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Originally posted by atena

I'm afraid of bad kundalini experience or something. I don't know how to deal it, should I keep doing the practices or what.

I need to get past this but I don't know how.
Last night it took some time to fall a sleep because I was a bit afraid that something would happen.

I have feelings of warmth and cold moving in my body and some other different symptoms (something happening at pernium - tailbone area).

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Originally posted by Shanti

You are doing 10 min Spinal breathing and 20 min Meditation + samyama.
So maybe you could cut back spinal breathing to 5 min and meditation to 15 min.. drop samyama (??).. cut back on it....

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The metaphorical mythology of kundalini describes a union between
Shakti (a name for kundalini in motion) and Shiva (pure bliss
consciousness). As you know, Shakti starts out near the base of the
spine in the huge storehouse of prana there, i.e., sexual energy. In
the mythology, Shiva is located at the top of the head. So the way it
is described is Shakti awakens, goes up through all the chakras until
she reaches the top of the head, and there she finds union with Shiva
who is waiting there for her. He is just hanging out there doing
nothing, you know. They make love and nectar overflows downward,
enlightening the practitioner. Very romantic, isn't it? Especially
for Shiva, who sits up there doing nothing while Shakti fights her
way upward (through your nervous system!) to find him.

While it looks great on paper, this scenario does not work very well.
In practice, most of the time this approach is a flop because it
assumes that Shakti will do all the work, and find Shiva at the
crown. She will sure try, and tear up your nervous system in the
process. Hence the excessive kundalini symptoms. Things can get so
uncomfortable that practices can't continue, and then it goes into a
long slow burn from then on.

The answer to this is to get Shiva off his butt and doing something.
He has to get off his lofty perch and "get down" with Shakti wherever
she may be in the body, which is everywhere once she is awake and
coming up. While their union may finally end up somewhere "up there,"
Shiva and Shakti must be brought together everywhere in the body
first. If this is done, some craziness may still be there, but it
will be the craziness of the ecstatic union of Shiva and Shakti going
on in every nerve and cell in the body, rather than the blistering
chaos of Shakti's energy alone burning through everything it meets,
all of which is in your body. In short, which do you prefer, ecstasy
or agony?

This is why spinal breathing is the first recommendation. It directly
activates both masculine and feminine energies, and it brings them
together in a balanced way. The ascending breath brings Shakti to
Shiva, and the descending breath brings Shiva to Shakti. It is a
balanced relationship. Then, in union, they go out together to every
nerve and cell in the body.

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