Announcing the release of Kundalini Remix: Yoga Mantras Revisited.

When producer Joshua Jacobs conceived the "Kundalini Remix: Yoga Mantras Revisted" album, he felt the yoga music scene was ripe for something fresh. "I love the beautiful Kundalini yoga music created at Spirit Voyage, and I knew that the time was right to revision it to create a new sound and reach a new audience."

The powerful mantras of the Kundalini yoga tradition each have their own unique effect, but all lend themselves to the awakening of Kundalini energy. This same spiraling, undulating Kundalini energy that rises up the spine and creates joy can be found within the pulsing rhythms and fresh beats on "Kundalini Remix".

To create a rich, textural experience, producer Joshua Jacobs recruited mix masters with both a keen ear for global music and a sensitivity to the spiritual nature of mantra. The DJs on Kundalini Remix were charged with a sacred task: go into the cave, get the mantra, mix it with your essence and return it to the people. Each track on "Kundalini Remix" was the brainchild of a different talent, the end result of which is a smorgasbord of emotional effect and rhythmic appeal. Some of the top DJ's in the world participated on this project, including talents as diverse as Cheb i Sabbah, Adham Shaikh, Mayko, Duke Mushroom, DJ Milly De Mori, and Desert Dwellers.

It was especially important to Spirit Voyage that the music retain its uplifting and sacred nature while exploring this new world of sound. "Kundalini yoga teachers have been asking for energetic, beat-driven music to lead their students through challenging kriya and meditation, and I think we've been successful in giving them a balance of spiritual potency with incredibly exciting music," says executive producer and Spirit Voyage Records CEO Karan Khalsa.

"Kundalini Remix" features songs by Kundalini yoga music stars Snatam Kaur, GuruGanesha Singh, Mirabai Ceiba, Gurunam Singh, Guru Singh, Nirinjan Kaur and Sat Kartar, as well as tracks by kirtan artists Dave Stringer and Thomas Barquee.

From the driving beats on the uplifting remix by Duke Mushroom of Dave Stringer's Aja Uttama, to the expansive and ethereal remix by Drumsypder of Mirabai Ceiba's Gobinday, to the chill-out remix by Cheb i Sabbah of Snatam Kaur's Mul Mantra, this album has something for every occasion. The melodic bass, driving beats in percussive layers, and an other-worldly blend of instruments create something that's not your mama's yoga music.

Says yoga teacher Tommy Rosen, "The DJs on Kundalini Remix have been charged with a sacred task: go into the cave, get the mantra, mix it with your essence and return it to the people. This is the modern-day hero's journey in musical form. See you in the temples. See you on the dance floor."

Yoga is about bringing a sense of union into your whole life, not just on a yoga mat. "Kundalini Remix" is designed to create a new soundtrack for your life, whether you're on the yoga mat, at a dance party, or just creating ambience in your home.

For more information: http://www.spiritvoyage.com/kundaliniremix

Besides being an accomplished English devotional songwriter, Tina Malia makes a wonderful contribution to the yoga music scene with her album Jaya Bhagavan. Malia began singing Sanskrit mantras with Jai Uttal, as part of the Pagan Love Orchestra about a decade ago. With encouragement from Jai, Tina eventually began to incorporate mantra practice into her daily life with positive results. Inspired by her love of Sanskrit mantra, Tina Malia was inspired to record Jaya Bhagavan, an album of wonderful Sanskrit tracks. She is joined by Shimshai, an accomplished instrumentalist and vocalist, who brings his own unique sound to the album. The result is a really cool yoga music album that would go well in anyone’s collection.

Jaya Bhagavan opens with “Gayatri.” Rather than having the fiery, peppy energy that many versions of the gayatri mantra often present, Tina and Shimshai allow the mantra to gently build. It reminds me of the rising sun, peeking out and gradually lightening the sky. It’s a nice way to start the album, easing the listener into the experience. “Gayatri” is followed by “ Hara Mahadeva,” another track with a fairly gentle vibe. I’ve heard this chant done really forcefully on other albums, but Tina and Shimshai chose to tone it down a bit. The result is cool and very relaxed.

