My Favorite YouTube Yoga Teacher

[aurum]

Since many people are going to be doing research on yoga after Leo's latest video, I'd thought I'd shoutout my favorite yoga teacher that I've found on YouTube. She's a hidden gem.

Her name is Kimilla and she teaches Kundalini Yoga.

^One of my personal favorite sets.

What I like about her is that unlike many yoga teachers, this girl will push you. She's also extremely practical and has a great vibe about her.

There are tons of other kriyas on her channel she guides you through and you can practice. Forget about 5 years, I've seen benefits from doing these almost immediately.

Share your favorite teacher as well if you have one.

[Rilles]

Im not too familiar with Kriya but I found a guy called Ryan, he seems relaxed and very detached.

Youtube.com/kriyayogaonline

[moon777light]

3 hours ago, Rilles said:

Im not too familiar with Kriya but I found a guy called Ryan, he seems relaxed and very detached.

Youtube.com/kriyayogaonline

yea Ryan Kurczak is the only really good Kriya teacher on youtube; he has an 11 hour free course on youtube about how to do kriya yoga and meditations. I believe he does Vedic astrology as well. Kundalini is harder to come across decent ones, many are heavily westernized. For kundalini, i like to watch exercises on gaia.com, the videos there are from many teachers who were taught by Yogi Bhajan himself, although be wary, since he did, as Leo put in his yoga video, create many rules and "dogma". Another thing i find strange is that Yogi Bhajan died rather early, age 75 because of congestive heart failure. According to his school of Yoga, there is a Kriya for every health issue, like heart problem, thyroid problem, etc, so how did he die of a heart problem? 

[moon777light]

thank you aurum, ill check her video out

[Leo Gura]

58 minutes ago, moon777light said:

Yogi Bhajan died rather early, age 75

75 is dying early? Lol

Yogananda died at 59. Although it might have been a mahasamadhi.

[moon777light]

i started to read his autobiography, and read somewhere that he died willfully/mahasamadhi but i didnt know that "early". I guess it doesn't matter, i think i let society push the whole "you should aim to live until mid 80s or above or you're not healthy" idea on me too much.

[Prabhaker]

8 hours ago, aurum said:

my favorite yoga teacher

Shilpa Shetty

https://www.youtube.com/user/shilpayoga/videos

 

 

[RawJudah]

I practice with Yoga With Tim, awesome YouTube channel with loads of good informative videos. But when Leo says that western Yoga is all wrong I might need to find something else. Lol.

 

[Max_V]

@Leo Gura Do I have to worry about unintentionally getting into a state of mahasamadhi during consciousness work and leaving my body?

[aurum]

@Rilles

I'll check him out, thanks

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, Max_V said:

@Leo Gura Do I have to worry about unintentionally getting into a state of mahasamadhi during consciousness work and leaving my body?

No

[Sahil Pandit]

@Leo Gura so you're bald because some comments make you want to rip your hair out?

[ppfeiff]

@aurum

19 hours ago, aurum said:

Her name is Kimilla and she teaches Kundalini Yoga.

 

Can I has?   She's attractive and focused on self-actualizing? Haha.

On a serious note though, is she liberated? Where did she learn her practices from? 

[Prabhaker]

4 hours ago, ppfeiff said:

On a serious note though, is she liberated?

Yoga has fallen into wrong hands

Yoga means union, the science of union. Meditation is the most supreme phenomenon as far as union with reality is concerned. Meditation is the god of yoga. But yoga has fallen into wrong hands, and not only recently – for centuries it has been in the wrong hands.

The original fault must be with the founder, Patanjali himself. Patanjali has divided yoga into eight parts. His division is clear-cut, very scientific, but he was not really aware of human stupidity. He started with the body – and that's the right way to start. The first part of yoga must be physiological because man lives on the circumference, in the body, so the work has to start there, only then can it reach the mind. And when one has gone beyond the body and beyond the mind, then the third, meditation, happens.

So according to Patanjali the first part belongs to the body. But he was not clearly aware that millions of people would remain entangled with the first part. Hence yoga has become synonymous with yoga postures: people standing on their heads and doing all sorts of contortions. That has become synonymous with yoga.

It is not a true yoga, it is just the preface, the introductory part; and the person who thinks the introduction is the whole book is idiotic. But Patanjali did not warn people. If he had warned people it would have been better. People like Patanjali believe in others' intelligence – which is not there! They trust. Their trust is immense, their trust is as immense as people's stupidity is! They respect people's intelligence. So he did not warn people, but the warning was absolutely necessary: 'Don't get entangled in the physiological part.'

A few people, only very few – if a hundred people become interested in yoga then only one person will get out of the physiological entanglement. And that one person will become entangled in the psychological. If a hundred persons are entangled in the psychological then only one person gets out of it...and only when you get out of the mind does the real yoga begin.

The physiological part of yoga will give you great physiological powers; it can make you live a really long, healthy life. But what are you going to do with a long life? If you are idiotic, instead of being idiotic for seventy years you will be idiotic for two hundred years. It is not going to help anybody; it will be a calamity.

Yoga can make a person live long, but what will you do? That physiological part should not be paid so much attention. Yes, a little bit is good to keep physically fit, but just a little bit; otherwise it is a vast jungle. One can be lost in its subtleties, in its complexities.

The second part is even vaster than the physiological. If you get into it you can have many psychic powers, you can read people's thoughts. But what is the point? Your own rubbish is so much, what is the point of reading somebody else's rubbish? He is tortured by his rubbish and you are reading his thoughts – and you think you are doing something great!

The real thing is to get rid of thoughts, not to read them. One even has to get rid of one's own thoughts; what is the point of reading other people's thoughts? And what is there? You can stand by the side of the road and you can see a man is walking along and thinking of his dog – so what?

If you listen to people's thoughts, what will you find? Somebody is thinking of his cow, somebody is thinking of his buffalo, somebody is thinking of his wife, somebody is thinking of somebody else's wife! And you are thinking what they are thinking! Maybe the other person is also a yogi and is reading somebody else's thoughts. Then things become very complicated!

The physiological part is ordinary, the psychological part is ordinary. Both can give power, but power is not the goal of meditation. Power is politics, all kinds of power is politics. And power corrupts – all kinds of power – it corrupts unconditionally and absolutely. It always corrupts.

Hence I say the only essential thing, the real core of all religion, of all yoga, of all methods of search, is meditation. One should put aside everything non-essential. You can use things as stepping stones, but not more than that – just like jumping boards. You need not bother too much about them. Your whole concern should be one-pointed; you should move like an arrow towards meditation. Only then in this small life, with so little time, power and energy available and with so many problems surrounding you, can you hope that the arrow will reach the target.

The moment you know something of meditation – not about it, but the very taste of it – a great release comes. a great relief comes. Suddenly all tensions disappear: anxieties, anguishes, are found no more. Even if you want them just for a change, you cannot find them. I have tried and failed! Sometimes I try very hard to find some anxiety but I cannot, it simply does not work. I have tried all possible ways, from this side and that side, but I come to the same end: it does not work.

Once you have tasted meditation it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable, a natural showering, and it goes on showering like flowers showering from the sky.

Osho, Nirvana: Now or Never

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