The Kundalini Manual for a Higher Frequency in 2026! With Sita Severson

Sita Severson 0:00

By the time I was eight or nine years old, I started seeing angels and I started seeing beings from the other side. My degree of sensitivity to everything was so hard for me. I was incredibly overweight. I was agoraphobic, which means I didn't leave my house for two years. I dropped out of university. I was self medicating for a long time, and I heard a voice really clearly. It said, You got yourself into this, you get yourself out of this. I was practicing Kundalini yoga for, I think, a year, and I had a very clear Kundalini rising experience. And for me, it actually took a week. And I knew it took a week because it was in a chakra for each day. I think many of us know the experience where it's like, oh my gosh, I just got the most incredible download. And it just completely shifted me. There is a man who is very controversial at this time, which is why I wanted to speak directly into this, because it's very, very important. His name was Yogi Bhajan, and started what most people understand Kundalini yoga to be these days, which is often with the white turbans and all the white clothes. And Yogi Bhajan was an abuser and he

Jannecke Øinæs 1:29

Sita Severson, a warm welcome back to the Wisdom From North show.

Sita Severson 1:33

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:37

I'm truly excited to have you back on the show again. We've known each other for many years now, and we have collaborated a lot. And I wanted to have you back, because we have so many new subscribers, and I think your work is truly, truly amazing. You are a spiritual teacher, a lifelong clairvoyant, a subtle energy expert, an Ayurvedic yoga therapist, and today we're going to dive deep into kundalini awakening. Now, before we do that, how do you feel? Our conversation today is going to expand people's consciousness. Sita, I think for for what I would like is to help us have a richer and deeper conversation around subtle energy, and particularly the subtle energy known as Kundalini, and how to safely work with a kundalini awakening process, because that is so important. And so I really want to get that message out there,

Jannecke Øinæs 2:39

yeah, and you've had quite a journey, and I just want to take everybody on that journey, because you didn't just end up being this amazing spiritual teacher, working really in the depths of Kundalini energy, or Kundalini technology, we can say. And you've had also a challenging journey. Now, could you share when was when did you discover that you had extraordinary gifts and abilities?

Sita Severson 3:06

So I discovered it really early on in my life. And I'll say that I actually think I comfortably can say I think all of them are all of us are born with gifts, because I really do believe that intuition and insightfulness is just a part of our nature. And I would say I started recognizing it when I was about four years old, three four years old, when I started recognizing that I was having precognitions. I was aware of events that were about to take place before they took place, and they were very vivid. But then by the time I was eight or nine years old, I started seeing angels, and I started seeing beings from the other side, and and then I started to notice that wait, I have memories from when I was in a crib, and I would start explaining things to my mother when I was, like, six, seven months old, I was in this room, and this is what the closet looked like, and this is what was happening, and this is the conversation that was going on. And my mom was just like, What is this kid, she's right. How could she possibly know that, like down to the littlest details and and I had, I had memories of other lifetimes, and I just, I couldn't explain why I knew that it was me, not necessarily the person known as Sita, but it was me, and so that started very, very early on in my life, and I feel like the big piece is that I didn't at any point really shut it down. So when I say I believe that, that we're all born with intuition and insight, I think what.

Sita Severson 4:59

Is most of us get conditioned out of having that available to us, and our process of awakening is really just a remembering and really just ridding ourselves of the conditioning that has not allowed us to really live from that place, which is why it requires so much work and so because I had a mother who was incredibly spiritually oriented and very, very supportive of me, and had always said she felt like she gave birth to someone very, very special, she always really paid attention to what I said. And so not only was I not asked to shut it down in my my home world, it was actually something that I was encouraged to talk about when things would come up for me and I despite the dysfunction in my household. So I'm not trying to make it seem like it was all like bunnies and rainbows, but I will say that that that is something that I have taken with me with I think the deepest gratitude the older I get, I'm more and more grateful for how profoundly beautiful it is that my mother has supported me all along.

Jannecke Øinæs 6:13

Yeah, that is beautiful. Because what I hear the most is that people shut their abilities down because they notice that there's something different with me. I thought everybody had this, but apparently not. And people are looking at me as a weirdo, and we could, like, imagine also that when you have these abilities and you're able to see angels, which sounds to me really soothing, right? I mean, Oh, that's beautiful angels, that life just becomes really easy peasy, because you know a lot that's going to happen, and you get connection. You can ask your guides, but you had a lot of challenges where actually you heard a voice, you have to change something around that that you know if it's going to change, it's up to you, would you like to share that story?

