To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/08/18 22:37
Subject: [K-list] Re: Emanuela's experiences
From: Nina Murrell-Kisner
On 2003/08/18 22:37, Nina Murrell-Kisner posted thus to the K-list:
Emuela wrote:
> > coming back from holidays I found a lot of great stories about the age of
> > kundalini awakening! And now I like to tell again my awakening because
> > I've not found many stories of k from yoga practising.
> > I'm 49 and I have been practising yoga for 6 years but, even before, I
> > loved a lot to study dance and gym in different ways. <snip>
> > When I found Iyengar yoga I understood this was my path and I begun to
> > practise every day; now I have half an hour of pranayama in the morning
> > and 1-2 hours of asanas in the evening. <snip>
> > At the beginning of May, I was practising asanas on my own, as usually in
> > the evening, and I felt this new movement in the bottom of my spine. It
> > was an unforgettable feeling! <snip>
> > I started to try meditation after yoga practising. Sometimes, from the
> > neck the feeling becomes wider and paceful, sometimes I feel only the K
> > reising and it is very burning.
> > None of my yoga teachers really believes me. I spent two weeks of holidays
> > in an intensive yoga practise and I said to the teacher these effects of
> > yoga but he said it was only an energy awakening and this cannot be called
> > Kundalini. I don't know and I don't care of it; I thought it was correct
> > make my teacher known about the results of his teachings on my body and my
> > mind.
Yep, good for you, no matter what the teacher says. I haven't had much luck
finding 'like experienced' people in the yoga community around here, but
everyone has an opinion about 'what it is'. I find that these opinions are more
a reflection of the person holding them than any absolute commentary on 'what
it actually is'. For instance, the fellow yoga teacher, a fundamentalist
believer in classical yoga and 'practice is the way', who found spontaneous
kundalini awakenings, particularly kundalini awakenings not followed by near
immediate glow-in-the-dark sainthood enlightenment, to be outside of her realm
of belief... and so she didn't believe me. Hehe!
> > I'd like to know if someone in the list had the same experience, starting
> > from practising asanas. It might be interesting because really a so rich
> > teaching like Iyengar Yoga is not widely known for K-awakening.
I practice and teach based on the Iyengar style, but have recently been having
a conflict of conscience over the rigidity of that system. The therapeutic
aspects of it are widely accepted and quite verifiable... however, I find that
the style really dampens and hampers spontaneous movement from the inside out.
That could be the reason why Iyengar isn't producing many acknowledged
kundalini awakenings. :)
At any rate, I'm also interested to hear from others who share awakening
origins in asana. In my case, spontaneous asanas emerged during my morning
'meditations', but I wasn't practicing Iyengar yoga (didn't know about it,
either) at the time.
Nina
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