sushumna
सुषुम्ना sushumnaThe central channel along the spinal axis, through which prana and the awakened kundalini are said to rise.
Where this term appears
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
Bhuta shuddhi ('purification of the elements') is the preliminary tantric rite in which the worshipper mentally dissolves their own body, element by element, back…
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
Sushumna is the central channel along the spinal axis, the one the texts call the Brahma Nadi .
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
Between them, the central channel, is sushumna , and sushumna is the one that counts, because it is the road the awakened power travels.
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
…ine, and shaktipat begins its ascent through the central channel, the sushumna , toward union with Shiva at the crown.
- What the bindi actually means Journal
…channels of energy, the cool ida and the warm pingala and the central sushumna, finally meet.
- What is Hatha Yoga? Yoga
The aim of all of it is to awaken the coiled energy the tradition calls kundalini and draw it up the central channel, the sushumna , of the subtle body to the crown.
- What the West gets wrong about chakras Journal
Three matter most: ida on the left, pingala on the right, and sushumna up the centre.
- Ajna: The Command Treatise
It is here, the broader tradition holds, that the three principal channels of the second chapter, ida on the left, pingala on the right, and sushumna up the centre, finally meet and merge.