The Ten Bodies is a unique yogic system for understanding the human structure, our functions and our potential. It gives us a language through which we can begin to understand the different aspects of our physical, mental and energetic makeup—and, importantly, how they work together.

The Ten Bodies are: The Soul Body, the Negative Mind, the Positive Mind, the Neutral Mind, the Physical Body, the Arcline, the Aura, the Pranic Body, the Subtle Body and the Radiant Body.

Learning what these Bodies are is only the beginning. As we become familiar with the system, we can begin to observe the Bodies at work in our actual lives: How do we perceive danger before we can explain it? What allows us to recognize possibility? Where does our sense of intuition come from? What are we actually experiencing when we talk about someone having “presence”?

The Ten Bodies gives us a yogic language through which to investigate these experiences. Through practice and observation, the teaching moves beyond something we simply know intellectually and becomes something we can recognize and experience for ourselves.

The experience makes it yours.

All Kundalini Yoga practices work with the whole human system and therefore support the Ten Bodies, while particular practices can give greater attention to specific Bodies. Throughout the course, we will use these practices not only to learn about each Body, but to experience and observe the teachings directly.

The Ten Bodies are also closely connected with Tantric Numerology, which uses the qualities of the Bodies as part of its numerological framework. Understanding the Ten Bodies therefore creates an important foundation for going deeper into Tantric Numerology.

We will also explore the Eleventh Embodiment—Parallel Unisonness, its relationship with Sound Current, and what becomes possible when the Ten Bodies begin to work together as an integrated whole.

Working with the Ten Bodies ultimately gives us more than a system to study. It gives us a way to investigate ourselves: to recognize our capacities, understand where we become limited, and develop a more integrated relationship with the different dimensions of who we are.

And through that process, knowledge can become experience—and experience can become personal wisdom.