Namaste Friends 
Been wondering how those of you who have been through the experience of “excessive kundalini heat” have dealt with it. Lately, (ever since the weather started to warm up here [spring has come early to Canada, at least the part of Canada I live in]) I have been having to deal with some excessive kundalini heat. It wasn’t a problem during the winter this year, in fact this winter was the most comfortable I have ever been in the cold, but now that it is above zero degrees most days here, I am going through a phase where I am excessively hot all day long. Spine sweats, hot flashes, etc are the majority of the symptoms. I’m quite sure that I am in general not “overloading” here, I haven’t added any practices in quite a long period of time and my routine is very stable and consistant, but I am a little uncomfortable these days just due to the heat.
The only reason this is really an issue at all (usually I would just turn the heat down at home and wear less clothes), but my wife is regularly complaining that the house is too cold, even though I am usually more then warm enough. I am hoping for a few suggestions (other then being naked all the time 
) on how to deal with kundalini heat during the summertime. I would like to be comfortable, but I also would like my wife to be comfortable as well. Are there any ways of reducing this heat without actually turning down the heat and making everyone else cold? I have tried implementing the “cooling breath pranayam” but this doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of difference unless I do it non-stop, and I am a little worried that if I did that I may start overloading.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Love!
Limited experience here with kundalini causing excess body heat.
But, re: lowering body temperature, eating less and lighter foods lowers the heat of digestion. I love eating lots of fruit all summer long (because it burns cleaners), but if I try to do it in the winter time, I literally start shivering all day long - my body needs heavy food to keep warm in the winter, but not summer.
Best of luck,
JDH
Hi Carsonzi 
, a good pita diet will do you good…
check this out: http://www.aypsite.org/ayurveda-diets.html
tc bro
Hey Guys
Thank you for your suggestions!
I probably should have mentioned in the original post that I am already employing a pretty strict pitta diet…have been for almost a year now. I am HEAVILY pitta dosha, and when I say heavy, I mean really really heavy (can’t remember the exact numbers from the dosha test I took, but I’m pretty sure there were only one or two that I answered Vatta or Kapha to). The only foods I eat that are known to aggravate my pitta dosha are a little beef, and some pineapples (I haven’t been able to cut these out as I LOVE them), but other then that, my diet is basically all pitta pacifying.
I truly appreciate the advice though!
Love!
Couple of recipes to try that cool the body down…
1> 2 tblspn fennel seeds + 1tblspn seedless raisins … soak in a cup of water overnight (6-8 hrs)… Drink this water the next morning.
2> 2 tblspn yogurt + 1 glass of water + pinch of rock salt or sea salt or table salt… stir well… drink cold. Drink a few glasses of this.
Both the above drinks are very cooling.
Also almonds… before you eat them, soak them overnight in water and take the skin off… they are not heating if eaten like that.
PS: there were a few suggestions here by Solo http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5741, not sure if they were effective. But you can try those too.
But the yogurt one really does help. Very helpful when there is the burning sensation in the solar plexus area due to “soma” as well.
Thanks Shanti
I will for sure try this out…heading to the grocery store later tonight, so I’ll get me some raisins, some fennel seeds, some yogurt and a few almonds and see how it goes. Muchly appreciated!
Love!
Guess my writing was not clear. From your first post I got the impression you liked almonds. Well, almonds are very heating, hence I said, if you would like to eat almonds, soak them and take the skin off and then eat them. This makes them less heating. The skin is what makes them heating.
However, almonds wont cool down your body. Sorry for being unclear on that one. 
Hi Shanti
No need for the …or for the “Sorry”.
Your writing was clear enough, and any misunderstanding was because of me, not you. Not sure why you would think that I like almonds based on the original post though (I DO like almonds, but I don’t eat them very often). I will make sure that I follow your advice when eating them in the future though…thank you for your advice!
Love!
Strange!!! I could have sworn I read about almonds in one of your posts. I think I need to get my eyes checked. 
THe most cooling effect I have had from any practice was when doing moon salutations I found in a book. Very, very cooling.
Second most cooling effect I have had from doing something a long the lines of this exercise:
http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/13922-making-love-with-the-earth/page__gopid__181465#entry181465
You could also check out the biologyofkundalini site. It has a lot of advice on how to deal with kundalini symptoms and I seem to remember her writing about heat.
Hi CarsonZi,
I’ve been feeling the same. It’s been really warm recently in Boston. I suspect that my case also has something to do with the practice time. I happened to do my morning session around noon. Noon is supposedly the most firey time of the day.
I suspect the overall heat has something to do with the blocking of front channel. The front channel are supposed to conduct the yin(cooling) energy.
Wondering if we can do something more than eating yin food…
Yes the front channel is very cooling
Hi Marken,
I’ve been doing sun solutations almost before every session. I feel it’s much on the yang side. And the “moon solutation” you mentioned might be a good way to balance it. Could you please share it with us?
Thanksï¼
Phil
THe thing is that I only did a couple of times and don´t have the book anymore and don´t remember the name. But I googled moon salutation and saw that there were lot`s about it. I am guessing that there are many versions like with sun salutes. So maybe look at several and choose the one you like best. THe one I tried was quite complicated and did no give the same simple flow as sun salutes.
