Kundalini Awakening Symptoms
Symptoms of Kundalini Awakening
Real Life Experiences & Descriptions of Kundalini Rising
Are you going through a kundalini awakening episode or experience? Let’s find out…
Kundalini awakening symptoms are truly a very intriguing subject. Really there is no correct answer to the question, “What are the symptoms of Kundalini Rising?”, as thankfully, each of us is absolutely unique and thus, on a unique trajectory on the path to Kundalini Awakening. That said, there are some common kundalini experiences that are often reported, which I would like to share with you in this article.
Although we can draw up endless lists of symptoms from third party accounts, I would like to instead make this series about kundalini symptoms that you or I have actually experienced. In this article, I will give a recent account from one of my students about what she experienced shortly after class, and then I will add my own kundalini experiences and observations as well.
In the comments section, I encourage you to add any kundalini awakening experiences or symptoms you have felt, so others can better understand what they might be going through. Here is the recent email I received from my student, Aida:
Aida’s Experience of Kundalini Awakening:
I am a student of the “Gentle Kundalini Class”. I just finished taking a series of exercise specifically for the spine.
As I left the class I felt energized as I usually feel after each class, but this time it was a little different, I was feeling extra aware of my surrounding. Like a light turned on. My back was so straight. It lasted all day.If I could go to class every morning I would go. It makes my day start right in every way. And there are times when I am not feeling like going to class and I push myself to go and do not regret it.Thank you for being my teacher.Aida D.
For those interested, here is a link to the Spinal Warmup Kundalini Yoga Kriya we did in class that day. Thank you Aida, for sharing your personal experiences with us.
This particular experience of kundalini is very interesting and significant. This is because it is the common experience of advanced meditation and of kundalini yoga. In the article, Powerful Kundalini Yoga Battles Profound Zen Meditation, I described my own such experience with kundalini awakening, but not from doing kundalini yoga, but instead from doing Silent Mind Meditation!
Aida’s experience points at the two things that all yoga and meditation boils down to. Energy and Awareness.
My favorite description of Kundalini Yoga is, “The Yoga of Awareness,” and as you see from her account, she felt more aware, as the energy of kundalini had risen up her spine. In meditation, it is the same. The demand for intense awareness, in order to comprehend the thought process via direct perception, leads to energy (kundalini) rising up and elongating the spine. Awareness then follows.
Jiddu Krishnamurti describes this experience of kundlaini energy flowing up the spine as “The rush of water filling up and thus causing a pipe to stand erect.”
When we insist that the spine be straight during meditation, it is simply to facilitate this awakening and thus, to assist in being more aware. I have experienced kundalini rising and puling up with such force, during meditation, that it sometimes make me feel as if I am going to be launched right off the ground or as if it’s going to pull my head off and up into the sky.
Symptoms of Kundalini Awakening:
I am going to describe some of the physical symptoms my students or I have felt due to kundalini awakening. I know there are many emotional and mental symptoms as well, and you are welcome to share those with us in the comments section below. I am grouping the experiences into 3 categories, common, uncommon and rare, according to what I have observed.
Common Kundalini Awakening Symptoms:
- Tingling in the body and brain region. Also sometimes described as ants walking, tickling energy or flushes of energy. The brain being flushed with energy is quite pleasant :-).
- Heat or cold in the system, or running along various channels and chakra centers.
- Fluttering or twitching of muscles.
- Pinching or burning in various regions of the body or brain.
Uncommon Kundalini Awakening Symptoms:
- Pressure in the Third Eye Region (Ajna Chakra). This is pressure, tingling or other sensation in the center of the forehead. Can go on for years (14 years and counting so far for me). Caution: If the pressure, due to certain practices, intensifies to uncomfortable levels you feel are “immense”, you should cease that practice and consult a competent kundalini yoga teacher.
- Sudden bursts of energy anywhere in the body. These are almost always short lived, from a few seconds to a few minutes.
- Spontaneous yoga asans or kundalini yoga movements. They may come on spontaneously, or they may take over, as if on auto-pilot when one is practicing Kundalini Yoga Kriyas or Exercises (For an example see article: Explosive Kundalini Rising in Class Today).