Sita Severson 7:02

Sure, yeah. So, yeah, absolutely. You know, I find that in my several decades now of working with people, the desire to be more intuitive is often coming from a place of not wanting to have to feel like they're failing to know what's coming up, so that there is a sense of perceived safety. And that's not really how life works. You know? I mean, I know that I and I'll get to the story in a moment, but I think this is really, really important that we have to understand and and really sort of mature ourselves spiritually and step away from our easily. It can, it happens to all of us. I am not throwing stones, but we can have an egocentric spiritual sense of self and think that, you know, oh, if I know all the things, than this, and then I won't have to feel that, and then I won't be anxious and and that the truth is, is I know for myself, and I know for the 1000s of people that I've worked with that our intuition is also going to guide us into some of our hardest things in life. It will guide us directly into some of our greatest challenges, because the higher aspect of ourselves knows what our soul curriculum is. It knows what it is here to learn. Whether our personality likes it or not, is a whole other conversation, right? And so just because I was, you know, I've always been intuitive, and I've had that connection I found, and I know people relate to this, my degree of sensitivity to everything was so hard for me, so as supportive as my mother was, she was also An active alcoholic. Until I was young, my sister had by or has bipolar disorder. I'm allowed to disclose this, and it was undiagnosed at the time. My mom was a single mother. My biological father had left when my mom was pregnant with me, because he got my stepmother or her best friend, my mother's best friend pregnant, and she became my stepmother. And so my mom started medicating with alcohol. She just started soothing herself with alcohol because she didn't have other tools, and because she is also very sensitive. And so without having a stronger foundation, I mean, you could have the strongest foundation in the world. And what I just said is really challenging. It's going to challenge anyone to the core. And so here I was being raised in a in a in a loving yet incredibly chaotic life. And so my sense. Sensitivities were getting harder and harder for me to manage, and I noticed that I would isolate a lot more, and then when I got to be a teenager, I, too, started medicating with alcohol and marijuana because I just didn't have the tools. Now, my mom got sober when I was young, and I actually was reading spiritual books by the time I was in like, third grade, because I was trying to make sense of this world that I felt so connected to, and yet I just didn't understand how to integrate it into my life. And of course, I mean, I was so young, so it got to the point where, you know, I was really, really obese, and I'm not saying that from a body shaming perspective, but for my frame, I was incredibly overweight. I was agoraphobic, which means I didn't leave my house for two years. I dropped out of university. I was self medicating for a long time, and I had this moment that I heard a voice really clearly. It said, You got yourself into this, you get yourself out of this. And and it came at a time. I mean, it truly was divine timing, because if I had heard that six months earlier, it would have completely terrified me. I would not have been able to handle what that meant and what came with that. But in that moment, I was really ready. It was like the the words came in and with it, I think a transmission of some kind of grace or some kind of courage came with it. And it was the day after that I've not had a drink of alcohol since that day. That was 1998 was January, 1998 and so I left, I left things like that behind, the things that I would self soothe with those chemicals. And that was when I really started to get very serious about my journey and my level of sensitivity, and what can I do with this, in this, in this world, in this lifetime, where it doesn't feel like it's going to eat me alive, because that's how it felt at times. But how can I use this to improve myself and better myself and better the world. Wow.

Jannecke Øinæs 12:22

Thank you so much for sharing your story, for being open about it, and I think it's quite amazing that you just stopped that very day. I mean, addiction is one of the hardest things, isn't it?

Sita Severson 12:34

Addiction is I tell you what I mean, and I'll say, you know, I can look back now and say, Well, you know, I started going into the 12 Steps, and I started therapy, and all of that was so beneficial. And I can honestly say, Okay, I think my addictions transferred into codependent relationships and into sugar and into caffeine, right? So I can't say that my my inclination for addictions stopped at that time. I think I just was able, by way of that, that energy that came through me, I was able to stop the one that the ones that had me stuck in bed and really stuck like in a major way, and they just transferred it, but into a way where I could actually go to meetings and I could talk to my therapist, and I could start to do the work I needed to do. I think it's, it's taken years and years and years and years and years to work through addictive patterns, because I think we all have them, whether it's addictive thoughts or, you know, it's like, I think it's, it's a it's a pattern I think most of us are familiar with in some capacity, and I think it's for many of us, it's lifelong work.

Jannecke Øinæs 13:49

It is, it's hard work. And sometimes I'm curious whether this is something that we are continuing with, those addictive patterns in other incarnations, or if it's only this incarnation, because we've been speaking about that we have soul themes. You have a class in our membership, in wisdom from North membership about that. We have different soul themes. So do you think that our addictions is specific for an incarnation, or do we drag them along in incarnation, incarnation after incarnation?

