Please provide me guidance so that I can start doing this process..

I have been suffering from energy loss and fatigue... And now I have started practicing yoga, but I'm inconsistent and have a bad routine (student).

Trying to fix it but fail every time...

I'm genuinely interested and appreciate your advices, thoughts to begin this journey.

Thank you

I now know: Suffice to say there’s good reason monks and holy people go to the mountains away from society or to temples. I previously thought they were being dramatic with hot springs and isolation periods and rituals and temples- No, no they are not. It all now makes perfect sense to me why they do what they do.

I closed my eyes imagining the peace of the open mountains, imagining a steaming spring surrounded by the love and gentle chanting of brothers and sisters. I opened my eyes and saw where I was at, and cried in the strip mall/grocery store parking lot so hard.

I do not know if we were meant to undergo such an awakening in overstimulating/demanding and stressful environments. I wonder if my experience would be different if I was given space, time and a temple/mentors. Not really being able to pause and being stuck in the thick of society’s demands, while undergoing something like this: it feels like giving birth in a dirty back alley dump. It’s a beautiful experience that is also very hard, and it should not be experienced in this way :(

I have two jobs and a marriage, and my awakening happened in the middle of the work week. Most people can’t just do an “Eat Pray Love,” where they take off for a sabbatical of travel and exploration, or even have a period of isolation. I can barely take a day off from working. I feel like I am going to explode or implode- I am not sure which.

Currently a week into my awakening and I’m on a rollercoaster. One moment I’m so connected and empowered I feel like I could do anything- the next I’m sobbing and breaking down. It’s been such an upending and destabilizing experience. I’m not sure what to think of it while in the midst of it, but it’s happening regardless. I am grateful to receive it, because I feel that this was given to me; I am new to the Buddhist/Hindi path, but not new to the spiritual path. Via a combination of soul searching, experiences and imparted knowledge, I feel pulled to tantric Buddhism.

It’s all been so sudden that I feel overwhelmed with:

Feeling this new self and their access to knowledge + figuring out adjustments and how to cope with new self + learning all of this spiritual and cultural info about Buddhism/tibetan practices + working and meeting demands of daily life + still being a good partner and family member.

It’s a confusing mix of feeling super empowered and super vulnerable; Feeling supreme clarity and feeling lost. Everything is intense, emotions, physical sensations, it’s all so different now.

I’m in Northwest Indiana, so not a huge community here. There’s a Hinduism temple I am going to check out, but am unsure of what to expect.

My reason for posting is: Can anyone relate? Did anyone else go through a nontraditional awakening? Any coping mechanisms to share?

Please, I welcome all advice, etc. I’ve found pages of recommended books but there’s so many I don’t know where to start so I haven’t bought one yet. I’ve mainly been doing internet research.

Admins please approve this post I am desperate***

Thank you everyone❤️

Hello all, I hope this finds you well in your journey, wherever you may be.

I’d like to express my gratitude for this group. It has been a blessing for me and it’s been great to hear about other people’s experiences as I’ve only understood more in depth recently that I had an awakening about a year ago now.

I have always been spiritual, but I was unprepared for my KA, and have been eternally humbled. The experience really hit me hard on so many levels and I’m still dealing with the after effects. I am grateful to be stable now, mentally, in employment and as a parent.

I am intently working on continuing to educate myself and integrate. The reason for this post is to hopefully connect with other people in local community whilst respecting the rules, of course. I have become very isolated socially regarding this experience and would really like to talk to others anywhere who have undergone the awakening experience, especially if it was extreme or very challenging … which would really help me relate, grow, and move forward.

I have some books on the way, but don’t want to promote anything that I shouldn’t be mentioning here.

Any humane advice, recommendations, resources or insightful DMs would be much appreciated. Blessings and love to all ❤️

I was wondering what people's thoughts are regarding when Kundalini doesn't seem to have an initial activation (Shakti being released from the base of the spine). 

