it’s interesting and worth looking at. My spiritual path has been active for over 20 years and I remember one of my first yoga classes ever taken, in college, in a stinky old gym at a community college. I remember the practice was amazing [...]

The pic above is of a lotus flower, a sacred and meaningful flower to Buddhists and other Eastern Philosophies. The reference to the lotus flower is a wonderful icon that describes the path we take to become enlightened. A lotus flower is the icon of purification of the body, the speech, and the mind; blossoming [...]

We humans are an interesting lot, there is a raw and knowing inside that is guided, ruled, and directed by that all interesting ego. We repel feelings of connection as much as we repel that moment of nothing in our meditation. Fears of letting go, fears of feeling that nothing, all fueled by the ego [...]