- Kundalini Shakti rising up and elongating the spine.
- Incredible feeling of love and desire for your partner (not ordinary lust, alcohol induced or otherwise :-). Usually comes upon you spontaneously, deep in the night. Sex feels like it’s the first such experience and the intense feelings of attraction emanate from somewhere beyond yourself.
- Unfortunately, pain in the lower back, back of the neck and headaches.
Rare Kundalini Awakening Symptoms:
- Experience of divine light within. Very intense light, usually pure white and incredibly beautiful. I call it the Radiation of the Lord.
- Tremendous vibratory energy (sometimes feels like it’s coming from the inner ears). Very blissful, but can intensify to the point where it would completely overwhelm your consciousness if you let it.
- Spontaneous bliss, intensely pleasurable.
- This one is a bit scary. Complete paralysis of the body. Complete immobility and rigidity takes place. As with the all consuming vibratory energy, it requires some courage to allow.
- This one is exceedingly rare. I have experienced it only once in my life, and have only ever read about it being experienced by one other – the master of awareness, G. I. Gurdjieff. The arms and legs churn like that of a baby. It happens naturally and cannot be simulated. It is also intensely pleasurable and quite a remarkable experience.
There are of course a wide range of transcendental experiences, some of which you will find described in the category Spiritual Enlightenment Experiences. Above, I have provide those that are more commonly associated with kundalini awakening, although many would argue, including Swami Vivekananda, that all enlightenment experiences have to do with kundalini entering the brain region in some capacity.
So if you have experienced some kundalini symptoms as well, please do share them with us below. I think it will benefit others identify if what they are going through is actually symptoms of the ever mysterious kundalini awakening.
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Hi,
I am really not sure if this would really be Kundalini or just an asumption that my Kundalini is awaken or something else.
I always feel a cloud of Hot air that getting collected in my mouth everytime when i mediate and onces it accumulates that entire air becomes cold and passes to my Brain .
Whenever i am sleeping i feel like lot of Energy getting collected near my Stomach and that energy passes to my by entire body and makes my entire Body vibrate or shaking a lot.
I just like to stay alone and without any reason my body gets really hot and suddenly i get fever and the next minute i am Normal again
I also feel that i started having some time of mystic power of selecting the right answers to question although i really don’t know the answers to them.
I am not sure if this would just be my assumption that this would be koz of awaken or something else
If sometime in this Blog would suggest me or give me guidances.
I would really appreciate that
Hi,
Few days back I had a dream in which a person tells the word Kundalini to me and runs away. Before this dream I’ve only heard the word Kundalini but didn’t know anything about it, nor I’ve had any discussion about it before.
I have had lots of psychic experiences before. I usually see precognitive and very vivid dreams. Sometimes I also know that I am in a dream and have partial control over my actions in that dream. Not full. Could anyone please tell me how should I interpret this.
Thanks
Ashutosh
I have experienced this churning sensation as well. In both my left and right legs. At first I did not know what it was, maybe some kind of spasms but they did not hurt, they were actually weird, like my leg had a mind of its own. Or perhaps it was stored energy finding a way to release itself. What was stranger was that this was not the first time I’ve seen this kind of thing happen. My first encounter with this was from my mom. When I was a kid I would sit in her lap, and at one time her legs started vibrate as if there was a ripple of energy flowing through her, she was not moving her legs to make the vibrations, this would be apparent due to large muscle movements in a particular. For her it was definitely different, as if the muscle was moving itself. I asked her what it was, and she said she didn’t know.
Only now do I experience what it was like; happening to my own body.
I can also recount 3 very vivid episodes of what I can call high state of consciousness. One was when I was 6 years old (I can still remember the dream in every detail, and the feelings and emotions attached to it). The second one was when I was in my teen years. The third was just recently. Is it possible that these were episodes of kundalini arousal? I’ve read the symptoms of premature kundalini awakening, and I show strikingly similar symptoms. Involuntary movements, stick back, mood swings, depression (I get very depressed), as well as times when my energy level is just really high. I also get vivid dreams and at times become really tired and space out even though I’ve rested sufficiently the night before. I have bowel problems, and sometimes pressure builds up in my head. I have trouble expressing my true emotions to others and I bottle them up inside most of the time thinking positively.