In the middle of Jaya Bhagavan is a three track set devoted to the feminine Goddess energy. There is some really fun vocal work happening on “Sarva Mangala,” on top of a musical track that takes me on a jungle cruise. This chant is in praise of the divine feminine, seeking the blessing of the feminine energy. All of the vocal layers make this track really vibrant and exciting to listen to. “Hey Amba” is another track with some really kicking vocals. Take note of the interplay between Shimshai and Tina’s voices; the harmonizing they do is awesome. The music has a very Spanish feel, which made me feel as though I should start dancing, especially during the drum interlude. The third track in the Devi sequence is “Om Mata.” You can really feel the reggae influence Shimshai brings, there’s great movement in this track which works its way into the listener, making it nearly impossible not to dance along.

“Jaya Bhagavan” is the longest track on the album. It has a substantial, meditative instrumental intro, which really helps to create a wonderful mood for the rest of the track. Tina Malia’s wonderful voice soars, and as an added treat she is joined by Jai Uttal. Together they pierce the heart and make you forget everything else but this beautiful track. The album closes with “Shine,” a sweet English duet between Shimshai and Tina. The simple lyrics and acoustic accompaniment gently take you out of the album and back into the world, hopefully feeling a little more relaxed and peaceful.

The tracks Shimshai leads are really groovy and funky. Tina’s lean a little more towards the sweet side of things. Put together you have a funky, sweet album. The instrumentals and vocals are fresh and exciting, giving Jaya Bhagavan a wonderful energy. It’s a great album for yoga, for chanting along, or just listening in the background. Find out more about Tina Malia’s music and her tour with GuruGanesha Singh on www.spiritvoyage.com .

Is your business struggling in this economy? Holding on by your fingernails? Yogi Bhajan gave this mantra to bring prosperity to a business hurting in a down-turned economy.

Play the mantra "Aap Sahaee Hoa Sachay Daa Sacha Doaa Har Har Har" in the office 24/7. Leave it on overnight when you close up, leave it on softly while you are working throughout the day. Allow it to permeate the space. There are many stories of people, such as Guru Singh, who did this and thrived during the hardest financial times.

Even if your business isn't struggling, increasing your prosperity is never a bad thing!

To bring yourself some additional prosperity during this time, since in easy pose and cross your hands over your heart (left over right). Chant for 11-31 minutes.

Have faith! Prosperity is on the way!

Share your success with us! If you use this mantra, let us know how it helps your life and your business!

If you’ve ever been in the car with a Kundalini yogi, you might have been startled to hear them chant a mantra before turning the car on. What is it that they chant and why?

Kundalini yogis often chant " Aad guray nameh, jugaad guray nameh, sat guray nameh, siri guru devay nameh” before they put the keys in the ignition for protection. It’s a yogic “secret” said to provide a buffer around the car for protection from an accident. It creates a safety perimeter of about nine feet around the car, which in a critical moment of an accident can be very meaningful.

You can use this mantra when you start your car, invoking with it your own powerful consciousness, directing your mind and intention towards thoughts of safety. You can also use it any other time you need a little boost of protection, such as when walking down a street at night or using it with your kids who might be afraid of the dark.

Playing it while you drive adds extra protection and playing it in your home creates a beautiful environment of safety.

Safe travels!

We've all felt it. That searing feeling in your chest when your heart breaks. The air rushes out of you. Your stomach tightens. Your mind and heart stop for a moment, suspended, until at last they start again, but now with a heaviness and pain.

We can't avoid heartbreak in this life. Many masters suggest we shouldn't try to avoid it, but instead should sit with the pain within us and truly feel it. Then from that place of honoring the now, we should begin to usher in a sense of peace and well-being as we consciously connect with our timeless Divine Truth. But sometimes we aren't masters. Sometimes it's all we can do to just get out of bed, and when that's too much, opening our eyes can sometimes be a victory.

There is a beauty in heartbreak. For one thing, it proves your heart still feels, still moves and lives and has its being. It proves that you are searching for more and that your heart hasn't crusted over beyond repair.

But we cannot let scar tissue develop during times of heartbreak by closing ourselves off to the pain. That is where real danger lies. We must feel our heartbreak, leaving our heart wide open, sometimes drowning with hurt, and offer our wounds to the Divine and ask for healing. There's a beautiful line in Harnam Singh's song I Don't Mind" that says "Your heart will break from time to time and hurt will creep inside, but a heart that breaks is open wide, whatever happens I don't mind."

May your broken heart be filled with healing. May you resist the urge to close yourself off forever by using asana like Camel Pose to keep your heart open. May you use the mantra calling upon the divine energy of Guru Ram Das, Lord of Miracles and healer of hearts, to lift you up in your times of trouble.

