{"id":4622,"date":"2023-12-20T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2023-12-27T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T16:05:04","slug":"9-myths-misconceptions-kundalini-yog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/9-myths-misconceptions-kundalini-yog\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9 most popular myths and misconceptions about Kundalini yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1: <strong>A\u00a0Kundalini\u00a0Yoga Awakening\u00a0Is\u00a0So\u00a0Rare\u00a0That\u00a0It\u00a0Happens\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Only\u00a0Once\u00a0or\u00a0Twice\u00a0in\u00a0Your Lifetime<\/strong>: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not true. The <strong>Kundalini <\/strong>Awakening isn\u2019t a one time thing, it\u2019s actually\u00a0a permanent and lifelong experience and condition. When you have a\u00a0Kundalini awakening, it is a permanent sensation and experience that can be\u00a0reactivated over and over again, not only through Kundalini yogic practice,\u00a0but through living out its principals in your daily life. Even if you do not ac-\u00a0tively feel the Kundalini awakening sensations or feelings, even if it seems\u00a0like it is in a period of dormancy, you are actually still quite aware of it (and\u00a0arguably, it is very much active, it\u2019s just bubbling under the surface in a more\u00a0quiet way, and not so explicitly). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kundalini <\/strong>is a dynamic, boundless sensation\u00a0and experience that ebbs and flows, it does not occur once or twice and\u00a0never returns. Once you experience it, you have it activated and active in you\u00a0for forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2: Only\u00a0a\u00a0Guru\u00a0or\u00a0Teacher\u00a0Can\u00a0Awaken\u00a0Your\u00a0Kundalini<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also simply not true and defies the principals of Kundalini. Kundalini\u00a0is valued as a universal, human right and experience that everyone can ac-\u00a0cess and is encouraged to access to transform their lives and the lives of\u00a0everyone around them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea that Kundalini can exclusively be awakened\u00a0with the sole aid of a teacher or Guru is offensive and directly rejects the\u00a0teachings and values of Kundalini. This myth is rather popular and is fre-\u00a0quently perpetuated in the Western spiritual community because it is an easy\u00a0way to make money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be considered a scam if anyone claims that ei-\u00a0ther: 1) they, as a teacher or Guru can awaken your Kundalini; or, 2) you can only awaken your Kundalini through the aid of hiring a teacher or Guru to do\u00a0so for you. Anyone or any spiritual community making such claims should\u00a0be told otherwise that this is a corrupt belief that offensively conflicts with\u00a0what Kundalini is all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3: Any\u00a0Body\u00a0Twitches,\u00a0Quirks,\u00a0or\u00a0Itchiness\u00a0is\u00a0Awakening\u00a0Kundalini<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kundalini awakening symptoms are the most popular aspects of Kun-\u00a0dalini that many recently awakened Kundalini students and Kundalini curious\u00a0alike are solely interested in learning more about. There are a lot of miscon-\u00a0ceptions about what physical and emotional sensations are just normal\u00a0sensations versus unique symptoms that are typical of a Kundalini awak-\u00a0ening. As a result, common twitches, itching, or spontaneous movement is\u00a0often misclassified as a symptom of Kundalini awakening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We take our ner-\u00a0vous and muscular systems for granted sometimes. Also, when we are prac-\u00a0ticing or interested in <strong>Kundalini<\/strong>, there is such a heightened focus on being\u00a0very in-tune and aware of our bodies, and therefore, we need to remove our\u00a0desire to over-analyze and over think that every sensation is indicative of a\u00a0Kundalini awakening: sometimes they are just normal functions of the\u00a0human body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4: Kundalini\u00a0Can\u00a0Be\u00a0Awakened\u00a0Through\u00a0Reiki<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a popular myth that many Reiki Masters incorrectly claim. Just\u00a0 because Reiki deals with the organic movement and rebalancing of energy in\u00a0and throughout the body, many believe that Kundalini is a part of this tradi-\u00a0tion and practice. This is absolutely not true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Reiki is also a beau-\u00a0tiful practice and experience that can be a stepping stone for someone to be\u00a0interested in how other energy awakening and energy based techniques like\u00a0Kundalini, can help themselves and others, Reiki and Kundalini are two com-\u00a0pletely different traditions that have nothing to do with the other. Reiki is a\u00a0healing modality that balances energy throughout the body and space-time\u00a0that can only be conducted by an attuned practitioner but received by anyone.