Sleep Alchemy:
Transforming Rest with Yoga Practices
Fall Equinox - September 23rd, 2023
The Fall Equinox is around the corner. Are you ready? To honor the change of seasons, 3HO is hosting “Sleep Alchemy: Transforming Rest with Yoga Practice.” In this all-day virtual program, we journey into the dreamspace of rest and deep sleep.
Rest as Resistance
Have you considered the relationship between sleep and your yoga practice? Have you prioritized sleep as a part of your practice? Have you considered rest, like your yoga, to be brave in a world that always begs you to do more? What does it mean to improve your sleep hygiene?
“We are not Machines. We are Divine.”
-The Nap Ministry
Our nervous systems were made to handle the news of our village, not the entire world. The influx of information and stimuli today can be incapacitating, and for many of us leads to stress, fatigue, and health problems that stem from subpar sleep.
Reclaiming your sacred sleep is a revolutionary act. Like your favorite kriya or meditation, rest is a tool for liberation and personal change. Join us for our Fall Equinox Program to unlock the secrets of profound rest through the practice of yoga.
Event Highlights
- The science of sleep and its impact on health and well-being.
- Research-based evidence on the effectiveness of yoga practices for improved sleep.
- Expert-led Kundalini Yoga sessions tailored for deep relaxation and sleep enhancement.
- Tools to improve your sleep hygiene
- Deepen your understanding of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine perspectives on rest and healing.
Mark your calendars and reserve your spot for the 2023 3HO Fall Equinox Program, Sleep Alchemy. Embrace the power of profound sleep and awaken to a life of serenity.
Schedule & Class Descriptions
September 23rd, 2023
Aquarian Sadhana: Japji & Kundalini Yoga kriya with Tera Kaur; live music with Har Dev Singh
4:00am–6:30am MDT
During LIVE morning Sadhana, we will experience the recitation of Japji, a short yoga set, and we will chant the Aquarian Sadhana mantras. If you are unsure of how to do Aquarian Sadhana, or what the mantras are, click here to download a practical guide.
The Science, Research and Application of Yoga for Sleep with Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
9:00am–12:00pm MDT
There is an increasing recognition of the value of sleep in physiology, psychology and human performance. There is strong evidence for the negative impact of restricting one’s duration of sleep and an increase in sleep disturbances and disorders, especially of acute and chronic insomnia. There is strong research evidence to support the effectiveness of yoga in alleviating stress and arousal. This improves psychological and psychophysiological functioning, improves sleep, and is free from the side effects and complications of sleeping pills. This workshop details the importance of sleep for mental and physical health and performance, the underlying causes of insomnia, the science behind the benefits of yoga practice, and the well-known behavioral treatments for insomnia including the research evidence on yoga for sleep. We will practice specific Kundalini Yoga practices which may be beneficial for improving quality of sleep.
Revamp Your Rest Routine with Dr. Japa
12:00pm–3:00pm MDT
Learn how to apply Kundalini Yoga and Chinese Medicine principles to improve your sleep
Sleep is essential for physical and mental health, which is why it’s so important to invest in sleep hygiene so that you can cultivate healthy habits to support your life and your practice. In this experiential workshop, Dr. Japa combines her expertise in Kundalini Yoga and Chinese medicine to help you regain restorative and consistent sleep.
Dr. Japa’s holistic, multidimensional approach draws from an undogmatic application of Kundalini Yoga and Chinese medicine principles. Learn the Chinese medicine concept of shen disturbance, tongue analysis and a specific Kundalini Yoga pranayam to reverse this downward spiral.
This class is designed for anyone coping with the demands of a perfectionist culture that asks us to press on and do more. It is suited for anyone curious about the connection between Chinese medicine, yogic principles, and the researched-backed benefits of deeper sleep.
Reclaim your sacred right to rest as we flip the script on societal pressure and remember that recovery is productive!
Restorative Sleep: Unleashing the Power of Yogic Practices with Raminderpreet Elisa
3:00pm–6:00pm MDT
In this workshop, join Raminderpreet through a transformative journey towards restorative sleep using the wisdom of yogic practices. We begin by establishing a strong foundation with a focus on long, deep breathing (LDB) accompanied by a short Hatha warm-up. LDB serves as a potent tool to release stress and anxiety, naturally lowering cortisol levels, blood pressure, and heart rate, setting the stage for a state of deep relaxation.
