MONTCLAIR KUNDALINI YOGA
  • Home
  • About
    • Location
    • What is Kundalini Yoga?
    • Teachers
    • Testimonials
  • Daily Schedule
  • Events
    • Winter Solstice
    • Full Moon
  • Blog
  • Special Class Series
    • Chakra Series
    • Transforming Habits
    • Fertility

Dwell in Magic: A Family Story of Synchronicity

5/13/2017

1 Comment

 
Picture
I'd like to share a family story with you today, which I think is relevant to the work we do at Montclair Kundalini Yoga. 

My grandfather, Paterson Bond, Papa to me, was a larger than life figure who liked to tell jokes, tap dance, and love. A long time smoker he'd had part of his voice box removed and could only speak in a loud whisper. Even so, his life force and his voice were strong. He always called me his number one granddaughter.  (By the way, he called all his other granddaughters that too.) Papa exuded gusto and even bravado. I loved him, and we all loved him. We took it hard when he died many years ago. 

But he left something behind that reminds us of his spirit and his big declarations, and it reminds me of the ever-present undercurrent of divine magic. The picture above is a piece of wall from Papa's childhood home. I don't know exactly how old he was, but one day he was angry at his mother and declared, as many kids do, that he was going to run away. He even scrawled his intention on the wall: "I will leave at 3." 

Now, amazingly, his mother saved this note. I don't know how: she chipped it out of the wall or they were tearing the wall down anyway, but she saved it and framed it and somehow it made its way to the downstairs bathroom of the home I grew up in. "I will leave at 3."

It's so Papa to grandstand and be dramatic. So funny, we thought.

As it happened, sixty or seventy years after he wrote those words on the wall, most of my family surrounded him in his hospital bed knowing the end was near. His moment of childhood fury turned out to be a premonition... It was 3 o'clock when he took his last breath.

That synchronicity and synchronicities like it make me believe that there is something bigger at work than just our brains and our bodies taking twists and turns through life. 

How can we tap into that something bigger? How can we tune into that when there's news in our country and the world to tune into which seems to prove the contrary? 

My way of drawing on the magic and dwelling in it is the practice of Kundalini Yoga. ​

1 Comment

    Blog by Cate Baily

    Picture
    Cate discovered Kundalini Yoga by accident over 20 years ago and was surprised and thrilled by how engaged, energized, and inspired it made her feel. She's been practicing ever since. Click here for more complete bio. 

    Categories

    All
    Affirmations
    Alzheimer's
    Bhand Jammee-ai
    Breath Of Fire
    Buddhism
    Community
    Consciousness
    Darkness
    Dristi
    Ego
    Gratitude
    Heart Chakra
    Householder
    Inner Peace
    Keep Up
    Kundalini
    Kundalini Yoga
    Lessons From The Universe
    Longtime Sun
    Meditation
    Meditation For A Calm Heart
    Meditation For The Frontal Lobe
    Mindfulness
    Navel Center
    Negative Mind
    Neutral Mind
    New Jersey
    Omega Institute
    Parenting
    Positive Mind
    Pressure
    Resolutions
    Sat Nam
    Second Arrow
    Shabd Guru
    Shakti Dance
    Silent Retreat
    So Purkh
    Stress
    Synchronicity
    Teacher Training
    Truth
    Wahe Guru
    Yogi Bhajan
    Yogi Bhajan Quote

Location

292 Bloomfield Ave 
3rd Floor
Montclair, NJ

What Our Clients Are Saying

"Each student is honored and treasured. As a result, we all absorb and learn what we're ready for, and come to practice and learn again. It is always time well spent, no matter if my voice is wavering and my limbs are weak.  -Joanne K, Montclair 
​

Click here for all of our testimonials.

Contact Us

Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required
  • Home
  • About
    • Location
    • What is Kundalini Yoga?
    • Teachers
    • Testimonials
  • Daily Schedule
  • Events
    • Winter Solstice
    • Full Moon
  • Blog
  • Special Class Series
    • Chakra Series
    • Transforming Habits
    • Fertility