I am thankful to God for you and God has chosen us for the world in which billions of people live so that we can serve Him and achieve salvation and everlasting life. The Lord says that you are not but I have chosen you from this world God has the purpose in everything and everything. No work or thing happens without God's will I believe that God has mixed us out of this great world. There is definitely a purpose in God

About five days ago, I was in bed struggling with some anxiety. It was still dark and I was torn: do I get up? Do I stay in bed with all my looping thoughts? And then there was this voice, strong but not commanding: “Get on your knees, Jackie.” And so I did. In Sat Kriya. Seven years ago, I used Sat Kriya to calm my nervous system after a debilitating bout with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an illness that affects your peripheral nervous system. I couldn’t walk for weeks. After I was “stabilized,’ I had a cancerous tumor removed from my kidney that was discovered during diagnosis. I was healing, but not quite. Getting on my knees was the only thing I could do. And everyday for 40 days, I did. Then it was 60, Then it was 90. And then I was off the Gabapentin and into another stage of my life. It was after that I joined a Kundalini 200 hour cohort, got my certification with Brett Larkin & Guru Singh, so amazed I was but the effectiveness of Kundalini—in a three-body way. Not partitioned. Whole. Now seven years later I’m about to finish a 300-hour certification with Guru Singh. And I’m back on my knees. This time the experience is different. Every day of Sat is different. You wouldn’t think so. You would think every day of that 40 is the same. But what I’ve found is that in each day there is something new to discover. My body speaks to me. It expresses itself through posture, breath, mantra, drishti, mudra, movement. Each morning before I rise, I listen to scripture. I’m a practicing Catholic, and I say practicing because that’s what Christianity is for me. A practice. Sat Kriya, for me, is an expression of that scripture. Not only of prayer, though it is or can be that, but of story. For instance, yesterday, my body was the “narrow gate.” “Enter through the narrow gate…” —Matthew 7:13 After listening to the reading on my Hallow app, I thought my practice that day would be about drishti. About where and how I placed my gaze. But then I discovered I wasn’t moving through the gate.

Christ-in-Kundalini is a space for exploring spiritual life as something lived and felt. I hold the path of spiritual growth as deeply personal, and this work is designed to meet you where you are—whether you are new to yoga or Christianity, returning after time away, or long practiced. The work unfolds throughout the year, loosely following the Christian calendar. The intention is not to move toward a single belief, but to stay present with what is forming through embodied practice, reflection, and creative attention. You’ll see the words Shape, Symbol, and Symbiosis here: Shape speaks to the body and the stories we live. Symbol points to the language that helps us touch what is deeper than words. Symbiosis names the space where sensing and knowing meet. This is an interspiritual space that honors many paths. I'd love to hear yours. xxjackie

Welcome to our new members, and blessings today to all the fathers, husbands, brothers, grandfathers, and all the men who tend and hold the field for their families and communities. Since today is also the Solstice, it feels like a good day to share a little sun blessing. Many Kundalini classes end with the traditional Long Time Sun song. This is a beautiful version from Aykanna, featuring Pauline, who, like me, is part of Guru Singh’s Kundalini University 300-hour cohort. So on this day of long light, Father’s Day, and Sun energy, may we pause for a moment and receive the blessing: May the long time sun shine upon you. May all love surround you. And may the pure light within you guide your way on. Love, Jackie https://open.spotify.com/track/7J3vmQ0QJFYZXz0up0qFaR?si=cfc1cead56424af0

Today I read an article about Pope Leo XIV visiting the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona for the 100th anniversary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, the master architect. I had the opportunity to visit the basilica with my sister last fall, and it is almost impossible to describe. It isn’t only beautiful. It feels alive. Gaudí’s use of shape, color, light, stone, and height makes the whole church feel as if it’s rooted in the earth and reaching toward heaven at the same time. The details alone are impossible to absorb, even over many visits. You’d almost have to live in it to understand what the architect envisioned and how he manifested his dream. We, too, have our own architecture. And we need to live in it, too. In our awareness. In what our structure invites the body to do. Kundalini yoga gives us that invitation. We pay attention not only to muscle and bone, but to the body as a living structure of angles, channels, pressure, breath, sound, and prayer. Today the Pope blessed the newly completed Tower of Jesus Christ, the central spire of the basilica. At 172.5 meters, the Sagrada Família is now the tallest church in the world. We can stand tall, too, in sthana. We have a spine that rises. We have a crown. We have breath moving through the inner walls of the body. We have sound echoing through the chambers of the heart, the belly, the throat, the skull. In Kundalini, we enter the body as a sacred structure. A living cathedral. A place where breath, mantra, and grace can rise. Sat Kriya helps us be that cathedral. We kneel. We raise our arms and make spires with our hands pointing to the sky. Breath and mantra entrain, allowing our inner walls to vibrate with waves of grace. PRACTICE: Come to a kneeling position for Sat Kriya, or sit comfortably if kneeling is not available to you. Interlace the fingers in Venus Lock. Extend the index fingers and point them upward. Lift the arms overhead, keeping the upper arms close to the ears if possible. Gaze ahead, or close the eyes and focus at the third eye.