BEWARE THE IMPOSTERS

Before you will be tempted by the promise of spectacular change, find out what Kundalini really means and whether your body is ready for it.The readiness of your body and preparation are the most important parts of the Kundalini Awakening process. Without preparation, there is no way to awaken this powerful Energy. Without preparation, you can seriously harm yourself.

Social media is booming with videos promoting so called Kundalini awakening sessions and workshops. We see people lying down, writhing unnaturally like snakes. The therapist walks among them, pulling invisible strings, moving them like puppets. It looks impressive and spectacular at first glance. Nowadays, anything extreme and spectacular attracts attention and sells best. But in this case, it’s about your physical and mental health. And you are not a puppet, but a living being with a very complex nature.

I often get the impression that people are more cautious about choosing a dentist than choosing a therapist to whom they entrust their energy. This worries me because our energetic body is a blueprint for our physical body, not the other way around. When our physical body suffers, it means something disturbed our energy earlier. In other words, first, our energy gets sick, and then the body. That’s why it’s so important to be aware of who and how works with our energy.

WHAT REALLY IS KUNDALINI ENERGY?

Kundalini comes from the Sanskrit language and translates into the word “coiled”, coiled snake or serpent. Shakti in Sanskrit, means “power, energy, strength”. Kundalini Shakti is Cosmic Energy, dormant energy, static, with tremendous potential, located at the base of our spine, in the Root Chakra. It is as powerful as it is dangerous if mishandled. Kundalini energy, as a dormant, is the maintainer of material existence; uncoiled, it is the force that absorbs it. It can liberate us and lead us to self-realization, even enlightenment, or it can enslave us. Kundalini exists as dormant in each of us, we need years of practice to access it, to uncoil it and even that does not guarantee that we will awaken this energy. What’s more, sometimes really subtle awakening can be a shock to our nervous system and bring more harm than benefits.

Imagine a situation where a person who does not practice yoga, meditation, spends whole days in the office, living in haste and stress – as most of us do, suddenly decides to go to “Kundalini Awakening” workshop because it sounds interesting, extravagant, and the location is attractive, warm Thailand or Bali.

KUNDALINI ENERGY IS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF-REALIZATION BUT ALSO A HUGE RISK, IF HANDLED IMPROPERLY

Awakening Kundalini is a chance to connect with the Divine Source, the Absolute, the Truth about ourselves. Sounds magical, doesn’t it? But you must be ready for such Truth. In the „Autobiography of a Yogi,” Paramahansa Yogananda asks his guru why he doesn’t grant him Samadhi (Samadhi means higher state of consciousness that every yogi dreams of achieving). After some time, Great Saint replied to him:
“Dear one, I would be glad to convey the divine contact, but it is not my place to do so. Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire.”

In various professions, such as sports, there are levels preparing for more advanced stages, same applies to Kundalini Awakening.

KUNDALINI YOGA – ONE OF THE POWERFUL PATHS TO KUNDALINI AWAKENING

Let’s start with the fact that Kundalini Awakening does not exist without practice; among others, Kundalini Yoga is one of the paths or branches that fits into the great Tantra system and the Tantric umbrella. The beginnings of Kundalini Yoga, as well as the well-known Hatha Yoga, date back to the beginning of the 10th century in India. Techniques and practices contained in this unique and ancient form of yoga, as well as the techniques and tools offered by Tantra, can gradually awaken the dormant Kundalini energy and lead it harmoniously through the subtle channel of the spine, higher and higher, ultimately to the Crown Chakra. In this way, the snake unfolds, awakening our true potential, the truth about our soul and everything around us, allowing us to see the world as it truly is, without the limitations, illusions created by our ego.

Importantly, this wonderful process of spiritual development leading to liberation is sevenfold and can last decades. Each of these stages usually reserves ten to fifteen years of very intensive practice. Sounds disappointing? If we look at it with humbleness, we will realize that great and lasting changes require time, effort, and take place in silence and harmony.

Let’s imagine that our spine is a highway. Traffic jams form on many sections of it. If we wanted to organize car races in such conditions, there would be massive crashes. Our bodies, due to the lifestyle we have: improper diet, toxic substances, stress, lack of physical activities, as well as unresolved traumas, function like this gridlocked highway. By awakening such a powerful energy as Kundalini Energy in such a body, we can simply cause a catastrophe. That is why preparation is so important. Kundalini energy has a chance to awaken in an energetically light, pure, and harmonious body.

AWAKENING KUNDALINI IS NOT TURNING ON THE LIGHT WITH ONE SWITCH

Kundalini Shakti cannot be turned off and on, as though today it is off and tomorrow it will be fully turned on and activated with the flip of a switch. I’m sorry if I disappoint you, but you won’t awaken Kundalini at any workshops if your body is not prepared for it. And even if you have been prepared for years of practice, this energy awakens gradually, not rushing through the body like lightning at the speed of light from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, connecting you to the Cosmos. Spiritual life is not sci-fiction.

Another very important information regarding readiness of your body. When a change occurs in us, big or small, it must be harmoniously integrated into our complex body afterward. This requires time, support, and implementation of specific practices. In other words, one change leads to another and so on. In serious and certified yoga schools, with a lineage, Kundalini Awakening topic is presented after several or several levels of yoga.

SEXUAL ENERGY VS. KUNDALINI ENERGY

What most often happens at so called Kundalini awakening workshops is simply overstimulation and overload of the body with sexual energy or prana. The fact that the body twists and moves like a snake does not mean that the snake-like Kundalini Energy is circulating in it and unwinding. Those workshops are just the certain form of increasing energy to do more mischief. Awakening Kundalini, in a healthy and safe way is a slow process, subtle, quiet and harmonious. In this case, in the aforementioned promotional videos from so called Kundalini awakening workshops, what we see is awakening sexual energy.

Most people manage their sexual energy within the intimate parts, pelvis, waist down. Other parts of our body are not ready to take over this energy. When such unprocessed and uncontrolled energy begins to move higher and deeper, it’s simply too much for the body. The energy finds no river mouths, the conducting therapist does not help in its harmonious flow, and it turn into this “exorcism”.

Second what may happen, that by specific breathing exercises, influence of group energy, meditations and other practices guided during mentioned workshops your body can feel different, better in general and this sensation can lead you to the superiority feeling, kundalini awakening feeling, that is surely not.

KUNDALINI IS DIVINE, COSMIC ENERGY. DO YOU FEEL READY TO ACCOMMODATE SOMETHING SO POWERFUL IN YOUR BODY?

Just slow down, be humble, take a step back, read about it, don’t decide hastily because it’s not a bungee jump, and even that can end really badly. Look for a Kundalini Master who will prepare you for such a process, show you the way, who will teach you authentic and ancient spiritual practices and real yoga, that is not only body fitness. Don’t be a Puppet, in the hands of inflated Ego.

And second, even more important, to receive such pure and Divine Energy within you, you need to be pure, lead highly moral life, have true ethical activity in life: not to hurt, not to drink, clear thinking. So, are you really ready and worthy?

I am a Tantra Teacher and Tantra Therapist, I walk the tantric path, I practice every day, I regularly cleanse my body. Nevertheless, I know that my body is not ready for this Divine Energy. I bow deeply to it with humbleness and work hard to one day be worthy of Kundalini Shakti – Energy of God.

When it happens for you and your Kundalini Energy will move through your body to your Crown Chakra, you won’t see fireworks above your head, you won’t become better than others, because your Ego and the illusion you’ve created will disappear.

Kundalini Awakening “Can only happen when the self is not. That can only come when there is absolutely no sense of the self.” – J. Krishnamurti