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Ajeet, Live in Toronto April 1, 2023

Church of the Holy Trinity

10 Trinity Square, Toronto
(next to the Eaton Centre, Dundas subway) See map

7:30-9:30pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Seating in chairs and pews

Blooming Tour

Ajeet and her band weave together ancient rhythms and melodies, deep meditative spaces and heart-opening songs to bring you on a journey through music. Their concerts are an opening to spirit, a ceremonial space, and an opportunity for deep connection. Accompanied by Aisling, Raffa and Sam, allow Ajeet’s voice to carry you to another realm. Let your voice join with many in a call for healing, a return to the ancient ritual of prayer through song.

“I feel so blessed to know Ajeet, to sing with her, and practice in spiritual community together. Her music & presence is purely uplifting, joyful, and filled with devotion. I hope you will come out to chant with her.” ~ Snatam Kaur

Watch “Breathe (I Am Free)” from her “Voices Like Rain” Live album!

Tickets

Premium Seating: SOLD OUT! $50 advance / $60 same day (1st 4 rows chairs)
General Admission Seating: $35 advance / $45 same day (chairs & pews)

Information

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*Contact Nirmal at 416-716-1402 or [email protected]
*For more information on Ajeet and her music, please visit her website at AjeetMusic.com.

Ajeet is a world music artist weaving inspiration from traditional folk to mystical and meditative soundscapes. The band come together from Spain, Ireland and the United States to offer a musical experience which transcends boundaries and takes listeners on a journey through melody and sonic texture. Many experience Ajeet’s music as healing, rejuvenating, and a place of deep connection. Collaboration is central in her work, and some of her collaborators include Trevor Hall, Aisling Urwin, Sukhmani Rayat, Rising Appalachia, Snatam Kaur, Seamus Egan and Peia. Her creative process extends beyond live performance to her recording studio, where she produces and engineers her own work and others.

Celebrated as #1 on the iTunes World Chart and Billboard Top 10 New Age Chart, Ajeet’s music continues to be embraced by communities across the globe.

Join “Yoga for Conscious Communication” Online Series!

8 Week Series Starts May 5, 2022

Our yogic teachings share the following: “The purpose of communication is to discharge your whole self, directly and completely. The manner of conscious communication is to do it with awareness, kindness and fearlessness. Any communication without this purpose and manner is not conscious communication… and leads ultimately to pain, unhappiness and harm. It does not align the mind with the soul and hence cannot align us with the reality of anyone else.”

Do you speak with awareness, kindness and fearlessness? Do you communicate so you are truly heard? Are you an effective listener?

Please join Nirmal Singh for this class series where we’ll explore the ways we communicate now, and how to improve its effectiveness, through the support of yoga and meditation.

This yoga practice will help:
* Increase our sensitivity in the way we speak with others, and even with ourselves!
* Reduce conflict in our lives with more harmonious communication
* Be more effective listeners, speakers and presenters.

For more information or to register, click HERE.

Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training – Toronto & Online May-August-October 2022

Discover your potential and rewrite your destiny!

Challenge yourself by confronting self-imposed boundaries in order to touch your soul and gain the knowledge and self-confidence to build a more peaceful and creative life.

The Level One Teacher Training Program is the first level of a three tiered KRI certification program in Kundalini Yoga. It consists of 220 hours: 180 hours in class and 40 hours independent study fulfilling the Yoga Alliance’s national standard for a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). With your KRI certification, you can apply for and receive a Yoga Alliance Certificate.

This Foundations course introduces the student to the principles and practices of the self-sensory human, and explores how Kundalini Yoga and yogic lifestyle can harmonize and uplift the human experience and awaken your true potential.

Dates:

* Session One: Monday May 9th – Sunday May 15th
* Session Two: Saturday August 6th – Saturday August 13th
* Session Three: Monday October 17th – Sunday October 23th
– 22 class days

Tuition:

Click HERE to register.

For more information:

Contact Nirmal at 416-716-1402 or [email protected], or visit TheWellnessPath.ca.

Training Team:
*Nirmal Singh, Lead Trainer has taught Kundalini Yoga since 1999. He created The Wellness Path, which offers Kundalini Yoga programs and events including Level One and Level Two teacher training, sacred chant concerts, “Beyond Addiction” trainings and classes. He is a Compassionate Inquiry Coach, focusing on clients who wish to change difficult habitual behaviours, or gain insight and strength in their recovery from addictions or trauma.

