04/03/2026
Let’s Do Kundalini Yoga: The Art of Movement into Consciousness
I'm a Kundalini Yoga teacher; I studied Level 1 in Israel. Since returning to South Africa, it has come to my understanding that it is a taboo subject, yoga that's "not allowed." It saddens me because it's actually a wonderful form of yoga to go deep into the self-psyche. Being fearful about Kundalini Yoga essentially means you are afraid of being yourself.
I think it is more frightening to view your body as "getting old" or working against you, rather than questioning a yoga practice that helps release painful memories stored in the body and raises your vibration.
Our bodies are ever in service of our highest good. I like to think of it as the subconscious or unconsciousness: unknown consciousness. We take in a flood of information every second, and what we cannot mindfully or immediately process or digest is stored within the memory and membranes of every cell and atom of our being. Eventually, in time, this "stored information" must be processed in order to cleanse the body and re-harmonize wholeness. This purging and cleansing of stored information is what we often perceive as disease, illness, or sickness. In actual fact, these processes are there to heal us. A disease (dis-ease) is the alchemical reaction of your body healing and returning to ease, and not the other way around of the perceived notion that our bodies are failing.
When the nervous system is out of whack, meaning we are under enough stress, anxiety, and an inability to regulate emotions (energy in motion), every part of our being works even harder and faster to create alignment. We have an ill-conceived understanding of alignment. The general consensus is that alignment is ease, harmony, and bliss. Of course it is all this, but often anger after sadness is "in alignment," shutdown after anger is "in alignment," and a deep breath after shutdown is "in alignment." We judge too quickly how we think "it" should be and don't really have the stillness or patience to allow "it" to be.
Do you sing and speak? Can you hear your own tone according to your different moods? Of course you do. In Kundalini Yoga we sing and chant, honoring our sacred sound. I do understand that to those who don't understand what we're actually chanting, it can be intimidating and often seen as calling up "spirits." Well, it is calling up spirits: yours! Chanting is the conscious awareness of the noise you make. It is extremely healing. Everything in the universe, from the plants to the stars, hums and vibrates with sound; humans are no different.
The breathwork in Kundalini is deep with intention. You are "doing" your breath. Sitting in front of the computer all day can collapse the diaphragm. This makes breathing shallow and superficial. In high-stress situations or in deep concentration, we often forget to actually take a breath; therefore, in all forms of yoga, we "do" breathing, helping us to be aware and conscious of our breathing in day-to-day tasks.
The movements in Kundalini are fast and in motion..."energy in motion"... and thus very somatic, connected to the emotional body. It is high impact, deep, and intense, as "in-tension" and intentional. The sages of Kundalini have created Kriyas, which are sets of techniques to aid specific elements of our being, honoring the meridians and energy lines of the body. This is knowledge from Chinese medicine as well; most ancient wisdoms from the Far East have always known about the meridians and energy lines of the body. Western culture couldn't handle that level of truth because, I am sorry to say, knowing that your body works for you and not against you would kill the commercial medical field. They needed you to know that you don't know yourself, essentially going against the most powerful words ever spoken by Jesus: "Know thyself." This is not often preached as enlightenment but more as a way of controlling the psyche. (If you are not religious, you may understand what I am saying here.)
Kundalini Yoga is a combination of your body’s greatest strengths coming together to create wholeness, enlightenment, and harmony. It is nothing to fear. Fear = False Energy Appearing Real. Kundalini Yoga is not a religion, a cult, a following, or the calling up of evil spirits; it's raising your vibration. It's awakening your awareness of the greatest version of who and what you are.
And so it is.
