The Kundalini System

The Kundalini system is the source of all the practices taught at Yasodhara Ashram and Radha Yoga Centres. Unveil the mystery of your mind using the symbolic language of this system for human evolution. Find practical insights for inspired living.

"The most important teaching I can offer is the application of Kundalini Yoga to modern life in the West. Kundalini Yoga is one system but includes many different approaches to Higher Consciousness. There is a vast potential that lies within each of us-a potential of energy, power, heightened perception, awareness. Kundalini offers a blueprint of this vast mine to be tapped."

"The process of waking up from ignorance and delusion, of becoming free from as many limitations as possible, and eventually of reaching the goal of Cosmic Consciousness-this is the purpose of the path of Kundalini, the path that leads to freedom."

-- Swami Sivananda Radha

Seventh Chakra: SAHASRARA

Sixth Chakra: AJNA

Mind & Intuition
Reflection: Ask yourself,
What do I open myself to and why?
Who and what is it that I invite (by my interest) into the house of my mind?

Fifth Chakra: VISUDDHA
Self-Will and Surrender
Sense: Hearing
Element: Ether
Hearing exercise: Choose one person and investigate your way of speaking with that person. Try to remember a conversation.
What do you observe about your speech?
Do you know your own voice? What does it sound like? Do you like it?

Fourth Chakra: ANAHATA
Heart, Devotion
Sense: Touch
Element: Air
Touch exercise: Choose a stone and hold it in your hand when you go to sleep. Try to hold it until the morning.
Observe your feelings or thoughts in connection with holding the stone, and note any dreams that come from this experience.

Third Chakra: THE MANIPURA
Emotions
Sense: Sight
Element: Fire
Concentration exercise: Place a colored dot (about 1/2 to 3/4") on a plain background.
Look at the dot without blinking until the eyes water.
Practice to lengthen the time.
Write down your observations.

Second Chakra: THE SVADHISTHANA
Imagination and desire
Sense: Taste
Element: Water
Practice: Sit still for 10 minutes watching the mind.
Make notes for 10 minutes on what you observe, including emerging images, thought associations, concrete or abstract information.

First Chakra: THE MULADHARA
Sex, Love, Pain, Death
Sense: Smell
Element: Earth
Reflection: Clarify what you mean by the words "power" and "energy."
Think about how power and energy are used, and then think of this in terms of yourself.
A further step is to use a Mantra and test its power.

Resource: Kundalini Yoga for the West

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