Our Beloved Teacher and Friend, Guru Ravi Khalsa

Dear Ones,

We have been so blessed with your extraordinary love and support to Guru Ravi Kaur Khalsa, co-founder of RX Yoga, as she was going through her healing process for the past eight months.

Guru Ravi passed away on Thursday morning at 10:45 am. She was surrounded by the people she loved: her daughter Harbajan, her brother David and her dear friend Sat Ardas. With the deep sorrow of Guru Ravi’s death there is also a true relief to see her body free of pain.

As the soul takes its course and passes the magnetic field of the earth we invite you to chant AKAL every day for the next seventeen days to support the soul to leave the earth’s template, to enter into the angelic realms and eventually the blue ether.

Akal means “that which never dies”. With this mantra we encourage the soul to go forward on its’ journey.

Before his death, Yogi Bhajan always said that his teaching would be much more powerful through his subtle body, after his passing. Guru Ravi ‘s vision, humor, depth and wisdom will impact each of us forever. Teaching was her true passion in life and we will always be grateful for her presence, insight and compassion.

Peace to All,
Sat Ardas

Dear Ones,

I hope you are all well and enjoying our summer.

9 out of 10 of my bodies are doing great..the physical body is still experiencing some challenges. Because of the physical challenges, I tend to get pretty tired by the end of the day so I haven't been able to teach on Monday nights this month. I miss it! I miss you.

I'll be back as soon as I can, but until then we are having many wonderful teachers share their wisdom of Mondays. I hope you will join them.

many blessings and much love,
Guru Ravi

Dear Ones,

We have a monsoon storm coming this afternoon, so my dogs are nervous and hanging out close to me. Rumi just doesn't like the thunder at all. The rain is just starting and we get this amazing smell of the desert creosote plant that really defines rain in the desert. There is nothing finer.

I'm doing OK, but it has been a pretty rough 3 weeks. I had the dental surgery done on June 24th and have been mostly in bed since then. Harbhajan reminded me I did have a good day or two because we went to see a great movie called Buck. It's a very inspiring story about a horse trainer and a more sensitive way to train horses. A pleasant diversion. The dental surgery really took it out of me and I am not yet back to where I was before. Dr Margolis and Dr Hutton both say this is very normal, abet very exhausting. I am hopeful for more energy this week.

Another big change is Dr. Hutton has decided to close his practice in Sedona and move to Canada to begin training doctors in his techniques. After the initial shock, I am feeling very good about the doctor he suggests I continue working with in Phoenix. I met with her on Friday to check her out and I feel good about her knowledge, approach and skill. It will be a shorter commute too!

Harbhajan is an incredible help in this low energy time and she is getting good at not reacting to my down moods. They are just part of the flow and she is really helpful as I move through them. She doesn't take them personally and just keep going, feeding me, and cleaning the kitchen. Bless her!

There continue to be may angels helping with the day to day needs. Sant Kaur makes sure I have Diving Dining from our list of volunteers and Sat Ardas keeps getting me rides wherever I need to go and people to help with cleaning and errands. I couldn't do this journey without all the amazing help I am getting. From afar, I get lots of good thoughts, prayers, blessings, healings.

All I can say is I will continue to do my best in holding this space to heal and I will continue to ask you to help me.

Thank each of you for your blessed part of this journey.

Love you

Many blessings

Guru Ravi

The head bone is connected to the neck bone...

Or in my case, the teeth bone is connected to the healing bone.I'm in another learning curve in my journey to heal.

The best I understand is my body is not moving forward in the healing process right now. The cancer is using too much of my vital resources so we have to help it. That is where the teeth come in. Dr Hutton has been talking to me about root canals in teeth for about a month now.I have learned that when you have a root canal - I have two - it is essentially leaving a dead piece ofme in the body when they took out the nerves but left the tooth. What can happen is that infection and inflammation can be harbored under the dead tooth and effect the bones in that area. In consultation with a biological dentist in Phoenix, I have come to understand and see confirmed by some interesting tests, that there is a lot of inflammation in that root canal area. In a healthy person this might not be a big deal, but for someone with a compromised immune system, it seems to be a big deal.

