One such tool is the ancient art and science of Yoga. All Yoga techniques are tools that can help you to improve your health, happiness, and quality of life. They were developed over thousands of years and across many civilizations. Their main goal is to harmonize body, mind, and spirit. You could even call Yoga ‘the owner’s manual for human consciousness’.

We are practicing and teaching

Kundalini Yoga
An Ageless Science and Art of Energy Management

It was brought to the West from India in 1968 by Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D. In our classes you will learn postures, movements, breathing techniques, hand positions, sound vibrations, and meditations that will help you to stimulate and control your physical energy and keep your life force (Prana) flowing.

Let’s face it, we are all ‘energy beings’! Electrical energy connects all of our cells and gives us perception and awareness in our nervous system. How well we can perform all of our tasks depends on our ability to tap into and regulate our energy. And if the energy does not flow freely through our bodies we experience dis-ease which most likely will sooner or later turn into disease.

No special physical skills are necessary. Everybody who breathes can start and reap benefits within a short period of time.

Doing is Believing!
Let Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Awareness, help you achieve your personal best.

Please check out the classes at our center
Mondays from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Thursdays from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Please check out the classes at our center....

Please note: There will be no Yoga classes from January 15, 2007 through February 10, 2007. We will resume our regular schedule beginning with Monday, February 12th, 2007. We ask for your kind understanding

For further information or registration, please call our Center at 847.470.0047 or Gudrun Kasperek, one of our Yoga Teachers, directly at 847.692.3749.

We are looking forward to meeting with you!

The History of Yoga and how it works:
According to ancient texts, the human sciences of yoga were first systematized approx. 40,000 years ago. It was a Golden Era for humans, everybody knew about the yoga techniques and used them to improve health, happiness and quality of life.

The main goal of the physical efforts of Yoga is to stimulate and regulate the human energy, the creative potential of man, which is the very essence of consciousness. This energy is called ‘Kundalini’. It is your creative potential. The energy of your glandular system combines with the energy of your nervous system and creates such a sensitivity that the brain receives signals, integrates them and you become totally and wholly aware of everything that is going on, visibly and not so evidently, and your creative potential becomes available to you. To achieve the goal of having energy flow freely and in a balanced manner through our bodies, the science of yoga uses various components, i.e., postures, movements, breathing techniques, hand positions, sound vibrations (mantras and chanting), and meditation.

The work of the early yogis was based on observation. They observed nature and energy, and the effects, certain activities and attitudes have on an individual. That’s how many yoga poses got their names, like ‘Archer’, ‘Baby’, ‘Cat-Cow’, ‘Cobra’, ‘Crow’, ‘Frog Pose’, etc. During the Golden Era each student of yoga worked on all aspects of himself. He exercised the physical body, disciplined the mind, and nurtured his soul or spirit by joining with others to experience and elevate himself, the group, and the universe. Yoga was holistic, touching every level of human life.

This golden era lasted fairly long. However, due to wars and natural disasters, about 26,000 years ago, Yogis and Scholars had, unfortunately, to retreated into isolation, mainly the Himalayas, and these ‘heavenly times’ ended. The techniques became divided and some people chose to cater only to their needs and personalities and practiced only specific components of the total yogic system. Either they just exercised and ignored mantras, or they did meditation and mantra but ignored breath control. In the end this led to the recognition of 22 different schools of yoga, of which hardly a dozen are widely practiced today.

Approximately 500 years ago efforts were made to revive these old sciences and integrate them again into the daily life of people. Originally, classical yoga was intended for monks and yogis; people who withdrew from the world for spiritual practice. Kundalini Yoga, however, is designed for the householder, people, who have families and jobs, and want to balance their inner and outer world.

In this tradition, Yogi Bhajan, our ultimate teacher and spiritual leader, brought in 1968 the knowledge of Kundalini Yoga from northern India to the West and it is now increasingly being practiced worldwide.

The word ‘yoga’ actually derived from the Sanskrit root word ‘Jugit’ or ‘Yuj’ and the biblical word ‘yoke’. They all mean ‘to join together’ or ‘to unite’. Kundalini Yoga is the uniting discipline of the power of awareness and the potential in each individual. As in most classical forms of yoga, we want to raise our consciousness and unite our individual consciousness with the infinite consciousness. A committed, regular yoga practice will help you to do just that and create in you a feeling of balance and give you the wisdom to consciously direct your conscious mind.

Kundalini Yoga is as well called the Yoga of Awareness. This ageless science and art works on the various Energy Centers of our bodies, called Chakras. The postures, movements, breathing techniques, hand positions, sound vibrations, and meditations practiced are designed to stimulate and control our physical energy. This helps to keep the life force (Prana, the first unit of energy) flowing by clearing possible blocks in our bodies as well as balancing and maximizing the functioning of body, mind, and spirit. They help as well to develop our relationship to our mental potential. The process focuses on the need to control the ‘waves’ of our mind, which is considered to be the link between the body and the spirit or consciousness. When the mind is in harmony with the soul, each thought that is stimulated from the intellect is perceived and acted on with clarity and reality. Otherwise, when a thought is influenced or masked by unconscious identifications, emotions, projections, intentions, and attachments, the thought is perceived for other than what it is. This can easily lead to unhappiness, false judgments and fruitless commitments. When the mind, however, is no longer controlling us but becomes again our servant, as it was intended to, inner and outer peace are granted and we can develop to our full potential.

All techniques are intended to elevate your capacity, so your own sensitivity and awareness can guide your choices, for instance, regarding habits or spiritual choices. You could call the techniques of Kundalini Yoga as well ‘the owner’s manual for human consciousness’.