Get Started with Kundalini Yoga

Discover kundalini yoga as an energy management practice within tantra, including white tantra and red tantra concepts, and the western introduction by Yogi Bhajan.

Awaken the kundalini energy within your body and reprogram the subconscious mind through Kundalini yoga, purging outdated patterns as your mind changes.

Explore kundalini energy at the base of the spine, awakened by breath and mind-body practices, rising through the chakra system like a fire that burns away lifelong burdens.

Explore the stages of Kundalini awakening as energy travels from the base through the chakra system, producing sacrum pressure, washing-machine sensations, and intelligent body movements.

Practicing Kundalini yoga surfaces emotions, resistance, and changes in the subconscious as you adopt new postures, breath, and mantra. Push through the resistance with grit and discipline to gain benefits.

Learn how to tune in to a Kundalini yoga class by chanting Ong Namo Gurudev Namo, understanding mantra pronunciation, and preparing with breath, posture, and heart-centered intention.

Invoke the protection mantra to fill your Kundalini yoga space with white healing light before practice. Learn a four-line chant, spoken in call-and-response, with grounding breaths.

Engage the Mula Bandha, Uddiyana Bandha, and Jalandar Bandha to channel energy up the spine, stabilize the breath, and cultivate energetic awareness in Kundalini yoga.

Explore drishti, a focus technique in Kundalini yoga, guiding awareness to the third eye, chin, and nose points to boost concentration, memory, and light up the pituitary and frontal brain.

Mantras in kundalini yoga use Gurmukhi vibration from the mouth of the teacher to direct energy and intention, boosting meditation and mood, McGill study shows.

Practice hand mudras in Kundalini Yoga, linking each finger to planetary energies like Jupiter, Saturn, sun, and mercury through gyan mudra, shunya mudra, suraiya mujra, bodi mudra, and pranam mudra.

Guide students through breath of fire, the eagle eradicator, in rock pose with a straight spine and loose belly, using panting, nasal breath, third eye drishti, and aura sweep.

Practice cat-cow in a Kundalini yoga flow to awaken energy and boost facial radiance. Move slowly for three minutes, focus on the third eye, and silently recite set and Naam.

Practice addiction meditation to release subconscious patterns using a seated posture, fingers in and thumbs at the temples, and a light jaw bite while silently chanting sa ta na ma.

Practice sat kriya in kundalini yoga to transmute sexual energy into creative energy and regulate emotions, using mula and uddiyana bandhas with mantra sut nam satnam.

Engage in intelligence meditation to reprogram neural pathways for higher vibrations, boosting concentration and cognitive energy. Move Jupiter and Saturn fingers with breath, visualize planets, then ground and release.

Practice fist of anger to release emotional pain by syncing breath of fire with arm movements, purge anger from the aura and energize the body through Kundalini energy.

Engage radiance breathing to charge the body with more prana, boosting energy, vitality, and mabunda. Hold for three minutes, maintaining gyan mudra, mouth breath, and drishti.

Practice shabad kriya to ease sleep and relaxation. Sit with right hand over left, thumbs forward, chant sat nam during four inhalations, hold, then exhale with waheguru for five minutes.

Practice Sudarshan Chakra Kriya in Kundalini Yoga, combining breath, 16 Waheguru recitations, and three navel pumps. Alternate nostrils with a straight spine, then finish by energy shaking and checking in.

Wear white in kundalini yoga to evoke purity and amplify the aura, and explore how color affects mood; a sheepskin balances the electromagnetic field, and a turban channels energy.

Choose a few daily Kundalini yoga practices—mantras, meditations, and pranayamas—and repeat them for 40 days to build discipline and form a habit. Start with 5–35 minute routines instead of kriyas.

After a kundalini yoga class, be gentle with yourself, hydrate, have a snack if needed, avoid driving, and go inward by skipping social media and messages until you feel grounded.

Learn how to start Kundalini yoga safely by relaxing the body, maintaining a straight spine, and guiding energy with breath, while managing heightened sensitivities and avoiding aggressive, high intensity moves.