Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga is named after the term kundalini , which according to this doctrine, refers to a primordial energy which would be present in every human being and that would evolve along a main channel located in the spine, the center of the spinal cord from the sacrum to the top of the head.

Kundalini yoga aims to awaken the consciousness of self through the mastery of this energy, the kundalini through the practice of Asana (posture) of pranayama (breath techniques) of bandha (locks, contractions) and recitation of mantra.

Summary 1 A Brief History of Kundalini Yoga 1.1 The Kundalini Yoga in India 1.2 Carl Gustav Jung and Kundalini Yoga 1.3 The Kundalini Yoga in the West 2 Bibliography 3 Notes and references 4 See also 4.1 Link external

A Brief History of Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga in India

Kundalini Yoga is one of 22 schools of Yoga. It belongs to the Indian tradition and unorthodox is exposed in the Kundalini Yoga Upanishad which is part of the Yoga Upanishads.

It was also called Raja Yoga (although now it refers to another school yoga) or it has been reserved for the nobility , the elite (from the Sanskrit root raj for "king", " Royal "), whether he was then considered the" royal road "to the development of consciousness.

In the Indian yogic tradition, Kundalini Yoga is considered a powerful practice to achieve the extinction of the cycle of successive existence ( Samsara ). It is tied to tradition tantric , with a reputation for providing access to occult and supernatural powers (or siddhis ). Kundalini Yoga is associated to Sidhe (or Sadhus ) the most experienced and taught in a confidential manner.

Carl Gustav Jung and Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga was introduced to Europe via Carl Gustav Jung in lectures he gave on this subject in 1932 at the Psychological Club Zurich , while the discipline was still totally unknown in the West ^{Kundalini Yoga in the West}

The rudiments of public teachings of Kundalini Yoga were exposed by Vivekananda on the occasion of the exhibition of Chicago , the United States , which took place in 1892 .

From 1969 , Kundalini Yoga was taught the United States and Europe by a master of this discipline, Yogi Bhajan. Kundalini Yoga including calling for help addicts out of drug addiction (SuperHealth program, founded in 1973, earning recognition Yogi Bhajan U.S. Senate ), he aired his teaching throughout the world world for 35 years, with the aim of training teachers.

Yogi Bhajan , also teaches the Hatha Yoga , justified the teaching of these techniques in that they would be tailored to the needs of our time: according to him, few people in India as elsewhere, can afford to practice Yoga more than an hour a day. It was therefore necessary, according to him, resorting to a practice that allows to feel the effects quickly he considered significant.

Now, Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan identifies many practitioners worldwide. The German Federation of Kundalini Yoga (3HO Deutschland), for example, boasts more than a thousand members of teachers ...

3HO Foundation for) founded by Yogi Bhajan, has a seat on the Economic and Social Council as an non-governmental organization . Affiliated major schools of Kundalini Yoga and its related disciplines ( Sat Nam Rasayan , Karam Kriya , Kundalini Yoga Prenatal Yoga White Tantric ...) which are now run by students of Yogi Bhajan.

Bibliography

Kundalini Yoga

• Satya Singh, Handbook of Kundalini Yoga, Editions Marabout , 1996. ( ISBN 2-501-02137-1 )
• Shakta Kaur Khalsa, Yoga for Women, Pearson Publishing Practice, 2005. ( ISBN 2-744-06123-9 )
• Michael Manor, Kundalini Yoga: The Science of the total being, Guy Trdaniel Editor, ( ISBN 2-857-07620-7 )
• Lothar Rdiger Ltke, Kundalini, the awakening of the life force, Guy Trdaniel Editor, ( ISBN 2-85707-707-6 )
• (In) Yogi Bhajan, The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, KRI Publications, ( ISBN 0-895090-52-X )
• Tara Michal, subtle body and causal body. "The description of the six chakra" and some Sanskrit texts on kundalini yoga, Paris, Le Courrier du book, 1979, 278 p.

Analytical psychology

• Carl Gustav Jung , Psychology of Kundalini yoga, intr. Sonu Shamdasani, new ser. ed., Editions Albin Michel , ( ISBN 9782226157119 )
• B. Auriol, Yoga and Psychotherapy, 1977, Ed Privat, Toulouse
• H. Flamm, Yoga and psychoanalysis - Praxis, 5 August 1969, pp. 972-973
• M. Choisy, Yoga and Psychoanalysis, Mont Blanc, Geneva, 1949
• C. Baudoin, instinct with the spirit, Handbook of Analytical Psychology, Descle de Brouwer, Paris, 1950

Kundalini

• Carl Gustav Jung , new ser. ed. under the title The Psychology of Kundalini yoga, 2005 ( ISBN 2-226-15711-5 )
• A. Avalon - The Power of the Serpent. Introduction to Tantra, Translated by C. Vachon on 4 ^th ed. Engl., Ganesh and Co., Madras. 1950, Dervy Ed, Paris.
• Lilian Silburn, Kundalini, Energy of the depths, The Two Oceans, Paris, 1983
• (In) VG Rele, The Mysterious Kundalini - Bombay, 1927, ed. DP Toraporevala.

References

See also

External link

• Yoga Kundalini Upanishad