Kundalini Q&A Compilation - Kundalini Disturbance, Shaktipat, Kechari Mudra, Yoga, Meditation & More

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Tay says here, can this indicate that maybe the awakening is coming to an end? My craziness stuff

is decreasing now, hearing voices, etc. Yeah, so interesting terms here. Coming to an end,

I wouldn't say it's coming to an end. I think the awakening just keeps going and going and going

and it doesn't stop. It's like a flower that keeps blossoming. It's the evolution. It's

change. It's impermanence. That's really what this is. So, it doesn't ever come to an end,

but I get the gist of your question here. I think what comes to an end, in some cases,

no, not for everybody, is all of the far-out stuff. I think what happens is we become so integrated

that we actually return back to a certain degree of normalcy. And we aren't necessarily that weird

person having all these crazy experiences. We're kind of normal. We're a normal person that

has seen some interesting things, experienced some interesting things, but we're sort of

grounded, practical, normal. We're able to relate with other people with a sense of maturity,

the sense of wisdom. So, that's in some cases what happens. So, for me, things are generally

speaking pretty quiet. If I do a lot of meditation, yeah, I can get into some pretty weird states.

Some interesting things can happen, visions and stuff. It's cool. But when I'm out in the world,

like even right now, it's just very quiet. This is very quiet. I'm not getting any sort of

profound mystical experiences or visions. And there's no voices speaking my ear or anything like

that. I'm just very grounded and normal, I would say. Maybe some would disagree. But that can

sort of happen where the far out phenomena does come to a point where it's not as frequent or

as intense. Doesn't mean that anything is going wrong. It is impractical to be having so much

far out phenomena. We're operating in this world. It's impractical. As a certain point, the

Kundalini knows that you're meant to return back into the world, back into society, back into

relationships. You know, fulfill some sort of purpose, whether it's your job, your career,

some vocation, whatever it is. And so having a lot of crazy phenomena doesn't necessarily

allow for you to do the work that you're meant to do. So there's some ideas there to consider.

The awakening doesn't come to an end, but often the really trippy stuff does. Many people,

they have a period where they have all sorts of really trippy stuff and then it kind of just goes

away, very typical, very normal. But after having a lot of trippy stuff happen to us,

we know what's possible. We've seen directly with our own eyes, right? We felt it. We know that

it's, you know, it's a real thing. And just knowing that's enough, that's enough. We don't have to

have it happening all the time. It's a great question, Taze.

Maria shares here. I used to hear the Shakti voice a lot early in my Kundalini awakening.

Now it's very sporadic, a short word. And that's it. What can it mean?

Interesting. Yeah. So very early on, we can have some experiences like this to really get

our attention, to really invite us to see something that's going on. So we may have a very

profound, clear, energetic experience, a very profound, clear vision or encounter with a

deity or a divine being. And they may speak to us in a crystal clear way, full sentences, full

paragraphs, full downloads can come. Of course, very quickly, we get on with the program. We say,

okay, yeah, there's something going on here. I'm relating with the Shakti, the divine mother.

She's speaking to me, right? As we move forward on the journey, the very clear, lengthy

transmissions or downloads or messages or communications, they can at times become like you

said sporadic, can become more concise. Does this mean that something is going wrong? Have we lost

touched with a divine mother? No, not necessarily, not necessarily. So my idea is coming to me are,

she's not here to live your whole life, to whisper in your ear every step, every step of the way.

She's not here to do that. You're here to live your life as, as who you are, as Maria. I'm here to

live my life as Brent. We're not meant to be, you know, constantly checking in with her or constantly

waiting for her to give us the green light on every little thing that we do. We didn't come here to

live like that. So that's why she can sometimes take a back seat. The communications can get a little

sporadic. We know she's there, but she's this little quiet, letting us have her autonomy, letting

us have her own journey. As well, another way of looking at it is earlier on, you may have had an

experience where you perceive the shock to the intelligence of the divine mother to be this force

somewhat separate from you, communicating to you, right? So you're here and that goddess is out there.

