What is Kundalini Yoga?

Kundalini Yoga (KY) is a powerful Yoga that attributes a great role to meditation & mindfulness, pranayama, diet and lifestyle. It has the explicit goal to help you live life with deep engagement, commitment and joy, and to enable you to remain non-attached in the face of life's polarities and the reactions these provoke.

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KY is a potent and effective system of self-transformation and personal development that uses and combines the following techniques:

  • pranayama (breathing techniques)
  • asanas (body postures / movements)
  • mudras (hand-postures)
  • mantras (sound currents or mentally produced sounds)
  • bandhas (body locks / muscle contractions)
  • dhristi (mental and eye focus)

Kundalini Yoga is mainly characterised by quite dynamic, repetitive exercises, a strong attention to the breath which helps intensify the effects of the poses with the purpose of freeing energy in the lower body and allowing it to move upwards, and the use of sound current (Shabad and mantra). The exercises help you to become more aware of your physical, mental and emotional condition and to subsequently influence these in a positive way and bring greater awareness to them in your daily life. The overall result of a regular KY practice is the balancing of the Chakras (energy wheels or centers along the spine), the opening of the 3 main Nadis (Ida, Pingala and Sushumna) and consequently all the smaller ones, the balancing of the 5 Pranaas (Udana, Prana, Samana, Vyana and Apana), the balancing of the 5 Koshas (Annamaya Kosha, Pranamaya Kosha, Manomaya Kosha, Vijnanamaya Kosha and Anandamaya Kosha), and the alignment of our 10 spiritual bodies (these are: the soul body, negative mind, positive mind, neutral mind, the physical body, arc line, auric body, pranic body, subtle body and radiant body). This in turn awakens us to who we really are: spiritual beings having a human experience.

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