Sita Severson 14:23

It's a great question. So I there's actually a sort of another aspect of this conversation that I want to bring up. I because everything from, from my perspective, is karma, right? I mean, everything from, if I drink a cup of coffee and I get a boost of energy, That's karma, right? And then for me, hours later, I'll, I'll, I'll just dip, and I'll need a nap, or I'll need something else that's karma related to the cup of coffee that I had that gave me the boost that I wanted. And then. Kind of let me down. So it just for very simple karmic conversation. From my perspective, everything is karma. There's always some kind of equal response to our motives and our intentions and the actions that we take and because we we feel that when we drop these bodies, that that's the ending of something, and to a certain degree, it is. But if we look at things from a from a sort of bigger, more cosmic perspective, the soul is eternal, and it goes through these many different iterations that we call lives, and we have to continue the work. So for most of us, if we are dealing with addiction, and I'm going to say for this example, if we're talking about things like relationship addiction, which is a really big one for a lot of people, alcohol, substances, you know, the things that can really derail our lives. Generally, those don't start in one lifetime. Now, here's something I'm not sure if you're familiar or any of your guests have ever talked about this at all, but from the Vedic system, the from the Eastern perspective, it's one of the Eastern perspectives, we have something called yugas. They would say, yug. But yugas and these are the cosmic cycles. You can imagine, there are the cosmic seasons, and right now, we're in what's called the Kali Yuga. Some people debate that, but a lot of people say, Yeah, we're in the Kali Yuga. And if we've gotten past it, we're still just past it. And so there is that feeling, and Kali Yuga is really the Iron Age. It's an age where things are denser and things are harder and darker and more violent and more challenging. So the good news about this is that, you know, if everything truly is a cycle, then we're whether we like it or not, we're cycling back up into the SAT Yuga, the Golden Age, right? The age of truth. It's just going to take us some time to get there. Now I bring that up in this conversation because addiction is a very easy vice for the majority in the Kali Yuga, because it is heavy, it is dark, it is challenging, it is very pervasive, and these are qualities that you will find in the Kali Yuga. So it's very possible, as we get further away from the Kali Yuga, we, collectively, the majority of us, will have done enough work like, I know your viewers, right? I know I'm with my people, right? We want to do this work. We want to grow and evolve, that we'll get to a point where we're actually taking addiction out of the cosmic tapestry, and so by the time we get closer to the SAT Yuga, there's no addiction. So our karma is, I know, right? But our but it's, it's, it's really saying and suggesting that our karma, while it feels incredibly personal, and in many ways it is, there is also a collective aspect of it too. So it really is true that when we do our work, we're making the we are literally making the world better because we are creating new we're weaving new frequencies and new energies into the collective tapestry. And so I can't think of anything more important than that, honestly.

Jannecke Øinæs 18:51

And we're going to speak about Kundalini technology today. You've been diving deep into that, and also Ayurveda, and it's interesting to catch up with you, because I feel like you're going deeper, deeper into real mysticism and new directions all the time, really deepening your spiritual practices. And it's really inspiring. Now, Kundalini, if you could explain what it is for those who are new to to it. And I'm also curious whether when we have a kundalini awakening, that sort of solves a lot of our issues, for instance, addiction.

Sita Severson 19:34

Yeah, so and I do at some point. Not right now, I want to talk about the distinction of, like modern style Kundalini yoga and more classical, because that that's actually a pretty controversial topic, and I think it's very important that we speak into it. But Kundalini, essentially, you could use the word Shakti. You could use the word prana, it's it's energy. Kundalini. Kundalini is energy. It is it is a force of energy. And this particular flavor of Shakti, of of our innate power, the animating force of the entire universe, condenses itself into something that we call Kundalini, which is an energy that a lot of people say is dormant in the root chakra, the muladhara and and it, they say it's dormant, but then I hear scholars say it's not dormant. If it was dormant, we'd be dead. And I'm like, Okay, well, that's really funny. So maybe it's sleeping, it's, you know, it's sleeping, it's not, it's, it's, still alive, and so as we do our work and with the use of Kundalini Yoga, again, we need to get into that conversation. But there are tools and techniques that we use in kundalini yoga that that help the body, mind and spirit prepare, really, I should say body mind, prepare for the rising of this energy that starts to illuminate the self and takes us into an a more enlightened experience of ourselves, and it can absolutely reduce our challenges with addiction and with whatever else we're dealing with. Now there's a whole process to it, which is what I love to teach about, because the journey of the awakening is something that will illuminate things in its path. So, you know, let's say we wake up this Kundalini energy in the Root Chakra, or, you know, and it's not in the Root Chakra for everyone, by the way, but we don't, we don't need to get into all of that right now, unless we want to, but let's just say it's in the root it awakens. So what can be illuminated are all of the challenges and all of the beautiful things, let's say within the Root Chakra. But it's going to illuminate what is there and then, as it starts to rise once the work is done, and it goes into the second chakra, as an example, it's going to do the same thing there. It's going to open up the energy of these chakras and illuminate what's going on. So this is why it's so important to systematically work with these energy patterns, so that as we awaken and we're in that process, we can actually integrate it and assimilate it and not have an experience of Kundalini awakening, where all the lights turn on basically, and we're not ready to see all the things that come with it. So ultimately, yes, it can absolutely help us with addiction and other patterns that we have, but it is often a process. For for some people, it's actually lifetimes of process. For many of us, it's lifetimes. But this is part of what's exciting about you know, being in this shared community where most of us didn't just come into this lifetime. When I say most of us, I'm talking about like wisdom from North people, or people who are who who tend to want to do this kind of work, we usually don't just wake up in one lifetime and say, oh, yeah, I just want to try this out and see what it's like. It's usually because we've already spent lifetimes doing this work, and so we're gravitating towards it, because we know that our soul is ready to keep going. And so we pick these tools up and we keep going.