She's relating with you, talking to you. That's valid. It's useful. But as we go further and

further through the journey, Kundalini transforms our system, that idea of separation begins to fall

apart. And we recognize that it's all one. We are the divine mother. The Kundalini is not separate

from you. It is you. The Shakti is you, right? That's who you are at the deepest level, right? So this

idea of having a back and forth dialogue or a discussion, die, meaning two discussion, same

prefix, meaning two, meaning separation, it becomes sort of a non-dual conversation in which there

isn't a dialogue anymore. There isn't a discussion anymore. It's direct transmission happening

in the moment on the fly because it is you. So one time, I was having a conversation with the

divine mother, a dialogue, a discussion, as if she was separate from me, which I was doing for

quite a while. And I was getting some great responses and insights. And I felt like, you know,

a really good relationship. One day I hear back, who do you keep talking to? I am you.

And it dawned on me. Oh, oh, my gosh. I've been talking to myself the whole time.

This is the Shakti is not some goddess up in the sky or out there. The goddess is within me.

It is me. I'm living my life as her, right? So that's when, you know, the separation was sort of

began to dissolve. Now for me in particular, I still enjoy relating with her as if she's

separate. I love having a discussion. It's just easier for me to practice surrender and trust

to have an emotional, emotional relationship with God in that way. So I continue to relate with

her like that. But deep down, I know that she's not actually out there. It's me the whole time.

So if sometimes she's quiet and I don't get a response, I don't get sad. It's okay. I know

she's there. How could she leave? Where would she go? She is me, right? So that's sort of what

happens as we go through the journey. And you have, you know, your own relationship with her.

Everybody's got a unique relationship with with themselves, with the divine mother, with

God however you want to put it, right? So you cultivate it in your own way. You develop your own

frequencies of communication, your own patterns, your own styles, right? Everyone has a different

relationship. So hope that helps Maria. That's a great question. Great question.

Hey there. How's everyone doing? Yeah, I guess my question today, I mentioned to

the group that I went to the Shakti pot over the weekend. And it was a really profound experience.

It was basically just like two hours of meditation or so. And then the sida like did some bodywork

during it. And I was kind of hoping for more of like the bliss and peace style stuff, but I kind of

got the opposite, which is what it needed to be. And I think I'm just still trying to process

basically what happened for me and how to integrate. And I can share more about what I experienced,

but it was just basically on the same topic. It was like the same pain I've been sitting with,

but like intensified like and like I had to sit with it all the way through.

For and it was like there, it was like almost like the injury that had initially started this

pain. Like I had to like sit through that over again and even like maybe more intensely.

And then it finally started to like move like down towards my leg. And it was like really,

really amazing. And then right at the end, like I felt like there was still more pain to do.

And I guess like the things that I'm sitting with now is like I've had like an emotional hangover.

Like I've felt like totally like wrong out like really, really empty out. And like

of like just how to integrate really massive energy work in these types of environments. And then

how to like I also feel like changed a bit from it. And so how to like take a breather with like

my people around me while I try and re-acclimate and figure out where I'm at if any of that makes

sense. So how to integrate big, big experiences and how to give yourself that breathing room.

Yeah, thanks Chris. Interesting stuff. I can share some ideas, but I'm just curious if the facilitator,

I think you mentioned the Sid, did they have any, you know, takeaways, home practices,

anything like that for you to consider? It's very basic. Just like grounding nature,

earth, you know, grounding diet. And yeah, and I think it was like my first time in that type of

environment as well. But I think yeah, I was just basically like the same basic stuff that we know,

which works, right? Like I'm going to go in nature today and integrate as well. But just like if

anyone's had that experience of like having like an energy hangover. Oh yeah. Yeah, okay. So

of course, the basics are really where it's at. So

lean into all of the stuff that you know that already it works for you in your system when it comes

to grounding, taking it easy self-care, et cetera. So when we have sort of huge energetic openings,

healings, maybe it's a psychedelic trip, maybe it's a profound Kundalini awakening or rising

experience. The days and weeks that follow, it can almost be like the nervous system needs to

take it easy and cool off, energetically cool off. And that can bring about simultaneously

period of longing to rest, maybe not interested so much in intense spiritual practices as well as

a lot of emotional stuff coming up, brain fog, feeling maybe a little depressed, a little down.

