Kundalini yoga focuses on awakening the dormant kundalini energy located at the base of the spine. This energy is symbolized as a coiled snake. Through practices like asanas, pranayama, and meditation, the kundalini energy can rise up the sushumna nadi and activate the chakras, providing benefits like overcoming health issues and revealing cosmic power. The goal of kundalini yoga is to unite this energy with pure consciousness at the top of the head, achieving samadhi.

1. DAVANAGERE UNIVERSITY
SEMINAR ON
KUNDALINI YOGA
SUBMITED TO: SUBMITED BY:
CO-ORDINATOR SUMAN NS
DEPT OF YOGIC SCIENCE 2ND SEMISTER
UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF
RAJASHEKAR ZULPE
LECTURER

2. INTRODUCTION
• Kundalini is the name of a sleeping dormant potential force in the
human organism and it is situated at the root of the spinal column.
• In the masculine body it is in the perineum, between the urinary and
excretory organs.
• In the female body its location is at the root of the uterus, in the
cervix.
• This center is known as mooladhara chakra and it is actually a
physical structure.
• Kundalini-yoga is an experience of the actualization of human
potentialities.

3. SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION
• In the traditional descriptions of kundalini awakening, it is said that
kundalini resides in mooladhara in the form of a coiled snake and when the
snake awakens it uncoils and shoots up through sushumna .
• "Sadhakas have seen the sushumna in the form of a luminous rod or pillar,
a golden yellow snake, or sometimes as a shining black snake about ten
inches long with blood redeyes like smouldering charcoal, the front part of
the tongue vibrating and shining like lightning, ascending the spinal
column."
• The meaning of the 3 1/2 coils of the serpent is as follows: The 3 coils
represent the 3 matras of Om, which relate to past, present and future; to
the 3 gunas: tamas, rajas and sattva; to the 3 states of consciousness:
waking, sleeping and dreaming; and to the 3 types of experience:
subjective experience, sensual experience and absence of experience. The
1/2 coil represents the state of transcendence, where there is neither
waking, sleeping nor dreaming. So, the 3 1/2 coils signify the total
experience of the universe and the experience of transcendence.

4. THE CHAKRAS
• The literal meaning of the word chakra is 'wheel or circle', but in the
yogic context a better translation of the Sanskrit word is 'vortex or
whirlpool'.
• The chakras are vortices of psychic energy and they are visualized
and experienced as circular movements of energy at particular rates
of vibration.
• We have six chakras in our body.
• The Kundalini Shakti is situated in our Mooladhara and Shiva sitting in
the Sahasra Padma.
• By crossing of this chakras, Shakthi can join with Shiva in the
Sahasrara.
• This is the ultimate aim of the Kundalini yoga.

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF CHAKRAS
Chakra Area Tatva Number
of petals
Quality
Mooladhara Below
genitals
Pruthvi 4 Smell
Svadhistha-
na
Above
the
genitals
Water 6 Taste
Mani-pooraka Naval Agni 10 Fire

7. Chakra Area Tatva Number
of petals
Qualities
Anahatha Heart Vayu 12 Touch
Vishudhi Throat Akasa 16 Sound
Ajna Middle of
the eye-
brows
Manas 2 Mental
faculties.

8. NADIS
• Nadis are not nerves but rather channels for the flow of consciousness. The
literal meaning of nadi is 'flow'.
• Just as the negative and positive forces of electricity flow through complex
circuits, in the same way,prana shakti (vital force) and manas shakti(mental
force) flow through every part of our body via these nadis.
• According to the tantras there are 72,000 or more such channels or
networks through which the stimuli flow like electric current from one
point to another.
• These 72,000 nadis cover the whole body and through them the inherent
rhythms of activity in the different organs of the body are maintained.
• There are ten main channels, and of these ten, three are most important
for they control the flow of prana and consciousness within all the other
nadis of the body. These three nadis are called ida, pingala and sushumna.

9. AWAKENING OF KUNDALINI
• The awakening of kundalini and its union with Shiva is immediately and
intimately connected with the whole brain.
• It is also possible to be born with an awakened sushumna, ida or pingala
nadi. This means that from the time of birth your higher faculties will be
operating either partially or fully.
• The second method of awakening kundalini is through steady regular
practice of mantra.
• The third method of awakening is tapasya, which means the performance
of austerities.
• The fourth method of awakening is through the use of specific herbs. In
Sanskrit this is called aushadhi.
• The fifth method of inducing awakening is through raja yoga and the
development of an equipoised mind.

10. • The sixth method of awakening kundalini is through pranayama.
• The seventh method of inducing awakening is kriya yoga.
• This eighth method of awakening kundalini through banda mudras.
• The ninth method of awakening is performed by the guru. It is called
shaktipat.

11. YOGIC PRACTICES
• Asanas - Siddhasana, Padmasana,
Matsyendrasana, Suptavajrasana,
Paschimotanasana, Bhujangasana,
Poorvothanasana etc.
• Mudras - Mahamudra, Vipareetakarani mudra,
• Pranayama - Nadishuddhi, Sooryabhedhana,
Bhastika, etc..
Most of the Hatha Yoga practices will lead us in the same path.

12. Benefits of kundalini
• All the 5-Maha bhutas are related to Shad chakras. By practicing
Kundalini yoga we can over come all the 5-Maha bhutas and Prana
related problems.
• The whole body with its biological and psychological processes
becomes an instrument through which the cosmic power reveals
itself.
• The object of the tantric practice of kundalini-yoga is to awaken this
cosmic energy and cause it to unite with Siva, the Pure Consciousness
pervading the whole universe.

13. conclusions
• The importance of Kundalini Yoga. The benefits of practicing Kundalini
Yoga, after the purification of the body and mind. This is one of the
wonderful technique to reach Samadhi, the higher supreme state. So
has to practice this Yoga to attain the same.