Hi,
Just wanted to share a tips I got from two yogateachers, and that I have tried out and found functioning very nicely for my easily overactive kundalini system…
Coming from a background of quite severe kundalini overload, I was very sceptical when I joined a retreat with kundalini yoga on the menu. But it was a great test to see how energies moves these days, and the best tips I got was about the sat kriya position. The traditional way to use it is to focus on navel and have a root lock and pump the energies upwards.
In this altered version, coming from medical yoga, you don’t have any intention of pushing or pumping any energy. You sit in the normal position with arms straight up etc, but breathe in your natural tempo preferrably rather slowly, on inhale you say a short sat and on exhale nam. If ok, you can have a very slow and soft root lock on sat and relax fully on nam. Starting out with this position 30 sec/day and investigate how that feels. If positive, adding 15 sec/day until 3 min. Doing that 3 min position for 40 days. Then see if longer time may be appropriate according to reactions.
What happens here anyway, is that the energy goes in a downward stream, not upwards. With the slow root lock, earth energy is pulled up to the lower chakras (no further up), and kundalini energy is not stirred at all. I get very firmly grounded, calm, heavy and the whole system stabilizes very nicely, so that the overload symptoms disappears more and more. Fascinating!!!
It would be interesting to hear others experiences with this, particularly those who are prone to have kundalini overload symptoms and those over-sensitive to meditation.
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