February Therapist Spotlight

Updesh Kaur - Since 1999 I have been involved in self-development work exploring my own natural gifts in the psychic and energy related fields.  Aside from this, after years of physical fitness and sports activity including athletics, boxing and many types of yoga, in 2004 Kundalini yoga found me and I began to merge these two areas of my life.  My spiritual name Updesh Kaur, by which I am known in the yoga community, means one who lives the essence of the Guru's teachings.  Kaur means the Princess/Lioness of God who walks with grace and power throughout her life.

Teaching classes and workshops since 2009, I am very enthusiastic about the healing qualities of Kundalini Yoga. More recently I have been working with sound healing and play singing bowls and Gong. I love the transformation that Kundalini yoga brings to individuals, it can set people free from addictions and help work through blocks. It's great to help combat stress and bring calmness of mind.  Sound is one of the most primal forms of healing. It can help people to manifest their full potential and step into the flow of life. 
 
I use Zephorium aura sprays for space clearing before and during class, once everyone is relaxed I will usually spray a light mist of which ever one I intuitively feel is required for the group. During consultations with one to one clients I light one of the Zephorium candles, heart- rose is a favourite, to help open the heart and communicate clearly. Some of my yoga brothers and sisters use the Zephorium body oils for the practice of ishnan (Early morning cold showers which is a wonderful way to wake up the body and psyche each day.

I find it a blessing to be able to facilitate the elevation of a person and to see the change in their energy field.  To promote personal development just by delivering these teachings is so wonderful.  Sometimes the changes manifest subtly as a more restful night’s sleep, to help relax, or be without feelings of stress in our busy lives.  But either way the results can be seen and felt very quickly.

"Happiness is your Birth right - Live it."  Yogi Bhajan

I am currently facilitating healing workshops for beginners in Kundalini yoga.
Sound healing work-shops which include meditation, mantra, singing bowls and gong. I also provide stress management technique workshops and Mindfulness training for corporate clients. I am a Master in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, I combine these healing energies with Kundalini Yoga, to elevate individuals, to reach their full potential, to free the mind and detoxify the body.
See below for upcoming events.

updesh.kaur@rocketmail.com

www.kundaliniyogaUK.com

Blessings

Updesh Kaur

Mind Body Spirit Fair

Teddington Elleray Hall on 25th March. Where I will be giving a
demonstration of Kundalini yoga meditations to bust stress & sound
healing to detox and relax.

Weekly Class - Monday night is Kundalini yoga 7.30pm (90 min class)-
NO bank holidays.
Landmark Arts Centre Ferry Road Teddington
Middlesex TW11 9NN
Drop in £13 advance £50 for 5 (to be used within 6
months) £100 for 11 (to be used within 12 months)

Kundalini yoga meditations, mantras, percussion/gong, sound
healing (2 hour session)  Sunday 6pm
Southall Kundalini Yoga Centre (use side door)
First Floor Sikh Resource centre, Featherstone Terrace
Southall, Middlesex UB2 5AA
(Large public car park in Featherstone Road)
Drop in £10 no advance tickets available

The solution then is simple – don’t resist!

I love it that the universe is expanding at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second and this is going on indefinitely. We know we have 300-400million suns in our own galaxy and that our nearest neighbour galaxy Andromeda, is 2.5 million light years away. It’s such a great thought to hold: that everything is racing away from us at the speed of light. Yet here I am in the middle of it all, standing on this little rock, and in spite of being surrounded by that force, I can’t feel any of it! What I can do though, is to find that expansion within me. As I change my beliefs and thoughts, my inner world has tremendous shifts, sometimes gentle and slow but often I feel ripped open. It is as if the universe is pulling me apart helping me to keep up with its expansion. All pain is a resistance to love and I have found the tighter I hold onto pain or suffering the more I suffer because I am resisting that universal expansion. It is as if the angels are saying come this way, join us. When I resist change and flow it hurts. The solution then is simple – don’t resist!

With love

Sarah x

Time for a Spring detox!

Time for a spring detox! As we begin to move towards the spring equinox I always being to be inspired to cleanse my body from winter warmers into spring refreshers. Springtime is the season the liver responds to best in Chinese medicine. I think if you just don’t push it, about this time we all naturally feel inspired to be going more for the greens and less of the stodge. January 1^st and New Year’s resolutions, is way to early. At that point we are still in the grip of kidney energy and winter time. That’s why resolutions at that time of year rarely work……..When my liver is feeling a bit sluggish I feel tired and irritable, but when I acknowledge that my liver energy is needing a boost I always begin to feel refreshed and ready for the bursting forth of spring time. So my morning blend is now nuts and seeds, half an avocado, a spoonful of green powder, vitamin C powder, prunes and a big handful of spinach leaves. Yum!

