Where I Teach, and the Lineage Behind the Cloth

People ask where the brand comes from, and the honest answer starts before the clothing. It starts on a mat. I am a Kundalini yoga teacher trained in the Kundalini Yoga lineage, and I practised at the Research Institute founded by my late teacher, Guru Jagat, may she rest in peace.  I still teach workshops there online primarily for special events like eclipses, on relationships, business and family. The practice came first. The idea that how you dress is a form of ceremony, that natural fiber against the skin supports an inner state rather than merely covering the body, came out of years of daily practice, not out of a marketing meeting. This letter is about that lineage, what it taught me, and how it lives inside every piece we make in Bali.

If you have found us through the clothing and wondered why it keeps returning to words like practice and devotion, this is why. The cloth is downstream of the practice.

What is RA MA, and how am I connected to it?

RA MA is a Kundalini yoga institute founded by Guru Jagat, who became one of the most recognizable teachers of the tradition to a modern audience before she passed away a few years ago. I studied in that lineage with her, and I continue to teach Kundalini workshops at RA MA every few months, in person and to their online community. You can read about the school and its teachers on the RA MA Institute pages, and they still train new teachers each year through their Kundalini teacher training.

I say all of this plainly because the relationship is real. This is not a brand borrowing spiritual language. It is a teacher who also makes clothing, telling you where her practice lives.

What did the practice teach me about clothing?

Kundalini is precise about what you wear. The tradition teaches that natural fiber supports the energetic work of a practice and that synthetic material interferes with it, that the body has a field which cloth either amplifies or dampens, and that dressing with attention is the first practice of the day. I did not invent any of that. I inherited it, tested it against two decades of my own practice, and found it true on the mat again and again.

When we started making clothing, those were not abstract principles to me. They were requirements. Zero synthetics was never a marketing position. It was what the practice had already taught me the body wants against it.

How does the lineage show up in what we make?

The connection is not decorative. Each thing the practice taught me became a decision in how the clothing is made. Here is the line between the two, drawn plainly.

This is what we mean when we say clothing made in ceremony. It is not a slogan laid over ordinary manufacturing. It is a description of where the standards came from and who upholds them, the roughly thirty Balinese artisan families who make everything we sell, each paid a real living wage, working from their own homes.

Where can you find the practice itself?

I make clothing, but I would not want you to mistake the clothing for the practice. If this letter has made you curious about the source, go to the source. RA MA streams classes and meditations through RA MA TV, so you can begin from wherever you are, and their teacher trainings are there for those who feel the pull to go deeper. Practice first. Let the clothing be what you wear while you do it.

Frequently asked questions

Who is behind Myrah Penaloza? The label was founded by Mayra Penaloza, a Kundalini yoga teacher trained in the RA MA lineage, and co-built with Robindra. The clothing is handmade by roughly thirty artisan families in Bali. The brand's belief that how you dress is a form of ceremony comes directly from Kundalini practice.

Is Myrah a real Kundalini teacher? Yes. Myrah studied in the RA MA lineage with her teacher, Guru Jagat, and teaches Kundalini workshops at RA MA both in person when she's in California or Spain and online with RA MA TV. The practice predates the clothing label and continues alongside it.

What is RA MA Institute? RA MA is a Kundalini yoga institute founded by Guru Jagat. It streams classes through RA MA TV, holds live classes, and trains new teachers each year. It is the school in whose lineage Myrah studied and teaches.

Why does the brand use so much spiritual language? Because it is not borrowed. The founder is a practicing Kundalini teacher, and the ideas the clothing returns to, natural fiber, ceremony, intention, come from the tradition itself rather than from marketing. The language describes how the clothing is actually made and worn.

The practice came first, and the cloth followed it. That order is the whole of the story, and it is why every piece we make begins with what the body wants against it, not with what will sell.

With love from Bali,
Myrah.