So Friday I have some dental surgery to remedy this and to help me keep healing.

In spite of this, I am feeling good and enjoying teaching most Monday nights. I'm also enjoying being at the office seeing clients a few days a week too. We are enjoying a typical Tucson summer now with the temperature around 105 today..the joke is we all say "it is a dry heat you know so it's not so bad." Truth is over 100 is just hot.

I continue to be blessed with many angels that come and help me, both in physical form and non physical. This healing journey is fueled by all your love, blessings and divine help.

Happy Summer Solstice today!

I do love YOU!.

I got a sweet email from an old friend in Florida and he said:

"I see you have not written anything on your website since May 5, so I hope and pray that the past 22 days have been mostly good days and that your chosen path for healing is proving to be the most effective!"

The last 22 days have been good days. The last 22 days have been a part of the ongoing roller coaster ride. The last 22 days have been blessed days of connection with friends, healers, dogs, cats and other angelic beings, watching the grass grow ( this is a big deal to have a small patch of grass in 100 degree weather), and dealing with my mind, body and spirit.

I have had a love affair with yoga for so long I can hardly remember a time when I didn't do yoga. As a teen and young adult, I loved the immense spaciousness of life where I would work for hours on my pottery, spend hours doing yoga and meditating, and think nothing of driving across country with little money and great friends to go to some great yoga event. Might be interesting to poll the opinions of my brothers and friends and see how crazy I seemed at that time of life. There was a driving force I just couldn't deny.

That same driving force took me to Los Angeles to study at the feet of my spiritual teacher Yogi Bhajan. How crazy is it for a county girl to go to the big city and keep doing yoga. I just couldn't help myself. I just love yoga and particularly Kundalini Yoga.

But you know love affairs can be tricky. Life keeps happening, children come and then they grow up. Seems like we have to make money to eat. Where did all those hours of immense spaciousness go? For a while the spaciousness seemed to get eaten up in the daily life routine. There was always time for a bit of yoga, a bit of meditation, a bit of connecting with friends, a bit of enjoying life.

Then I met someone new. Cancer is really a fickle visitor. I am working and playing hard for this new visitor to leave soon. She does not always listen so I work hard with all the tools at hand to invite her to transform to be a healthy cell or to leave. I am amazed at how all consuming this part of the journey is. It takes most of my energy right now keeping up the reminder to transform or leave. The numbers go up and down, but the progress is good.

In all of this my practice of yoga continues to evolve. My favorite part right now is a set I am doing where I get to clap my hands and say out loud " I do love you." Every time I do this practice I try to think of all the people I love, all the people that are my family, my friends, that come and sweep my floor for me, walk my dogs, make me dinner, send me love and prayers for healing. Just want each of you to know that as I move on the journey there are many parts that I don't know what will happen, but one thing sure is I DO LOVE YOU!

many blessings and much love to you,
Guru Ravi

Feeling good today! It seems that each day brings some more vitality and strength. All is going well with the treatments.

It is just the norm of my week that I spend one day a week traveling to see Dr. Hutton in Sedona. The red rocks are so majestic and I look forward to hanging out there sometime..not just a hi and bye. Wonderful family and friends make the trip easy. It is also just part of the week that I do 10 powerful healing IV's that are helping me get healthy. That is the technical part.

What is equally majestic is the inner journey. This journey with ovarian cancer is a great teacher in surrender and equally in fearlessness. It is teaching me how each breathe, each person, each relationship is so precious that I want to be sure I bring the best of myself to each of these relationships. I sure notice how "the best of me" changes with the circumstances of life. At the beginning of this journey the best of me was maybe a smile of appreciation at the help a friend would give me. I sure felt on the receiving end of lots of help, support and love.

Now it feels like this journey has allowed me to blossom over time so that now I feel immersed in the blessings of the moment. Yogi Bhajan shared with us that we could live in "cherdi kala" - meaning continuous rising spirit...continuous resurrection...being re-born again and again in this life. It means your rise to the occasion as it confronts you- not just once, but all the time, every time, in every minute. There is no guarantee that we won't have challenge. How we deal with it determines if we live in inner tranquility or in fear.

