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Prior required knowledge : good Yoga and Pranayama training. click here and here to learn. DO NOT practice Kundalini awakening without a good yoga background and stop immediately if you feel heat inside.

Awakening Kundalini progressively gives you more vitality and improves your abilities to feel and transform subtle energies. This article explains how to achieve this purpose.

1: Usual breathing structure:

Here is the usual breathing structure:

"There are two internal forces or breaths, Prana and Apana, which govern the inhale and the exhale respectively. Prana rises, spreads and blossoms. Apana goes down, contracts and roots." The process of Yoga: Richard Freeman

"Can you feel the upward flow as you inhale? This is prana vayu. Can you feel the downward flow as you exhale? This is apana vayu". Breath and the five Vayus: Catherine Carrigan

Note that when you inhale, the air moves downward in your lungs, but the energy moves upward in the main nadis: Ida and/or Pingala and Sushumna if Kundalini is awaken.

Pingala is the right channel, masculine, hot, related to the sun and running from Muladhara to the right nostril, it is located on the right side of the spinal column. Ida is the left channel, feminine, cold, related to the moon and running from Muladhara to the left nostril; it is located on the left side of the spinal column. Sushumna is the central channel. Running from Muladhara to Sahasrara inside the spinal column.

Usually, men are more Yang than yin: Prana they inhale usually flows more in Pingala (Yang nadi), than in Ida (yin nadi).

As a consequence, to balance energy, Apana they exhale usually flows more in Ida.

And more precisely adding sephiroth/chakras and the Tree of life structure:

This is symmetric for women or people who are more yin than Yang: 

And :

"Breath predominantly in the left nostril is described as cool, and sometimes referred to as feminine; Breath flowing predominantly in the right nostril is described as hot, and sometimes referred to as masculine" says excellent swamij.com 

Note that the dominance may change from time to time during the day: the day is more Yang whereas the night is more yin, ...

First exercise: Experience opposite breathing

Try to breath the opposite way: if you are a man or a Yang person, imagine light moving UPWARD in Ida nadi when you inhale slowly and moving downward in Pingala nadi when you exhale. After 1 or 2 minutes, you should feel some energy in the area of your spinal column and experience slight euphoria. Then stop and repeat this exercise regularly. If you are a woman try the symmetric cycle..

Now we'll study a key exercise to awaken Kundalini :
"Kundalini awakening by reversing Prana and Apana":

- Prana usually moves upward (both for men and women, check the above drawings): let's force Prana to move downward.

- Apana usually moves downward, both for men and women: we'll force Apana to move upward.

"Tantra teaches us to reverse the flow of Prana and Apana" Tantra Texas

"Most significant about the five Vayus are Prana Vayu and Apana Vayu... Reversing the energy causes the Kundalini at the base of the subtle spine to awaken, and to begin to arise" Swamij

Here is how to proceed for a man or a yang person:

a) inhale slowly and deeply, visualizing spiritual energy flowing DOWNWARD in your IDA NADI. The energy should flow until it meets muladhara chakra n°10. Let the energy feed your yin sephiroth/chakra 3,5,8. Feel Prana energy moving downward. 

b) exhale, visualizing spiritual energy flowing upward in your Pingala nadi. The energy should flow until it meets sahasrara chakra n°1. Let the energy feed your Yang sephiroth/chakra 7,4,2. Feel Apana energy moving upward.

After a few minutes, you should feel the energy flowing between muladhara and sahasrara. By practicing regularly this exercise, your body becomes accustomed to flows of spiritual energy. You should feel some heat in muladhara chakra due to this flow. Stop until you don't feel any more heat.

Try to feel the elements fire on your right, water on your left, air above your head and earth below your feet.

If you are a woman or a yin person, try the symmetric:

It is also useful to try the men cycle if you are a woman, and the women cycle if you are a man; it may suits you better. Try to feel what is better for your body.

Then, let's add breath suspensions.

After inhalation in Ida (men) or Pingala (women), suspend your breath and concentrate on muladhara chakra. This breath suspension blocks the flow of Prana in muladhara and awakens Kundalini:

After exhalation  in Pingala (men) or Ida (women), suspend your breath and focus your attention on Sahasrara chakra. This breath suspension blocks the flow of Apana in Sahasrara and awakens this chakra too.

It is also possible to suspend your breath and focus your attention on the flow of Apana in Ajna Chakra instead of Sahasrara Chakra: it awakens the third eyes and increases your mental and clairvoyance abilities ...

You can give special rhythms to your exercise if you like:

Test and choose the rhythm that suits you better.

All these exercises are very powerful; do not practice more than 1 minute at the beginning. It is of no benefit but a source of problems to practice more.

When you are more accustomed to this training, you can increase the intensity thanks to contractions during suspensions. Maha Bandha is suitable click here to know more

At last another exercise which is very efficient to awaken Kundalini, for both men and women , but you need to be trained and have a good knowledge of yoga to perform it safely:

a) inhale slowly and deeply, visualizing spiritual energy flowing DOWNWARD in BOTH Ida and Pingala nadis. The energy should flow until it meets muladhara. Feel Prana energy moving downward. 

b) After inhalation in Ida AND Pingala, suspend your breath and focus your attention on muladhara chakra. This breath suspension blocks the flow of Prana in muladhara and awakens Kundalini:

c) exhale, visualizing spiritual energy flowing upward in your SUSHUMNA nadi. The energy should flow until it meets Sahasrara chakra

d) After exhalation in Sushumna, suspend your breath and focus your attention on sahasrara chakra. This breath suspension blocks the flow of Apana in Sahasrara and awakens this chakra:

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Do not practice more than 1 minute a day during the first 10 days; and you need to you have a good yoga background before practicing any of these exercises.

At the beginning, it is natural for the spiritual energy not to flow easily in Sushumna nadi from Muladhara to Sahasrara. The energy may stagnate in the areas of your navel, your heart or your neck. Just stop and try again a few days later. And just before every new practice, visualize the energy flowing easily from Mulhadara to Sahasrara: Muladhara, Swadhistana, Manipura, Anahata, Visuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara.

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