“Beginnings” Teaching Theme

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Beginnings start in the Muladhara or first chakra – the place of grounding, earth, cultivation, Light. Swami Radha asks, “What do you want to grow in the good soil you have cultivated? What is rooted in your earth?”

TEACHING & REFLECTION IDEAS

How do we welcome the new? Or is there really anything new under the sun?

  1. Take time to clean up and create a clear space around you. Do some practice to clear away mental clutter. Observe the effect. Then stand in Mountain pose and ask, Where am I? Reflect on where you are physically, mentally, spiritually. Can you accept where you are? Are we always building on what we have already created?
  2. What are your learning goals for this month or for the next 3 months or for the year? What do you want to learn through your teaching and in your daily life? How will you know you are learning? What type of reflection makes it real for you? Draft up your plans and activate!
  3. The Divine Light Invocation is the spiritual practice of the first chakra and flows throughout the kundalini system. Do the Light and listen. What arises? How do you keep the Light alive and growing?
  4. Ganesh is a symbol of new beginnings. Reflect on this elephant-headed god: Why would he represent auspicious beginnings? Study the mythology of Ganesh. Celebrate new beginnings through stories, songs, dances of Ganesh.
  5. What is your foundation? Review the Muladhara chakra. What is the message of the first chakra for you right now? What is your direction? What choices and possibilities are open before you? What is your relationship with earth, creativity? You may want to create with clay to explore…
  6. “In the beginning was the Word.” Explore speech. Where do your words come from? What effect do they have? What do you want to express? Is there something new that you want to come forth? What do you want to start through the creative power of speech?
  7. If you have an attraction toward a certain art or music or expression, where did it start? Did you always have it? Were you born with it? Did it arise out of hearing or seeing something or someone? Do you think it came from a past life? If it came from another life, where did it come from before that? Why that talent or gift? Explore the mystery! Where did you come from? When you say, “I am created by Divine Light,” who is the “I’ and what is Divine Light? Where does it all start? What is the ‘it’?
  8. Practice the Meditation on the Light exercise. Is the pinpoint of Light always there just waiting for the lotus to unfold? Reflect on that tiny dot of Light and its power to flood the brain in an explosion of Light. What is your understanding of kundalini?
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