Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Terminology:

- Shakti
- Shiva
- Ida
- Pingala
- Prana
- Pranayam
- Chakra

Kundalini Yoga is a spiritual discipline whose ultimate aim is enlightenment and transformation of the being. There are many different practices enforcing different aspects of the discipline, but I am mainly trying to focus on "The Big Picture", it's rich and mysterious history and influence throughout world culture.

- Kundalini is the energy that rests at the base of your spine.

- The purpose is to awaken it from it's dormant state (Shakti) and guide it to the Pineal gland (Shiva)

- Shakti can be awoken through extreme physical, emotional, or mental discomfort; but also through practice and discipline.

- Two currents of energy are traveling up and down our spines, spiraling, they form a double helix. The Chakras are created where those energies are diametrically opposed to one another.

Kundalini was preserved in the west in codified systems only a few could read, and the teachings were spread through Mithraic Mysteries and Gnostic Ceremonies. Here are many examples of our everyday culture mysteriously linked to Kundalini:

- Alchemy

- Yggdrasil Tree

- Nietzsche

- Pharoahs headdress

- Ascelpius' staff

- Christmas tree

- Maenads/Thrysus

- New Age Movement