Kundalini yoga:
Definitions:
Several definitions of Kundalini yoga has been used in the East and modern Western learning. According to various prominent educators and writers, has been described as Kundalini Yoga:
An active approach to awaken kundalini contrasting colour with a passive approach.
Kundalini Yoga consists of active asana, pranayama, kriyas based and meditation that is designed to improve the nervous system, Gland, mental faculties, balancing chakras and build spiritual strength while it integrates the flow of kundalini energy.
Kundalini Yoga, on the highest form is practiced with the purpose to achieve happiness, open heart Center, to develop power, serving others, achieve self-realization and eventually merging to God-consciousness.
History:
Perhaps the earliest known written mention of Kundalini Yoga in Kundalini Yoga Upanishad, which is 80-sixth among 108 Upanishads Muktika, associated with the Krishna Yajurveda, originating in India. The origin of this particular is difficult to substantiate because scientists disagree on the exact dates for the composition of the Upanishads, but agree that all Upanishads have passed through oral tradition. Some have suggested that the composition of the Yajurveda texts date as far back as between 1400 and 600 BC.
At the end of the 19th century in the early twentieth century author translated John Woodroffe, Oxford-educated, some twenty original Sanskrit texts under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon. His most popular and influential book entitled The Serpent Power: The secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga, was an important contribution to strengthening of Indian philosophy and spirituality and the source of many early Western occult appropriations tantra and kundalini practice.
In 1935, Sri Swami Sivananda wrote his depiction of Kundalini Yoga in a treatise on the subject called Kundalini Yoga.
All forms of yoga is believed to be designed to raise the kundalini energy rises in columns and Yoga Sutra of Patanjali — yoga foundational Scripture is believed to have been collected around the 2nd century BC, based on this basis, draw most kinds of yoga and meditation his structure and discipline from Ashtanga 8-limbed approximation, which gives guidelines for the practice of austerities.
In practice:
Along with many kriyas, meditations and practices Kundalini Yoga is taught a simple alternate nostril breathing of breathing (the left nostril, right nostril) as a method for cleaning of nadis, or subtle channels and waterways, to help awaken Kundalini energy.
In the Upanishads mention it to the control with three bhandas, together with control of held and expired breaths, keys to the drop, and exploit the Kundalini energy.
Several schools teach methods to visualize and meditate on the chakras and Kundalini energy equilibrium maintain nervous to float.
Development:
According to some traditions, Kundalini techniques from master disciple shall thenceforth be issued only when the disciple is considered ready. In these cases, the yogic depth masters believe that harsh settings ignorance or refused to follow the instructions in an original can cause harmful effects. But encouraged in some cases, teachers from India students to update and spread the teachings to the West, thus putting doubts in this requirement.
Sovatsky, a scholar of Yoga associated with transpersonal psychology, customize a developmental and Evolutionary perspective in his interpretation of Kundalini Yoga. It is, he interprets Kundalini Yoga as a catalyst for psycho-spiritual growth and bodily maturation. According to this interpretation of the yoga body itself into larger loops maturation [...], should be envisaged only stretching exercises.
Observations:
All intensive spiritual practices associated with Asian traditions require careful practice. Psychiatric literature notes that "since the influx of Eastern spiritual practices and the rising popularity of meditation starting in the 1960s, many people have experienced a variety of psychological difficulties, either while engaged in intensive spiritual practice or spontaneously". Some of the psychological difficulties associated with intensive spiritual practice is said to be "kundalini awakening", "a complex physio-psychospiritual transformative process described in the yogic depth tradition". Also authors of Transpersonal Psychology.