Jannecke Øinæs 23:50

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Sita Severson 25:41

Yes, yes. So great question. You got to keep me on track, Jannecke. I appreciate it. So, yes, so it's represented as a serpent, although it is not a serpent, but it is, couldn't Kundalini. Kunda is known to mean coil. So it is coiled. It's a coiled energy that will start to awaken, for lack of a better term, and then it will start to rise. For most people, it's going to take, you know, years, if not lifetimes, for it to be fully realized and awakened. And there's, there is a lot of nuance with this. There are people who have had spontaneous Kundalini awakenings. So it can certainly happen that way for a lot of for the A lot of people who that has happened to, they've often done a lot of the preparatory work. So it's, it's, it's that they have been meditating, or they have been, you know, working on whatever their path is, they've been working on that, and that has cleared the pathway for that energy to rise. It doesn't always mean that they are wholly prepared for it and what comes with it. However, it can be a spontaneous thing, usually, however, though it happens over time. And so we use the the tools from Kundalini yoga as an example. And I'm not necessarily talking about the modern style Kundalini Yoga, but we use these tools to make sure that the body mind is prepared and that it can safely rise so it can also help to speed up the process. So you ask, how long you know? Can it take? I know I was practicing Kundalini yoga for, I think, a year, and I had a very clear Kundalini rising experience. And for me, it actually took a week. And I knew it took a week because it was in a chakra for each day. And it took me a minute to realize what was going on, where I was like, my tailbone was really hurting one day, and it was like really hurting, like, I actually couldn't see my clients that day. And the next day, I felt like I had something going on with my bladder, and then the next day I was having digestive issues. And I was like, Wait a second, what is happening? And it was funny, because my husband was like, sweetheart, do you think? And I was like, Oh my gosh, yes. Then the next day I was having heart palpitations. The next day I had a really sore throat, and so I went to my own Kundalini teacher, and I was like, hold on, here is this what's going on? Because it's, it started to, like, make sense. And so I would just go to my classes and be with my teacher, and I would just lie on the floor because I needed some relief. I was actually really, really uncomfortable, but, but what started happening after it fully Rose was I did notice that my perspective on things had really shifted, that things had been that had been challenging me before weren't challenging me the same way. And so, you know, for some people, there's a total, complete, full awakening where they really they may just need to go off and live in the mountains and just away from the world. For me, it felt like more of it was with without a doubt. It was an awakening, but it was more like the serpent shedding its skin, right? So I feel like it was one level of awakening where I absolutely had this almost instantaneous, week long, but instantaneous experience of a total shift for myself. So there is a lot of nuance with it, and it's different for everyone. But one thing that is shared is the preparatory work that most people don't just wake up one day and have this automatic experience. It's that they it's something they have been working at consciously or not, to be able to have it rise and awaken their consciousness in a different way.

Jannecke Øinæs 29:53

Is it before and after? And do we know for sure if we've had a kundalini awakening.

Sita Severson 30:03

So I know of some people who there's no way they that they could not know. I know a lot of people who there's no avoiding knowing you're it's just things are so you're just so different. Your mind is just so different. But I certainly think it's possible that people have had, there is a term for it. It's called prana. It's a Sanskrit term where it is sort of a partial awakening or a lighter awakening. And I think that those can go missed. We can see them as like, an aha moment where, you know, like, I think many of us know the experience where it's like, oh my gosh, I just got the most incredible download. And it just completely shifted me so often, when the Kundalini rises where it meets, there's another serpent up in the sixth chakra area. We could literally talk about this for 10 years. Yanaka, so I'm trying to condense it, but the energy of the download makes its way into the third eye area and the the serpent, for lack of a better term, that Kundalini rises to meet it in the third eye, and that's the aha moment. So those are, those are, are not necessarily full Kundalini awakenings, however, they are the Kundalini energy, waking things up. You know that things are working because it's the Kundalini going through the central channel, which we call Sushumna, but there is that central channel, it meets, it meets the other energy here, and it just wakes up. Interesting.