I’ve only recently started breathing exercises about 1 year ago and the result was this churning of my leg. Is it possible I’ve awakened my kundalini. If so, then is there any way I can cure these symptoms.
Thanks Anmol.
Hi Trupti,
I have left my post twice in a hope that either Anmol, or you would get back with a reply.
Please read my post and let me know if they are symptoms related to kundalini. if not then i might find out some help for myself.
Thanks
i got a very rare feeling ..after i am done with my meditation …immediately after some time my instinct tells me to masturbate .and that particular moment i am not able to stop it ..i feel two voices inside me ..one who is forcing me to do that..and other which is stopping me to do that…do u thing masturbation during kundalini practice may be harmful
Here is my experience in awakenin of kundalini,
13 years ago, right after I got initiated in Reiki
I started meditating every single day although, I practised
meditation for 7 years prior to that but not regularly.
After the initiation I truly devoted myself and kept meditating
one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening.
About a few days into it, I started first feeling a cool, gentle air on my forehead
every time during meditation.
A tingling sensations through different parts of my body followed and with the time
it increased enormously throughout my entire body.
As soon as I would close my eyes and start relaxing, the cool air on my forehead along with the sensations
trough my body would take place.
Then after two weeks or so I started feeling a waves of energy moving in my belly.
Day by day those waves became so huge that I thought I was going to explode.
And that’s when I got scared thinking that something was getting wrong.
I called the master that initiated me in Reiki and told her what I was experiencing
during my meditation. I advised her that the sensation of energy filling my belly was tremendous,
and if she could explain to me what this was all about for I was getting scared.
This is what she told me, “Don’t play with that energy because it could be dangerous”
I heard what she said, but I didn’t follow her advice.
I continued meditating and experiencing the same thing for another week or so,
when at one point, and all of a sadden this tremendous wave of energy rushed upward
through my throat and head bursting into a light that lasted not more than a moment.
I felt that in this very moment both my throat and my head took on size of an enormous tunnel.
The whole experience was out of this world, and I never experienced the something again.
Miriana
Hi, I was at a tetha healing course in nov 2007 and in the first meditation i got this pure bright white light so extremely intense that it`s hard to explain. Later in meditations this weekend i experiensed a huge heart opening, in meditation i got into some kind of deep awareness, the only way i can explain this is in the black night when you stare at the stars, these stars came towards me, close with healing energy, maybe angels?
The following days, weeks, months, years i`ve had numerous different psykick experienses, i started to see different things with my suddenly developed psykick senses, but first a battel within witch i felt was between the good and bad parts of me… wisits in the night,wisits in meditation, suddenly healing by angels, what i felt was opening of new chacras in my body, out of body experienses, my spirit guide took me out of my body to meet with higher spiritual masters, you can say i balansed on the edge of what i could take not going crasy…Today i can feel when people think about me, somtimes i pick up the phone seconds before the sms messages come, knowing who sendt it! I also often feel peoples paine and sorrow… And some other things i wont tell here. It`s wery exciting :)
After this opening i 2007 it`s like i have been working on each chakra from crown and downwards getting an initsiation and a gift when the test of each chakra is passed, can you tell me if this is normal?
Finding this site today gave me many answers, thanks.
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Hi. I wanted to write because I have been having some very strange things happening to me. I have looked up on the internet and found that I match quite a bit of these symptoms here. Which I don’t understand. I am new to mediation and from the very first time I meditated, I had that vibratory feeling in my body. I also get a funny little feeling as though there is something over my head just slightly sitting on top of it maybe. Like it is static or energy.
This was fine. No big deal right? The next time I meditated I felt a funny pressure in the center of my head right where the third eye would be. I remember thinking oh maybe my third eye is opening. Ok thats fine.
Then i had not meditated for awhile. Like I said I am very new to it and have not made it a routine yet. But now lately I been getting this tingling feeling on the sides of my head more frequently. I been getting that pressure feeling in my forehead at random times. I am not even meditating and it will happen to me. The pressure in my forehead almost feels as if something is going to explode. It really freaks me out. I find that I start to rub that area and pressing on it as it can be overwhelming.
