What is Kundalini Yoga?

This form of yoga is said to be more than 5000 years old; it is the “mother” yoga, passed down from enlightened beings through a chain of teachers.  It’s now understood to be an art and a science dealing with the transformation and expansion of  consciousness.  It’s the awakening and raising up of the life force, or kundalini, energy, through the spine and the energy centers sometimes called chakras.  In this yoga we harness the mental, physical and nervous energies of the body and we put them under the domain of the will.   We use methods that involve the conscious and precise control of the breath; we use hand and eye positions, mantras, body locks, postures, even singing together—everything known to us about raising consciousness—to balance and strengthen the nervous and the glandular system, expand lung capacity, and even purify the blood.  All together, it awakens you to the infinite potential and universality of your totality—body, mind and soul.