Jannecke Øinæs 32:01

There are some stories where people have had spontaneous Kundalini awakenings that have not been so pleasant and quite chaotic and overwhelming. Could you speak to that? What happens then, and why is it happening? And how can we prevent that from happening?

Sita Severson 32:19

Yeah, and honestly, this is, this is such an important part of the conversation. It happens because the Enough, enough work has been done energetically to clear the pathway for the energy to rise and awaken. And I'll give you an analogy. Imagine that you're going into a home. Let's say it's an old home, and no one has been on the second floor or in the attic for years, and so you you've started cleaning and tidying up the first floor of this house, and all of a sudden, in this house, all the lights come on, and you go into the second floor, and you go into the attic, and you're like, there's spiders, there's cobwebs, there's dust, right? But all the lights have come on and now you see all the things that have been hiding in these rooms, in these different levels for all of these years. That's what happens with a kundalini experience. When someone isn't fully ready, they've, they have, but they have usually set enough of a foundation. It's just that they don't. They haven't worked on these higher levels as much they haven't, and so they're, they are literally unable to process it without support. You can definitely process it post that experience, but usually you need a teacher. You need some kind of guidance to help assimilate, that. Some people will call that kind of awakening a Kali um, kundalini awakening. And it's Kali based off of the the Goddess Kali, who is known to be very, very fierce. And a lot of people are afraid of her, but a lot of people really revere her. She is a very power, powerful goddess, but she is fierce, and so an awakening that someone doesn't feel fully prepared to integrate is considered. It can be called, in some lineages, again, a Kali form of awakening, because Kali helps us get rid of our ego, but she's very fierce about it. And so even though it is, it is meant to be, you know, a loving thing. A loving thing, meaning, here you're here to do your spiritual work, but she's intense, and so she's just gonna turn the lights on, and she's gonna help you get rid of your ego, you know. I've known a couple. I'm thinking of two people in particular that this happened to, and they they it almost felt like they were on an acid trip, or they had taken some form of psychedelics, where they were so open and seeing everything, but weren't ready to see everything, which included they were feeling deep regret over some of the actions that they had taken in their past. They were feeling a lot of shame about some of the actions they had taken in their past when they didn't, let's say no better, and they just weren't entirely prepared to handle that. And meanwhile, it's like they've taken psychedelics, so like, the universe has opened up to them, and they're seeing all the different levels and layers of things. It's, it's, I mean, I have not had that experience, but it, I can say, based on my observing, it is very overwhelming. Like, I can't imagine how overwhelming that would be.

Jannecke Øinæs 35:59

Yeah, you said it was very important to see the distinction between the modern spiritual way of looking at Kundalini and the ancient ways. That was my words. But could you share more about that?

Sita Severson 36:16

Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you for coming back to that. So Kundalini is just Kundalini in general, is a huge topic. There are very few scholars who have been able to find a lot about it from the very ancient texts. The first that it really appeared as the word Kundalini was about 1300 years ago, and it was in the tantric texts, not tantric sex, but tantric texts, which is a very legitimate, powerful spiritual path, which is where Kundalini, the concept of Kundalini, comes from. And so along the way over, I'd say more the last couple 100 years, there are practices that started to become more active within certain tantric lineages about how to safely prepare the system For the Kundalini to rise, which is why yoga is used as a form of awakening Kundalini. So I know in our, in our a lot of our western context, we just we think of the postures we put our bodies into, and that's yoga. Well, the the yoga is actually only like maybe 5% physical postures when we're looking at the Kundalini Yoga type of practices that are more classical, what we're looking at is using breath, using mantra, Mantra, which are the actual vibrational codes and frequencies of higher consciousness. And so you with the Kundalini tools that we use, we are using our breath, we're using our body. We're using different it's called kriya, where it's a it's sort of more of an active movement, because we're working with a subtle body more than anything. And while using these mantras, these codes that deliver these vibrational frequencies of the highest levels of consciousness into our subtle body, so that it can then go into the deeper layers, which we would call the physical body, because from the tantric and Vedic perspective, the body is no different from The mind, and is no different from the subtle mind, other than different levels of being, that's it. They're all the same. They're just different different energetic structures, let's say, from denser to lighter. And so we work with the mind, body, spirit, in such a way that allows these that allows awakening to really take hold and to be integrated. Now, in the 1960s there is a man who is is very controversial at this time, which is why I wanted to speak directly into this, because it's very, very important. His name was Yogi Bhajan, and he came from he was a Punjabi Sikh, and he came to the United States and Mexico and started what most people understand Kundalini yoga to be these days, which is often with the white turbans and all the white clothes, and then things like that, which I had practiced many years ago. I had a lot of great experiences with that form of yoga, without a doubt, unfortunately, Yogi Bhajan was an abuser, and he was very abusive to children. And women in particular, and I am someone who deeply stands with victims and survivors of horrid things like that. And so even though I had already been in deep study about Kundalini for many years, I took a kundalini yoga training as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Before we knew about this stuff, or at least I did, and I was aware of the things that he was making up. Some things I think he was he was bringing in. I think he had some really wonderful tools that he brought in without a doubt. But I also sincerely feel that he also did a lot of damage, and so I feel strongly about re educating the world, I mean, to the degree that I can about what some of the more classical teachings of Kundalini practices are. To get away from this, the modern style Kundalini system that was taught by this man who I feel harmed a lot of people, so that the people who know how powerful some of the practices can be I like to reference, where did this come from, and what, what did he make up so you can use it or not use it. That's up to you. I don't personally use his techniques. I use the ones that I've learned from the classical teachings, and my experience using those. And so I just wanted to make sure that Kundalini Yoga is usually people think of Yogi Bhajan. And for me, at this point in my life, that's not something or someone that I like to be associated with. And so that's not necessarily the context that I am speaking from.

