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Jim Deneff

Jim Deneff

Kundalini
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Jim Deneff has taught Kundalini Yoga in the Sacramento area for ten years. He was certified to teach Kundalini by Dr. Siri Gian Singh Khalsa in 1998. He has taught for Northbay HMO, Sutter Health, the Sacramento YWCA , the Shanti Yoga Studio, the Buddhist Church of Sacramento, and the Sacramento City Parks & Recreation Department.

His interesting and varied life experiences include a massage therapist, a singer, a numerologist, a practicing Buddhist, a hypnotherapist, a teacher of bodywork technique, a photographer, an ethnic folk dancer, an insurance underwriter, a student of esoteric philosophy and hermetic science, a small-town postmaster, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (not necessarily in that order). Now recently retired, besides acting as a manager for his wife's ayurvedic skin care business, he wants to do more of what he has always wanted to do after growing up: teach yoga.

Presenting the material in an easy-to-understand style, he will guide you in performing Kundalini Yoga exercises in accordance with your individual body’s tolerance and needs in a safe and comfortable environment. Handout material will be provided at the conclusion of each class.

 

Jim currently teaches Kundalini Yoga
with the Sacramento City Parks and Recreation Department:
Mondays, 6 pm, East Portal Park Clubhouse (intermediate level)
Wednesdays, 6 pm East Portal Park Clubhouse (entry level)
For additional information, call Jim at 806-0623 or go online to:

www.PriyaYoga.org


Kundalini Yoga
Increase alertness of mind, vitality of body. Increase tolerance to stress and your ability to relax, while enhancing your creativity and unlocking your human potential. This ancient form of yoga combines active movement and stretching with many specific breathing techniques (pranayama). Facilitating circulation throughout the spinal column, exercise sets (kriyas) are combined with sound vibration (mantras), hand positions (mudras), and body locks (bhundas), in order to enhance their effectiveness. In so doing, they serve to dissolve energy blockages within the energy matrix of the body, creating a natural, meditative, blissful state of mind. This sacred technology had always been taught secretly before it was introduced to this country in 1969 by Yogi Bhajan.

Kundalini exercises tone and strengthen the body, create flexibility in the spine, improve breathing and circulation, and promote a general state of well-being. Particular exercise sets offer support for specific health challenges such as anxiety, nervous tension, sciatica, insomnia, depression, digestive problems, chronic pain and more. One not need be particularly flexible or athletic to enjoy the profound benefits of Kundalini yoga; all that is required is the sincere willingness to try one's best while respecting your comfort levels and physical limitations.

”Kundalini Yoga is a technology of awareness. The human mind is potentially infinite and creative. but in practical reality it is limited. So a technical know-how is required through which one can expand the mind to bring about the equilibrium that enables one to control the physical structure and experience the Infinite Self.

The techniques of Kundalini Yoga form the owner’s manual for human consciousness; it explores your depth, dimensions, nature, and potential as a human being.”

–Yogi Bhajan


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