To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/11/29 15:55
Subject: Re: [K-list] yoga freak
From: Herma
On 2002/11/29 15:55, Herma posted thus to the K-list:
On: Friday, November 29, 2002 6:13 PM shellelrATnospamaol.com wrote:
Subject: [K-list] yoga freak>She gave me the number of a kundalini yoga teacher. I could tell this was a new one for her, too, having someone ask about K. There was no way to encapsulate the entirety of my experience in a casual conversation, and I left feeling like a big freak, that I'm some kind of first for these people who have been teaching yoga for decades.>
Hi Shelle,
My (spontaneous) K-awakening was 11 years ago and through the years I have been searching for help and understanding.
One day there was an Open Day in a Yoga-Center and a friend had told me that the man, leading this Center, was a real guru, able and authorized to give people a personal mantra. So I went to this Center for a consult. This kundalini-teacher was born in a family of kundalini-teachers and his father was a Great Grandmaster in Kundalini Yoga! As naive as I was at that time, I thought: 'Wow, a real kundalini-master, help for me!' Would you believe what he said?: 'You can't have a kundalini-awakening, because that is only possible at the end of a long path; I will give you some acupuncture and pranayama-exercises and he warned me 'not to play with energy again!' (After that I ran away ;)
My next trip was to the Parapsychological Institute in my country. They had an AMI-meter there (that's a machine connected to a computer, able to measure and to show the energy in the meridians). It was developed by Motoyama and I had read about this man in Bonnie Greenwell's book:'Energies of Transformation'. 'A-ha, help for me!' In my naivity I thought that they would surely bring me in contact with Master Motoyama himself :) After the AMI-gram and a lot of technical explanation that was too difficult for me to understand, I asked the Director of this Institute if he knew someone with profound knowledge of kundalini. His advice? :'Join a Tai Chi Club!' (I was hardly able to walk after my awakening) LOL!
As Hillary also wrote, here on this list it's very normal to talk about our K-process, but it is a fact that most yoga-teachers have no experience with kundalini. And in the Yoga-traditions, such as Vipassana and Zen, kundalini-symptomes are often denied, seen as a 'lung' (wind)disease or not spoken about and most teachers don't know and can't deal with spontaneous awakenings.
I also felt betrayed and left alone at that time, but the good thing was, that I became less naive and less impressed by titles and these encounters learned me to trust my intuition and my own 'knowing' :)
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