And this is generally speaking, the sort of the price of accelerated awakening experiences,

there's some sort of a hangover period and there's nothing wrong with that as long as we just

address self-care. Ideally, give yourself an outlook for this idea of integration for like

months, maybe a year, not that you'll be in this hangover state for that long, but just know that

it's not like you can rush integration, it's not that you can rush getting grounded. And it's also

not that you can exhaust all of the benefits from such an experience within just a few days.

It's going to play out over, you know, in some respect, you can say over the rest of your life,

it all plays out. So for example, I had some profound energetic experiences a few months ago.

Only now am I starting to take note of some significant changes that are taking place

as a result of those experiences. So it just unfolds over a long period of time. And this goes

for everybody. Generally speaking, give yourself outlooks of like years for this process. It makes

everything a lot more easy. Don't think that, you know, by next week, it's all going to be, you know,

fantastic. As well, you know, if we give ourselves a more of a broader outlook, it puts things into

context for how profound this experience really is, how profound it really is. So profound experience

like what you had, it should take some time for integration. It really should because it's such a,

you know, meaningful experience that you had. It's such a meaningful journey that we're on. So

it should take some time. So that's one thing, an attitude of just broadening our timeline a little

bit, journaling, writing, exploring, just following our intuition towards the right things that

we need and also know that as long as you're focusing on self-care and not neglecting your body,

your system, you're not consuming things that you know you should be consuming. You haven't gone

off the rails in your, say, your behavior and whatnot. You're kind of just, you know, keeping it simple,

keeping it safe. If you just do that, whatever you need to reap, all the benefits, all the

integration just kind of happens on its own over time at the perfect pace. So you can't get it wrong.

Just take it easy on yourself a little bit here and know also that it's different for everybody,

right? It's different for everybody. Fortunately, we have the general understanding now that whatever's

coming up is coming up to be healed and released. So the hanging over your experiencing is not

something going wrong. This is part of the process. So self-care, very, very important. I hope

that can help you. I know I didn't really give you too many specific things because I really think

it's just about the basics. It's really about the basics. Eating well, right? Just doing a bit of

socializing, connecting with the body and just basic ways, as well as trying to live our highest

truth, right? So if you had some realizations that say we're all one or you had some realizations

about forgiveness or love or creativity, try and live in alignment with those values that you've

awakened to, bring them to the forefront of your consciousness and let them lead you and guide

you, right? So just some ideas that are coming to me to share. Thanks, Kersa.

Lauren shares here, very large amounts of Amrita again in the last few days,

sporing over my face and head. Today up to my chest is if I had to dress over up to my breasts,

very, very intense experience. So I'm very tired today.

What does it mean that it only went down to my chest? Anything special? Thank you. Maybe a word

more about Amrita. Okay. Yeah, so Amrita is, you know, it's the divine nectar.

Um, for some, it can begin to pour down from the brain through the nasal cavity onto the

tongue and then down the throat and, of course, into the chest. It may, in some situations,

be associated with the movement of the tongue to the back of the mouth by the soft palate.

And in some cases, if your tongue is flexible, it may actually go upwards. The tip of the

tongue may go upwards towards the, towards the sinuses. In yoga, this is called kachari mudra.

Just like how we can make moodras with our fingers, we can also make moodras with our tongue and,

you know, certain sections of the mouth. So kachari mudra, if you would like to look into it more,

is the Sanskrit word kachari mudra. So that can stimulate this divine nectar to flow down.

In the beginning, sometimes there's a little salty, it's a little bitter. Over time,

it can become quite sweet. As it moves down, then we sort of can swallow it.