As we progress, we’ll delve into a full KRIYA, carefully curated to release nervous tension and regulate the circadian rhythms responsible for our sleep and wakefulness patterns. This comprehensive KRIYA practice aids in restoring the body-mind balance, creating the perfect environment for embracing rejuvenating sleep.
Whether you struggle with sleep disturbances or simply wish to enhance the quality of your rest, “Restorative Sleep: Unleashing the Power of Yogic Practices” is designed to equip you with practical techniques and ancient knowledge to embrace the art of restful sleep.
Join us for this transformative workshop and step into a world of profound relaxation and rejuvenation.
Rest, Rejuvenation and Renewal with Kundalini Yoga with Traci S. Jackson (Siri Preetdev Kaur)
6:00pm–7:30pm MDT
Sleep is one of the most beneficial and one most underutilized tools to help keep us aligned, rested and ready for our day. In this session, I will share some tools you can use to create a nightly routine to help set you up for a good night’s sleep. I will also share tools that can be used if you wake up in the middle of the night and have a hard time returning to sleep. Finally, I will lead us through two Kundalini kriyas, Short and Sweet Kriya to Get the Energy Moving and Shabad Kriya, that ensure that you have a deep and restful sleep.
Your Teachers
Tera Kaur Khalsa
Tera Kaur Khalsa ~ an avid and consistent yogic practitioner, a devoted Sikh and Level 1 and 2 certified & in level 3. My joy is to share my experience and wisdom from having practiced Kundalini yoga teachings for most of my lifetime. Kundalini yoga is the science that gifts us the fulfillment and experience of our highest and true Self ~ intuition, awareness and hearing and trusting Guru's guidance, our innate guide.
Classes include asana, deep meditation and in depth training on various aspects of yogic practice and experience. Currently teaching in DILJ ~ Dying into Life Journey.
Har Dev Singh Khalsa
Har Dev Singh Khalsa is an international Kundalini yoga teacher, expert yogi, meditator, and yogic counselor. By day, he is a senior mortgage advisor of the Mindful Lending Team based in Fresno, California. As his passion, Har Dev specializes in activating profound ancient respiratory breath control techniques, sequenced postures, and meditative techniques of Kundalini Yoga all for the purpose of what he communicates to, “live selflessly”. He has spent the last 16 years teaching, practicing, educating, and openly spreading the profound benefits of breath control, postures, and meditation to heal, uplift, connect and naturally re-vitalize humanity.
At sixteen years of age in Memphis, Tennessee—amidst familial dysfunction, early diagnoses of ADHD, severe seasonal bronchitis, and asthma—Har Dev experienced a meditative peace that propelled him to devote the next eighteen years of his life in pursuit of learning and perfecting breath control, physical postures, and meditation in Kundalini Yoga. Har Dev has studied with masters in the US and in India. He has taught all over the US, Canada, Europe, and India in addition to obtaining his bachelor's degree in psychology.
Har Dev’s mission is to serve humanity by teaching the profound and powerful techniques he has discovered to heal himself, serving his family and community, and inspiring the world to live selflessly.
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. is Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has conducted scientific yoga research since 2001 on yoga for insomnia, stress, anxiety disorders, and workplace and school settings and is a practitioner/instructor of Kundalini Yoga since 1973. He coordinates the annual Symposium on Yoga Research, is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, medical editor of the Harvard report Introduction to Yoga, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.
Dr. Japa Kaur Khalsa
Japa K. Khalsa travels and teaches internationally as a KRI-certified Lead Teacher Trainer. As the co-author of Enlightened Bodies, she brings an awareness of the human capacity to self heal to everything that she does. Her studies of energy medicine, yoga and herbal medicine and their role in modern healthcare began in 1994 after her graduation from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s of Science. She earned her next degree as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine at the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and now serves as CEO of 3HO International. Her belief in the healing capacity of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation supports the 3HO mission of Kundalini Yoga for everyone, everywhere.
