Kundalini Yoga / Post Menopause
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 27, 2018
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Kundalini yoga can be practiced by females before, during and after the onset of menopause. Students should take the opportunity during the menopause shut down and during the post menopause years, to study the operations which bring that about in the physical body and its effects in the subtle form.
One good reason to study this is the fact that this happens life after life. It is repeated. Therefore one should have some insight into this system, not to tamper with it necessarily but to understand how nature does what it does.
Sexual maturity is like the gradual but certain opening of the closed petals of a flower bud. However, once the petals reached their maximum growth, not a moment is spared in closing the flower down. In the case of menopause, the flower is closed. It appears to go through the same process as other forms do, which is one of reduction and shrinkage.
However from the view point of reincarnation, that is not factual. It is so on the material level but in terms of the subtle body, this is not mirrored exactly. What is the difference then?
It is the fact that in the subtle body this production of sexual maturity is perpetual, so that when it is increased, one reaches the peak of it and then when it is decreased it shrinks to the unexpressed essence of it. This same essence will again bloom out when one gets the next physical body.
If one goes to a heavenly world after death of the physical system, it will bloom out fully in the subtle body, all depending on the particular heavenly realm, and the sexual development which occurs naturally there.
While in the physical body, the process is one of bloom, peak growth, shrinkage, withering state and complete deterioration; in the subtle body the process is one of bloom, peak grow and shrinkage to essential state.
The student should shift to the subtle side and get in tune with that, instead of focusing on the physical side and become involved in a losing battle against a natural system which cannot be checked.
Breath infusion practice which targets the subtle form, will give the yogini an advantage of subtle insight into the performance of the subtle body at the particular ages of the physical form in terms of the physical form’s inability to support the demands of the subtle form at different ages.
It is the subtle body which will survive death, not the physical one. Thus for long ranged purposes, the student should take care of the subtle body, focus on it and put it in the highest possible configuration which may be achieved in any given physical lifespan.
Terri Ana 5 years ago
MiBeloved wrote: While in the physical body, the process is one of bloom, peak growth, shrinkage, withering state and complete deterioration; in the subtle body the process is one of bloom, peak grow and shrinkage to essential state
Terri Ana’s comment:
This is encouraging.
Thanks
MiBeloved 5 years ago
You must have been feeling as if you were the physical body all along, Terri.
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MiBeloved wrote: The student should shift to the subtle side and get in tune with that, instead of focusing on the physical side and become involved in a losing battle against a natural system which cannot be checked.
Caroline’s comment:
I am totally in agreement with that statement.
In my experience there were definite gains after menopause. I felt stronger and more centered, more willing to speak out and stand my ground. There is a paradox here, as I feel stronger within the physical body is weakening, there is no denying that. I think it could be that my practice goes to feed the subtle body rather than the physical one at this stage, that is what it feels like, anyway.
Whatever it is I need to rely more and more on that kind of strength and less and less on simple physical energy to get through things.
I have never bought into the brainwashing of the modern world that menopause is an illness and should be treated as such. This is abuse of the body.
Due to some spectacular symptoms I had when going through menopause I was for a very short time on some natural replacement hormones, and after my shamanic healing which completely removed the catastrophic symptoms I stopped taking them, because it literally felt like flogging a dead horse. It was violence to the body. God only knows what synthetic hormones would feel like.
---Caroline on linkedIn
Terri Ana 5 years ago
12 years ago, an obgyn spayed me, like a cat gets spayed. Suddenly no hormones. Was given HRT immediately afterwards, and the effects were... not good. It took awhile to get the stuff out of the physical systems.
My daily meditation practice with sinus cleansing first, then breath infusions., has had the effect of a clearing awareness, a refreshing clarity of the subtle body.