*Ek Ong Kaar Khalsa Michaud began studying Kundalini Yoga at the Guru Ram Das Ashram in Houston, Texas, in 1991. She currently serves as a minister of Sikh Dharma, a member of the International Khalsa Council, a Level 2 teacher of Kundalini Yoga and a Professional Trainer in KRI’s Aquarian Academy. She is a respected researcher of Sikh theology and history, and is most well known for her lyrical translation of Gurbani into English.

*Dharm Kaur has been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 1991. Dharm is a Level 2 certified yoga teacher, Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer, and a “Beyond Addiction” professional trainer. In her warm, healing classes, Dharm encourages students to trust their inner guidance, open their hearts, experience the vastness of their Spirit and the sweetness of connection with the Infinite within.

Feeling Overwhelmed?

Hi Friends,
Have the holidays proven to be a bit much? Use conscious, long, deep breathing to regulate yourself! I’m happy to assist you with simple pranayam (breath) practices to get you back on track.

Our breath, and the nature of how we breathe, is important, affecting our physical, mental and emotional health. Our breath is both gross and subtle. The gross aspect blends oxygen, nitrogen and other elements we’re more familiar with, and the subtle aspect is the “prana” or life force that energizes the mind, body and consciousness.

When you’re feeling out of sorts, pause for a moment and notice what’s happening with your breath, and your abdomen, as you breathe? Do you notice your abdomen moving? It’s not uncommon that your breath may be shallow and quick, with the upper chest moving slightly and the abdomen barely at all. Ahhh to breathe like a baby again! It’s all in the belly. In correct naturaly breathing, the abdomen moves, out on the inhale and in and up on the exhale. We use the inhale to make ourselves wider, and the exhale to make ourselves longer.

Did you know that the average human breathes around 16-20 breaths a minute? That’s less than 2 seconds on the inhale and 2 seconds on the exhale. When we’re stressed, our breath may be even quicker and shallower. We’re cut off from our vitality.

Classic “Long Deep Breath”
To correct shallow breathing, which often accompanies stress.
– Inhale in 4 smooth beats / seconds, through the nostrils, beginning with the navel (belly), then expanding your lower chest and finally your upper chest
– Exhale in reverse, in 4 beats / seconds through the nostrils, pulling in on the navel at the end of the exhalation
– For each part, you can silently add the mantra “Saa Taa Naa Maa”, one beat per second, for more juice with sound syllables that connect you to your inner truth or authenticity
– Start with 3 minutes, and build to 11 minutes if you wish
Note that your breath rate in this practice will be twice as slow as your average breath, which clears the head and induces a state of calmness.

Sitali” Breath
To “cool down” both physically and emotionally when upset.
– Extend the tongue through the lips, roll the tongue, and inhale through the open mouth to the back of the throat
– If you can’t roll the tongue (like 1/3 of the population), don’t worry about it! Just extend your tongue between your lips and draw the air over the roof of your tongue to the back of the throat
– On the exhale, draw the tongue back in the mouth and exhale through the nose
– Breath to a count of 4 beats / seconds on the inhale, and the same on the exhale
– Start with 3 minutes and build to 11 minutes if you wish
Feel more chill!

If you’d like further work on regulating yourself, getting unstuck, or taking life in a new direction, sign up for a free discovery call today. I’d love to connect with you!

Humbly,
Nirmal Singh

“Awaken Your Vitality”

Online Yoga Classes
Thursdays 6:00 – 7:30pm Eastern
New 16 Week Series Starts January 6, 2022!

“When we are vital, we have energy and consciousness to be able to act on our values, to express our highest character and to fulfill our destiny”. What wears away vitality is stress. Join Nirmal Singh for this 16 week online class series, to cultivate the core skill for the coming age – the ability to recognize stress in ourselves, and develop tools to transform stress and master our vitality through powerful breath, yoga and meditation practices!

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Information

Contact Nirmal at 416-716-1402 or [email protected]

Nirmal Singh is a lead Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer and has taught Kundalini Yoga since 1999. He created The Wellness Path, which offers Kundalini Yoga related programs and events in Toronto and surrounding communities including Level One and Level Two training, sacred chant concerts, workshops and retreats. Nirmal specializes in Beyond Addiction training, workshops and classes. He is a certified Life Coach and Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, focusing on clients who wish to change difficult habitual behaviours, or gain insight and strength in their recovery from addictions or trauma.

21 Stages of Meditation

Join us for this deep dive online into your relationship with your Self, starting February 26th.

In this program we will engage in three separate meditation journeys. Each 2 day journey is comprised of seven stages, taking you step-by-step into a deeper level of awakening and realization. We will move through the rudimentary skills of meditation to the deeper levels of awareness and integration and finally into identity, projection and merger in the infinite pulse of creation. 21 Stages of Meditation contributes to KRI Level Three Certification within The Aquarian Teacher™ Training Program.