Hi, marken,
I tried this version. felt less firey than the Sun salutation, the energy center is lower, too. feeling good about it.
Good to hear:)
Hi Carson,
how old are you? If you are older than 35 the heat could be hormonell and due to a congested liver. Yes, andropause is real and comes sooner than we like it
My husband and I are both in midlife and both longterm Kundalini practitioners and both suffer from excessive (liver) heat. The problem is that the kundalini practice can make this situation much worse, which is why one needs an experienced teacher.
What helped me is to learn to turn the burning heat of the kundalini into a sensation of warm bubbling water by combining it with a smile and a feeling of bliss.
Heat without bliss is very dangerous and can cause all sorts of real disease. At some point I even had an enlarged liver like an alcoholic even though I never drink or put anything unhealthy into my body.
So, what I do is to ‘smile into my liver’ and it has helped tremendously.
Another thing is to slow down your breathing - in/ out and hold as long as you can. If you can hold your breath on empty lungs for more than 30 seconds you are good and don’t need the breathing exercise.
Hope that helps, even though I am sure you didn’t like the suggestion that it is mainly hormonal. Sorry.
Best,
Corinna
Hi Corinna and welcome to the AYP forums!
I just turned 29 less then two weeks ago.
Haha…no, I don’t think this is the issue (although with the amount of hair falling out of the top of my head maybe I should re-evaluate 
…yes, I am well into the “male pattern balding” even at 29…started balding at age 20).
Well, I used to practice (3HO) Kundalini Yoga, but I have been practicing the AYP system exclusively for almost 2 years straight now (twice a day, everyday). I found that when I was doing kundalini yoga I was having a LOT more uncomfortable energetic symptoms. These seem to have in general lessened and even stopped at times when using the AYP system exclusively. I totally agree that kundalini practices can aggravate an already aroused kundalini and I also agree that extreme care should be used when directly working with the K energies. I would suggest that using a system like AYP (which is a “global housecleaning” system of practices that includes built in checks and balances) is much safer then a system that tries to target anything (basically kundalini) specifically or has excessive focus on any one aspect of yoga.
Glad to hear you have found a way to combat the excessive kundalini symptoms. For me, pacing myself with my yoga practices and actively practicing grounding techniques has been the life saver here. Just last week I was noticing that I had some excessive heat in the heart area which appeared first as abnormal sweating and then turned into a rash on the sternum, and backing off of the heart opening asanas (and other practices)as well as taking extra time to walk and ground the energy has stabalized things and I am now back to normal.
Well, there is no shortage of bliss here, so…hopefully I am in the clear …haven’t been sick (other then the odd "self induced sickness 
) since I started practicing AYP quite honestly.
That doesn’t sound good!
Glad to hear that this has helped you.
I can hold my breath out for more then 30 seconds, but if you are practicing stuff like this, well, I’m not surprised that you are having excessive kundalini symptoms! Pranayam (consciously slowing down the breathing) including kumbhakas (breath retention) is a MAJOR kundalini stimulator. I would suggest you NOT do practices like this if you are having excessive kundalini symptoms. Practices like this will only aggravate them.
Hahaha…no sorries necessary …the suggestion that it is mainly hormonal didn’t trigger any kind of response here. I’m pretty sure that it isn’t hormonal…pretty sure it is caused by overdoing advanced yoga practices. Since I opened this topic the heat (in general) has been quite a bit less uncomfortable and hasn’t been much of an issue.
Thanks for your advice!
Love!
Hi Carson,
nice to hear from you.
So you are 29 - so you REALLY do not want to hear about the andropause…quite right! Having said that - male balding is also hormonally caused - too much testosterone - you probably know that.
In my and my husband’s case it is definitely hormonal - but I feel that working with ‘inner heat’ is aggravating the situation because I always get the worst hot flashes during my meditation. But, as I’ve said: they are almost gone, thank goodness.
About the breathing: this is a supercalming. You can stop a full-grown panic attack with that breathing technique within 5 minutes. It helps with every kind of ‘too much’ energy.
About the bliss: what I mean is: one should never experience any form of heat without the bliss because it can ‘burn’ your inner organs and give you energy disease. I’ve had several of these during the last 20 years while I experimented with kundalini. They feel like real diseases with much pain but there is nothing physically wrong with you. So, it’s not enough to feel generally lots of bliss but specifically when the kundalini is heating you up.
Anyhow, I am glad you feel better and you go a steady and controlled pace. I find the keyword with kundalini is control. Everything needs to be tamed, gentle and controlled. These out-of-control experiences one can read about so often in Western literature are really terrible accidents that should have never happened.
I myself had 90% wonderful experiences with kundalini like heightened creativity, more intution etc. and maybe 10% problems like these energy diseases I’ve mentioned.
The main problem, however, are heightened emotions. I think I feel everything 5 to 10 more strongly than other people. This is, of course a blessing AND a curse as you can imagine.
I am surprised that others do not write more about this here as for me and my husband this is definitely the biggest challenge. Your whole unconscious mind gets emptied out - right into your face and you see an ugliness that you never thought you had.
Best,
Corinna