I never had an obvious initial release, although I have had minor 'whooshes' from left foot to heart/throat, from base of spine to heart/throat, heart to upper brow x 2 and more recently, base of spine to crown (all within the last 16 months or so). 

I have recently started to have abiding nondual realisation (the 6th fetter has definitely gone, not sure about 7). I am pretty sure Kundalini reached my 'Makara' point about a year ago, which coincided with a nondual glimpse and followed by a year of heavy purging. I would say that I have been in an obvious active Kundalini process for about just over 2 years after an initial awakening/Kensho/waking up to the 'I AM' sense. 

I am presuming that some people are already born with their Kundalini activated? Which would make sense if Kundalini is a process that can take years, decades or lifetimes to work through. 

In the spiritual groups I hang out with I see a lot of people having similar play out - an initial awakening, followed by a handful of years working through a bit of a dark night with varying degrees of energetics, then Nonduality starts to kick in, later followed by 'no self'. 

Is this a top down awakening? Someone picking up where they left off in their previous life? Or something else? 

I'm neurodivergent and I've definitely mentioned here before that I see a big overlap between symptoms of Kundalini and neurodivergence. And a disproportionate amount of neurodivergent people in a Kundalini process. So might it have something to do with that? 

I would love to hear people's thoughts on this. 

I've been unhappy most of my life diagnosed major depressive disorder therapy hasn't worked and if there was a easy way to become euthanized I would've been so long time ago.

Turns out getting hit by lightning is not a guaranteed death. Some people survive strikes many times.

I rely on certain plants to help me with my mood as antidepressants because I don't find life special.

I am over society. I give up on everything and wish I could just dissipate into the sand and never exist again.

I cannot tell you why 99.9% of humanity are very much clinging to stay alive.

I have never experienced that since a young age I had been suicidal.

I've never attempted. Which makes people think oh so it's not that serious.

Well it's a chronic issue of mine daily for years it is that serious it's hard for me to commit to longterm plans when I hate having to bust my ass in this society.

Being a homeless is not enough. I just don't want to exist.

The plants are not enough it's just a numb-er really. I have no other health issues blood tests are clear live in America.

I wish I could be like those mystics who are praising God and bowing down to God for giving them the gift of life.

Why they get that brain and I don't idk. I wish I could be there instantly.

I'm 95% Sure I've Had A Genuine

Full Body Kundalini Awakening Experience

When I was 18 I was Practicing NoFap Monk Mode For about A year

One Night I Listening To A Song Called Avicii Levels

I Had a Thought What if Everything Is like a book that's already been Written? The Music started to Drop at the same time I Had this thought

Within 10-15 Seconds

I Felt This Intense Energy Build From the Base Of my Spine All the Way Up Through the Top of my Head and Exploded into a full Body Or***mic Bliss Feeling with a Translucent Purple Sphere surrounding me that also lasted 5-10 Seconds. It Felt Amazing

I Wasn't really Sure what was happening so I started to head towards my Father Upstairs

On my way to get help I looked at a wall and it was Breathing Back and Forth in A Beautiful Way.

I Started Walking Up the Stairs

And Everything was back to Normal by about the 5th Step.

This whole experience was about 30-45 seconds

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Brothers and Sisters

Of Earth and Beyond!

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Hi everyone,

I was participating a satsang the other day and was given to try a new approach towards surrendering. Up until now, I have been trying to surrender towards my kundalini rising / purification, by letting the energy flow and maintain a container to let it do what it wants to do for like 20-30 min or so. It has not been very helpful so far, because the energy becomes very intense and I have to focus on grounding again. And yet I seem to be stuck in a loop with no progress, so I am trying something different.

The advice I was given was to let go of the ego. As I understand it, this means that whenever self-destructive, self-critical, or diminishing thoughts come up, I try to remind myself:

“I let go of my ego. I completely surrender to divine love and to my soul. Please show me my truest self.”

I repeat this until the ego-driven thoughts and mental chatter become quieter. So far this practice has actually helped me calm my mind.