• First Journey, The Crystallized Self
• Second Journey, The Expressive Self
• Third Journey, The Transcendent Self

Come for one, two or all three journeys in the certificate course! Or is you wish to attend any single day and experience a full day meditation intensive outside of the certification track, we can accommodate that too! (Contact Nirmal).

For more details check out the 21 Stages of Meditation page at this link.

The Value of Struggling with Yourself

On a call today I had an opportunity to bring in these words from the spiritual teacher A.H. Almaas: “Struggle is the salt in the process… When you experience your Essence, the taste is sweet. Personality is the salt, and struggling with the personality is what will bring you in touch with Essence, with the sweetness”.

Our lessons in life aren’t so obvious to us, but there is a part of us that pokes us to pay attention to what’s showing up in this moment of struggle. These challenges in life do serve a purpose… to wake us up to ourselves. Let’s be curious and ask, “Is there something here for me to pay attention to? What am I to learn in this moment about me?” And trust there’s sweetness to be had in your process!

Join me on the wellness path and let’s explore this together. Sign up for a free discovery call today!

Humbly,
Nirmal Singh

Embrace the Struggle

Hi Friends,
Some thoughts about struggle and growth.

Do you get the feeling that life is a constant struggle? And that struggle is keeping you stuck? And you’d just like to have all that struggle go away? (Please)! But let’s say that the struggle is just that intuitive part of you, poking you in the ribs, asking you to pay attention and be curious. In that case, you might take a moment out of your busy day to be still, and ask, what could this really be about that I’m not paying attention to?

This reminds me of a quote from the spiritual teacher A.H. Almaas:

“When you have an issue in your life, the point is not to get rid of it; the point is to grow with it. The point is not to resolve the issue; the point is to grow through resolving the issue”.

Yes, the struggle serves a purpose – it’s what helps us flourish. And like me, you may want to grow into a better version of what’s showing up today.

If you’d like a fresh perspective on your struggles, let’s grow together on the wellness path. Sign up for a free discovery call today!

Humbly,
Nirmal Singh

Forgiveness for Change

Hi Friends,
Some thoughts about the power of forgiveness.

Do you ever find yourself really stuck, and you try to use your mind to figure it out, to reason through it? And how successful are you approaching it that way? Would you consider an approach that engages much more with the heart than the head? An approach like prayer. (What)? Perhaps you have an awkward relationship with prayer today if it was something forced on you in your youth. But consider…

Prayer, and particularly a prayer of forgiveness, can be very powerful because it’s our anger that keep us stuck in the past. Forgiveness allows us to let go of our anger (towards ourselves and others) holding us in the past, and create space to bring more love and joy into our lives. Do you want more love and joy in your life? Absolutely!

This is a very simple but effective Hawaiian Ho’oponono prayer for forgiveness that I use… to me get out of my mind, and into my heart.

“I’m sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
I love you”

Creating space for joy and love also creates space to see your life purpose more clearly. Do you have someone in your life (personally or professionally) that will help you stay connected to your heart?

If you want to bring about change in your life, find support that helps you keep up when it gets tough. Come join me on the wellness path, and sign up for a free discovery call today!

Humbly,
Nirmal Singh

Commitment & Change

Hi Friends,
Some thoughts about responsibility, commitment and life change.

To start, who is primarily responsible for where you are now, at this stage in your life? Is it your family, or a boss, or some other influential person? Or is it you? And who’s accountable?

And to be clear, someone who’s responsible is the one who does the work, but someone who’s accountable is the one who ultimately answers for the work. (They may or may not actually do the work)!

The responsibility for your lot in life may feel like it lies with someone other than you, and for reasons outside of your control. But ultimately the only one who is accountable for your situation is YOU. You’re the one who has the most to gain or the most to lose. Why give that responsibility up to someone else?

When you wish to make a life change, there’s no real change without commitment, and please know this commitment potential is within you. What is commitment? Commitment means you’ll come through no matter what! Yes, in fact you can commit to anything, but it takes some practice… and here’s where having a discipline can help. Some commit to a daily spiritual practice, or to other means of self-care. Choose a discipline to develop a habit of committing.

So what can you commit to? Could you carve out even 3 minutes a day to a discipline? And then keep it up consistently, no matter what? This is about training the mind to get in line with what’s important to you. No excuses. No day off. When the mind gives you those excuses (too tired, too busy), say thanks for the input but I’m going to do this anyway. Why? Because you are disciplined. Because you are committed. Because you choose to be accountable.

If you want to bring about change in your life, be committed and look for support to help you keep up. Come join me on the wellness path, and sign up for a free discovery call today!