total fitness

– Note: This blog was still in draft at the time of Gurumarka’s passing so previously unpublished –

an extreme title given by my publisher. feel like you can do anything, and you can. 🙂

it was just an audio tape (cassette) with a beginners kundalini yoga class

how I wrote it – tree, branches, leaves, roots,

wrote in one session

royalties,

now available as a download on breathislife.com

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In 1994 a student approached me after class and informs me she runs a company producing audiotapes and wants to record me teaching a yoga class. Her company mostly works with soundwave frequencies to activate different parts of the brain.

it was something new

was stuck – needed to write a complete class before we got to the recording studio. this includes the spontaneous words of encouragement I would normally use during a class. I had to figure out how to teach the thousands of people who would eventually buy the cassette (yes, this was before CD’s) before they even this audiotape existed.

dancing in my room

tree in the field

recording studio

the name total fitness –  from the advertising on the box it read about the effects of doing this yoga, “You feel as if you can do anything. And you can!”

yoga workout for beginners

friend added the special flute music in the background

bonus – free to download this 60 minute recording. It was recorded as two 30 minutes workouts, one on each side of a cassette tape. They can be done individually, or combine both for a 60 minute workout. This is a warm up set with a standard kundalini yoga meditation.  LINK to download