Self Guru Initiation Course
WEEK 1
with Ramona Soriano at Jupiter Soundscape
“When you know how to listen everybody is the guru.”
Welcome to week one. This is a journey into self exploration of how you truly feel. It’s a bit philosophical, meditative, a tad hippy-dippy, and as real and authentic as we can get with what’s transpiring in our world today. This portal is created for you to have a space to reflect. It’s a continuous flexible working archive to the work you’ll be doing. Each class will be recorded and accessed here.
Week 1 - September 12th:
- Fundamentals
-Intro to modern kundalini yoga for the changing times.
-Intro to 40 day self activation meditation.
-Boundaries.
-Current events and why it matters.
We’ve completed our first meeting! There’s so much inspiration in the air. I hope you are holding space for however you are feeling. Please make sure to join the WhatsApp group so we can be in touch throughout our journey with the daily meditation. The WhatsApp is also a space for you to share with your peers and find inspiration. If you’d like to rewatch, or for those watching for the first time, link is here:
Wahe Guru Meditation
This meditation will be done for 40 days. Day 1 is Saturday, September 12th. You can start at 3 minutes and gradually work your way up to 11 minutes a day. If you miss a day, simply do the meditation twice in one day. I recommend you keep a log of your meditation. You can share your experience on WhatsApp as well.
The Wahe Guru Meditation brings you connection to divine source, calmness. We focus on the sacred geometry of the connection of the lower and higher triangles. These triangles are formed by the brow point and the eyes;. You bring the lower triangle to the higher with the movement. The sound current allows for activation of your own human instrument to align with the triangle.
Wahe guru is known as the Gurumantra in Gurbani. This translates to “I am in ecstasy when I experience the Indescribable Wisdom.” Beyond understanding with your mind, please FEEL what this mantra means. The meaning should come from within and grow with you throughout the 40 days.
This mantra expresses the indescribable experience of going from darkness to light—from ignorance to true understanding. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul.
Directions: Come sitting in a cross legged position. Place both hands in gyan mudra (thumbs touching tip of pointy finger, the rest of the fingers extended out straight). Rest hands palms up on knees. Lengthen the spine, relax the top of the shoulders. Eyes are closed, focused at the brow point (third eye).
Turn the head to the left by bringing the chin over the shoulder. Out loud chant Wahe (pronounced wah hey). Now turn the head to the right by bringing the chin over the shoulder while chanting Guru. Repeat this process for desired time.
To close, take a deep inhale, deep exhale. Again take a deep inhale, now rise your arms up to the sky. Exhale and extend the arms down to the ground, forehead to ground. Inhale here, hold breath and slowly exhale bringing yourself up to seated position.
Option for an extended end: you can sit focused on the third eye in shuniya (silence) for several minutes.
WAHEGURU or Vahiguru also spelt and pronounced Vahguru, is the distinctive name of the Supreme Being in the Sikh dispensation, like YHWH in Judaism and Allah in Islam.Modern scholars affirm that the name Vahiguru originated with the Gurus, most likely it was first used by the founder of the faith, Guru Nanak, himself. According to this view, Vahiguru is a compound of two words, one from Persian and the other from Sanskrit joined in a symbiotic relationship to define the indefinable, indescribable Ultimate Reality.Vah in Persian is an interjection of wonder and admiration, and guru (Sanskrit guru: heavy, weighty, great, venerable; a spiritual parent or preceptor) has been frequently used by Guru Nanak and his successors for satiguru (True Guru) or God.Cumulatively, the name implies wonder at the Divine Light eliminating spiritual darkness. It might also imply, "Hail the Lord whose name eliminates spiritual darkness."Considering the two constituents of Vahiguru (vahi + guru) implying the state of wondrous ecstasy and offering of homage to the Lord, the first one was brought distinctly and prominently into the devotional system by Guru Nanak.The earliest use of Vahiguru may be said to have occurred contemporaneously, for while no date can be assigned, the work may be assumed to have appeared soon after the compilation of the Scripture in 1604, being so much alive with its spirit and phraseology.
SOURCE: SikhiWiki
“A snake sheds its skin. I look for God and I find myself. I look at you and I see me too. I see we are all interconnected. And as you seek and seek and seek, you come full center into self realization. That’s the secret of the universe. ”
