MEDITATION FOR GUIDANCE: Strengthen Your Inner Voice

Greetings New, Returning and Crash n Burning Rhythm and Breath Yogis,

This is our first 40 day meditation of 2026! How are we feeling about this year? More of the same? A continuation of the previous year? Perhaps trepidation of what is around the bend individually or collectively? Honestly, I have been losing sleep over the state of things: feeling a lot of fear of getting hemmed up by those nafarious creatures. You know the ones. But before I let despair take me over, I remind myself that a loving and compassionate God has my back, my front and every side of me. I have trusted the process, and this practice, thus far. So I have to keep trusting. Don't we say it in our Warrior Healer Affirmations, "I trust and surrender to the process, Divine Loving hands move all?" Let's keep going. Let's tap into our inner voice to receive guidance putting our minds, souls and bodies at ease. I need this. I bet you do too.

POSTURE: Sit in Easy Pose. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you. 

TO BEGIN: Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. 

On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA sip air through a rounded mouth then chant GURU DEV NAMO which means "I bow to the infinite wisdom within." Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.

This meditation has two parts.

PART ONE

MUDRA: Make the hands into a cup with the palms facing up. Leave a small gap between the sides of the Mercury (pinkie) fingers. Bow the head forward over the palms. Look into the palms with the eyes almost closed.

PRANAYAMA: Inhale in 10 strokes. Exhale in ten stokes. 

MANTRA: Mentally vibrate the mantra WHAAHO GURU. Vibrate Whaaho with each segment of the inhale and Guru with each segment of the exhale. 

TIME: After 16 minutes inhale then exhale and resume normal breathing and relax.

PART TWO

POSTURE: Still sitting in Easy Pose. 

MUDRA: Hands in Gyan Mudra with the thumbs pressed against the thumbs. 

MANTRA: Chant WHAAHO aloud 8 times and then GURU aloud 8 times.

TO FINISH: Recite the Warrior Healer's Affirmations Warrior Healer's Affirmations.

TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow as far as you can. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making. 

NOTES: 

This practice plants the seed of your true nature and uses the power of japa to confirm and reaffirm your Self through your own sound current, your own voice. It also strengthens a woman's fifth chakra and trust in her intuition. At times when the path of truth and clarity seems lost, calm yourself and still your mind. Then the path will be shown to you. 

To live life according to the guidance of inner truth is essential. If you do not, you will have doubts. If doubts are not removed, then frustration comes in. Frustration, when not released, leads to anger. Anger then leads to destructive action either to the Self, others, or both. To stop this vicious cycle, create the habit to still the Self and ask questions of your own higher consciousness. This meditation can develop that capacity. 

So there it is yogis. Commit to yourself. Commit to the practice over the next 40 days. No excuses. Karma doesn't wait. And she's a bitch. Burn it before it burns you. 

- Mama Luz

Meditation for Prosperity, Courage and to Remove Obstacles

Greetings New, Returning, O.G. and Crash n Burning Rhythm & Breath Yogis!

No better way to enter into Spring than with a full moon and a 40 day meditation. All is emerging and full! Lets harness that energy for prosperity, courage and to remove obstacles. For the O.G.s, we have done this meditation before but in a different mudra. I remember the challenge was learning the mantra and discipline, discipline, discipline! I suggest you do the meditation first thing in the morning. That way you won't get caught up in your day and forget to do it. Remember, Kundalini Yoga is a science. Numbers and times serve a purpose. If you mess up on day 39, you have to start over to day one. 

A few things to keep in mind as we begin our practice: everything you need is already here. You lack nothing. You are whole. You are complete! The obstacles are usually within us and are karmic. It is a matter of having the courage and the discipline to discover what our obstacles are and removing them. Ok?! Now that we are pumped. Lets get it!

PART ONE

BEGIN: Sit in EASY POSE, with a light JALANDAR BANDH (elogated spine, lifting behind the head and slightly tucking in the chin). Rub your hands together and bring them to PRAYER POSE with your thumbs against your sternum and your shoulders rolled back and down. Your eyes rolled in and up towards your THIRD EYE. Inhale through the nose and chant ONG NA MO GURU DEV NAMO (I bow to the Divine Teacher within) on two breaths. Repeat two more times. Three times total. Listen here for the correct pronunciation and cadence of the ADI MANTRA which is found on my CD URBAN MANTRA: VOL I.

MUDRA:
Press your thumb against your forefinger in Gyan Mudra. Elbows straight with wrists resting on your knees. Palms facing up.

MANTRA: Pump your navel on each "HAR." To help you with the pronunciation of the mantras, listen to the HAR and GOBINDAY tracks also from my CD.

Har Har Har Har Gobinday

Har Har Har Har Mukunday

Har Har Har Har Udaaray

Har Har Har Har Apaaray

Har Har Har Har Hareeung

Har Har Har Har Kareeung

Har Har Har Har Nirnaamay

Har Har Har Har Akaamay

TRANSLATION:
Gobinday – Sustaining,
Mukunday – Liberating,
Udaaray – Enlightening,
Apaaray – Infinite,
Hareeung – Destroying,
Kareeung – Creating,
Nirnaamay – Nameless,
Akaamay - Desireless 

FOCUS: Eyes closed turn inward and upward.

TIME: 11 minutes.

PART TWO

Sit in silence and become thoughtless for 40 seconds. Then inhale, place the palms flat against the heart, pressure as hard as you can against the heart and squeeze the entire body, getting rid of all the sickness, disease, potential. Hold 17 seconds. Exhale. Repeat 3 times.


NOTES:

This mantra fixes the mind to prosperity and power. It contains the eight facets of the Self. Har is the original force of Creativity. The four repetitions of Har give power to all aspects and provide the power to break down the barriers of the past. It converts fear into the domination to use and expand the reserve energy of the Navel Point. It invokes guidance and sustenance; all powers come to serve your true purpose.

TO CLOSE:

Recite the Warrior Healers Affirmations in GYAN MUDRA, your index finger pressed against your thumbs. Or in BUDDHA MUDRA one hand resting in the other with the thumbs touching.


TO FINISH: 

Rub your hands together, bring them to prayer pose and chant SAT NAM (Truth is my Identity) on one breath 3 times. Bring your hands up to your forehead and bow bringing your hands and head to the floor. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. 

So there it is R & B Yogis! It feels good to be back. We will convene and discuss on the group chat on Instagram @_rhythmandbreath_ I will meet you in the ethers! 


Sat Nam,
Mama Luz 

Seventh Chakra- SAHASRARA- Crown

Transcendence. The Tenth Gate

Location: Crown of the head
Organ/Gland: Pineal
Color: Violet
Qualities: The seat of the soul. Connection to the Highest Self. Enlightenment. Unity. Elevation. Relationship to the Unknown.
Shadow: Grief. The feeling of being separated from existence and from abundance. Fear of death.
Yoga: Sat Kriya, concentrating on the tip of the nose.

NOTES:

The pineal glad is associated with the Seventh Chakra, the Crown Chakra. The Seventh Chakra is associated with cosmic sound.

The Seventh Chakra has the key characteristic of surrender (the humility that fills you as you bow before the infinite). That is one of the reasons that so many different traditions use the act of bowing. 

Remember you can be just as crazy in the astral realm as on the Earth. Just because you are dead doesnt mean you are stripped of your ego.

Kriya for the Seventh Chakra