KUNDALINI AWAKENING

What is Kundalini Awakening?

Kundalini Awakening is a remarkably powerful spiritual experience. In the yoga world, it is spiritual enlightenment. It is something that devoted yogis and practitioners spend many years preparing for and working towards.

So what happens when we awaken our dormant Kundalini energy?

Well, consider that Kundalini is our spiritual energy. A Kundalini practice uses the physical body to move the spiritual energy along our central channel (along the spinal cord).
In essence, it’s waking up the divine feminine life force energy, known as the Kundalini serpent, that lies coiled and locked at the base of our spine.
The uncoiling of your essentialness. Your you-ness. Your creative potential.
It’s the energy of your soul. Your highest identity.
This Kundalini energy is always in us, just dormant.
Time to think about this differently.
Kundalini free flowing in a child and then life and our perceived limitations are what block it. It gets stagnant and gets stuck. Kundalini awakening is not something that’s happening to you the first time when it happens, it’s like a return to homeostasis, your birthright, your true enlivened state of being.

RE-AWAKENING

Once this energy is woken and able to flow freely up and down our centerline, or sushmuna, the central channel through which Kundalini ascends. This coiled energy originates at the base of the spine where the 3 nadis, ida, pingala, and sushmna meet.
It makes its way up to penetrate the seventh chakra (at the crown of your head) where it meets the divine masculine forces (consciousness).
Where our divine feminine energy represents creation, our divine masculine energy is higher consciousness.
And with this meeting comes a shift into a broadened state of awareness. There, in the seventh chakra, a spiritual awakening can occur.
This is what we call Kundalini Awakening.
It is an experience that will move you to your core and bring you to light.

What triggers Kundalini's awakening?

1. Meditation

Meditation in general is a wonderful practice and tool for preparing and awakening Kundalini. In particular, practising extended meditation within a short time period, such as in a retreat setting, can be a trigger for awakening to occur.

2. Yoga Asana

Both Kundalini Yoga and Hatha Yoga can trigger awakening by activating and clearing the energy centres through specific chakra-aligned postures. Other spiritual postural practices like Qi-gong can be a trigger too.

3. Breathwork

Working with the breath and certain pranayama exercises can trigger awakening as you guide your life force to flow up and down the energy line within.

4. Prayer

Much of awakening stems from intention. Therefore, intense prayer and deep devotion to connection with the divine can trigger awakening.

5. Energy Healing

Chakra work, Reiki, hypnosis, trauma therapy, and so on, can be a big trigger for awakening Kundalini as you are working intently to clear blockages in the subtle body, making space for Kundalini energy to flow.

6. Physical Trauma

Awakening can be triggered through working to heal physical trauma and injury, especially in the lower back or spine area as that where she lays.

7. Emotional Trauma and Depression or Grief

Losing someone close to you whether it be through death, a breakup or physical separation can be a strong trigger for awakening as well as suffering from depression or experiencing great grief.

8. Near-Death Experience

Kundalini is a life force within the sublet body. Sometimes, Kundalini's energy will awaken in an attempt to sustain life in a near-death experience.

9. Love

Falling in love can trigger awakening by opening up the Anahata chakra in the heart centre.

10. Childbirth

Giving birth to a child can trigger Kundalini Awakening as new life passes through the Muladhara chakra.

7 particular yoga asanas you can work with are:

Malasana Yogi Squat (Root Chakra)
Frog Pose Mandukasana (Sacral Chakra)
Dhanurasana Bow Pose (Solar Plexus)
Camel Pose (Heart Chakra)
Cobra Pose Bhujangaasana (Throat Chakra)
Balasana Child’s Pose (Third Eye)
Sat Kriya (Crown Chakra)

7 mantras you can work with in preparation for awakening Kundalini are:

LAM (Root Chakra)
VAM (Sacral Chakra)
RAM (Solar Plexus)
YAM (Heart Chakra)
HAM (Throat Chakra)
AUM (Third Eye)
Silence or SO HUM(Inside mind's eye) (Crown Chakra)

7 Mudras you can use:

The Muladhara Mudra (Root Chakra)
Shakti Mudra (Sacral Chakra)
Rudra Mudra (Solar Plexus)
Padma Mudra (Heart Chakra)
Granthita Mudra (Throat Chakra)
Mudra of the Great Head (Third Eye)
The Mudra of A Thousand Petals (Crown Chakra)

What Are The Signs of Kundalini Awakening?

Sign #1 – Physical symptoms that include fever, chills, headaches, sweating, crying or a tingling sensation down the spine
Sign #2 – Increased sensitivity, both emotionally and physically
Sign #3 – A change in sleep patterns
Sign #4 – A deep sense of interconnectedness with all things
Sign #5 – A new ability to see the bigger picture (activating your third eye)
Sign #6 – Acceptance of what is (truth) and relief from negative emotions
Sign #7 – Eagerness to practice non-violence
Sign #8 – Recognition of oneness and the desire to serve others
Sign #9 – A sense of connection to God, Divinity or a higher power
Sign #10 – The sudden urge for radical change
Sign #11 – A profound sense of calm, composure and peace
Sign #12 – A deepening of compassion, empathy and understanding
Sign #13 – The ability to communicate freely and openly (unblocking the throat chakra)
Sign #14 – Vivid or lucid dreams and enhanced intuition
Sign #15 – A stronger immune system as your body beings to thrive off of the energy within

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