intuition and closing chakras?

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Sat Nam,

 

I'm a practicing rabbi in Los Angeles. I've been practicing Kundalini yoga

on and off for several years and am a big advocate of this most unique

spiritual technology. I feel it can tremendously enhance and deepen

anybody's pre-existing spiritual path.

 

Thanks for acknowledging the universalitly of KY.

 

> I wonder sometimes how much of the exactly "33 minutes" or 11 times that

a set requires is based on something substancially significant and how much

of it is yogic dogma?

 

It is 31 minutes, 11 minutes and 62 minutes. Yogi's found from experience

that doing a meditation these times created a certain effect. When I

practice, I do notice that something changes after these times. It is like

something has been completed.

 

> Should not one be intuitive when practicing their sets

 

Definitely. When very conscious practice one can tell when an effect has

been created or when one needs to continue a bit more.

 

> and always attempt to do a bit more than their comfort zone allows?

 

This depends. But often in doing the exercises, that extra time pushes one

to a new level of strength and power. Again being intuitive is the key. We

know when our mind is sabotaging us and when our body is telling us it has

had enough.

 

> I also had another question regarding chakras:

> I had heard that it is important that we should not leave our chakras wide

open after kundalini because others can then drain our energy. I had never

heard this at the local 3HO yoga center here in LA. How important is it

that one learn how to close their chakras after yoga in order to protect the

yoga practitioner? Is there any information on this?

 

First there is a question of terminology. I don't think we really want to

close our chakras down. I think what we need to avoid is being

unconsciously wide open. At the end of a session be very still and feel

every feeling, sensation and awareness for at least one minute. This

consolidates your energy and makes you conscious of it. Then you can be

"opened" and contained at the same time.

 

Sat Nam,

 

Gururattan Kaur