One of the participants of my classes recently shared with me an experience she had at the end of the class. A jolt of energy that pulled her down and then shot up her spine. At first she felt afraid, and then she remembered to just breath and open to it, and she surrendered to experience this sensation that was new and foriegn to her.
This is the best thing she could have done…
What was it that she experienced? Well from what she shared with me, it sounded like a brief experience of her Kundalini energy, or Shakti energy starting to rise.
I often have students ask me… What is Kundalini energy?
In the yogic tradition, it is often represented symbolically as a coiled serpent at the base of the spine, that when awakened starts to rise up the spine towards the crown of the head. As it rises it awakens each of the chakras or energy centers in the body.
It is a potent form of our sexual creative lifeforce energy, that is healing, nourishing, rejuvenating, ECSTATIC, purifying, and awakens us to our highest potential. It is energy that is our birthright to experience and supports us in being all we can be.
At the same time, this energy can also be feared… as she shakes up, breaks up any stagnant energy and old ways of being – and she is a firey force that burns away and dissolves the ego. This process that catalyzes us to move beyond what is KNOWN and into the UNKNOWN, can create a lot of discomfort especially if we are not fully centered in our essence, in the truth of who we are at our core. And if we are attached to the old linear ways of being and to our EGO.
If there are blocks in our energy body, created by stagnant energy, old repressed emotions, guilt, shame, fear, or places where we hold on to regret and resentment from the past – they will block the flow of shakti in the body/energy system.
Imagine your body is like electrical circuitry – and shakti is the electricity that in its nature wants to flow through the system – if there are blocks or kinks in the system… what happens? It creates resistance in the wiring, and eventually creates an electrical fire.
This fire can be extremely uncomfortable, and from what has been shared with me by those that have experienced it – if you don’t have the tools to support the process – it can almost be painful. Some even experience extreme burn out, where their whole system gets fritzed out and it can take months or years to recover.
So the path to experience the Bliss of the Kundalini Awakening, is to stay centered in love. To fully trust the process… to enjoy it.
In our collective unconscous, I sense a lot of fear around this experience. This is the fear of the ego, the ego that is scared it won’t be needed anymore – that is afraid to die, to surrender to our higher and true awareness. And its also because many either awakened Kundalini before they were ready, or too fast, or without the support of those who could knew the process – or fell into fear and experienced the burn.
Alot of us know – the energy of the earth, of Gaia is awakening at this time. Consciousness on the Planet is rising, For me this is the Kundalini energy of the earth awakening and starting to rise.
As she Awakens and makes her journey through the chakras of the planet, she is also going to rise through us – as we are a part of the earth. So as she rises, she also awakens this potent energy within us… and alot more energy will be available and moving through our energy bodies. The potential for a person to experience a spontaneous Kundalini Awakening will and is happening more frequently.
Are you ready for her to rise through you? Do you have the tools to surrender to her in Ecstasy? in love? in trust?
In Kundalini Dance, we gently invite this energy to rise through us in amounts that we can handle – in a safe healing container where we can love and feel any blocks we might have in our body/mind/energy system into freedom. We dance with Shakti, and become friends with her – and open to her healing ecstatic rejuvenating force. We learn the power of sound to help us shift through places where the energy gets stuck, places where fear has created contraction in the system – and we surrender to the power of our hearts to transform and transmute anything we have repressed or denied, any place we have pain, guilt or shame – back to love.
We dance to reclaim this divine shakti feminine energy within us…. as she has been locked away in our over-masculineated patriarchal society of the mind, and the ego – for a long time.
Kundalini Dance offers survival tools for this Awakening on the planet… and i get so excited as I witness the participants of my classes truly surrendering to their birthright to live as love, to live as ecstasy, to live open and wide as their true nature….
in devotion to the Awakening,
Luna Astraea