Try the mantra: "Guru Guru Waheguru Guru Ram Das Guru." Cry your heart out while you are singing if you need to, start in a little whisper if you cannot even speak, but eventually sing your heart out. Let the bold and bright sound of your voice be the funnel that removes the hurt from inside you. Hear a strength in your voice even if you don't feel it in your heart. Sing for 31 minutes a day...while you shower, while you cook, while you drive, while you lay in bed hiding under the covers. Sing. Bring the healing presence of Guru Ram Das to you, like an angel of light.

There will be a day when the pain lessens and your heart begins to heal. And then one day, out on horizon, you will see the rising sun again and feel it rise in your heart, too. This too shall pass. Guru Guru Waheguru Guru Ram Das Guru.

Everybody is feeling it nowadays. You are either going through it or can see it on the horizon. You know what I'm talking about. The "C" word. Change.

Humankind is undergoing a period of incredible change. Many traditions believe we are shifting from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, and that change is bringing a whole new set of challenges and opportunities for us as a planet and a species. Right now we're in the cusp between the two ages...and the cusp can be a period of tremendous change, anxiety, and discomfort.

Change can be uncomfortable for the best of us. Think of the snake, as it is molting and undergoing a period of tremendous transformation, its eyes become clouded over and the snake can no longer see. It is blind. It lashes out in anger and rage, snapping at anything that comes close. Then as its skin sheds, it emerges from its old self with calm and poise, slithering out of its uncomfortable transition period into a more comfortable, expanded self.

Humans are like snakes in that during periods of transition and change, we become irritable, snappish and edgy. We lash out at our loved ones, behave in irrational ways, and worry. But we don't have to be this way. Change can be a beautiful and exciting time. We can look to an uncertain future with courage and a spirit of adventure.

There is a mantra to help us move from fear of change to boldness and courage. It removes feeling of anxiety, depression and phobias, leaving in its place courage and victory. Just like the snake leaves behind its old skin.

Try this mantra for fear of change:

Chattr chakkr vartee, chattr chakkr bhugatay

Suyumbhav subhang sarab daa sarab jugtay

Dukaalang pranaasee dayaalang saroopay

Sadaa ung sungay abhangang bibhootay

These words were written by the warrior saint Guru Gobind Singh and bring victory during changing times! Chant along with a recording or keep it playing in your house!

Spending the holidays with your family? Take a long look at your relatives. Are there family patterns or karmas that are playing themselves out?

Look at a cycle of abuse. Often it repeats for many generations, until one individual is strong enough to break the pattern. Or perhaps you can see this when you think of the bad relationships you've been in, and whether other people in your family have made similar choices.

This is family karma. Some cultures have a more strongly developed sense of family karma than other. In India, although its grip over modern society is loosening, the caste system determines everything from whom you can marry to what jobs you can hold. Monarchies all over the globe are seen to have a family karma of power and wealth. In many South American tribes, shamans perform ceremony to remove the karma of seven generations in order to break cycles of misfortune.

Codes within our cells are written by our family's history and determine more than what we look like and to what diseases we are prone. These codes of happiness or distress become programmed and patterns of thought (whether positive or negative) are both taught as a child and encoded within the genes of our ancestors. Even when we are vastly different that the rest of our family, certain tendencies toward discontent or misfortune can be present in our unconscious and subconscious from childhood.

This holiday season, if you are surrounded by family, there is a mantra that you can keep playing in your Ipod, or singing to yourself in sadhana. This mantra breaks family karma. It is said to shatter misfortune with the power of a thunderbolt and affect generations.

It is the 24th Pauri of Japji, written by Guru Nanak, the first guru of the Sikhs. "Ant Na Siftee" or "Ant Na Siphatee" is a powerful mantra of change and transformation for you and your whole family.

Ant Na Siftee Kehn na ant

Ant na karnai dayn na ant

Ant na vaykhan sunan na ant

Ant na jaapai kiaa man mant

Ant na jaapai keetaa aakaar

Ant na jaapai paaraaavaar

Ant kaaran kaytay bilalaa-he

Taa kay ant na paa-ay jaa-ay

Ayho ant na jaanai ko-i

Bahutaa keheeai Bahutaa ho-i

Vadaa saahib oochaa thaao

Oochay oopar oochaa naao

Ayvad oochaa hovai ko-i

Tis Oochay kau jaanai so-i

Jayvad aap jaanai aap aap

Naanak nadaree karamee daat

Chant or recite these words 11 times (optimally for 40 days), or just leave playing in the environment to shift the energy of a space.

