Guest guest Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 I have been teaching for a few years now and feel pretty comfortable running my classes, however, every once in a while a student has a question that I have a hard time answering. Recently I was stumped when asked what benefits Kundalini Lotus provided. Other than working on your lower triangle & nervous system I could not come up with anything more specific. Does anyone have anymore information? It would be great if there was a book relating this type of specific information. Thank you SAT NAM Pritpal Singh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 5, 2007 Report Share Posted May 5, 2007 > Recently I was stumped when asked what benefits Kundalini Lotus provided. Other than > working on your lower triangle & nervous system I could not come up with anything more > specific. Does anyone have anymore information? > [...] > Thank you > > SAT NAM > Pritpal Singh > Dear Pritpal Singh: If it happens again, it is completely OK because we are never told the reason for all the postures we do. I remember asking one of the trainers at my teacher training what were the benefits of a certain posture we had just practiced and I was asked: " What do you feel when you do it? " I suspect from the tone of the response I received that this person did not know the purpose of the posture I was asking about. But with practice you can tell your students very confidently something similar to what I was told. I like to ask them if there is a reason they are asking about this particular posture. Then it is easy to continue with: what does the posture make you feel like? Or what are the difficulties you encounter when you do it? Another way to respond when you don't know is to postpone the answer until the end of the class if you are in the middle of a kriya so as to not interrupt the flow. At the end of class ask everyone to go into that posture and experience it: Experience what happens to their bodies when they are in it, experience what is happening with their minds in relation to the posture (in case of difficulties ask them to notice what they are escaping, if anything, that's happening in them). Meanwhile you hold the space for them opening all your senses to the experience of the classroom and imagine yourself in that posture and feel from within what your experience is with that posture. In Kundalini Lotus you balance yourself on your sacrum, straight lower back, perhaps bent knees or perhaps you are able to keep your knees straight. What is the sacrum? My experience with the sacrum is that it is one of the few very sensitive spots in my body together with the groin and the nose and my shins. If I fall on my sacrum it creates pain beyond what I would expect from another area receiving the same shock. Another experience is that it is in my sacrum I have stored all my feelings of what is forbidden to me. So the sacrum is related to my movement somehow toward what I want or away from what I don't want. If I have integrated forbiddance of movement toward or away from my wants, my sacrum is numb and I don't know how to move. I doubt myself. To reconnect with my " wants " and my " don't wants " I need to open my heart and go beyond the forbidding I have integrated. To balance on my sacrum in stillness I become aware of that place in me that is has been numb for so long. In that posture I depend on it supporting me. In order to find balance and stillness I have to bring my awareness down into my sacrum otherwise I am not stable. Guess what happens? My awareness is unable to rest into my sacrum if it is numb. So I have to keep at it, keep trying, keep finding my way down into it. Finding my balance with my " wants " and " don't wants " independently from social or parental morals or desires from me, finding peace within me about me. The straight back is essential otherwise I can hide my balancing act in my lower back which easier to access than my sacrum. A straight back also requires that I keep my heart out instead of hiding it by caving inward. This means that I am given an opportunity to open my heart. Straightening the legs as best I can is also important otherwise I bring myself away from my sacrum. The balancing act brings my awareness in my sacrum --- to find stillness there --- in conjunction with having an open heart. So does it work on the lower triangle? Sure so it also works on security, creativity and will issues. Nerves? Sure, whenever you challenge your stored hurt/negativity your nerves are bound to be involved in the release. I'd be glad to read anybody else's experience with this posture. Blessings, Awtar Singh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnadh Kaur Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Sat nam! I had a deep experience when doing Kundalini Lotus Pose and focusing at Muladhara, feeling the energy of the chakra connecting to the earth while leaving the chest open. By intuition, I feel that this posture works on the life basic energy, and the sexual energy, and balances them with the heart energy, especially it helps releasing inconscious fears, phobias and sexual problems derived from imbalance in the first and second chakras. This interpretation is mine, I would appreciate your comments or own interpretations! Love and light to all of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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