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Lee Harold

So hello Michael :) I read with interest your piece on Kundalini in the arms. This is an internal sensation yes? Not the same as when the fingers and arms begin to spontaneously dance in and out of mudra? I have also experienced something less subtle and, at the time, more concerning. This begins with a vibration in both middle fingers, which then begin to twist with something more insistent. It is as if somebody takes me in a double arm twist. The tension moves swiftly into the heart and will usually insist that I drop face-down to the floor with both palms turned backwards and facing the sky. My only recourse at this time is kapalabhati. Any advice?

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I read with interest your piece on Kundalini in the arms. This is an internal sensation yes?

It sure is but better is to state that it is a subtle body sensation for the most part with some of it being a sensation in the nerves of the physical form.

Not the same as when the fingers and arms begin to spontaneously dance in and out of mudra?

It is not the same as the fingers and arms dancing but it is similar, with the difference being that when the fingers and arms dance in that way, there is a willpower participation where the will power is in the flow of the movement like being a strand of fabric in a waving flag. As the flag waves that particular strand also waves, even though the strand is part of the flag and is not the whole movement.

In the kundalini experience, the willpower is not part of the experience. The experience is happening and the willpower is like a bystander looking on, experiencing as a witness of the motion.

I have also experienced something less subtle and, at the time, more concerning. This begins with a vibration in both middle fingers, which then begin to twist with something more insistent. It is as if somebody takes me in a double arm twist. The tension moves swiftly into the heart and will usually insist that I drop face-down to the floor with both palms turned backwards and facing the sky. My only recourse at this time is kapalabhati.

In that experience in the inSelf Yoga™ process which I teach, the yogi would allow the subtle body to complete the twist and other actions which follow while the physical form remains in the position it was in before the experience began. This allows for the separation of the physical and subtle, where the yogi gets that distinction clearly and does not confuse one for the other. If the yogi finds that the actions are equally being felt in both bodies, then he may complete the actions in both bodies with the physical system doing it as well, but his focus would be more in the subtle and less if any in the physical, so that the physical is like a shadow.

Any advice?

Please have an expert check your kapalabhati practice.

See some videos here:

http://www.veoh.com/users/bhagiratha5