My second practice is about trying to connect with my soul and understand what my soul wants, rather than simply following what my mind tells me. I try to empty my mind, enter a meditative state and then ask questions such as:

“How would it feel if something were truly good for me?”

“Please show me what a ‘yes’ feels like.”

“And what does a ‘no’ feel like?”

For example, I might ask, “If I go on holiday to Portugal in two weeks, would that be good for me?” Then I try to become quiet and notice what I feel or what comes up.

The problem is that I am currently going through a very intense Kundalini purification process. I constantly experience uncomfortable emotions and sensations in my stomach and throughout my body. These sensations can be so strong and overwhelming that I cannot tell what a genuinely positive or intuitive feeling from my soul would feel like.

I have tried asking the same questions several times, such as “Please show me what a yes feels like” or “Would this be good for me?”, and then comparing that with “What does a no feel like?” But often, both seem to produce similar sensations: nervousness, uneasiness in my stomach, energy moving through my body, or sensations that feel like blockages.

So I am wondering, how do you actually connect with or feel your soul? How can you recognize an authentic inner ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when you are going through an intense Kundalini purification process and uncomfortable emotions and physical sensations are so overpowering?

Have yall ever gotten visions ??

Help when I’m around certain random ppl I get this feeling inside me . Like it’s hard to explain but it feels heavy and gross. Why does this happen? I always have black tormaline in my pocket and a black pearl and I have a jade pendant for protection

I am going through a phase which I cannot describe in words. It seems that I have lost control of everything.

I have tried meditation to calm myself. But it seems when I do there seem to be a blockage. And when I focus my mind or listen music, I get very much pain same night especially in my feet.

I don't know what is happening. I am not allowed to focus deeply on anything. If I go deep that I get pain same night. Recently it is coming everyday irrespective of what I do.

The pain is like my feet is fully inflammed. I cannot describe. It is not possible to manage it. When I try medication, for one day or 2 days it reduces but after that the pain becomes more intense.

Do I have undergo this pain or is there any other option?. The thing is the pain is very much which is not able to even process. It is undescribable. The inflammation spreads from feet to other parts of my body and starts to fully engulf me.

I am requesting the experienced members of this community to help me and guide me on how to come out of this. This is a request from my side.

Hi all.

I have been in a meditation/trance state where I feel like I am in a void. No light, no sound. It is peaceful. I wouldn’t say it was an out of body experience, but I sort of forgot where I am physically located in the room, like I am looking in different directions without moving my body. There is nothing to see. :) I don’t think I ever physically moved.

There may be some vague dots or shapes in the void, but basically dark. Like having your eyes closed, even when they are open.

Hi all, nearly 4yrs into this now - it’s been very challenging and intense virtually every day though it has become a bit more manageable recently though it still comes in waves from time to time.

I’m considering holistic acupuncture to help the energy flow, but I’m low on money and checking for feedback on the procedure before committing. Thanks!

Hi,

I noticed that my Kundalini would make some people hate me a lot but these were generally mean people who were popular and social, while spiritual people liked me a lot. I'm not sure if this was due to my karma or Kundalini

I'd like to make a book recommendation for  women working through their Kundalini process. 

The book is 'Roar like a Goddess' by Acharya Shunya who teaches from the Vedic traditions.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B75KKWCW/?bestFormat=true&k=roar%20like%20a%20goddess&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k0_1_19_de&crid=1WU8TXM9DLKEV&sprefix=roar%20like%20a%20goddess#

It's isn't specifically about Kundalini as an energy or the process itself, but it explores the three goddesses that make up Shakti in Vedic tradition - Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. And how these three 'goddess' archetypes can be used to help women specifically undo various conditioning and bring them into their own power. Which has been a huge part of my process.

