Namaste, Welcome to KamaDeva Yoga!
KamaDeva Yoga opened its doors in the spring of 2009, in a small space that could only hold 15 students. Since then, it has grown to its current home, which is able to accommodate 40 students. Open year round and almost every day, the studio provides a family, a community, and a sanctuary for both students and teachers alike, with a wide array of yoga classes to suit all levels.
Jen Frasher
The word kriya means action, but not just any action. It is an action that leads to a complete manifestation. It is an action that allows a thought to come into actuality, and a desire to become a commitment. When we learn to act with kriya, then action becomes aligned with the larger pattern of the Self.
We can learn to act with kriya in the practice of yoga. A kriya in yoga is a sequence of postures, breath and sound (mantra) that are integrated together to allow the manifestation of a particular state, we sometimes call that state Ananda, or bliss. Mastering kriya brings with it a sense of grace, power and the ability to complete things.
By consciously practicing asana with breath and mantra, we begin to build a bridge of communication between the unconscious and the conscious, between your right now intentional patterning and all the patterning you didn’t even know you had. You start to give all of that energy a new form. First you create the form, or body posture, you add the breath and a sound current, then you start transforming all the things you’re not even aware of.
So, first there is discomfort in a posture, but you stay in it, hold it and breathe and if you hold it long enough the unconscious picks it up and says ‘oh I can do this.’ You then start re-patterning your mind with that “I can do it†energy without even thinking about it. It is in this moment that we enter into kriya, a spontaneous fulfillment of action, through the engagement of asana, that links the infinite self of you to this infinite moment, in other words, a complete manifestation of all that you are and in other other words, Yoga, or Union.