\u00a0<strong>Kundalini<\/strong>, on the other hand, is a unique experience that is felt through a se-\u00a0ries of intense sensations that can be activated through physical movement,\u00a0mantras, meditations, and breathing techniques. Reiki and Kundalini are\u00a0completely different and are not related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5: Kundalini\u00a0Can\u00a0Be\u00a0Awakened\u00a0Through\u00a0Yoga<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kundalini is an experience that may or may not happen through the inten-\u00a0tional and sacred use and practice of the various modalities such as yoga,\u00a0meditation, mantras, mudras, chanting, and breathing techniques. Each of\u00a0these modalities must be present in the sacred sequence they appear in order\u00a0to help ignite the Kundalini within. Although the yoga poses are a part of the\u00a0Kundalini practice, they alone do not guarantee that Kundalini will be awakened or present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6: Kundalini\u00a0Is\u00a0Actually\u00a0a\u00a0High<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Kundalini awakenings are hard to describe and are often misappropriated as\u00a0a feeling of being high, as if you were on a drug. Although there is a feeling of\u00a0unrestricted bliss, these feelings are fleeting and few and far between. What\u00a0really happens is that the body stores a tremendous amount of psychic and\u00a0emotional energy in our body: trauma, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, grief, sad-\u00a0ness. When they are all touched and activated through Kundalini, these in-\u00a0tense emotions are popped like a balloon and the resulting \u201cgas\u201d is leaking\u00a0everywhere throughout our body, making us feel every sensation at the same\u00a0time while our physical body is release all of this. This isn\u2019t the same as the\u00a0sensations that someone may experience under the use of drugs: this is actu-\u00a0ally more similar to the type of emotional release one may feel during a peak\u00a0performance in a sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7: Kundalini\u00a0Can\u00a0Awaken\u00a0in\u00a0Any\u00a0Chakra<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is incorrect and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/kundalini-yoga-teacher-training-rishikesh.php\">Kundalini yoga teachings<\/a> directly negate this false belief.\u00a0Kundalini starts at the base of the spine, with the first chakra, the root chakra.\u00a0The serpent coils upwards, not downwards. The Kundalini, before awakening,\u00a0lies in a coiled, dormant state in the root chakra. There is no other chakra\u00a0that it can originate in. This information is in the sacred and ancient texts and\u00a0teachings of Kundalini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8: Kundalini\u00a0Can\u00a0Be\u00a0Controlled\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There is absolutely no way that Kundalini can be controlled. The effects of\u00a0Kundalini may be inconvenient to many, especially because they are so in-\u00a0tense and may cause a disruption in your daily life \u2013 therefore, there is under-\u00a0standably an attempt to create a fake market of teachers and teachings that\u00a0claim that Kundalini can be controlled and stopped. This simply isn\u2019t true or\u00a0even possible! All of the feelings, sensations, and memories that rise up from\u00a0a Kundalini awakening exist to serve a higher good and purpose to elevate\u00a0ourselves and others. This is a force that is meant to awaken, not be stopped.\u00a0It actually is impossible to stop it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9: Kundalini\u00a0Awakenings\u00a0Can\u00a0Be\u00a0Stopped\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like the above claim that Kundalini can be controlled, this is also a very\u00a0false claim from the same idea. Kundalini cannot be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1: A\u00a0Kundalini\u00a0Yoga Awakening\u00a0Is\u00a0So\u00a0Rare\u00a0That\u00a0It\u00a0Happens\u00a0 Only\u00a0Once\u00a0or\u00a0Twice\u00a0in\u00a0Your Lifetime: This is not true. The Kundalini Awakening isn\u2019t a one time thing, it\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yoga-pose","tag-kundalini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arogyayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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