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Kundalini Awakening Support Group

It is my intention to run a peer-group for others who are undergoing the rapid physiological and psycho-spiritual transformation that accompanies kundalini awakening. These experiences are a bit like a rip cord being pulled and huge swaths of one’s trauma and ancestral and past life karma arising at once for processing and release.

These experiences vary from person to person depending on one’s spiritual path, level of preparation, and karmic unfolding. Contrary to popular belief kundalini awakening often does not involve kundalini yoga or even any yoga practice at all.

Many people spontaneously awaken kundalini, and this can occur for a variety of reasons. It can result from something as simple as riding a horse or breaking one’s tailbone. It can also occur after an intense meditation retreat, decades of dedicated meditation practice, or an ayahuasca ceremony, or decades of ayahuasca ceremonies. The unfolding varies widely for everyone and the potential for kundalini awakening is inherent within us all.

Kundalini awakening is a type of spiritual awakening

But not all spiritual awakening involves the unfoldment of kundalini. It is quite intense and not everyone who experiences it finds it a treat. In the words of Swami Satyananda Saraswati in Kundalini Tantra: “The awakening of kundalini is like a great explosion which transports a person into another plane of being.” Many of us experience this explosion in our lives without having a clue as to where it came from.

In my experience it began with feelings of burning heat in my sacrum and spine and standing up from a chair to feel the seat burning hot. It has continued for years with overwhelming vibrations throughout my body that often require me to rest for many days. It is the rapid process of the body’s subtle energies completely rewiring and this can involve substantial downtime for many of us, which can be challenging when raising children, running a business, or working full-time. Many of us take breaks from employment for months or even years. 

In Kundalini Tantra, Saraswati continues to describe the process as “a journey through the border region between the known and the unknown …this explosion signals a profound alteration in consciousness.” The process of approaching the unknown often requires us to traverse the abyss which can feel quite daunting and isolating for many of us. 

Finding the treasures in the dark is part of the path.

How do you know if kundalini awakening applies to you?

How do you know if this applies to you? The most identifiable experience is a feeling of energy shooting up your spine like being plugged into a wall socket. This energy might move all the way or part of the way to your crown.

At times it can feel like it’s shooting up through your skull and into the sky above your head. This electric energy can radiate across one’s back, through one’s arms and legs, and throughout the whole body. It is a very shocking and dramatic feeling for those who encounter it for the first time.

After months or years of continual kundalini unfoldment, it is common for one to notice it less. The intensity becomes part of the background of life and less distracting, but it often feels quite pleasant and the you can work with its energy in a variety of ways—such as restoring one’s energy or performing hands-on healing for oneself or others. 

Symptoms that accompany the rising of kundalini include

• Spontaneous shaking of legs and arms and spontaneous yoga poses and mudras

• Spontaneous humming, singing, or speaking in unknown languages

• Unconsciously sucking in one’s breath, holding it, and moving energy up the spine

• Profound desire for prayer, service to others, meditation, retreats, or pilgrimages

• Gradual or sudden opening of the ajna chakra (third eye)

• Sinus pressure or pressure at the top of the crown

• Hearing chimes, bells, choirs, celestial music, flutes, birds, or other sounds

• Seeing many lights inside one’s body or inside one’s head

• Seeing psychedelic visions behind one’s eyes at night before sleep

• Huge shifts in consciousness in a short amount of time

• Dramatic increase or decrease in sex drive, appetite for food, or physical energy

• Processing emotions and energies from your loved ones and the larger collective

Join others undergoing kundalini in supportive groups

It is my intention to coordinate small peer-led kundalini support groups beginning later this year. Sign up below to be notified if you are interested. These groups will be:

• Online

• Scheduled for a time of day accessible to both New York and LA

• Once a month or so, as often as twice a month if participants are interested

• Confidential unless one grants permission to share their stories

• Peer-led stemming from a desire to form and support community

• Donation based

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From the Blog

Recommended books about kundalini

Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari

Kundalini Tantra by Satyananda Saraswati

Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man by Gopi Krishna

The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga by Arthur Avalon