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Kundalini Rise Before Physical Body

During asana/pranayama/pratyahara in this afternoon's hot shade, I was doing rooster posture toward the end of practice.

I noticed the psyche felt saturated with oxygen really quickly in rooster - only about 10 breath pumps. I perceived a weightlessness in my body and mind and realized some of my subtle body energies, including a feeling-less kundalini charge - had already stood up - before my physical body stood up.

This caused an added sense of weightlessness. My physical body stood up to meet with the rest of the subtle energies but by the time the physical body was erect the weightlessness was too much and I felt the need to come down into the safe squat position to observe without losing consciousness - and wait it out. 

It took a few moments for the subtle and physical to re-coordinate themselves but not long.

I've been practicing rooster for around 7 years now and this was a new experience.

There was zero feeling. No sensations. No rush. No pulsing. Just light and weightlessness.

I can't say I can remember doing this posture and having the subtle kundalini energies rise up in advance of the physical body. In the past the kundalini has waited until the physical body comes up.

 

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    • One of the achievements for a yogi/yogini is the distinction between the physical body and the subtle one. This is not an easy achievement but there are times during breath infusion practice and meditation when that distinction is sharp.

      There is a negative habit where the clarity regarding the two bodies is suppressed, where everything is referred to the physical system so that if there is an experience which is distinct from it, the mind denies that experience or assigns it was an illusory event.

      There are illusory experiences happening all the time but the yogi/yogini should recognize those and also distinguish a genuine subtle body action. The subtle body can do many asana postures which are impossible for the physical system, even for the physical body of a contortionist. But all the same, the yogi/yogini must be confident of this and should allow the subtle body to assume those postures while the physical system does what it can do or what it is directed to do.

      It is not always important to force the physical body to do what the subtle body does. It is more essential to observe the subtle body and distinguish it from the physical system, because that perception is what will contribute to the formation of a yogasiddha body.

      In a recent book, Yoga inVision 11, page 45, I related this experience from a practice session in 2012.

      Kundalini's Creature Survival Calculus

      Breath infusion practice is in a special phase where there is no kundalini system in the spine. The energy in the subtle body is random rather than being organized under the control of the kundalini lifeForce.

      Of course, a yogi would be a fool to think that the kundalini is absent. Until one can forego the advantages of this creature existence, one should not indulge hair-raising ideas about eliminating kundalini. Without kundalini doing its creature survival calculus one would be in a lower species stuck somewhere as potential food for a predatory species. Kundalini rendered wonderful service to us individually to get us up the totem pole of material existence, where we dominate the other species from the platform of being human beings. It is exploitation for sure. It is vicious how we keep animals and plants for food, taking their life to maintain our own. But that is the game here. Play it expertly or perish.

      And yet, a yogi must seriously consider giving up these hard-earned accomplishments while transmigrating through various species. In yoga in the advanced stages one should make the decision to do that, so as to be exempt from the survival game.

      In yoga there are phases in practice where a former accomplishment loses prominence. One starts again with a new system, which at first seems chaotic.

      I did a split body process which is when each half of the astral form arches around and up and make a curl in the direction of the head, remaining connected to the head. See a diagram below which is different to that posture but which is another astral arc posture.

      subtle body posture

      These astral poses come to mind as soon as the yogi removes the prominence of the sex pleasure function in the psyche.

      During the meditation I made the effort to move naad to the frontal part of the subtle head. This was to gain control of that area putting it under the influence of naad. This washes out the compelling thought/image display which naturally flashes in the frontal region of the subtle head.

       

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