Sadhana is a discipline and to be disciplined is to remember you are a disciple – to place yourself at your chosen altar from the start of each day. In the Kundalini Yoga lineage, it is our daily yoga and meditation practice. This can be either a personal practice that you have chosen to commit to 0r the Aquarian Sadhana – the specific 2 ½ hour practice given to us by Yogi Bhajan in 1991 to support us to cross consciously into the Age of Aquarius, and to keep up during what he termed the ‘grey period’ that would continue for some decades after the beginning of the Aquarian Age.

The time for Sadhana is between 3:00 – 7:00 am or 3:00 – 7:00 pm, because of the specific angle of the sun to the earth at this time. The early hours of the morning are called the Amrit vela – a precious time when the veil between the material world and the spiritual world is the most transparent, and when the mind is less active, which makes it easier to be in connection with your soul.

Group Sadhana is central to our practice – we experience elevating ourselves and others in sangat.

There are group sadhanas happening around London and the UK, usually from 5:00 – 7:30 am, and often followed by shared breakfast afterwards. These events are organized by volunteers, and following the principle empty handed you come, empty handed you go, it is recommended to offer a donation for participation.

The structure of Aquarian Sadhana is:
5:00-5:30 Reading Japji (a sacred prayer written by Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru – this prayer is often called Song of the Soul)
5:30 – 6:30 Kundalini Yoga Kriya and Deep relaxation
6:30-7:30 Chanting mantras specifically given by Yogi Bhajan for our times:

Long Ek Ong Kars, Wah Yantee, Mul Mantra, Sat Siri, Siri Akaal, Rakhe rakhanhaar, Wahe Guru Wahe Jio, Guru Ram Das Chant.

Here are a few of the Sadhana’s that are offered online and across the UK. If you don’t find one in your area – feel free to arrange one and let us know the details so we can add them here.

 

East Yorkshire – Tues 5.00AM – THE RISING DAWN SANCTUARY

Zoom – Friday  – 4.30AM – NICKALJIT@HOTMAIL.COM

Zoom – Sun – 5.00AM – with  IK SARAN DHIAN

Brighton – 5.30AM – AQUARIAN SADHANA –

Burnham – 1st Saturday of the month  – 6.00am – INFORMATION 

Dalston – Saturday – 5.00AM SADHANA LONDON –

Richmond, London – Last Saturday of the month (£7) – BE@BHUTI.CO–

Southall – 1st Sunday of the month – 4-6.30AM WITH MANDEV KAUR  suggested donation – £5  

Henlow, 1st Sunday of the month –  5-7.30AM YOGA 4 EARTH – SADHANA WITH LIVE MUSIC

Southampton – Sunday  5.00AM – AQUARIAN SADHANA

 

Further details:

 

East Yorkshire

East Yorkshire -Weekly Sadhana Tue 5 – 7.30am

Shared breakfast afterwards for anyone who would like to stay on.
Private venue near Pocklington, East Yorkshire YO42, so please contact before turning up.
Contact: 07966 673037
namprakashkaur@yahoo.co.uk

 

Dalston – Saturday 5 – 7.30am

£7 suggested donation/ shared tea and breakfast after. Some Saturdays the Sadhana will be at another venue in South Kensington please call before to confirm.

Venue:  Joy Yoga Studio, Dalston
27D Dalston Ln, London E8 3DF
Check updates on
Sadhana London Facebook.
Contact: 0787 966 6921

 

Ik Saran Dhian School online

Join us for our weekly Sunday sadhana starting at 5am. There is always live music with Ishwara and Kirpal of Ik Saran Dhian – School of Sacred Living.

Venue:  Online
Email for updates
Ishwara Kaur
Contact: 00 33 760074304

 

Brighton Weekly (Sundays or Saturdays)

Venue: Holistic Health Clinic
53 Beaconsfield Rd. Brighton, BN1 4QH
Contact: 07906 948472
nimrita@khalsa.com

 

Manchester – monthly

Venue: One Yoga Studio, 14 Albany Road Trading Estate,
Albany Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 0AZ.

The attendance of sadhana is free, however £5 donation will be appreciated to cover room costs.

Contact: Daria, 07961 716295, daria@highonyoga.co.uk

 

West Yorkshire

Saturday 4 – 7am – 4am: Vaheguru Chanting, 5am: Jap Ji Sahib, Jaap Sahib and other Nitnem Banis, 6 – 7am: Kundalini Yoga and Meditation (classes taught by various Kundalini Yoga teachers from the North).

Investment: Donation, all proceeds to the Gurdwara. All welcome. Please bring a head covering.
Venue: Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Grant Street,  Bradford BD3 9HD
Contact: 07710 783622
contact@thetenthgate.com,
https://www.thetenthgate.com

 

Take a look at the London Kundalini Sangat Facebook page for up to date information on London Sadhana

 

Sadhana – Communicating with your Soul

Lecture on Sadhana: Espanola, Khalsa Women’s Camp, Yogi Bhajan: July, 1990

Everybody has God’s light and it must be lit by a person’s own discipline. And the glass to keep it lit and shining should be kept by the person’s own courage, strength and grit. I believe it. I believe this is the love. I believe everybody has the chance to love one’s soul and every soul has the right to shine and every shine has to bring light and brightness, beauty and bountifulness to all, generation after generation. 

You love your children? You do. They are beautiful. Isn’t that innocent soul in you also your life child ? Have you kissed the soul? Have you hugged the soul? Have you communicated with the soul in the morning at the ambrosial hours when there is absolutely no disturbance? Sadhana is nothing but where a disciplined one, the love, talks to one’s own soul. is nothing but where one cleans his own mind. Sadhana is nothing but where one prepares for the day to become kind and compassionate for everyone, including the enemies.

If you think you are poor, you are poor because you do not communicate with your soul, the source of prosperity, the source of reality. If you think you are desperate, you are desperate because you have no Sadhana. Desperation, depression, and a feeling of destitution comes only to those who have no discipline or Sadhana. Only a house which is not cleaned looks dirty and the mind which is not cleaned, stinks. Sadhana is the most selfish act of every act, because it is a self-cleansing. Cleanliness is Godliness. It is good to wear good clothes, look good, be bright, beautiful. But when you want to be blissful and bountiful, you have to have a clear mind, a mind through which your soul, your spirit can shine.

When you stand, take a stand, and stand tall. Walk tall and stand by the strength of your soul. Not the strength of your intellect, intelligence and your cowardice. If you want to speak to anybody, to deal with anything, to have any relationship, just have relationship by the strength of your soul. Otherwise you will miss the goal of life.