Do yoga poses stimulate the kundalini?

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#1

Gentlemen (and gentle ladies), I am completely new to yoga. Actually I am so new that I haven’t even tried yet, because I’m afraid to do so. So I was wondering if you could help me with the below question?

I accidentally stimulated the kundalini through breath meditation about a year ago. I was experimenting with meditation for the first time in my life, and after 10-20 mins meditation per day for 10 days, it started. It wasn’t a full awakening, - more like a pre-kundalini thing, with energy rushes, feelings of bliss, vibrations in the body and some pretty spacey visions once I was close to falling asleep… Let’s just say I got a first-hand impression that there’s “something” out there :wink:

And all this was enough to scare me. Since then I have avoided any kind of meditation, yoga or other concentration exercises, as I’ve wanted to reduce the energy levels. This has worked well, and after 4-5 months most of the energy had resided again.

I don’t feel much any more - some hyperactivity and racing heart at times, but that’s it. But the energy seems very “ripe” in me - prolonged extreme stress at work or intensive concentration (reading) over a prolonged period of time can actually make it resurface again, although in a less intense manner. Even Jacobson’s Progressive Relaxation - a non-spiritual muscle relaxation exercise, seemed to interfere with it. So therefore I try to avoid those things too.

In relation to that, I’ve got an important question:

I would like to try hatha yoga, but am afraid this will stimulate the kundalini energy. Therefore my plan is to do [B]only [/B]the poses, but without the intensive concentration, meditation and breath-work that accompanies them. A yoga-instructor I know says this should be fine, as the yoga poses themselves do not stimulate spiritual centers, and would not interfere with the kundalini…

However another yoga instructur I talked to, says that [B]all [/B]yoga poses stimulate the nadis and chakras.

What do you think? Please be aware that the energy is unusually ripe in me, and started after only few days of meditation…

Thanks - and a good day to all 8)

#2

Blessings friend, Namaskar ~*~ :wink:

The number one rule if you could call it that is to trust your own intuition and try not to rely on other’s opinions or saying what is best for you. You alone are the truth and what is true for you may not be true for someone else or vice versa.

That being said, I feel that if “you want to try hatha yoga” then that is exactly what you should do, do what you want to do is the whole of the law and pace yourself as you see fit, take anyone else’s suggestion with a grain of salt and remember to look within and listen to your inner guru, it may be in agreement or in total contradiction to what others may have said… only you can decide.

You do sound ripe for ‘something’ but you would do well imho to not project too many if any ideas onto what it is you ‘think’ is happening. In my experience, kundalini is a mysterious force that mind cannot capture its true essence, when it is felt it is like mind sort of shuts down and there is much bliss and energy the likes of which it always seems is fresh and never before felt. That is my ‘experience’ is that whenever it arises it is though it is always for the first time, the phrase I use sometimes is “it feels better than anything you’ve ever felt and that is true every time it is felt, it has no law of diminishing proportions.”

I think it is wonderful you are pursuing yoga and as far as hatha yoga is concerned my view would be that it would help balance your energies and assimilate and integrate whatever is arising. There are ways to do hatha and breathing that seem to stimulate kundalini and that is okay too, just pace yourself with what feels comfortable ‘to you’ and its hard to go wrong, if something happens you did not expect then just see it as a blessing, sometimes when this energy arises it almost can be fearful at times feeling like one is dying but it is mental fear and there is no real physical death occuring, rather one is bumping into the idea of oneself as a physical body and this energy is so powerful it dislodges that identification… again this is all just my own experiences and others may see or explain it differently.

Be fearless and be wise in your fearlessness and trust that everything is unfolding as it should, let your heart and intuition guide your way.

If I was to go back and delete everything I just wrote and simplify everything I wanted to share I would simply ask you this one question.

“what does your heart tell you?”

#3

Thanks for your answer Kutastha :).

Yes, my heart tells me to try it at least once, but to be very careful about it.

There are some people who accidentally unlocked the kundalini, and suffered years of a nervous system gone haywire. I’ve talked a lot of them, and some have lived through a hell you just can’t imagine, with years of depression, anxiety rushes, headaches, digestion pains, insomnia and entity attacks.

I don’t want to join that group :)…

#4

blessings again my friend,

Please let us know what becomes of your foray into hatha yoga :slight_smile:

I have a feeling you are going to enjoy it but one never knows…

I would like to recommend a book to you that I would have loved to have had when I first began my yoga practices as such, that being said, I’m sure it was perfect timing when I did finally come across it several months ago.

the title of the book is “I Am That” and it is attributed to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Again, I highly recommend it, there are some good reviews on Amazon that tell you more about it, and if I am not mistaken you can actually find a copy online in pdf format or on a website somewhere, that being said, I myself prefer having the book in my hands, there is something special about being able to open it up just anywhere and get a good dose of wisdom for that moment…

Feel free to pose a question anytime or just drop by to say hello, grateful to witness your transformation… blessings ~*~