I don’t understand how I activated this kundalini when #1 I don’t even know what it is. I started meditating for relaxation and to calm myself and now I am learning that I activated some sort of advanced meditation practice? How did I do this? Is this going to harm me?
I was worried I had a tumor or something. But I visited the doctor and I am fine and healthy.
The other stuff I do not mind. The vibratory feeling scared me at first. I felt like my spirit or consciousness could leave my body with the way it shook me. But I am getting use to it. I realize I have felt it before. In dreams I sometimes get woken up because of the vibrating feeling. Very odd.
Well I would love any advice and answers because all this does unnerve me.
Thank you
TK
lovedidea,
Yes, such reports and experiences are very consistent with Kundalini Events. Keep meditating and stay healthy and fit.
All the best,
Trupti
I would like to know if this is a Kundalini awakening. when meditating I started to feel that strong energy coloured violet start entering by the crown chakra and it was very warm. slowly but steadily coming inside me through neck, heart going lower all the time. My ears were having some sort of spasms and my whole body was getting really hot and feeling like I was going to have an orgasm. The warm energy went right down to my genitals and felt afterward very relax. My whole body was somehow following some kind of heartbeat. it was really orgasmic. Thanks
I would like to know if this is a Kundalini awakening. when meditating I started to feel that strong energy coloured violet start entering by the crown chakra and it was very warm. slowly but steadily coming inside me through neck, heart going lower all the time. My ears were having some sort of spasms and my whole body was getting really hot and feeling like I was going to have an orgasm. The warm energy went right down to my genitals and felt afterward very relax. My whole body was somehow following some kind of heartbeat. it was really orgasmic. Could it be a Kundalini awakening? Thanks
Hi Anmol,
It is quite interesting to read some of the experiences.I would like to share experiences. I was in the practice of Mantra japa meditation and I was feeling tingling at Ajna Chakra for some years.
Later, some years. the vibration extended to Sahasrara for some years.
This continued for few years.
After a gap of few years, there was a rising indication from Muladhara to Ajna and to sahasrara during my Gayatri japam and it continued when ever I attempted any japa or meditation or when ever I go some temples or holy persons.I was enjoying this for quite long time. May be I am not aware that is Kundalini rising.One Holy person told me, with a just look or stare at me about this.
Really it is the blessing of my gurus .
satyadev
Hi Anmol
I mostly get this category: “This one is a bit scary. Complete paralysis of the body. Complete immobility and rigidity takes place. As with the all consuming vibratory energy, it requires some courage to allow.” I emerge from the usually 2 hour experience feeling very drowsy like i have been heavily drugged. i cannot resist these episodes. its taken courage because I feel like someone is usurping my will and inducing an intense anaesthetic. i read in Yogananda’s autobio that the life force is being removed -it certainly feels like that. most times i have waves of bliss for a few mins at some point in the 2 hours. my mind is totally alert but i cannot hold onto thoughts, they disappear. after the experiences i am very calm, tranquil, and the world looks new and wonderful. i do however have to break through a fear barrier when the episodes begin. i have viewed these as samadhis till i read your blog. maybe its just semantics. what i really want to know is what the purpose is behind inducing this ‘”drugged”state. i must add that initially i went totally stiff but after several episodes there is much less rigidity but the drugged feeling renders me unable to move at all. all sensory input is amplified. i have deep faith in the purpose of the episodes because i am under the protection of a most powerful guru. please can you or any other contributors comment. many thanks.
Benjamin,
Start a regular meditation practice, treat the experience like an invitation.
Trupti
HeY AnMoL,
CaN yOu plEaSe teLL me a reMedY fOr bALAncinG mY hEaRt chAkRa. I am dOinG prAnaYam & suRya NamAskAr and MediTatiOn.
ThanK yOu,
Anj
I’m not sure if it is the experience you describe, but I do Zen Kyo Shin Taijutsu (martial arts) every week for a few hours, and I have symptoms listed above, such as tingling feeling and sudden bursts of energy, along with a pressure feeling in my forehead.
Again, I’m not sure if it’s linked with ‘Kundalini’, but I thought I’d share it on here. =)
Thanks for posting about this, it helps alot.