What is Kundalini Yoga?

When we study Kundalini Yoga, we learn to place our arms, hands, fingers, and the body itself into very specific postures, creating certain angles. Combined with powerful breathing techniques, with mantras, and with meditation, these kriyas can produce amazing changes in our psyche.

The word yoga means "union." It is the union of the finite (the subjective self) with the Infinite (All-That-Is). It is also the union of breath and movement which has as its ultimate goal the harmonious merging of body, mind and soul into the universal energy surrounding us. We refer to it as "the practice of Yoga," but the real yoga is how you take what you've learned in class and live it out in the world.

Kundalini Yoga
by Edward Averill et al (pdf)

This article was originally
published in Point of Light.