Bring this amazing mantra into your family's holiday season and pave the way for future generations to flourish and grow beyond any limitations!

Struggling financially? Feel like you're walking in sand when it comes to your own prosperity? There’s a mantra for that.

Our projection is responsible for creating an energy around us, which operates as a point of attraction. It’s the Law of Attraction, but in yogic terms. Yogi Bhajan was very clear about prosperity: it comes from God. The very nature of God is abundant and prosperous. (Imagine counting the number of cells in all living creatures, molecules of hydrogen throughout the Universe, or seconds of time since the Big Bang….lots, in other words.) In order to create abundance in your own life, all you need to do is connection your own little self with the abundance of the Divine. In other words, you must know and experience God in its own absolute perfection and let that be your projection.

To be prosperous, you must eliminate duality. Now duality is a funny thing. Thinking God is something outside of and separate from you is duality. Your mind can trick you into thinking things like “Jane is rich because Jane is smarter than I am.” Well Jane may be smarter than you, but duality comes in when you think that Jane’s intelligence comes from Jane. All of our qualities are manifestations from God. Jane’s intelligence is a part of Universal Intelligence. If you experience absolutely in your mind and body a unification with God and the Universal Intelligence, than you will experience that Universal Intelligence within you. This is what we mean by no duality: “Ek ong kar.” “The creator and the creation are One.” Everything is God. Eliminating duality unifies you with the Source, and when you are unified with the Source, all energy flows to you. Money and prosperity are forms of energy.

The 25th Pauri of Japji, written by the first Guru of the Sikhs Guru Nanak, is an incredible rhapsody of Joy and Bliss written by a fully enlightened being. Nanak sings of the abundant gifts of God. Reciting the 25th Pauri 11 times within a day, Yogi Bhajan taught, would elevate you into a space of tremendous achievement. Clearing the grey clouds from your consciousness brings out the shining sun, and with it comes a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

Complete Mantra:

Bahota karam likhiaa na jaa-ay.

Vadaa dataa til na tamaay.

Kaytay mange jodh apaar.

Kaythaa ganat nahee veechaar.

Kaytay khap tuteh vikar.

Kaytay lai lai mukar paa-eh.

Kaytay moorakh khaahee khaa-eh.

Kaytiaa dookh bhookh sad maar.

Ay-eh bhe daat tayree daataar

Band khaalasee bhanai hoe.

Hor aakh na sakai koe.

Jay ko khaa-ik akhaan paae.

Oh jaanai jaytee-aa muh khaa-ay.

Aapay jaanay aapay day-eh.

Aakheh se bhe kay-ee kay-eh.

Jis no bakhsay siphat saalaah.

Naanak paatishaahee paatishaah.

(Editor's Note: Dev Suroop Kaur is one of the most beloved Kundalini Yoga sacred chant artists. She is a wise teacher and a prolific musician. Click HERE to listen to her albums and learn more about Dev Suroop Kaur.)

(Originally published as ‘Shabd Guru’ in Aquarian Times, Fall 2003, republished on Dev Suroop Kaur's blog devsuroopkaur.wordpress.com)

For nearly 30 years, Yogi Bhajan has invited women from all over the world to join together each summer in New Mexico and develop their inner strength, talent and grace at Women’s Camp. Those of us who have been blessed to attend these courses have many fond memories of gathering for summer evening lectures under a huge big top situated in a grove of cottonwood trees. We spent many precious hours at the feet of the Master as he would share innumerable gems and jewels about how to live fulfilling, satisfying and more self-realized lives.

In these cherished lectures, Yogi Bhajan would often repeat the same concepts over and over again and in different ways in an effort to penetrate our years of habits, conditioning and preconceived notions about ourselves. He would tell stories, invite women to share their life experiences to the group, answer questions from the crowd or simply provide straight-on lectures. Of the many penetrating concepts he would teach and share, he often discussed the pitfalls of the human tendency to ‘go out and get’ what we believe we want. He repeatedly stressed that the way to success was not in seeking anything outside of ourselves—be it wealth, status, power, possessions or approval. Rather, through meditation and developing a deep relationship with the divine within, the key to victory is to train yourself to be still and allow things to come to you. To become truly ‘attractive’. He summed up this concept with the simple and penetrating line “Go inside and be a Master, go outside and be a victim”. Stated differently: Go deeply inside, touch your soul and vibrate at the frequency of the Divine. There you will find your victory and satisfaction—your self-mastery. On the other hand, succumbing to the seduction and illusion that answers lie outside of yourself, you will become a victim of your own expectations and illusions. True satisfaction will be fleeting.