To live in the state of cherdi kala, we have to go beyond fear. It is the path of the spiritual warrior. I love hanging out on this path!

With God's grace, Guru's guidance and the love and blessings that rain from the Universe through each of us, we can support each other to live as joyous, fearless, radiant human beings. Let's go for it.

much love and many blessings to you
Guru Ravi

Breath is the tender touch of the divine...

Yogi Bhajan, the Master of Kundalini Yoga, taught these words a lot during the time I was blessed to study at his feet. I always though it sounded very lofty until I spent about a month not being able to breath on my own. Then it became a mantra of hope. It seem that one of the many things cancer can do is fill body cavities with fluid. I got to experience this both in the abdomen as well as in the lung cavity. It was a bit uncomfortable in the abdominal cavity, it was down right breath taking in the pleural cavity. When the cavity around the lungs fills up with fluid you literally can't breath. The doctors have a procedure to remove it by inserting a needle in the pleural cavity and draining the liquid out. God bless them for this! After 7 of these over a month, I think I am done. I have been free from the hospital for the last 2 weeks and hope to be moving on to more healing.

After a month of having my lungs squished by all the fluid and being on oxygen to help me breath, I am now working to bring my lungs back to full functioning. I was talking to Dr Hutton about this on Monday and he said "you know that Kundalini Yoga - all the breathing and movements you do?..Well I think it is the single best way to get back in balance. The breathing will deepen your lung capacity, the poses will help you strengthen, they are also great to build cardiovascular strength." I looked at him and said "since when are you and ad for Kundalini Yoga?" He said he just knew from his personal experience how much it worked.

So here I am starting my yoga practice over again..well not really starting over, but starting from a place a great weakness and wanting to build to great strength and balance. What I decided to do was start with the most powerful pranayama I know - Breath of Fire. I decided to start with one minute (you know you have to start where you are) and gradually build up to 31 minutes ( good to have a goal). I'm at 5 minutes and counting. Yogi Bhajan said "31 minutes of Breath of Fire every day will regulate the pituitary. Pituitary will regulate the entire glandular system. Glandular system will change the nervous system. Nervous system will tell the organic system of the blood to just recapture itself." Since what Dr. Hutton is helping me rebuild from a cellular level this sound like the place for me to hang out now.

If you are feeling a bit sluggish, a bit out of sorts, or just want to try something fun, why don't you join me in doing a bit of Breath of Fire every day. First thing in the morning is my time because you do want to do it on an empty stomach. Do as long or as short as you wish and at the end inhale deeply and hold it without strain for about 15 to 30 seconds and then sit and enjoy the flow you create.

Many blessing to you all,
XOX

I am week eight post surgery.

The first month is kind of a blur, and the second feels like getting plans in place, deciding what therapy to do, and getting it all organized. Now as I begin the third month, I feel I am starting to heal and move forward.

There is a giant learning curve with an serious disease. I didn't really know very much about cancer because it did not have a big impact in my life before now. I think that is probably true of most people when we first find out about a life threatening illness. There can certainly be information overload. I was blessed to have some great friends bring me just the information I needed to make my choices, without overwhelming me with enough information to sink a ship. I trusted my intuitive guidance to make the choices that fit for me and my body.

Now we are doing them. A lot of my day is filled with treatment time right now. I am feeling stronger the last few days, and am hopeful to get to teacher training again this weekend. I am also hopeful to talk to clients over the phone next week! I can have live contact with people as soon as my lung cavity stops filling up with fluid and having to be drained.

Harbhajan and I went out to lunch for the first time today! My first pleasure trip out. Just took my portable oxygen tank and got some great sushi at Ra. Yumm

My spirit is doing fine. What the outcome of all this will be is up to God, and I sure hope that I am hanging around with all of you for a very long time. I plan to get rid of the cancer in my body, heal and have a long, joyful life. Please keep sending lots of love, blessings and prayers. That is the best therapy there is.