— Practice 04
Kundalini Yoga
Kriya, mantra and stillness — repetitive, unfashionable and remarkably effective at shifting whatever you arrived carrying.
A kriya is a set sequence, run for a set time, with a set breath. You do not improvise and you do not get to choose the easy version. Three minutes of an arm position that seemed trivial at minute one becomes the entire contents of your mind by minute two.
That is the point. The repetition wears down the commentary until something quieter is audible underneath. Mantra carries the rhythm; the gong, when it appears, ends the argument entirely.
Deva teaches from the Yogi Bhajan lineage but without the theatre — no white robes required, no belief system asked of you.
“You are not chasing an experience. You are keeping an appointment with yourself, and the practice does the rest.”
In the practice.
- How a class runs
- Tuning in with mantra, a warm-up, one full kriya held to time, a long relaxation, then meditation and a closing song.
- Who it suits
- People who like structure, and people who find free-form movement classes hard to settle into.
- What to bring
- Loose natural fibres and a shawl for the relaxation. Nothing else.
Good to know.
- Rapid breath-of-fire sections are always given a gentle alternative.
- Sadhana — the long early-morning practice — runs during immersion weeks only.
- Teens aged fourteen and up are welcome with a parent.
