kundalini
कुण्डलिनी kuṇḍalinīThe coiled power, pictured as a serpent energy resting at the base of the spine, which the practitioner awakens to rise through the subtle centres to union with Shiva.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
Seated and breathing in rhythm, the practitioner rouses the kundalini, the coiled power at the base of the subtle body, and uses it to carry each element up and into the next.
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
The body is the crucible, the preserved essence is the mercury, the breath and the kundalini are the fire, and the goal, once again, is a body that does not die.
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The 64 Śākta Tantras are the Goddess-centred tantric scriptures, named in a famous verse of the Saundaryalaharī. The number 64 is a traditional and symbolic…
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
The Nāth Sampradaya is an order of Śaiva yogis, ascetic and antinomian, known above all as the tradition that carries haṭha yoga and the pursuit of an immortal,…
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
On the tradition's account the disciple's own spiritual energy, the kundalini , is present but dormant, coiled at the base of the subtle body, and shaktipat is the burning flame touched to that unlit wick.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
Kundalini is the name for this energy as it sleeps, coiled, at the base of the body, waiting to be raised up the central channel of the subtle body .
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
…e handling of these currents, and one classical technique for rousing kundalini, which we will come to, works precisely by forcing apana upward to meet prana .
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
This is where Trika meets the practical world of tantra and the subtle body; the energetic dimension of that ascent, including kundalini, is treated in the yoga material on the subtle body.