Look around you. Look at yourself. Many of us have a tendency to look for solace ‘outside’. Our active mind is ever creating schemes and machinations to gain material goods, status, affirmation, sympathy and empathy. Even though we do it all the time, we often find that there is something empty in seeking for solutions outside. Self-mastery comes from a deep relationship with the self. The Shabd Guru is a powerful tool to develop that rare relationship between the finite you and Infinite You. When you have trouble, go to the Shabd Guru. Choose a verse or chant…any one will do…to sing or recite. By reciting the words, connect with your soul. Go inside. By so doing, you will find a deep and rich state of being where lie the permanent, true answers and solutions to your troubles.

The sound current of the Shabd Guru produces a pure vibratory frequency, much like a tone emitted from a tuning fork when it is struck. The essence of the sound current of the Shabd Guru is the deep, rich reality of Truth. There is no difference between that reality and the affect one achieves when they recite the Shabd Guru. Yogi Bhajan states that this technique is very powerful. The words of the Shabd Guru ‘train the brain’—the memory and the neurons—and create the means through which the brain directs the entire body.[1]

Sochai Soch Na Hova-ee is the first verse or pauree of Japji Sahib following the Mool Mantra.[2] In this verse, Guru Nanak describes this very concept—that searching outside of you is illusory. In Sochai Soch Na Hova-ee, Guru Nanak lays out the secrets of how to live well. He says that you can attempt to think and think one hundred thousand times; yet thinking won’t accomplish a thing. You may try to pile up worldly goods and possessions, but that does not provide true, lasting satisfaction. And of all your wise and fantastic schemes, none of them will go with you in the end. So given that, time and time again, we experience that our thinking, acquiring, searching and maneuvering do not really work, how do we become truthful? How does the wall of falsehood fall apart? Guru Nanak says the answer lies in walking with the very command of God that is with us and within us.

It is said that the total knowledge of God and ecstasy is contained in this pauree. It is an antidote to depression. It will lift you from the deepest depression, insecurity, nightmares and loss.

Use the power of the Shabd Guru to go inside of yourself, touch your deepest Self, touch God and find Mastery.

The First Pauree (Verse) of Japji Sahib —Guru Nanak The language of the Shabd Guru is Gurmukhi, a language similar to Sanskrit in its power to transform. The Siri Guru Granth Sahib was written in Gurmukhi script and has been translated into English. Here we provide both the transliteration and the translation.

Sochai soch na hova-ee

Jay sochee lakh vaar

Chupai chup na hova-ee

Jay laa -I rahaa liv taar

Bhukhi-aa bhukh na utree

Jay banana puree-aa bhaar

Sehs si-aanpaa lakh ho-eh

Ta ik no chalai naal

Kiv sachi-aaraa ho-ee-ai

Kiv Koorai tutai paal

Hukum rajaa-ee chalnaa

Naanak likhi-aa naal

English Translation

You think and think Ten-thousand thoughts,But not one thought Will give you What you seek.

You sit in silence To find the silence But silence never comes.Your spirit always sings The song of the Divine.

And all your troubles,And all your cares,These will never fade away Though you may hoard Every treasure in the world.

And all the clever tricks You use,The countless little tricks- Not even one Will go along with you.

How can we find The House of Truth?

How can we break This wall of lies?

Surrender yourself And walk to Way Of Spirit’s Will.

Nanak,Be with what Is already written.

English Translation by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa. Go to www.alibris.com to purchase a beautiful and inspiring complete translation of ‘Japji Sahib – The Song of the Soul’.

How-tos: A Shabd should be recited 11 times a day for a minimum of 40 days to experience its power. Recite in English or in Gurmukhi transliteration, both are beneficial. However, reciting in Gurmukhi allows you to better access the power of the mantra, and as the words are recited in proper Naad or sound current, the tongue hits the meridian points on the upper palate, effecting a change in consciousness. Work carefully to pronounce the words properly.