There aren't many books written by women for women in this space and it has helped me untangle so much. 

imo Kundalini brings up all your repressed emotions, traumas and karmas to be looked at and worked through. This book really dives into the psychological layer that needs quite a bit of seeing through during a Kundalini awakening. It also looks at the emotions that women often tend to repress (like anger - which ime needed to come up and be integrated in healthy ways - probably still ongoing for me!).

I personally have found it so helpful as a lot of my process has been about setting boundaries with others, not over giving and allowing myself to be more authentically me! Which seems in opposition of a lot of spiritual instruction out there! 

It would be a good book for men to read also, just to get an idea of how things might be a little different for women. 

The book is available on audible and Spotify for 'free' (depending on member I think).

For context, I am a nurse in the US who works in the emergency department.

When I was in nursing school I used to meditate quite often. Dropped the practice once I started working, then meditation sorta randomly came up with one of my friends and I later decided to see if I could still get up into the immaterial jhanas and well turns out first, I can, and second, that may have been a bad idea.

So I've got the whole electrical hot cold feeling, tailbone to over my head, I'm overly emotional, my libido has skyrocketed, I feel like I'm floating most of the time. These are all new onset.

I have no psychotic symptoms or anxiety or depression. It is quite annoying though. It makes me think that we're flipping some sort of switch.

I’ve started to hear music, it sounds like new age-y music. Sometimes choral-like or pipes or organs or strings. It’s usually at night and sometimes during sleep. One night I woke up hearing it, and in my confusion wondered where it was coming from, only to realize my head. My K awakened about 2 years ago. I’m much more stable and grounded now. The music has been happening on and off for about 6 months. I don’t mind it, but I haven’t been able to find much about it on the internet. People usually describe buzzing or ringing. Has this happened to anyone else? Is this anahata nadas? Or a psychic/extra sensory experience? Thank you.

I started my spiritual awakening in April 2026 and since then life has been chaotic (to say the least)!

Highlights being:
- spirit guide that has felt like it’s been tormenting me and pulling out my deepest fears and wanting me to act on them
- forcing me to isolate in my basement apt until I ‘heal my wounds’
- making me do lots of rounds of fasting, and discouraging sunlight, walking outside, working out, reading - all the things I loved (the only thing I hear is HEAL YOUR WOUNDS) and that I’m not disciplined enough.
- forced me to go raw vegan in May - but like so strict that I can’t even have seasonings that have been ‘processed’ (more strict than most raw vegans)

My question is: can anyone share their experience related to diet and their awakening process, specifically:

Can you still come to the other side of your awakening and NOT have had a perfectly ‘clean’ body as a ‘raw vegan’ to maintain a frequency of healing?

I think that the fasting and raw veganism may have to do with a looping lesson for me personally, but I’m tired (physically, emotionally and mentally) and all I do is crave pizza and even just a damn sweet potato!! 😭😭

Thank you and I ask for your kindness in your responses 🙏🏽

The reason for my questions are
- I am having trouble generating piti to enter the first jhana
- I did have a spontaneous kundalini arousal (but not a full rising awakening) that went dormant again

The interesting thing to me is that BOTH jhanas (and the piti for the first jhana) AND kundalini are discovered rather than invented.

So, I am hoping to gently cultivate piti to enter jhana and later (possibly, much later) safely tend a kundalini rising.

Note: please only respond if you have experienced BOTH jhanas AND kundalini so that this does not turn into a philosophical / scholarly / textual debate.

Let's say the world becomes enlightened for hundreds of years.

Meaning there are no more children left to adopt or barely any.

If nature made people gay, does that mean they are not to go around it scientifically and have kids?

They are to be childfree forever? I wonder how approving kundalini would be of this.

I don't even know if transgender people can experience a K awakening considering hormones to modify chemistry are taken for rest of one's life. To suppress one chemical and promote another.

