Kundalini Rising

Rooted in yogic tradition, Kundalini is one perspective on the undeniable animating energy that makes your body responsive, erotic, emotional, creative, and alive.

Kundalini work uniquely and explicitly deals with where energy lives in your body, spine, and nervous system—not metaphorical, symbolic, or woo-woo energy.

Put another way, Kundalini is raw, energetic voltage: the fiery charge behind sexual arousal, creative drive, emotional intensity, instinct, and spiritual insight.

Unblocking, circulating, and stabilizing this lifeforce energy has nothing to do with becoming enlightened, taking psychedelics, meditating all day, or being ‘chosen.’

To integrate Kundalini is to upgrade your nervous system’s capacity for holding, circulating, and stabilizing higher and higher levels of charge without collapsing.

That’s it.

Easier said than done however, for Kundalini is often blocked and locked away: 

Through subtly held bodily tension (like that unconscious tightness in your jaw), shame and repression of desires, fear, trauma, emotional suppression, and bracing.

Which results in the energy leaking out via anxiety, compulsive behaviour, sexual dysregulation, burnout, emotional volatility, addiction to intensity and/or numbness.

The ‘work’ focuses on removing your blocks so this energy can flow, not spike.

Body scanning, shaking, yoga, dance, slow-paced breathwork, emotional alchemy, shadow and trauma integration, and tantra are all means of unblocking the flow.

Imagine a house wired for less voltage than you ask it to carry. 

The lights flicker, circuits trip, breakers blow, and fires can start.

The intention behind Kundalini work is to rewire your house. Slowly but surely, in small doses that push your capacity, then resting, allowing the expansion to settle. 

The goal being a house where charge flows smoothly and cleanly, without short-circuiting, and can flare to life or ground down as circumstances demand.

In reality, this looks like the ability to stay present during intensity; move through sensation instead of clenching against it; allow emotions to exist peacefully; self-soothe at depth; and release stored charge without dissociation.

Personally… 

Kundalini work is what’s enabled me to handle high dose psychedelic experiences without collapsing; rave for hours on end without feeling overstimulated; no longer have adrenaline spikes when driving with spirit; circulate sexual energy instead of discharging; and create consistently—whether through writing, singing, or mixing. 

I share these as real world venues where I’ve noticed a tangible difference in how I show up, feel, and process the experience as a result of Kundalini activation. 

Your venues should and will be different.

Also know that this kind of work isn’t for everyone. You will have to explore the deepest, shadowiest, strangest parts of yourself. You’ll have to let go of ideas, beliefs, and values that no longer serve you—or were never truly yours in the first place.

This path is intense, has no set or uniform timeframe, and will force you to confront the most confusing, challenging, uncomfortable parts of yourself.

This is wonderful, incredible work… if you’re curious and want to explore.

In closing, know this:

The more open you are to life’s charge, the more life will pass through you.

You can only experience as much life as your system has capacity for.

If you don’t have the capacity or ability to hold the charge generated by an experience, partner, income, job, responsibility, or however you want your life to look…

You might get bites, licks, and tastes of what you seek, but nothing lasting.

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And you deserve to sink your teeth into and savour all that you want from life.

With love from the forest,

~ Alexander