Meditation Community Circle – Kundalini Pranayama and Gong Meditation with Heather Turner

This Week Heather Turner (Tenth Gate Creations) will lead a Kundalini Pranayama and Gong Meditation.

Pranayama, or breathing techniques, is fundamental to Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. Its practice helps us cultivate breath awareness and integrate conscious breathing into our daily life and yogic practice.

Powerful breathing patterns significantly enhance the effects of the exercises and meditations. Pranayama oxygenates the entire body, clearing the mind, strengthening the nervous system, balancing the two hemispheres of the brain, cleaning the aura, detoxifying the body, improving digestion, and releasing fears, insecurity, irritability, depression, and other fear-based blocks.

Pranayama exercises also balance prana and apana. Prana is the basic life force that animates our being. Apana is the energy that makes elimination possible. When the apana in the lower chakras mixes with prana (by applying the locks while suspending the breath), heat (referred to as tappa) is generated, which raises the Kundalini Energy up the spine through the chakras.

Gong Meditation is a unique type of sound practice that involves using therapeutic gong sounds and vibrations to bring about healing. This practice is also sometimes referred to as a “gong bath” because participants are “bathed” in meditation gong sound waves. The goal of “gong meditation” is to create an awareness and non-judgmental appreciation of the present moment.

About Heather

A New Orleans native, Heather Turner has spent more than half of her life committed to inspiring change. She is a ceremonialist who specializes in intuitively guiding women through rites of passage, with the understanding that sacred ritual awakens the mundane.

As a Mother, artist, dancer, and Kundalini Yoga teacher, Heather, merges her gifts in service. She empowers you to go beyond your conditioned mind to fully experience the magnificence of your true essence by awakening the unbounded, creative potential within. Heather shares, “The journey to inspire a more aware existence is forever unfolding and I am devoted to meeting you in the mystery of it all!”

Heather Turner currently lives in New Orleans, LA with her husband and two children. When she is not teaching or in ceremony she is the creatrix behind the eco-conscious clothing brand Aumni Apparel.