It can serve to cool off any of the digestive fire. That's the purifying fire of Kundalini can

be cooled off a little bit with this Amrita. You describe here that, you know, it only went down

to your chest. Now, perhaps your sensitivity to it only went down to your chest.

Perhaps only enough flow down that it sort of trickled and fizzled out by your chest. But in

time, perhaps if it's necessary, more will flow down and make it down towards the rest of your

stomach and whatnot. It's just something that, you know, we don't necessarily have to chase after,

not everybody will experience it. It has some interesting functions and purposes.

And it's a sign of some pretty meaningful stages of the path. You may like to look more into

this idea of kachari mudra in association with Amrita just to see what comes up in your own

research. You may be guided to some particular things. But it's an interesting experience,

interesting experience, not something to chase, not something to hold on to.

But very interesting nonetheless. It's a great question, Lauren. Thank you.

So Medina shares here. There's an Indian lady on YouTube. She's been mentioned in her zoom

session in the past. She calls the Kundalini process, Kriya's and so on, a Kundalini disturbance

and that we are not actually supposed to feel Kundalini in these effects. Was your personal thoughts

and opinion on this? Yeah, so there's many different paradigms to look at this through.

In some cases, if we look at, say, the original teachings of hotayoga,

the body is prepared. The system is prepared quite intensely prior to the major awakening

and rising of Kundalini towards the head. So because the body is prepared with meditation,

with certain diets, with a certain lifestyle, you're practicing hotayoga with

ideally a guru who has already gone through this process. So you're prepared in a very

smooth easy way. You're given proper context. You're operating in an ethical manner as a yogi,

you've taken the certain precepts of vows. You're not taking on a lot of karma or conditioning

per se. You're doing this work. After a certain point of preparation, then you begin to awaken

Kundalini and draw it upwards with skill that you've developed. In those cases,

ideally, if the preparation has gone well, you won't experience incredible disturbances.

You won't experience a whole difficult dark night of the soul. You won't experience confusion.

You won't experience resistance to the process because this is what you've been preparing for.

You have the guidance of a guru who's walked every step of the way with you.

You've been operating in an ethical manner, knowing that this is pairing you for spiritual

transformation. But operating in an ethical manner, you haven't really accumulated all sorts of

emotional stuff. You've taken some sort of escape from society and from other people and

have you're doing this sort of an isolation in an ashram or a temple or a cave or whatever it is.

So you don't have all the baggage from other people. You don't have a romantic relationship where

people are traumatizing and breaking your heart and you're trying to keep them happy and all

the same. You don't have any of that. So there's not so much to come up to be released and disturb

your sense of peace. Generally speaking, I'm speaking in a very broad generalization there.

Compare that type of context or somebody like, say, myself, I'm here. No idea about Kundalini.

I'm doing psychedelics. I'm exploring meditation. I'm not operating in an ethical manner. I'm

consuming alcohol. I'm in relationships dysfunctional. Then this Kundalini awakening happens.

And I'm my body is tripping out because there was no preparation. I had all sorts of emotional

issues. All sorts of my context wasn't right. I had no guidance. So I'm afraid of the

process. I'm confused. I don't know what's happening to me. Or some going to be disturbed. So

that's what I think is going on here. When some people say, Hey, you're not supposed to be

freaking out with Kundalini. It's supposed to be very calm and gradual. I think, yeah,

ideally, if you've been practicing with somebody who knows what they're doing and prepared you

accordingly, then in those cases, yeah. However, some people take that idea and they apply it

to everybody. They say, no, no, Kundalini, it's only smooth. It's only easy. So what you're going

through, you're just something wrong with you. Or that's not Kundalini. That's something else.

I don't think that's what's going on here. Actually, I think we are experiencing a valid

Kundalini awakening. We're just experiencing it in a context that is not supportive or conducive

of it. We haven't been properly prepared. That's why it looks very different than how it could look.