Jannecke Øinæs 41:58

Hmm, wow, interesting. I didn't know that. I mean, yeah, that's something I I have a hard time accepting. To be honest, it's spiritual teachers who are leading people astray and taking away their power, not empowering them, and even making up things. That's just horrible. And it's sort of black magic, isn't it? I mean, they do have some powers. Maybe they have a rise into a certain level of consciousness, but they're sort of just using it in a bad way, instead of through the heart. Yes, and there were, there has been some guests who have been speaking about that we have love and wisdom. But if you only have wisdom and not love, it can sort of be used in the become a negative polarity. Yes, to say it like that in the terms of law of law one who speaks about the negative polarity. So so I think we can be tricked into believing that some spiritual teachers have come so far because they do have some wisdom, but they don't have the heart. And do you have any advice on how to actually be discerning of that in this confusing world with very many different spiritual paths and different spiritual voices?

Sita Severson 43:22

Yeah, and I think that's such an important question, because, you know, unfortunately, they are sprinkled in. And there, there have been many unfortunately, and they do. It's the challenge is, like you said, it's not like they don't have some really important things to share, and they bring so much with them that, I mean, I don't want to be associated. So I really think that, you know, making sure that we learn to trust our intuition is not just about feeling like we can navigate our life and our own next steps. It's also about really being able to deeply tune into the people around us and and notice how do I feel around this person if I'm if I'm out of my head and out of my projection of who I think they are and what I think they're representing, if I really go into my sense of self or in my body, How do I feel in the presence of this person? Can I watch them? Or, if I'm at an event with them, can I watch them and observe how they are with other people and and I think some of the things like, I'll since we're talking about Yogi Bhajan, you know, I'll mention that if you ever look at any of his lectures, he was a bully. And he would say, you know, basically, like, Don't question me. It was sort of the because I said so or right, and it's like, and there's, there's no relevance for what some of the things that he taught, like, what? Where it even came from, and I and and, and I want to be careful with that, because I know that I channel information, and I know people who channel information beautifully. So it's not that, you know, we're not making it up, it's that we're bringing something through, but, but there will be a consistency when we're bringing things through. And with Yogi Bhajan. If you look at some of the things, for anyone who's ever looked hard enough, and I'm not, I'm not inviting you to deep dive into this. I'm just saying these are the things to look out for. There were serious inconsistencies with him. So anyone who is saying, just do this, because I said so is like, no, that that no, it's please, trust yourself. Please, trust your own intelligence. Try something if you're curious, but notice how it makes you feel if someone's giving you you know insight. How does it make you feel when you do it? How does that really land for you always go back to your own sense of self and how things make you feel, and let that be your guide above anything and anyone else.

Jannecke Øinæs 46:10

Yeah, I think it's an important conversation to have, actually, because I've heard of many people and talked to many people who have been into online programs and courses with a teacher who is basically taking their power away. And I've always felt that, you know, if a teacher says that this is the way and it's only my way, that's the way, then run the other way.

Sita Severson 46:34

100% yes, 100% or if they're trying to create a sense of neediness, if they're trying to create this situation where you need them, that's very problematic to me. That's very, very problematic because I think one of the most important things that we all need to have is our own sense of sovereignty. And we can have a teacher who is there to guide us, or teachers who are there to guide us, but they should never betray us and ask us to portray betray our own sense of sovereignty, that that is another huge problem,

Jannecke Øinæs 47:10

And since we're speaking about Kundalini, I'd love to get over to your perspective on the shift of consciousness. But how can we do this work? Do you, I mean, tell us a little bit about how you work and how you help people find their inner power and also to arise this, or rise this Kundalini energy.

