I now feel completely supported by this mantra, for myself during my own practice, and when I teach students and trainees. It was like falling in love again with an old friend.

If it has become ‘ho-hum’ in your practice, or you have not yet chanted it in class, make it a point next time to really listen to your own voice as you chant, to understand that by doing so you are “tuning in” to a particular frequency where the deepest understanding of Kundalini kriya and meditation has been coded so that we might benefit most profoundly from this practice.Īs a Kundalini yoga Teacher Trainer, I went through a dynamic process of relating to this mantra, our golden chain, on deepening levels. Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo, sung three times, bowing to that infinite elevated creative consciousness within. Subbing at the Ritz-Carlton gym the next day, a student who had never done Kundalini yoga before asked me at the end of class, “What was that beautiful chant?” I thought she was referring to the Spirit Voyage collection of music which so many of us enjoy, but it was our opening chant that caught her attention. On New Year’s Day, the sound of our nearly 40 voices chanting Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo together was gorgeous, deep and sweet. This article was written by Elizabeth Gurmukh in February of 2020.

Ong namo guru dev namo chant