What is a class like?

You breathe, move, sometimes chant, and ideally laugh in class. It's not about flexibility or performance—it’s about tuning in and coming out feeling more like yourself. We often use repetitive movements, and music figures prominently.

Check out the testimonials on the home page to hear how some students describe a class.

My goal in class is to provide options for you to direct your mind, plus provide an opportunity for strong physical practice, invigorating breathwork, and deep meditation.

The invitation is always to journey to your "edge" in the moment - physical, mental or emotional - and no further. Suuuper tired and you just want to lie down the whole time? Please do that. You've got a lot of frenzied energy and want to work hard? Please do that. Can't quite make it on time but still want to come to class? Please do that, I don't mind late arrivals or early departers.

We are cultivating energy with Kundalini yoga, and this is wonderfully amplified by practice in a group.

We "tune in" or open every class with mantras which you can sing or hum along or remain quiet. We also close class with a sweet blessing and a long sat nam.

Each class is different! There are over 8,000 different kriyas and meditations in Kundalini yoga, plus a massive array of traditional and modern mantra music. Putting together a class is a creativity I love - starting with a concept, and then sequencing a series of kriyas and meditations in a way that is pleasing to the body and mind, and then adding music that will enhance the whole experience. So while kriyas and meditations are fixed, there is much, much variation between classes, and also between teachers.

Do I need to be fit or experienced to do Kundalini yoga?

Come as you are, no matter your fitness. Kundalini yoga is not about flexibility or performance. Yes, we move our bodies but our primary goal is to gather energy to support the regulation of our system and development of consciousness.

You set your own pace based on how you're feeling in the moment. All levels welcome. You can relax the whole class and still benefit from the group energy.

What do I need to bring?

An open mind, and clothes you can move in. A willingness to laugh is also good!

We've got mats and props, but if you've got a favourite prop for sitting, bring that. Some people like sitting on something extra soft, so if that is you, feel free to bring that too.

Traditionally Kundalini yoga is done on a sheepskin which I find lovely, but it is not needed. Also you'll often see people who do Kundalini yoga wearing white and turbans. There are reasons for this, but it is also not needed! I like to wear white because it makes me feel better. I've never worn a turban.

All those mantras in a foreign language! I don't like saying something I don't understand.

Mantra is an amazing part of Kundalini yoga! The tracks I play in class have mantra, and sometimes we vocalize these sounds.

In Kundalini yoga most mantras are in a language called Gurmukhi, but there are some in Sanskrit, and some in English.

While there are mantras for certain things - like healing, like courage, like prosperity - I encourage people to not get hung up on the English transliterations or that you might be saying something religious. Apply your own intent into the sounds. Use English mantras. Don't say them if you don't feel comfortable, that's also OK!

Mantra = manas (mind) + trang (training). Mantra are sound codes that vibrate and project our intention.

The whole idea is to lean on them to help you become more you, nothing more.

Is it a religion? A belief system?

Kundalini is called the yoga of experience for a reason - it is about your experience rather than asking you to believe something. My teacher used to say "I'm a proof in the pudding gal, I need to see it to believe it."

That said, there is a very rich lineage of yogic teachings some of which I may share depending on the theme, and the invitation is always to take what resonates for you in that moment, and leave the rest.

I will never ask you to suspend your intuition; in fact it is exactly the opposite -- we need to hone our intuition and discernment as our superpowers in this modern world, and Kundalini yoga is one of the environments to support this development.

I have heard some negative things about Kundalini yoga and Yogi Bhajan.

Yes, the person who brought many of the teachings of Kundalini yoga to the West was found to have likely engaged in sexual misconduct.

The shock and pain of (yet another) spiritual leader taking advantage of women in the very place where many of us go to find solace was really profound for me.

In a world where trust feels like a vanishingly rare quality, here was something that cracked me deep to the core. Who and what can one trust? Am I taking in a tarnished set of teachings?

After much reflection and discussion, I have decided to keep practicing and teaching. I've always cast a wide net on different spiritual teachings, and the reality is, these are universal teachings. Out of the outrage has come a deeper trust in my own intuition and confidence to rely on that.

I keep it up because of my deep love for the practice, for the love of my (deceased) teacher Guru Jagat, and because it continues to have an undeniably, significantly beneficial impact on my life and the lives of so many I know.

I also believe we can hold something close that has contradiction, both the beauty and also the break.

In moving forward, I am neither canceling nor exalting Yogi Bhajan. What has changed is a sharper lens of discernment as I reflect on the teachings in preparation of classes, and reduced (but not completely eliminated) references to him in class.

I'm happy to talk about any of interested / curious / concerned people on this topic. And I encourage you to do what feels best for you. And to keep up your own discernment, both in the negative and also for the positive.