Plus avocado is great for the skin, shop our Avocado Face Serum here 

NEW Aromatherapy Affirmation Candles Launching Soon

It is with HUGE excitement that we can announce our long awaited candles are READY and will be launching online on the 7th of March. Our collection of Aromatherapy Affirmation Candles are all hand-blended and hand-poured using the purest Coconut Waxes and Pure Aromatherapy. Totally chemical, petroleum, soy and toxin free. Each beautiful candle is aligned to the chakras with homeopathic crystals to bring you pure indulgence and luxury. The candles are ideal for relaxation and meditation or for use in therapy treatments. The high quality of oils means you only need to burn them for 30 mins at a time to release the natural oils and to scent your room. The luxury packaging and inspirational affirmations ensure this is the ultimate gift, either for yourself and ‘self-pampering’ or family and friends. Each candle will retail at £36, but do keep an eye out for a special launch discount, coming soon. If you would like an exclusive first look at our candles join us this weekend at the Organic and Natural Beauty Show at the Excel in London, as part of Professional Beauty 2016. I hope you enjoy using them as much as I have enjoyed making them. If you want to find out more about the candles and the process involved, see the full story below. Love Sarah xx

THE STORY!

Well my beautiful candles have taken me on yet another journey of discovery! The main reason they have taken so long is that my research into the source of ingredients and waxes has been an eye opener to say the least! I always knew I didn’t want petroleum based paraffin wax as it has long been known that the fumes are bad for our health. Look at your walls around burning candles and imagine that in your lungs…. I thought I would be using Soy candles as they are so popular these days, but you know me, I research the source of everything I use and it was not pretty investigating. Almost all Soy wax is now grown in America by Monsanto, a company I would never buy from or associate with. Much arable farmland is now taken up with growing Soy and Rapeseed in vast swathes, for vegetable oils and waxes whilst many Americans go hungry and without vegetables. It’s simply not a process I could ethically work with. Then I found that almost all aroma is actually chemical based and it is legal for chemical identical ‘aromatherapy’ to be used and sold in candles as Aromatherapy! Almost all the lovely candles from all the major candle shops we love, are filling our lungs with more chemicals and toxicity. Some of them are so toxic, if you have an oil spillage whilst making the candles you have to call environmental health in to deal with it! Almost all of them are toxic to aquatic life which means somewhere along the line, they will get into the water-table, and many are toxic to animals. Sadly, all the candles in my home that were not natural went in the bin (that was all of them). I almost gave up finding a great base wax that was non-toxic, pure and held the aromatherapy scent well. Then finally I found a great natural coconut wax that was exactly what I was looking for – ask and it is given! I know you will love the wax as much as I do, if you are a candle lover like me you can tell the purity of the wax just by looking at it and the heavenly smell of aromatherapy is such a treat to the senses. Don’t expect overpowering strong smells, proper Aromatherapy candles are subtle and gentle and soothe the mind, body and soul. Needless to say we only use 100% pure aromatherapy blended to awaken the senses not overpower them.  I can’t wait to hear what you think!

Your Spiritual Journey

   

         I have often been asked what do I do as a spiritual teacher? What do you teach people ask? My answer is always quite a simple one. I teach people to find what works for them…. Just like our unique and personal fingerprints, no two people share quite the same path on the spiritual journey. Our uniqueness is our spiritual fingerprint. There are similarities amongst us of course, but each person is so individual that there is not ‘a one size fits all’ spiritual path. First we need to find out our own moral compass. We do that by learning to ‘feel’ what we truly ‘feel’. Understanding our feelings is the key but for many who grew up in confusing families, our feeling guidance has got a bit lost. Once we learn to listen to, and trust our feelings and intuitions, then we can begin to discover who we are and what feels true for us. A good teacher never seeks to impose their will or beliefs, instead they encourage diversity of thought and encourage differing paths.

      Read more about my journey here.

     With love

  

     Sarah x

Crystal Infused Skin Care and Positive Vibes

     

    It seems we have the beauty world abuzz with our Zephorium products! Everyone is talking about crystals in beauty products being the next ‘big thing’. It’s great to be a market leader. For the last four years we have been putting our crystals into the products and watching the results with awe. Now it seems the world is cottoning onto our ideas……However because our products are potentised with homeopathy it makes them unique and special to our brand. Potentising crystals can be done in different ways but homeopathy has its own unique and very special qualities. Life is all about vibration and people who are ‘in tune’ with the vibrational world really get and support what we do. All of our senses work on vibration and it is so satisfying to watch people’s reactions when they first encounter our products. We feel really blessed to be the forerunner for such a revolutionary way of creating products that promote wellbeing, peace and positivity.

Read more about how we use crystals in our unique collections and discover our full range of crystal products for the mind, body and soul.

With love

Sarah x