How to Awaken the Kundalini

Preparation through breathing

Relax first and breathe softly. The initial goal is to find the air-bags before trying to find the gateway.

Adopt a soft abdominal breathing. This is the easiest way to look for the hidden gateway. When you inhale, the airbag around your lungs pushes into the airbag around your abdominal and pelvic organs. There is gas inside the tube and loops of the intestines.

Let the airbag around your lungs come to equilibrium with the airbag of your abdomen.

Find the kidneys. Between the two airbags and a little behind the lower bag membrane named the peritoneum are the kidneys.

Contact the kidneys with the inhalation and then release both airbags at the same time. This will massage the kidneys. Keep your eyes closed.

Put the adrenal glands on the kidneys... like riders on a horse. Chant "Num Mum Yum Pa'Hum". As you inhale let the two bags make contact. As you exhale and chant, feel for the vibration of the right adrenal, the right kidney, the left kidney, and the left adrenal. The adrenals are the key organs of the front petals of Manipura chakra. The name, "city of jewels", refers to the great power of cortisol which gives five thousand regulatory genes access to the inner body and the world around us. Come into the body and come into the present moment.

Rub across your low back and lower ribs with the back of both palms if your kidneys are still aching or feel stuck.

Adopt a position of comfort. Remove any discomfort and resist the need to sit rigid.

Lift both arms above your head, stretch the thumbs, and rotate the arms back and out. You should consciously feel your lungs respond to the thumbs.

Reach your index finger to the sky and let the large intestine dangle from the side of the ribcage.

Lift your collarbones to suspend the kidneys, then press and rotate the ball of each foot.

Take your awareness back to the two airbags and the kidney/adrenal sandwich and feel the sensation.

Start to release the diaphragm but don't exhale all at once. Instead, tuck your chin just a little and find jalandhara bandha, a gentle throat position which will help guide you to a slow exhalation.

Inhale, touch the two bags, and rest the chin, tongue, palate, sinuses on top of the stack along with the third bag—the bag of the brain and spinal cord.

Exhale slowly, feeling the top of your lungs fill and buoy upwards. Imagine building wings with each exhalation and imagine that the wing lift the top of your lungs and keep going.

Inhale, touch the pleural bag of the chest to the peritoneal bag of the abdomen and pelvis.

Exhale and let the third bag lift above the top of the nose. For this, the third bag should be known to be the dural bag of the brain and spinal cord

Breathe again, letting the dural bag expand under the dome of the inside of the top of the head.

Let the bag of the spinal cord lift off from the bones of the spine and back. Swami Satyananda Swami Satyananda, Yoga and Tantra Teacher Kundalini awakening takes you from the physical to the spiritual realm. It's not just activating energy — it transforms your consciousness, fundamentally changing your psyche and body. When kundalini rises through the chakras, it purifies and opens each one. But the process can get bumpy. You need preparation, knowledge, and a compassionate mentor. Waking up kundalini starts you on a journey to an expanded state of awareness. Your individual self merges into universal oneness, knowing bliss and peace beyond ordinary experience. It's the shift from gross to subtle, material to eternal. The work is challenging but profoundly alters how you perceive the world.

Accessing the central channel

Begin the hunt for the hidden entrance to the central channel.

Find a vibration at the tip of the coccyx.

Close your eyes and chant "Vum Vum Vum Vum." This will access the front petal of Muladhara which "Bestows mobility and the ability to make others as sweet and pure as water." Your anchor, the coccyx, will feel mobile, floating along in the shallows, barely touching the sand.

Feel the vibration move up the bones of the spine as you chant "Vum."

Imagine you are a musical instrument that spreads sweetness and you are surrounded by kindness from everyone.

Chant "Shum Shum Shum Shum." You should find the vibration in the entire bone of the sacrum. Feel the craniosacral wave start rising up the spine and rocking the occiput. Feel the third bag, the craniosacral bag, full of fluid, surging upwards and settling back down.

Let the brain sink down into the water and float.

Imagine a large balloon the size of the airbag of the abdomen and pelvis.

Let the air out slowly, holding the neck of the balloon and stretching it just a bit. This will allow you to point the little jet at whatever you want.

Lift your pelvic area a little bit and squeeze the anal sphincters just enough to feel or visualize a ring. These are the muscles that control the nozzle and stream of air as you exhale.

Let the two airbags touch with a soft inhalation.

Feel the kidneys in the sandwich and let the chin rest on air.

Draw the third bag of the brain and spinal draw forward a bit and lift the spinal cord just a bit.

Lift the pelvic floor, engage the sphincter rings and start the slow exhale. The nozzle of the belly-bag-balloon points backwards and the little jet blows the dust off the stone column of the front of the spine.

Blow the jet of the abdominal balloon backwards from the hollow of the front of the upper sacrum, along the convexity of the lower lumbar spine.

Search for the hidden door to the central channel. Search all the way to the inside of the belly button and back down.

Put both palms over your belly and feel for a tingle.

Push in and send a full exhale cloud in after it if you think you've found a hidden latch. When in doubt, with your eyes closed, look up! If you see a wall, push through it. If you see a main road, drive on it. Look up!

Inhale and rest the three bags.

Engage the pelvic muscles and this time, from the left side exhale towards the midline, just below the navel.

Repeat.

Chant " Bum Ba'Hum Mum... Yum Rum Lum." These are the sounds of the six lotus petals of Svadhisthana chakra. From the right ovary to the appendix to the right kidney; the left kidney, left descending colon and left ovary.

Pray "Lum Lum Lum Lum" for the grace of God, Savior of the universe.

Inhale and, from the left side, exhale towards the center line.

Inhale and let the three bags rest.

Descend your awareness down the spine. Imagine the sound of a silent "H." When you exhale, let your lower abdominal move back quickly. Imagine flipping a pancake.

Exhale forward, up, and loop it back around with the jet blowing from in front of the abdominal wall, through the wall and all the way back to the front of the spinal column. If you feel an itch, exhale again right at it, millimeter-by-millimeter, drilling towards the goal.