Hi Christi,
I will not take into account the time it has taken me to figure out that I had overload issues and subsequently dealing with it. This surely was several years.
Christi, I am glad you asked this question. Since my “kundalini-like” experience and my start of AYP in summer 2018, I kept track of the changes in my practices in a little journal. However, I did not really take a deeper look. I just did and realized, the longest period of stable practice was half a year of breathing meditation. Before that, I took 6-7 months off AYP (overload), started with SBP and DM (first 5 min/10 min then 10 min/20 min) which soon showed to be too much, so I self-paced. So, given your conditions (self-pacing and grounding, not switched, or mixed-in, other non-AYP techniques, and not indulged in automatic yogas) half a year of breathing meditation it is with an additional half a year of trying to find a stable self-paced routine with SBP and DM.
Hi Cato,
So, looking at the bigger picture, I would say that you have not been on the path for that long. It has been almost 5 years since the Summer of 2018, and 5 years is not a long time in terms of the spiritual path. During that time you have experienced the awakening of kundalini, a lot of powerful purifications strong enough to result in physical kriyas, and periods of stabilisation. Then you have spent the last year building back up from breath meditation only, to a fuller practice routine.
Personally I would say that is a lot for someone to go through in quite a short space of time. Your dissatisfaction probably has more to do with expectations. Expecting to be experiencing peace, or bliss, or ecstasy, or joy, after everything you have been through? Quite often though, after an intense period of purification, there has to be a settling down period, where everything that was cleared out is being integrated. This is especially true, if that purification period involved energetic overload.
When things like peace, joy, bliss, and ecstasy do come, they can often come when they are least expected. When things have really settled in the subtle nervous system.
So, my advice would be to give it time. Allow things to settle down. Allow the mind to become calm and peaceful.
Christi
Christi, I very much appreciate your support and your guidance. Thank you very much. You are perfectly right with what you’re saying. My expectations after five years of AYP are those of calmness and inner peace. It is easy not to see what already has happened and that it might have been a lot. And it is also easy to get distracted in this stage where things like peace, joy, bliss are still missing as the maze of spirituality offers many possibilities and as many promises. Thanks for sharing your perspective, it really helps a lot! 
(btw. I don’t think you are around Koh Tao right now 
. I recently thought about it since I do a three months trip with my family right now (before the kids go to school) and we are currently staying in Koh Phangan. Never been to Thailand before, this is such a beautiful place).
Hi Cato,
I am not in Thailand at the moment. I will be there in September this year for the annual AYP yoga teacher training course. If you do go over to Koh Tao, do look up Devrim. He is one of our AYP teachers and he teaches with me on the teacher training courses.
This is his website:
http://www.baantalaykohtao.com/activities/yoga-koh-tao/
Christi