Soul detox

The kundalini is awakened after certain asanas, pranayama and meditation practices. “It can be a combination of all these or any of these. Either way, the intensity, the purity with which it is done and the discipline of daily abhyasa (practice) matters,” says Vasundhara. According to her, this dormant serpentine feminine power can be awakened with mantras and tantras as well.

“I had the good fortune to deep dive into Tantra yoga when I was around 15 years old and the entire focus was turned inwards, centered on awakening the kundalini by way of chants, meditating on the Sahasrara, cleansing each chakra using a combination of meditation and chanting of mantras and raising it to pierce through each chakra to unite with the Brahman,” Vasundhara shares. “You experience a beautiful calm, serene, tranquil, wholesome self. You experience increased clarity, great vigour, higher energy, divine glow, clairvoyance and fantastic health all through your life if you can keep that Kundalini up! But it's not easy.” Living the life of a yogi to create this balance inside you is important. “No matter how much you may chant or meditate or practice asanas or pranayama, if your chakras aren’t aligned, Kundalini yoga will give short-lived benefits. It’s like cleaning up, but going back to creating a mess — because the way we live our lives are not aligned with our higher selves,” Vasundhara explains. Grandmaster Akshar says Kundalini yoga deals with the study of topics related to metaphysics. “This includes subjects such as parallel universes, alternate realities, neuroplasticity, time dilation, telepathy, clairvoyance and more.”

“You experience increased clarity, higher energy, divine glow and fantastic health all through your life if you can keep that Kundalini up! But it's not easy” — Vasundhara, yogini