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40-Day SadhanaYogic science teaches that it takes 40 days to create or change a habit. A 40-day commitment to a practice can provide the shift needed to develop a healthy habit or to drop a destructive habit. In yogic terms, a sadhana is a daily personal practice. It is something you do every day for your own upliftment and expansion. It is a practice of connecting to your intention in a focused and conscious way. A good way to get into the sadhana habit is to start with a 40-day practice.Doing something every day for 40 days is demanding. It is difficult. And you can do it! A 40-day practice gives you the experience of discipline the experience that you can go through life's challenges and create the change you desire. There will be days when you don't want to keep going. But as Yogi Bhajan, the Master Teacher of Kundalini Yoga, always said, "Keep up and you will be kept up!" Keep going and, at the end, you will have truly accomplished something. To support your growth and change many also find it helpful to journal during the 40 days of transformation. Guru Ravi invites you to do something that is a gift for you and for Mother Earth. Commit to own expansion, your own self healing, your own bliss and let it spread. Help us create peace and joy one breath at a time. Start Kriya for Self Healing and the Isht Sodhana Mantra for your next 40 day practice. This series of poses allows us to awaken, balance and strengthen the physical body. It gives us tools to help the physical body take its place as a support to experience our other 9 more subtle bodies. When we acknowledge our power for self-healing, we accept our place as a co-creator of our life, our health, our destiny. We move out of victim mentality and in to our path as a spiritual warrior - balancing our strength and our saintliness. Throughout this kriya, keep your eyes closed and concentrate at the 3rd eye. You can do each pose for 1 to 3 minutes. Do each pose for the same amount of time. If you start and do the first pose for 1 minute, do all following poses for 1 minute. Start slowly and build up the time as you develop your own flow with it. This kriya can be done in as little at 9 minutes. You can relax in between each pose or go with no breaks. Kriya for Self Healing
Come into a comfortable seated posture. Close your eyes and begin long deep breathing. Bring your hands together in prayer pose at the center of the chest. Set your intention as you tune in with the Adi Mantra.Ong Namo I bow to the subtle divine wisdom 
1. Spinal flexes on the heels. Sit on your heels in rock pose. Rest you hand on your thighs. Apply a light root lock. Inhale and flex the spine forward, exhale and flex the spine back. Continue 1 to 3 minutes. 
2. Sufi Grind. Sit in easy pose with the hands resting on the knees. Circle your torso from the base, keeping the spine straight. Inhale as you rotate forward, exhale as you rotate back. Continue 1 to 3 minutes changing directions halfway through. 
3. Sit in rock pose with the spine straight. Extend the arms up over the head parallel to each other with the palms facing in. Exhale and bend forward from the hips until your arms, head and trunk are parallel to the floor. Keep the buttocks on the heels. Inhale and rise up with your upper body, head and arms in a straight line. Continue this motion 1 to 3 minutes. 
4. Lie down on your back with the arms at your side. Keep the low back on the floor as you lift both legs straight up to 45 degrees. Inhale and open the legs wide apart, exhale and close the legs. Continue opening and closing the legs 1 to 3 minutes. 
5. a) Stand up straight with the feet shoulder width apart. Extend the arms straight out in front, parallel to each other, palms facing in. b) Exhale through the nose as you squat down into crow pose keeping the arms straight out in front of you. Inhale through rounded lips as you return to the standing pose. Continue this up and down motion for 1 to 3 minutes. 
6. Stand with the hands in prayer pose at the heart center. Exhale and take a big step back with the left leg, stretching the arms overhead still in prayer pose. Balance on the right foot and the toes of the left foot, with the right thigh parallel to the floor. Inhale and step back into the starting position with the hands back at the heart center. Continue the movement alternating legs with the breath. 
7. From a standing position exhale and bend from the hips and grasp the back of the right thigh with both hands. Raise the left leg back and up parallel to the ground. Keep the upper body close to the right thigh and hold. Switch legs and repeat half way through the time. Total time for both legs 1 to 3 minutes. 
8. Sit with both legs straight out in front. Bring your arms straight up parallel to the ground, palms facing in. Raise the left leg up 60 degrees and keeping the spine straight, lean back just enough to balance yourself. Hold this position with breath of fire for 1 to 3 minutes. Do not switch legs, it is only done with the left leg. 
9. Stretch pose. Lie on your back with legs straight and feet together. Apply a light root lock to keep the low back on the ground. Point your toes and raise your heels 6 inches off the ground, your head 6 inches off the ground, arms at the side of the body. Focus the eyes on your toes as you do breath of fire for 1 to 3 minutes.Isht Sodhana Mantra MeditationA perfect mantra for the Earth energy is the Isht Sodhana Mantra “Dhartee Hai, Akasha Hai, Guru Ram Das Hai.” It connects the earth and the vastness of the ether and projects it from the heart. It is done with visualization. It makes you present, calls on your highest spirit, keeps you humble and effective on your new ventures, and attracts opportunities for prosperity. Chant this mantra for 11 minutes or 31 minutes.Posture: Visualization: As you chant “Akasha Hai” visualize from the eye brows and brow point up a vast blue sky expanding into the ethers and hold. As you chant “Guru Ram Das Hai” visualize from the heart center a circular huge bright white light expanding out in all directions encompassing everything in this light.
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To end your practice come into a comfortable seated posture. Bring your hands together in prayer pose at the center of the chest. Send out your light and love with the Longtime Sunshine Song. May the long time sun shine upon you All love surround you And the pure light within you Guide your way on.
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