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Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga is a powerful practice which enhances the experience of your whole being – body mind and spirit. Kundalini Yoga is designed to help you deepen your breath, balance your endocrine system, strengthen your nervous system and awaken your creative life force energy!
Each Kundalini Yoga class will include beautiful mantras, spinal flow movements, a specific Kriya (an intentional sequence for the practice) breath work and meditation. Kundalini Yoga practice gives you a total experience, an energy shift and feeling of elevation, expansion & connection. Kundalini Yoga brought us Gong Sound healing too! The Gong is a big part of the Kundalini Yoga Sivasana and is often played for final relaxation.
The Oahu Kundalini Collective is a group of qualified, certified Kundalini Yoga Teachers. There are only a few Kundalini teachers on the island and so they have come together, to teach together and practice together. The Kundalini Classes at Blue Lotus Studio will be taught by one of the Kundalini Collective teachers, each bringing their own uniqueness whilst teaching the purity of the Kundalini Yoga practice.
Kundalini Collective teachers (more information listed below): Dr. Soraya Faris Applegate, Wendy Ferri, Julee Portner, Olivia Pool.
Teachers
Dr. Soraya Faris Applegate DACM, L.Ac
Venmo: @Soraya-Applegate
Soraya is a certified Kundalini and Hatha Yoga Instructor and a Doctor of Acupuncture & Holistic Medicine. Soraya is also cofounder of Hawaii Healing Sound School. She incorporates all these modalities of healing and sound (with mantra, gongs, bowls) into her Yoga Classes. Soraya especially loves Kundalini Yoga for its ability to transform and uplift the body mind and spirit – so quickly!
Soraya taught Kundalini Yoga at many of Oahu’s studios over the last 10 yrs, including Blue Lotus. In 2020, during lockdown she started a YouTube Channel offering free Kundalini Classes: ‘Kundalini Bliss 808’.
Soraya teaches Yoga and Health classes, workshops, and retreats, more details can be found on her website: www.SoulisticHolisticsHawaii.com
Wendy Ferri
Venmo: @wendyferri
Wendy Ferri MS holds a Masters Degree in Exercise & Wellness from Arizona State University. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor RYT 200, as well as a 300hr RYT hatha yoga teacher. In addition to studying yoga, Wendy is an energy healer graduate and faculty member of Sacred Path Healing School in Honolulu, HI. She is a wife and mom to 4 kids, and when not teaching and sharing her love of kundalini yoga, she can be found in the ocean surfing.
Julee Portner, MS, CCC-SLP, IBCLC, LMT, MCHC, RYT, HTP
Venmo: @Julee-Portner
Julee “Jules” Portner: Helping parents, babies, kids, and families get, be and stay healthy. Over 30+ years of skill, experience, and practice as an integrative, holistic, and functional feeding and development specialist. Blending traditional evidence-based practices with ancient wisdom traditions and techniques to help with all things talking and eating.
Julee is always studying with some experts to offer you the best support! Certifications and specialty training in her toolbox ready to share with you include Kundalini Yoga, Tantra-Hatha, meditation, conscious creation, and Miracle-Minded Coaching.