How to Do Kundalini Yoga and Meditation

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We activate with the star circling the Kundalini energy and then meditate with the Shambhavi Mudra on the light within us. We thus get quickly inner peace and happiness. Sitting in the Shambhavi meditation the light flows more and more into us. The bliss grows more and more. The Shambhavi Mudra is Shivas main meditation. It is the easiest way to stay in the light (in Sat-Chid-Anananda).

Steps

Visualize a bright star. Imagine the earth beneath you and circle with a star in the globe. Think the word "Earth" as a mantra. Circle as long with your star in the earth, until the whole earth among you is full of light. Rub the ground with the feet.
See a beautiful sun in the sky. She sends her rays down on you. Let the light flow into you. Fill your entire body with light and think often the mantra "Sun". Move the feet and toes.
Circle with the star around your body and think the mantra "body". Clean all the tensions around your body. Wrap yourself with light. Massage your body.
Circle with the star in the body. Clean all areas of the body sequentially from their tensions and fill it with light. Think the mantra "Light." Circle with the star particularly in your head, chest, abdomen, legs and feet. Massage the parts of the body.
Move a hand in blessing and think, "I send light to (name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy."
The hands are in the belly. Tense the muscles in the pelvis, in the abdomen and chest. Keep the tension. Relax. Do that once again. Then breathe deeply several times in the belly. Think by inhalation "Om" and by exhalation "Shanti". Come with the mantra "Om - Shanti" more and more toward inner peace. Your thoughts become quiet.
Shambhavi is the mudra of Shiva. It means blessed and is his main meditation technique. By the star circling, your energy has turned inwardly. The back is straight, the head upright, and the belly relaxed. Open half or whole your eyes and focus on the energy in you (the light, a chakra, or the Kundalini channel in the middle of your body). Thus the energy of the eyes flows inwardly and stabilizes your meditation. Stop all thoughts. Concentrate on the Kundalini channel, a chakra (heart or sacral chakra) or the light within you. Spend some time in quiet meditation. Then come back slowly.

Video

A special Kundalini Yoga Meditation Technique. Don't try it without a yoga master.

Tips

In his career as a weaver Tantipa had been very busy. He had worked hard and with endurance. These qualities brought him fast forward on his path of yoga. Tantipa practiced diligently every day reading, going, yoga, meditation and positiv thinking. After twelve years he reached enlightenment. All internal tensions broke up, and his Kundalini energy began to flow. His body was full of energy and his mind full of happiness. He radiated love and light. All people came to see him, to hear his wisdom and to get some of his good energy. Tantipa became never bored again. He was very happy about his well-used life on earth.
Then one day a yogi came and heard Tantipa lament. He said to him, "You're a fool. You don´t see the great treasure in your life. You could live as a yogi and develop your inner happiness. Through your daily yoga practice you could get a meaningful age. Instead of using the big opportunity, you spend your days complaining about your fate and increase your pain." Tantipa knew that the way of inner happiness exists. The ideal of life of Hinduism is to learn in the youth, to work as an adult, to have a family, and to attain enlightenment at the end of the life. Tantipa realized that the yogi was right. He asked the yogi for the right exercises for him, and immediately began an intense spiritual practice.
In India, there lived an old man, whose name was Tantipa. By profession he was a weaver. He made many beautiful woven rugs and blankets in his life. But now in the age his hands were stiff. He could no longer practice his profession. Now he was missing a task. Tantipa sat alone in his hut. His wife had died several years ago. His profession and his wife had been his purpose in life. He had children, but the children went their own ways, and wanted to have nothing to do with him. The only thing they did for their old father, was to give him something to eat every day. Externally Tantipa had enough to live on, but inside he was bored. Tantipa lived many years sadly to himself. Loudly he complained his cruel fate.

Warnings

This is a gentle Kundalini meditation. Don't force things. The Kundalini is a great power, which leads us to enlightenment. But it comes by grace.
In November 1986, a yogi had his first major enlightenment experience. At a meditation suddenly a warm energy pillar rose slowly upward from the lower abdomen in the middle of his body. He watched the energy with interest. The higher the energy rose, the quieter he was. It felt like a thick warm stream of water. On reaching the middle of his head, he suddenly was one with the cosmos. He felt supreme bliss. Very important was the feeling of a comprehensive correctness. The state of bliss lasted about half an hour. Some hours after this experience, the yogi was very restless. But after a while things calmed down. In yoga, this experience is referred as the ascent of kundalini energy. It is the highest level of hatha yoga. In August 1987, the yogi had one more energy experience. Again, the Kundalini energy rose in the middle of his body upward. But this time it did not stop in the head. It gathered at the apex (crown chacra) and then shot up suddenly with great force into the sky. After a while it came back and flowed on the outside of his body down to earth. Thus, the circuit was closed. The yogi had been connected with the energy of heaven and earth. From this story you can learn what can happen with the kundalini energy.

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