Sets & Meditations CHAPTER 31 — Meditations with Mantra Venus Kriyas How to Practice Venus Kriyas Venus Kriyas are Kundalini Yoga exercises done with a partner, usually a partner of the opposite sex. Although Venus Kriyas are less intense than White Tantric Yoga, they fall into the category of a more advanced Kundalini Yoga practice, because they intensify the experience of the exercise through the polarities of the male-female interaction. So, adhere to the following guidelines when teaching or practicing Venus Kriyas: • Always tune in with the Adi Mantra: Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo before practicing Venus Kriyas. • Venus Kriyas are not done to sensually or sexually seduce one’s partner. They are done from a state of elevation, to elevate the relation- ship and the polarities to a purity and their highest vibration. If done with the wrong intention, they lose their effectiveness and in fact, it can be more damaging than helpful. • Limit the exercise to 3 minutes (unless specifically taught otherwise by Yogi Bhajan.) Teaching Venus Kriyas If you are a Kundalini Yoga teacher, and are going to teach Venus Kriyas follow these guidelines: • It is best to reserve Venus Kriyas only for those with Kundalini Yoga experience. Use your judgement to assess when your students have the disicpline to practice Venus Kriyas. In Venus Kriyas, the energetic and sensory connections of the partners are used to elevate the sexual and sensory energy to a connection based on awareness and the capacity to see the sacred in the other. • Do not line up in lines as in Tantric Yoga. Two people can sit together anywhere. If you line up, then the energy is shared diagonally. That is not the intention of Venus Kriyas. The energy is only intended to be shared between partners. • Do not create an entire class using Venus Kriyas. Just use one or two along with a Kundalini Yoga kriya. Yogi Bhajan often added a short Venus Kriya to his Friday classes, to honor the ruling planet Venus. Here are two separate Venus Kriyas. Heart Lotus Sit in Easy Pose or Lotus Pose across from your partner. Look into his or her eyes. Part 1 Form your hands into a lotus: all your fingers are spread with the hands cupped, and only your little fingers will touch. The man suspends his little fingers under the woman’s little fingers, but the fingers of the partners DO NOT touch. This makes a heart lotus. Look into the soul, the heart of your partner, through the eyes. Continue for 1-1/2 to 3 minutes. Part 2 Now place one hand over the other at the Heart Center. Close your eyes and meditate on the Heart Center. Go deep within, to the center of your being. Continue for 1-1/2 to 3 minutes. TO END: Inhale deeply and exhale deeply 3 times, then relax. Pushing Palms (Mitna Kriya) Sit in Easy Pose facing your partner, knees touching. Look into your partner’s eyes. Place your palms on your partner’s. Begin pushing the palms alternately while rhythmically chanting the Guru Gaitri Mantra: GOBINDAY, MUKANDAY, UDAARAY, APAARAY, HAREEUNG, KAREEUNG, NIRNAAMAY, AKAAMAY The woman chants the entire mantra first, then the man. 452

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Sets & Meditations CHAPTER 31 — Meditations with Mantra

Venus Kriyas

How to Practice Venus KriyasVenus Kriyas are Kundalini Yoga exercises done with a partner, usually a partner of the opposite sex. Although Venus Kriyas are less intensethan White Tantric Yoga, they fall into the category of a more advanced Kundalini Yoga practice, because they intensify the experience of theexercise through the polarities of the male-female interaction. So, adhere to the following guidelines when teaching or practicing Venus Kriyas:

• Always tune in with the Adi Mantra: Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo before practicing Venus Kriyas.• Venus Kriyas are not done to sensually or sexually seduce one’s partner. They are done from a state of elevation, to elevate the relation-

ship and the polarities to a purity and their highest vibration. If done with the wrong intention, they lose their effectiveness and in fact, it canbe more damaging than helpful.

• Limit the exercise to 3 minutes (unless specifically taught otherwise by Yogi Bhajan.)

Teaching Venus KriyasIf you are a Kundalini Yoga teacher, and are going to teach Venus Kriyas follow these guidelines:

• It is best to reserve Venus Kriyas only for those with Kundalini Yoga experience. Use your judgement to assess when your students havethe disicpline to practice Venus Kriyas. In Venus Kriyas, the energetic and sensory connections of the partners are used to elevate the sexualand sensory energy to a connection based on awareness and the capacity to see the sacred in the other.

• Do not line up in lines as in Tantric Yoga. Two people can sit together anywhere. If you line up, then the energy is shared diagonally.That is not the intention of Venus Kriyas. The energy is only intended to be shared between partners.

• Do not create an entire class using Venus Kriyas. Just use one or two along with a Kundalini Yoga kriya. Yogi Bhajan often added a shortVenus Kriya to his Friday classes, to honor the ruling planet Venus.

Here are two separate Venus Kriyas.

Heart LotusSit in Easy Pose or Lotus Pose across from your partner. Look into his or her eyes.

Part 1Form your hands into a lotus: all your fingers are spread with the hands cupped,and only your little fingers will touch. The man suspends his little fingers underthe woman’s little fingers, but the fingers of the partners DO NOT touch. Thismakes a heart lotus. Look into the soul, the heart of your partner, through theeyes. Continue for 1-1/2 to 3 minutes.

Part 2Now place one hand over the other at the Heart Center. Close your eyes and meditate on the HeartCenter. Go deep within, to the center of your being. Continue for 1-1/2 to 3 minutes.

TO END: Inhale deeply and exhale deeply 3 times, then relax.

Pushing Palms(Mitna Kriya)Sit in Easy Pose facing your partner, knees touching. Look into your partner’s eyes. Place yourpalms on your partner’s. Begin pushing the palms alternately while rhythmically chanting theGuru Gaitri Mantra:

GOBINDAY, MUKANDAY, UDAARAY, APAARAY,HAREEUNG, KAREEUNG, NIRNAAMAY, AKAAMAY

The woman chants the entire mantra first, then the man.

• 452 • KRI INTERNATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL LEVEL 1 COPYRIGHT YOGI BHAJAN 2003