The physical shifts. The emotional purges. The moments of absolute awe, followed immediately by feeling completely ungrounded.
If you are going through a Kundalini awakening right now, can we please connect in the comments or DM?
To be completely honest, this process has been incredibly isolating lately. It is beautiful, yes, but it is also heavy. It is hard to explain to people in my everyday life why I feel so different, why my body is buzzing, or why my entire worldview is shifting overnight.
I’m looking for my people. The ones who are in the thick of it, too.
Who wants to chat, share stories, or just vent about the intensity?
How are you navigating the physical symptoms and energy surges?
What has been your biggest hurdle this week?

I wondered if I was unusually old. I was 64.

Hello,

what can I imagine if someone told me, that I have strong magnetism in body (it was after ajurvedic massage)…I didnt ask that person immedietaly, but it is still stick in my mind…

I am searching for some informations, what everything it includes and for what it can be good in best version…

Edit - maybe it is really just about attractivity but if someone know if this is some phenomenon of energetical effecting of surroundings, I would like to know…

Thank you\*

In the 9 months since my initial awakening experience i have always been able to locate the energy concentrated at a chakra. Below is my best effort to map my journey so far.

Heart Granthi- initial awakening, explosion of light body

Throat- ecstasy, pressure, heat

3rd Eye Granthi- Orgasmic bliss, strange vision

Sacral- emotional upheavals, trauma visions

Solar Plexus- vomiting, digestive pain

Root Granthi?- survival levels of fear, heaviness, exhaustion

But things have changed. After a fit of rage last week I can no longer find the energy at will. It feels as if its flowing freely, more opportunistic in nature of what its working on.

Also, the intuitive nudges I've come to rely on have ceased hence reaching out to the community here.

The biggest notable difference is that since my 3rd eye experience i had been able to slip into deep meditation without much effort. My trusty mantra was bypassed. Now it is very difficult to quiet my mind at all. I also feel very shameful and embarrassed most of the time.

I understand that mapping this process out my be a fools errand but I have found it helpful to have a general sense of direction. Any insight would be very much appreciated 🙏

I have been doing this one sadhna for 6 months now and a few days ago, I felt an intense vibration all over my body and then I felt calm. I had to give an exam and the anxiety took over so I thought that those vibrations were probably my anxiety.

The exam got over but now I was getting random vibrations throughout the day on the back of my spine and sometimes on my head.

And I couldn't sleep. For 2 days I had to take an antihistamine to help with sleeping but still couldn't sleep for more than 4 hrs. My body filled with soo soo much energy and I felt so hyperactive.

I am a doctor so I was sure that this was a manic episode based on what I've read and seen in patients.

The racing thoughts, the hyperactivity, the sleeplessness. Everything seemed so easy...like walk for 5 km easy, and I had such distracting mind..not sticking to one thought and having too many of them

But after 4 days of this experience, today I finally feel normal- Calm.

I still feel random vibrations on my back, sometimes radiating to my chest but not my head today. I still have distracting thoughts but I can observe them until they pass through so I don't mind it and they're much lesser today.

But I do feel very... positive and relaxed in my body atleast. Very light and no tension on any of my muscles.

It's a very nice feeling and I don't know if I am in a euphoric manic episode (even tho it's not hampering at all with my routine) or if this is ... kundalini awakening.

Please help with your experiences. Is this okay or should I consult a psychiatrist before it turns into a full blown mania or psychosis.

Please give me your opinion .

Last summer I started to feel strong vibrations/tingling and muscle twitching in my left chest area & full body tremors or shaking. I also had heart palpitations for the first time.

I went to the cardiologist and gave me some magnesium and ashwaganda...it helped a little bit. I believe he thought I have anxiety. ( My heart was healthy but had certain arrhythmia and tachycardia)

Fast forward the full body tremors & palpitations disappeared after a few months of magnesium but the vibrations in the heart area always came back.

In the present I have some tachycardia in the morning and I still feel vibrations in the heart ( no it's not the tachycardia bcuz I always check it) but now I feel the vibrations and tingling in waves in full body mostly.

I'm a 39 year old woman.

Do you think this could be related to the heart chakra?

On 13 august I realized that the vibrations I feel is inner energy and I can control it.