11/09/2024
My Experience of What the White Ta***ic Yoga is All About by Dharam Atma Kaur part 1
“White Ta***ic Yoga is, when you achieve supreme happiness of the soul and bliss in the consciousness, and you break all doubts and barriers in your subconscious mind.”
~Yogi Bhajan, October 30, 1972, Santa Cruz, CA
Part 1
This is the incredible promise of White Ta***ic Yoga—to break through our doubts and barriers in the subconscious mind that hold us back. In my younger years, I attended lots of White Ta***ic Yoga—one day ta***ic courses, and many, many years of incredible road trips to the Summer Solstice events in New Mexico. I have always found this promise to be true! White Ta***ic Yoga clears out all the “junk” in my subconscious mind and opens a profound state of higher consciousness and pure joy and happiness in my soul!
My first white ta***ic experience was in Salt Lake City and was physically led by Yogi Bhajan at Westminster College. It was 1980 and I had been practicing Kundalini Yoga and Meditation for a couple of years. So, here I am in my early twenties sitting in the presence of the Mahan Ta***ic, the Master of White Ta***ic Yoga. I cannot describe how incredible it was to be in the ta***ic lines with Yogi Bhajan’s powerful physical presence leading us through all of the ta***ic exercises. For me, being in his presence was like getting a giant spiritual booster shot that literally shot through my entire nervous system and carried me through the whole year. I stayed inspired, kept up my daily practice of kundalini yoga and meditation, and my soul was alive and present.
In 1987 when Yogi Bhajan was no longer able to physically lead the ta***ic courses, he found a way to continue offering White Ta***ic Yoga. With the help of modern technology and his unique mastery of White Ta***ic Yoga, the ta***ic videos were designed to "hold" the frequency of the ta***ic teachings. The white ta***ic teachings are a centuries-old ancient tradition passed on from one master to one devoted student, but today a ta***ic course can have hundreds or thousands of participants. We don't have a Mahan Ta***ic in physical form. So, the videos were designed to connect the facilitator to the lineage of White Ta***ic Yoga (basically like when we tune in with Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo and it calls in the Golden Chain). And that is how the blessing of White Ta***ic Yoga continues today.
Read more here: https://www.whiteta***icyoga.com
Is the White Ta***ic Yoga a challenge? Yes, it can be. White Ta***ic challenges us in so many different ways, because it is cleansing the blocks, thoughts, patterns, and trauma that are locked in the subconscious mind and do not serve us. Sitting in ta***ic lines in a one-day ta***ic course can be a challenging day. It is comprised of a series of 31-minute or 62-minute kriyas. These are mostly done sitting in a cross-legged position and applying yogic techniques, such as mudras, postures, breath, and mantras to cleanse and purify the subconscious mind.
During each kriya, the ta***ic energy flows through the ta***ic lines. We are all working together in a state of group consciousness (which magnifies the energy for all of us!) to break down the barriers of the subconscious mind, to go beyond our limitations, and reach a deep meditative state of stillness, where your clearest intuition, your purest love, and your highest potential can flow through you. It is a “high” at the end of the ta***ic course, where you feel lighter, more fully alive, and connected! This has always been my experience, but I also see it in the people all around me. It is like the ta***ic energy just sent all of our “junk mail” to the trash bin and we now have a fresh start.
After I had just finished my L1 Teacher Training with Yogi Bhajan in 2001, I came across this book, Anatomy of Miracles by Subagh Singh Khalsa. This book blew my mind! I knew about Sat Nam Rasayan, but the book explained to me so clearly how to use this centuries-old yogic healing system of Sat Nam Rasayan. It gave me some tools for my own healing process and daily meditative practice. But more specifically, it gave me tools to use during the White Ta***ic Yoga course.
The one incredible tool I want to share with you is called “Equalizing,” which is about stabilizing your meditative space. It means you notice and observe your sensations and allow all of them, giving each one the same amount of attention. Your thoughts, emotions, any pain or discomfort, the sound of the chanting, the air on your face, the temperature in the room, or seeing your partner in pain, you equalize all of them by allowing and feeling each sensation with the same amount of attention, no matter how intense or faint the sensation is. By letting go of concentrating on one sensation (like how much your arms hurt), you can get past it by equalizing all of your sensations. I have found this to be very powerful in supporting my partner or stabilizing myself and in finding a meditative space of stillness in the ta***ic.
