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Christine C. Reed do blog BlissChick.net faz uma entrevista com nossa diretora, Subagh Kaur.

Christine C. Reed – 2 de Julho de 2008

Fonte: http://www.blisschick.net/2008/07/sharedbliss-interview-with-kundalini.html

Listening to: Something for Subagh Kaur

Today’s Bliss Formula: Oh, this most perfect summer weather! I wilt in extreme heat and this summer has been so mild. As I type this, it is sunny and 65. The birds are singing outside my dormer window. I can just see the top of our willow tree.

As I have mentioned before, the response to my interview requests from the Kundalini yoga community have been beyond generous. And today, we are privileged to have a teacher all the way from Brasil.

Subagh Kaur was born in Pennsylvania, discovered yoga in Maine, married a Brazilian healer/yogi, and moved to Brasil with him to found 3Ho Brasil on the advice of Yogi Bhajan. They had 3 children, all of whom are now yoga teachers.

At 3HO Brasil, they have a healing center, welcome visiting yogis, can provide personalized tours, and can house up to 20 yogis ashram style. They offer levels 1 and 2 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training. They have massage therapy and, a personal favorite, gong therapy. What an amazing trip that would be — just think of the birds you would see! (Said the bird nerd.)

Describe the PrimaryBliss of your life. How did you come to know that this was your PrimaryBliss?

My inner world is my PrimaryBliss. I came to discover it through yoga/meditation practice.

I’d like to include here that the births of my 3 children rank as transformative events in my life. They were at home without any medications to block the natural high of the endorphin rush that comes with the victory and ecstasy of the birth.

What types of choices and sacrifices did you make to be able to craft this bliss-filled life?

I have made many lifestyle changes over the years to support my yogic practice….like following a vegetarian diet, practicing applied consciousness in my day to day life, living in intimate contact with nature.

How does your PrimaryBliss radiate out into the rest of your life?

I call it GLOW…..internally it feels like a deep satisfaction of being in the right place at the right time, it is being 100% present in the ebb and flow of each of life’s “surprises.”

What are some other activities that also give you this sense of bliss? Things that make you lose track of time?

It revolves around practicing consciousness, being in the flow of a deep and full breath, sharing belly laughs with friends, flying along on my bike when breath and movement are in sync and the endorphins are flowing, moments of deep connection with another human that go beyond words, teaching yoga especially when I am following divine inspiration, when gratitude bubbles out of each pore.

I already mentioned my kids births, but I’d like to include here my husband’s passing. In 2004 after having received a “terminal” prognosis 4 years before, he breathed his last breath. My sons and I were at his side. The energy was unbelievably the same as the birth. It was somehow unexpected and at the other end of the spectrum of the joy that comes with a successful birth. However the intensity can throw you into a “time spin” outside of “normal” awareness and be a portal for unbelievable leaps.

What is your daily or weekly spiritual practice?

Kundalini yoga, meditation, awareness, applied consciousness/applied kindness in the day to day events.

What music is your bliss?

For introspection -music of silence, gurbani kirtan, music that takes me to deeper relaxation (like David and Steve Gordon). For energy – Earth, Wind and Fire, reggae.

Name books or authors/poets or people who are your bliss, who influenced your bliss.

Most of my personal bliss companions are not famous.

What advice would you give to someone who feels they have not yet discovered their PrimaryBliss?

Keep opening, you’re almost there!

Do you have a favorite quote you would like to share?

“Eat light,
travel light,
spread the light
be the LIGHT”
—Yogi Bhajan

The way Subagh Kaur describes being present for her husband’s death really resonated with me. Being present at the passing of a beloved cat, I felt the same way — I felt privileged to be there and I felt like it changed me in some very fundamental way. I like her explanation — that it provides a “portal for unbelievable leaps.” Exactly.

And her optimism is beautiful. “Keep opening, you’re almost there” would be a perfect daily mantra for anyone at any stage of their development.

I also want to point out how she emphasizes a couple of times the idea that compassion, consciousness, and kindness are practices. Every day they must be, to use her word, applied. They are active — not some state that you attain and then exist within but choices that you make from moment to moment, day to day.

Thank you, Subagh Kaur.