Kudalini & Chakras
Kundalini Shakti:
Kundalini is traditionally depicted has a sleeping serpent coil three and a half times at the base of shushumna nadi.As it is awakened it spirals up shushumna nadi ,travelling to all of the chakras.Kudalini is feminine energy so is termed Kundalini shakti.
What is Kundalini Yoga?
- The system of postures,breathing exercises,and meditations design to promote general well-begin.
- Kundalini is a biological mechanism,linking the activity of the reproductive system and brain .
- It is an evolutionary mechanism guiding the species towards the higher dimension of consciousness.
Methods to awake kundalini:
Every aspects of yoga in some way activates kundalini.
- Shatkat – touch by an enlightened individual.
- Pranayama – Suspending ida and pingala nadi.
CHAKRAS:
The word is derived from Sanskrit word meaning ‘wheel’.The chakras are formed at the junction of three connected energy shafts that ascend the spine,one on each side of the central channel,the shushumna ,the pingala,the ida,run parallel to the spinal code.These are crucial points of energy that we use,weather consciously or unconsciously,to affect reality and allow us to fully experience and realize events that unfold before us.This focal points are called chakras.
There are seven chakras in the human body.They are
- Mooladhara
- swadhistana
- Manipura
- Anahata
- vishuvdha
- Agna
- Sahasrara
Each chakra influences a different endocrine gland and nerve plexus,and correlates to different energy bodies and higher realms.The main task of chakras are absorbs and distributing pranas to our physical body.When the kundalini adds with the prana, the chakras become rapid, and insights of the higher word become conscious.