In the practice of Kundalini Yoga, we have a phrase that goes Keep up, and you will be kept up!
It’s one of the sutras that I keep saying when I teach a class and it’s also what I use everyday to remind me to keeps me going. Keep up means to choose to show up no matter what, to choose to breathe, to choose a better thought! It’s a sutra to do our best on good and bad days.
A sutra is a wisdom passed through generations. I learned about sutras when I started practicing yoga way back in 1995. My favorite then was Patanjali’s “Yoga chitta vittri nirodha,” translated as “Yoga frees you from the tragedy, the saga your mind creates, and allows you to experience your True Self.”
Sutras don’t have to be yoga-related. I’ve kept this sutra since 2003. It’s been guiding me through the years and helped me evolve into a wellness practitioner, helping others be happy. It’s a quote from George Elliot, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
<em>Jai Gopal has a scientific explanation for the “Keep Up” sutra.
He says it means, “Keep the Kundalini raised– keep your frequency at a higher level. Your electromagnetic field is a transmitter-receiver. You give and receive energy. So if you keep your Kundalini raised, which is actually a chemical reaction in your body, something magical happens. Your neuron voltage increases– meaning that your brain’s neurons start to fire more efficiently and frequently. This makes everything spin faster and more efficiently. Your aura expands, and so do you.”
He added, “So when you do Kundalini Yoga, the brain neurons take on a very beneficial pattern. The result is that you upgrade your system to a faster computer on the spot. So keeping up means keeping your neuron voltage elevated. This, in turn, raises your collective frequency. Meaning your aura increases…your overall energy increases… i.e., your energy goes up. Thus– Keep up, and you will be kept up.”
Sharing congratulations
Speaking of “Keeping Up” — congratulations to the four students from the Philippines who participated in South East Asia and Australia (SEAA) Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training. They’ve completed eight months of training – 15 zoom classes, and this weekend will be their last of the three face-to-face weekends.
(clockwise from top) Sandy Palacios, Alona Terra, Ellie Estrada and Nikie Esmero doing a skit in the final zoom class on April 2, 2022.
As a trainer-in-training (TNT) in the KRI Academy, this is my first time doing an 8-month training program. Typically it’s either three one week sessions or a month-long immersion like my last TNT in New Mexico in 2019. It was challenging but these four teachers were able to take the program on. Again, congratulations!
Let’s keep up together.
In loving service,
Rosan
