Yoga: Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga emphasizes on the breath (Pranayama) and Mantra (sound or chanting). This raises consciousness and energy up from the base of the spine through the central energy channel (Susumna). Through the Susumna, all seven Chakras are aligned. Kundalini is very effective for balancing glands and organs and healing the physical/emotional body.

It is believed that there is a cosmic energy that lies with in each of us. Kundalini combines breathing exercises, mantras, and a series of postures that travel up through the practioner's spine passing through six of the seven chakra. Once all six have been achieve, it then arrives at the seventh chakra where the practitioner experiences an overwhelming feeling of bliss that symbolizes the reintergration of the eternal essence of the self, or atman.

Kundalini is associated with a serpent, all coiled up. With in this coil lies dormant energy that begins at the base of the spine in the Sacrum. According to Greek myth, the sacrum holds supernatural powers and the Egyptians considered it to be the seat of special powers and the west, the Sacrum is believed to be the container of water of life. Guru Vashistha described Kundalini as the seat of absolute knowledge. It is there to nourish, heal and look after and to give an individual a higher and deeper personality.

The absolute power of Kundalini is purity, auspiciousness, chastity, self respect, pure love, detachment, concern for others and enlightened attention, to give infinite joy and peace to an individual.