Sita Severson 47:29

Yeah, so what the way that I like to teach it is, I do trainings on it, and it is, it is. They are usually called Yoga, like Kundalini Yoga trainings, which I know it's like, I might need to rebrand that, because I don't want it to seem like it's associated with the whole Yogi Bhajan thing. But a lot of the tools that I use are yogic tools. Again, they're not they're not the athletic kind of yogic tools that you are used to. They're not, they're not anything like that. But there is, more importantly, with these tools that we use, where we're purifying the body, while we're using mantras and breathing and all of these practices, there's a certain sequence that you want to go to and go through when you're working with the Kundalini energy, and so I do my yoga trainings. They're usually about 50 hours, and it is the process. It's teaching, the process of going through the sequence and doing the practices for within the sequence that will allow the Kundalini to safely rise, and so that you're really capable of integrating the awakening when it happens. And so I like to teach it in group style, because I find that it's really wonderful to know how to hold hold space for people, because I like to teach people who come to me also, I work with a lot of people who are interested in holding space for other people. You don't have to want to be a teacher of Kundalini, but you can be or you can be any kind of teacher or healer or guide, but it will teach anyone who comes your way of sequencing for yourself and sequencing for other people, so that the awakening can really be the best that it can be, because it really is a remarkable, remarkable experience.

Jannecke Øinæs 49:42

Okay, wonderful. So you're doing this in a physical environment, or is it online? And if people are curious, how can they sign up to this if they want to have a kundalini awakening?

Sita Severson 49:54

Yeah, so it's both. So I do, I'm, I'm with the soul of Yoga Institute, which is in San Diego, California, in the United States. So we do have a Physical Institute where people love to come and spend a week with us and train in it and be in that shared space. But we also have a lot of students from around the world who cannot travel to us, and so they do it by way of being online. And we have a really cool setup in our institute where we have these two big screen TVs. It's very interactive for the people who are online. So it's not like you're just watching something, it's, you're really, you really get to engage with your classmates and with me. It's, it's a, it's a incredible experience. So we do it's usually a Monday through Friday, so it's a week long. And then there are some assignments that you do after that, and that's only if you want a certification in it. You certainly don't have to. We have plenty of people who do it and don't get a certification. They just they want the recordings, because the recordings are made available if you sign up, so you can watch anytime, and you can do it at your own pace, but for those who actually want a certification in it, there are some reflection questions and things like that, that that you can do that also make up the 50 hours.

Jannecke Øinæs 51:19

And I'll drop a link below, I'd love to promote this. I love your work. There's also a 10% off for wisdom from North followers. So that's awesome. But you can't guarantee, right, that, Oh, everybody will have a kundalini awakening, I guess.

Sita Severson 51:35

No, I can't guarantee it, because it really is up to that individual soul. But what I can say, and I feel very confident to say that 99% of the people I'm just not I'm not so arrogant to say 100% but I can confidently say 99% of the people who join us, they have an absolute life changing experience through the practices and through the time we spend together. And I feel very, very confident in saying that based off of previous experiences.

Jannecke Øinæs 52:12

Sita, I'd love to hear your perspective on the shift of consciousness. What do you see as a clairvoyant is going on right now, and now we're moving into a new year. What do you see is going to be the new energies of 2026,