But we have to deal with the awakening that we've been given. Many of us, it happens to us

spontaneously. We didn't go and seek this out. They just started happening to us and we've got to

accept it as it comes. Eventually, you will come to a point where you don't feel disturbed by this.

You know, you feel quite peaceful and you've made sense of the process. But it takes some time.

It takes some time. So it's an interesting time in our culture, right? So many people are going

through this and getting quite disturbed, quite disturbed. But once the genie comes out of the

bottle and it's awakened, you know, we have to work with it. We have to work with it.

As far as next question says, what do you think about attending a normal yoga or meditation classes

once Kundalini has awakened? Yeah, this is a great question.

So most, quote unquote, normal yoga classes, the teacher will say, listen to your own body,

take rest when you need to, modify the poses as you need, and really, really lean into that.

You have the original source of yoga within you, which is awakened Kundalini.

So that should take precedence over the teacher in the room.

If your body says don't do this pose or your body says just sit in child's pose for the next half

an hour or just lay in Shavasana for the next little bit. Just do that. Follow your body. No shame,

right? No shame. Even if there's a bunch of people around you, you're doing a real yoga,

listening to your own body. That's for gentle yoga, gentle stretching, gentle movements.

When it comes to something like Pranayama, as taught in a yoga class, breathing techniques,

if you ask me, just don't engage in them. Pranayama is very powerful and it's meant for very

specific things. Most yoga teachers, I am one of gone through a yoga teacher training for 200 hours.

The training is just far too basic. The thing that they say is like, oh, if you do this breathing

technique, there are benefits for your well-being. It calms the mind. It gives you energy. They

have no idea what these breathing techniques are actually doing and there's somebody at the class

teaching 20 people these different breathing techniques. Now, do all 20 people need this one

particular breathing technique at the same moment? Of course not. We've got somebody who's a 16-year-old,

we've got somebody who's 80. We've got somebody that's depressed. We've got somebody that's going

to Kundalini awakening. We've got somebody that just did a psychedelic trip the day before. We have

somebody that's high on weed. How can they all need the same breathing technique? They cannot.

And it's irresponsible for somebody to teach somebody that they don't really understand. So,

don't engage in any sort of breathing techniques at a yoga class.

Once again, you have the original source of yoga within you, which is awakened Kundalini. If you

need a particular Pranayama, a particular breathing pattern, it will happen to spontaneously. You

just start breathing in those ways. This happens when you need it. And that's where these

breathing techniques originally came from. People observed people with awakened Kundalini and they

said, oh, this person has awakened Kundalini and they're breathing in this certain way. Let's

document that and let's try and copy them. And then they documented it and then other people found

those documents and started copying them, not having a clue what it's doing. So, that's wanted to

keep in mind, especially Kundalini yoga, which is very powerful, but it's taught irresponsibly by

people who don't even have awakened Kundalini most of the time. You don't have to have awakened Kundalini

to become a Kundalini yoga teacher. You just need to do 200 hours of training. And I've seen

this happen where people have powerful awakenings in the class that go to the teacher and they say,

hey, this happens to me. Can you help me? I'm struggling now. And the teacher's like, I don't know

what that is. I've never heard of this before. It's really, really, it's not a good situation.

So, those are my thoughts on attending normal yoga classes. Listen to your body, gentle yoga,

gentle movement, yin yoga is great, yoga knee dress great, some gentle sunset mutations,

fantastic, fantastic. Also, keep in mind that we should be important. It's important to note

the scope of our teacher. You can ask them, what have you been through on your path?

Let's ask them point blank. Do you know about Kundalini? Do you know about this? Do you know about that?

See what they say? Tune in. Feel for yourself whether you should spend more time with them or not.

So, for me, I did a yoga teacher training. I asked the teacher. I said, you know,

do you have any experience with Kundalini? She said, no, I said, okay. I turned in in words

and shockedy within me said, no, you can still take the training with this person. It's okay.

But I knew not to approach her with questions about my Kundalini. I knew because I knew she didn't

have the answers for me. So, I didn't expect her to, right? So, that's one thing that we can do.

