Mastering Stress and Craving with Maitri Shakti Kaur
What is the response of the body and mind to stressors?
What do we crave for when in our daily routine?
How Kundalini Yoga can support in those moments?
Craving is a fascinating topic that touches everybody from teenagers, adults to an elderly age, but when does it actually become a problem? When a treat can be called addiction? What's the relationship with healthy stress and where is the fine line when stressors begin to deteriorate our mental health?
Stress can interfere with many parts of our lives: it increases work absenteeism, can lead to relationship difficulties and interpersonal strain, and can increase the risk of turning to artificial relaxation such as drugs and alcohol. Chronic stress also increases the risk of developing certain serious physical illnesses. The intention is to bring awareness to our actions and thoughts, creating a new relationship with ourselves, to bring support and kindness in our everyday lives with healthy habits to constantly regenerate the system.
At times in life, we all have/had moments where losing control of the situation, we have reached out to food, substances, shopping or others soothing activities to find a temporary relief. When we find the right tool to uplift and support ourselves in those moments, life can find a turning point to shift and change our inner vibration. All is temporary in life, joys and struggles, only finding a way of supporting ourselves is a last loving relationship with the Self.
Kundalini Yoga is the tool that allowed me to getting to know myself in those moments, supporting and overcoming difficulties.
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is described as the yoga of awareness, it uses specific combinations of asanas (posture), pranayam (breathing), mantra and deep meditation to connect mind, body and soul.
Addiction recovery applies the techniques of Kundalini Yoga to break the self-destructive patterns of addiction and replace them with more elevating habits. At the same time, it rebuilds and strengthens the systems of the body, develops inner strength and resilience, and clarity of thought and mind.
This workshop is open to those interest to know more on what Kundalini Yoga for Recovery entails. To students interested on personal growth, self healing and self development or students in recovery from light and more significant addictions.
PLEASE NOTE: Personal stories of students are confidential and no personal information will be asked during the workshop.
Saturday, May 11, 1-5pm
JOY Yoga Dalston • 27D Dalston Lane • London E8 3DF
Cost: £40
CONTACT 'JOY YOGA' FOR BOOKING & CONCESSION PRICES.
https://www.joy.yoga/
AVAILABLE FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING AA MEETINGS, COMING OUT OF REHAB/ DETOX CENTRES, SINGLE PARENTS, RETIRED STUDENTS.
Last updated April 3, 2019, 11:02 a.m. UTC
Maitri Shakti Kaur is a devoted, dynamic and experienced teacher.
Maitri has been practising many styles of Yoga and Meditation including Kundalini, Iyengar, Jivan mukte, Restorative, Yin and Dru Yoga; exploring the art of mindfulness from the Zen Buddhist teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh and deepening her experience with 5 Rhythms which is a form of active meditation created by Gabrielle Roth.
Her interest on personal evolution brought her recently to take part of a course for a new technique called, the Metamorphic Touch, a simple and effective awakening massage that allows clients to experience their natural state of being letting go of mental and physical limitations.
Maitri feels her journey has reached a sort of completion attending "Beyond Addiction The Yogic Path to Recovery" in September 2015- 2016, taught and mentored by Sad Dharam Kaur. She is now supporting students with her knowledge and compassionate approach coming from her personal experience with a basic ayurvedic prospective and yogic lifestyle.
Maitri has trained as a Kundalini Yoga teacher with Sky in 2011-12, taught and mentored by Guru Dharam Kalsa.
In 2011 she has successfully completed a course with Siri Arti Kaur, founder of“Starchild”(Yoga for children age 4 to 16), bringing a creative and fun aspect to her teaching which not only children benefitted from but probably even more so her adult students. She complemented this training with the“Clown Therapy”course in 2009 for children recovering in hospital.
She has also been a certified Reiki 1 facilitator-healer since 2008 and attended level 2 in 2016 in Portugal.
Kundalini yoga has been the most powerful tool she has come across in her journey of self discovery through all the various disciplines she practiced and trained on, for the personal experience it gave her to inspire others in the same path.
Maitri has offered her service at a rehab centre - “Crouston Oak Lodge” and “The Passage” - a charities for homeless where she share the teaching to help on recovering from addiction with alcohol and drugs.
Complementing her yoga practice, she also teach how to integrate Ayurvedic nutrition into her students daily lives to improve the functioning of the systems in the physical, mental and spiritual body.
It is her wish that every living being, young or old, experience using these tools to heal themselves and to celebrate the infinite potential and truth that lies within each of us.