Sita Severson 52:27

so, you know, I, I, I actually believe, based on what I see, I also do Jyotish astrology. So this is partly through the the Jyotish astrology lens, but also what I intuitively sense. I do believe that things are going to get more intense in the world, which is, I'm not sure how excited my personality and we talk about the personality versus the soul. I'm not sure how excited my personality is about that. But, you know, I definitely trust the process. I really feel what is happening is there is a lot more. It's like we're going through our own Kundalini awakening as a collective field. And what it's doing is everything is getting illuminated step by step by step, and this illumination process is revealing a lot of the darkness it's it's revealing a lot of the things that have been making this world a toxic place for a very, very, very long time. And I also feel that in that illumination what we're going to see more of are more people who are light workers, who are healers, who want to make a difference, who, who this illumination process is reminding them more about who they are and activating the part of their soul that knew that it chose to come in during this time to be an agent of change. And so what I find really beautiful about all of that is, you know, with with with everything being more illuminated, we do. We do see the dark. We do see what we would call the ugly, but we also get to see the beauty. We get to see what activates and what wakes up. And so, you know, I really feel that for 2026 it's it is about we need to be prepared. And I don't mean this in a in a scary way, but I do feel we need to be prepared. It's a year that is all about not playing small anymore, abandoning the parts of ourselves that feel that our life is just about us, because I don't believe that, yes, we have our own personal soul journey that we're here to work through. But like I was saying. Before we are a part of a collective field and what we do matters, and the more that we allow ourselves to really be who we are and who we are here to be, the better the entire world is going to be. And we really need that right now. And I think a lot of people are going to see in 2026 that their life is going to start forcing them into not playing small anymore. And so you will likely see the challenges that come with that, and also one of the challenges that comes with that is a lot of the karmic endings and karmic cleansing. So if there are things from the past that maybe you need to make amends for, or, you know, relationships that you know, have you know, seen their time in your life and now they really are just sort of holding you back or pulling you down. This is a time to really step into this version of yourself that is ready to be something and remember that you have likely spent, I feel comfortable saying you've spent lifetimes preparing yourself for what 2026 is going to ask you to be, and it there's so much energy about awakening and expansion, and I think most of us know awakening and expansion is not always comfortable, and it's not always easy, but it's always rewarding, because it puts us exactly where we are supposed to be. And so I really feel that these are some of the huge themes that we will see collectively, especially in this sort of light world, for those of us who are in the, you know, the shared company of wisdom from north or even at the school where I am at soul of yoga, where this is, this is how we want to, Ori orient ourselves in the world, knowing that our work means we're being of service. And so one thing that are a couple of things I think are worth mentioning, is make sure that you are doing your practical spirituality. And don't worry about the daily micromanaging, like, oh my gosh, I've got to do this thing. No, oh, I didn't do that thing again, and I was supposed to do the thing, and this is good for me. And that whole push pull of, you know, that a lot of us do, like, you know, maybe we have our meditation practice, and we're great at it for a few weeks, and then we stopped for a few weeks, and we're like, Why did I do that again? This is a year of Okay, so if you can't consistently do your meditation practice, then find a mantra or an affirmation or whatever it is, and when you're driving in your car, make a commitment to yourself that you'll spend five minutes chanting it or finding a breathing technique that really makes you feel elevated, or a visualization when you're in the shower, imagine you're clearing your chakras Right? Like let the little things matter, and don't micromanage your spirituality. Do what you can, and don't fight yourself on having to be or do something that maybe you're not there yet, or your life just isn't supporting and the last thing, or two things, there's going to be an information explosion. I we're just going to have more and more information. I'm sure it's related to AI and media and all the things, just information. And I'm not saying it's all true and valid. I'm just saying it's information, and so our need for our regular practices that work for us, even if it's again, three minutes of chanting a day, I don't care, but that's going to help give us the discernment that we need to know what information is worthy of our time and energy and what is not because we don't need to psychically bring in all of this noise that the world is throwing at us that's just confusing most of us. Lastly, let your home be your sanctuary. Do everything you can, even if you're not in a in a home space that you can really make nourishing because of whatever reason, if you can even just find a corner in a room, or maybe it is going to the bathroom for five minutes and letting yourself have a moment of deep peace, maybe you can turn the lights off in the bathroom and light a candle for five minutes, for five minutes of peace, but make sure You have a place of sanctuary that you can visit to replenish yourself. That's also going to be very important, because awakening is a process, and awakening is happening, and 2026 is really going to call us into our awakening, whether we like it or not.

Jannecke Øinæs 59:38

Wow. Brace for 2026 Yes. And that was truly helpful. I mean, you gave us some really concrete, practical tools on what to do. You know, it's easy to say, prepare, but how do we prepare? So thank you so much for that. Yeah. And also, Sita, it's always joy speaking with you, and we could basically speak for hours. However, I'll wrap up with my final questions that I ask everyone, and my first one is, what is self love to you?

Sita Severson 1:00:15

Self love is asking myself in any given moment, what do I need right now, and honoring it

Jannecke Øinæs 1:00:29

beautiful and very helpful also, and what is the deeper meaning of life from your perspective?

Sita Severson 1:00:38

For me, the deeper meaning of life is to be self realized, because I believe that when we are capital S self, not little self, personality, self, but when we are more self realized, then we naturally want to live in honest heart to heart connection with others and The world. And I really think that that is where our deepest growth is, and I feel that that's where we are really setting up more of that new woven tapestry that will ultimately change the world.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:01:18

Beautiful and other than the program that we spoke about, how can people connect with you if they want to follow you and be inspired?

Sita Severson 1:01:27

Yes, so, so the the institute's website is soulofyoga.com my personal website is livewiththelightson.com but you can also find me on sub stack just with my name Sita Severson, I do write a lot. I write a lot of inspired articles, so you can find me there as well.

Jannecke Øinæs 1:01:48

Thank you so much, Sita, for coming back to the show. It has been a joy having you here.

Sita Severson 1:01:53

Love, I love, love, love, having these conversations with you. Thank you for having me. Thank you.