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    Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini
    Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini
    Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini
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    Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini

    By Maetreyii Nolan, PhD.

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    Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini discusses the relationship of the chakras, nadis, prana, kundalini, koshas, and other aspects of the subtle energy system. Thee aspects of yoga psychology are important in understanding the transformation of consciousness through spiritual practice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnanda Gurukula Publishing
    Release dateApr 4, 2016
    ISBN9781311723178
    Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini
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    Maetreyii Nolan, PhD.

    In addition to being an author, Maetreyii Ma is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology, a teacher of yogic philosophy and ancient wisdom, an ERYT 500 Yoga Teacher, and an ordained Yogic minister, or Acharya.She is the founder and past president of Ananda Seva Mission, a nonprofit yogic community, and former co-director of and teacher in the Ananda Seva Yoga Teacher Training Certification Programs and the Yoga Therapy Certification Training. Maetreyii Ma was also a former director of the Spiritual Emergence Network and a founding member of the Kundalini Research Network.Dr. Nolan is currently the president of Ananda Gurukula, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the wisdom teachings of Yoga and a psychologist in private practice. She currently spends her time in private practice as a psychologist, giving ‘Baba Talks’, teaching and making books of these beautiful discourses. She resides with her family in their ashram community in the Northern San Francisco Bay area where she serves as the spiritual director.

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      Yoga Psychology, Understanding and Awakening Kundalini - Maetreyii Nolan, PhD.

      Introduction

      This book contains a series of intuitionally received discourses on kundalini and subtle body theory. It delves into the process by which mind interfaces with the physical body and energy and consciousness move. It discusses the rising of kundalini, how mental tendencies of the human mind (vrttis) express, the subtle energy channels (nadiis) through which prana flows, chakras, the role of sound in manifestation, layers of mind and the relationship of these subtle energies to the glandular and nervous systems in the human body.

      Through this series of discourses the reader may gain insight into the complex and marvelous system of subtle energy flows which allow the human mind to manifest in a physical body and by which one may come to experience the transformation of consciousness and awakening kundalini.

      The text of this book is drawn from oral discourses, and the oral nature of the discourses has been preserved in its editing. A few Sanskrit terms relevant to the discussion of kundalini and subtle body theory are used, as their meaning is most precise in the Sanskrit language. For the convenience of readers not familiar with these terms, they are defined in a glossary at the end of the book.

      Kundalini and the

      Mind Body Relationship

      Today’s topic will be the relationship between mind and body. There are three things of importance in this area. One is the chakra system, another the mental body, and the third is the physical structure. All of these three bodies come into play for the manifestation of a human being. First I will cover the chakra system.

      The kundalini lies coiled at the base of the spine. It is said that it is coiled three times. Three times represents the physical, mental and spiritual realms. This is the life force energy of a human being, not the prana, but the essential essence of their existence. The human mind comes in association with a physical structure and manifests its reactive momentum through the development of the chakras, the plexii and the glands, or propensities as expressed in the body and the nervous system. The glands are developed from the combined expressions of the propensities and the hormonal system regulates these differing expressions. The propensities lie in the outermost layer of the sushumna. The inner most channel, or Brahma nadii, is the fluidal passage of the sleeping serpentine energy of the kundalini. It is through Brahma nadii that the kundalini arises. Surrounding this nadii is another nadii, citrani nadii, in which the fundamental life force takes association with the five fundamental factors. In citrani nadii the kundalini becomes associated with the different factors, and the differing factors will have a multiple of expressions depending upon the degree of pranic energies allotted to them. Surrounding this is the vajra nadii in which the aspects of human experience arise. And surrounding vajra nadii is the plexii or overall arena in which the propensities find physicality.

      When desires are physically active, they may be called ‘sub-glands’. They are not glands in the physical body; they are activated propensities of the mind through which the pranic force flows. First the desires of the mind come in contact with the basic elements and the biij sounds. From the biij sounds come the sounds of the frequencies (vrtiis). They are not physical sounds, but subtle, psychic tonal frequencies emerging from the arena of the five fundamental factors within citrani nadii. The biij tone breaks apart into the propensities (vrtiis) which constitute the basic tonal avenues of psychic development. When these penetrate out from vajra nadii into the physical body, they move into the arena of the plexii. In this arena they have psycho-physical form. That is to say, they are not glands in the sense that they are physical glands in the body. If you dissect the body you will never find these glands. They are psycho-physical manifestations of the mental propensities. Within the arena of these glands you will find the manifestation of biological factors.

      In the plexii and the controlling mandala you will find the development, the correlation of physical development and psychic or mental development. In the plexii the nervous system becomes activated. Within the plexii you will find physical development and glands which correspond to the particular pranic energies which have come through the biij vibratory frequency and have been dispersed into the subtle frequencies of the mental propensities. The propensities – diversified according to the samskaras of the individual – then touch the plexii, which is the nerve interface between the mind and body and developed the mandala complex in a given chakra or center. In this mandala the physical body comes in full association through the nervous system with the subtle body and you have the requisite physical glands. Is it clear?

      Q: Usually the nadiis are diagrammed as tubes, sometimes either showing that they intersect the chakras, other times showing a twist at each chakra. In the description you are giving it sounds more as though they are sheaths or layers around the starting point in the center.

      The nadiis of which you are speaking are ida and pingala. There are many, many nadiis. Nadii means energy channel. There are many nadiis. Ida and pingala move like this (showing the zig-zag movement). Where ida and pingala intercept you will find the center of the chakra, but within the sushumna, in the subtle body, or the spinal column in the physical body, you will find there are three nadiis. The center most nadii, being Brahma nadii, is the most subtle. The kundalini will rise primarily through Brahma nadii. Around Brahma nadii you have citrani nadii and then vajra nadii. These are sheathes which surround; they are layers within the sushumna.

      Q: When ida and pingala intersect, do they

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