Now, when it comes to meditation classes, once Kundalini has awakened. Meditation, once again,

more and more people are becoming meditation teachers with very, very little experience,

and all sorts of really trippy, difficult things can arise as we know. Kundalini awakening,

for example, not to mention all sorts of things. Really, really intense stuff can happen.

As long as once again, you know that the teacher is able to support you or not, and so you don't go

in completely carelessly, you take responsibility for yourself, and you don't put your well-being

in the hands of another. If the meditations are super intense, like today, we're going to do a

third-eye meditation. Don't do that. My approach to meditation is just to allow and observe.

The Kundalini is awakened within you. It's going to lead you into meditation. It's going to show

you how to meditate. Sometimes those meditations are quiet. Sometimes they're very intense. Sometimes

there's energy moving. There's all sorts of things happening. But if we come in with our ego,

or we trust the ego of another person who says, today we're going to do this type of meditation,

or that type of meditation, we are putting the awakened Kundalini's intelligence as secondary.

We're putting it aside and we're saying, no, no, I'm going to listen to this person who has done

like a 50-hour training. I'm going to listen to them. It's disrespectful to the intelligence

within your own body. Keep that in mind as well. These places are great. It's good that the culture

is shifting and people are more open to this stuff. But the next culture shift is going to be

people becoming aware of the potential challenges that can arise as a result of exploring these

things more intensely. Maybe some of us are called to address this challenge by becoming our

own yoga teachers, our own meditation teachers, and what not, with awakened Kundalini so we can

support those that are going through some challenges. Those are just some of my ideas coming to me.

I know it's a bit of a long response. I got lots of say about all this kind of stuff.

It can get me a little fired up. But as long as we use our discernment, we should be okay.

It should be okay. Hope that helps. It should be great questions.

Chris adds here, I worry about having to suppress Kriya's in that setting. Yeah, so

Kriya is the spontaneous movements that may come up. Sometimes it's vocalization, spontaneous

vocalizations. They may come up. If you ask me, any meditation teacher, any yoga teacher who's

really knows what they're doing, they shouldn't have a problem with spontaneous movements in Kriya's.

It takes 10 minutes to learn about this. It takes 10 minutes to understand that it's a valid

real experience. There's videos of people experiencing it on YouTube. Even within the psychology world,

they understand that spontaneous movements happen when people are having trauma releases.

It shouldn't be that far out. It should be quite well accepted. However, of course, I understand that

they tried to establish an environment of peace and quietude in some of these meditation and yoga

studios. If somebody comes in as having a profound awakening and they're flailing all over the place,

kind of kills the vibe. It's not good for business, but of course, are we in the business of

healing people? Or are we in the business of making money? It's two different things.

What you can do is you can try and inform the teacher before and say, hey, I'm going through

this thing. I'll sit in the corner. Just let me do my thing. They may say, hey, you know what,

I can't handle that. I don't want to, you're going to scare my students away. They may say,

okay, and then you say, all right, you know what? Not for me. Then you go find somewhere else

or you do it by yourself. But suppressing careers, I wouldn't put myself in a situation where

careers were coming up and I was suppressing them. Find somewhere where you don't have to

suppress. That's my take on it because they just come out in more intense ways at another point

anyway. So by going to a sort of yoga class or a meditation class and then suppressing,

we're doing it this service. It's one thing to suppress that, you know, a family dinner or

something. It's one thing to suppress where, you know, you're like, at the dentist or something.

That's different. But if you're in a spiritual context, I think, you know, try and find somewhere

where you can fully just let it rip easier said than done, of course. But the culture is shifting

and like I said, we're all part of that. And I know, I know, Carissa, you're also a yoga teacher.

So it's great that you have this experience. So when, you know, your students

begin to go through these things, you know, you're there, present with them and can offer them

some guidance. It would have been amazing if some of my yoga teachers knew what the hell I was

going through. That would have been nice. Hey again, thanks for tuning in. We'd love to have

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