Raminderpreet Elisa
Raminderpreet Elisa first discovered Yoga at UCLA in 2000. Upon graduation, she trained in Hatha Yoga (Iyengar) with Yoga Works founders, Lisa Walford and Maty Ezraty. Once teaching, she saw the emotional impact yoga had on clients, and herself, so she earned a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology (USM 2005), exploring a deeper understanding of our emotions, and is where her Life Skills Yoga Program began.
Raminderpreet applied her therapeutic yoga approach with cancer patients (2003–present) volunteering with WeSpark Cancer Support Center in Sherman Oaks, CA. and then worked at four cancer centers in Los Angeles (2006-2012). Based on her experience with cancer patients, Raminderpreet Elisa was “grandmothered” as a certified yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (c-IAYT, 2017).
That same year, Raminderpreet earned two film laurels when she premiered her documentary film- Your Brain, Your Body, Your Breath: The Science of Yoga Therapy at the Awareness Festival @LALIve!. This film explores the research, and how yoga therapy is being used as part of a comprehensive, holistic treatment approach, featuring Dr Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Dr. Mukta Kaur Khalsa, Dr Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, among others.
Practicing Kundalini yoga since 2005, it was in 2016 when she enrolled in Kundalini Yoga teacher training at Yoga West LA under Guru Singh Khalsa, graduating in 2017.
Her training and experience has seen an evolution of her program, reflecting all she has learned over the last 20+ years. Raminderpreet launched her online program in 2022 where she teaches her weekly classes, private sessions, and her signature Life Skills Yoga Program.
Traci S. Jackson (Siri Preetdev Kaur)
Traci S. Jackson (Siri Preetdev Kaur) is a certified yoga instructor in both Kundalini and Hatha Yoga as well as an attorney, a spiritual seeker, and a writer. She has been instrumental in helping individuals from traditional Christian backgrounds recognize that there is more than one way to commune with God and those ways can include practices and rituals not traditionally thought of as being present in the Christian religion.
Because of her almost 20 years as an attorney, she has a heart for helping those in the corporate arena get in touch with their intuitive side and discover tools that they can use daily to overcome the many obstacles and energies that can be present in most corporate environments.
She has also published articles in Black Prana Magazine formerly known as Black Yoga Magazine and on Medium, has been certified as an Oracle Guide through and mentored in Colette Baron-Reid’s Oracle School, has been a featured guest speaker and teacher on membership sites of Colette Baron-Reid and Juliet Diaz and has taught Kundalini yoga classes through the Guru Ram Das ashram in Houston, Texas.
What is Kundalini Yoga?
Kundalini Yoga is known as the Yoga of Awareness. How does it differ from other forms of yoga? The emphasis in Kundalini Yoga is on the flow of the kriya—the specific sequence of exercises and meditations (these may include posture, breath, mantra, focus, and/or movement).
Postures are often held for a substantial period of time, to the point where the mind gives way to the body’s wisdom. We begin each yoga set with a mantra of protection called the Adi Mantra (Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo), which links you to the flow of Infinite Consciousness that guides the kundalini energy, a powerful energy of consciousness that lies at the base of the spine.
The synergistic combination of postures, mantras, and meditations combines to put positive pressure on the subconscious mind and allow it to clear limiting beliefs and patterns that are otherwise inaccessible.
If you have any questions about Kundalini Yoga or any of the practices we share during our eSolstice, head to the 3HO Online Events Facebook group to get some answers!
Support Your Practice
Learn more about how to create the Fall Equinox experience from wherever you are in the world! Explore downloadable resources related to the Yogic diet, Aquarian Sadhana and Kundalini Yoga.
Giving Back
3HO is offering this event on a donate-what-you-wish basis. Share from your heart with gratitude and love and know that your gift catalyzes meaningful change through Kundalini Yoga and brings 3HO’s vision to life: sharing the uplifting practices of Kundalini Yoga with people everywhere.
Thank you for giving generously, from the heart. Your donations have a direct and immediate impact, allowing 3HO to maximize its virtual offerings, deepen global connections, and unroll the 3HO Luminaries and Seva Corps Programs. Trust that your gift of any size is enough to make a difference!
Three Ways to Support the Fall Equinox
Please choose one of the following donation amounts, based on your own personal financial situation. Please know that the Fall Equinox is offered from our heart to yours – if you find yourself unable to make a donation, we welcome you fully to the event with open arms. All are welcome. Come as you are.
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