A. Benefits of Kundalini Yoga Modified Wheel Pose:

Excellent to build and increase flexibility of your back and spine.
Also promotes flexibility in your shoulders and upper thighs.

Stretches the entire abdominal region and helps improve your digestive system.

Stretches the female reproductive organs, massaging and toning them.  Improves conditions related to these organs.

Strengthens your legs and thighs.
Expands your respiratory system and improves lung capacity.
Activates and help heal the Vishuddhi Chakra (Throat Charka) and promotes healthy thyroid function.

B. Practice Tips for Kundalini Yoga Modified Wheel Pose:

Modified Version of Modified Wheel Pose:  If you find the full version of Modified Wheel Pose too difficult, I suggest starting with the modification to this exercise which is demonstrated in illustration #1 above.  In this modification, interlace your fingers as shown and push down against the floor with your arms as you thrust up with your hips and navel.  All else is the same as the full version, except that you don’t grasp your ankles in the modified version.  This modified version will also bestow many of the same benefits and you can use it to slowly increase your flexibility and strength, until you can do the full version. Read the rest of this entry »

Kundalini yoga postures and movement strengthen and increase the flexibility of the spine, which is intended to help improve memory and health.

“In the West, we gauge our age by our memory. In the East, it’s the flexibility of the spine,” says Sumler, who has studied yoga for 35 years. “We have certain exercises that are used for moving the spinal fluid through the spine, which in turn improves our memory.”

Sumler teaches Kundalini yoga at M. D. Anderson’s Place … of wellness, part of the cancer center’s Integrative Medicine Program. The practices offered at the Place … of wellness are available to M. D. Anderson patients, cancer patients receiving therapy at other institutions, their family members and caregivers.

Kundalini yoga is a practice that uses a series of postures, movement, sound, breathing and meditation to free energy starting from the lower body and moving upward. The goal is to reach a state of clarity and peace.

This process, called “awakening the awareness” (or activating the potential within every person), comes about by stimulating the endocrine system, which includes the pituitary gland, the hormone-manufacturing gland at the base of the brain.

One way to stimulate the pituitary gland is to keep your eyes opened one-tenth and focus your gaze on different areas, including the tip of your nose, says Sat Siri Sumler, a yoga teacher-trainer for the International Kundalini yoga Teachers Association (IKYTA) and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with the national registry of the Yoga Alliance.

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Kundalini Yoga is sometimes called “the Yoga of Awareness” because it awakens the “kundalini” which is the unlimited potential that already exists within every human being. Practitioners believe that when the infinite potential energy is raised in the body, it stimulates the higher centers, giving the individual enhanced intuition, mental clarity, and creative potential.
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The practice of kundalini yoga consists of a number of bodily postures, expressive movements and utterances, character cultivations, breathing patterns, and degrees of concentration. None of these postures and movements should, according to scholars of Yoga, be considered mere stretching exercises or gymnastic exercises.

Kundalini yoga focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body’s potential for maturation, giving special consideration to the role of the spine and the endocrine system in the understanding of yogic awakening (Sovatsky, 1998).Kundalini yoga is a physical and meditative discipline, comprising a set of techniques that use the mind, senses and body to create a communication between “mind” and “body”. Kundalini is a popular style of yoga today and can be particularly beneficial for those dealing with addictions.

Kundalini yoga concentrates on chakras in the body in order to generate a spiritual power, which is known as kundalini.

Kundalini is a concentrated form of prana or life force, lying dormant in our bodies. It is conceptualized as a coiled up serpent (literally, ‘kundalini’ in Sanskrit is ‘That which is coiled.’ (Sanskrit kund, “to burn”; kunda, “to coil or to spiral”). The serpent is considered to be female is supposed to be coiled up three and a half times, with it’s mouth engulfing the base of the Sushumna.

Kundalini Yoga places greater emphasis on chanting and breathing but also includes classic poses, coordination of breath and movement, and meditation. The Kundalini in the body can be awakened by practicing Asanas, Pranayama and Mantras, concentrating and training the mind, practicing Hatha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga, and practicing selflessness and intellectual inquiry. Once the Kundalini has been awakened, individuals may feel a variety of experiences including sensations along the spinal cord, trembling, tingling sensations, waves of heat, bursts of joy and even transcendental visions. Some believe that activating the Kundalini energy begins the path leading to Enlightenment.

Kundalini yoga, which is often said to be the most powerful form of Yoga known today, is a style of yoga with roots in Hatha Yoga. Kundalini Yoga focuses on the awakening and controlled release of the Kundalini energy located at the base of the spine. Kundalini means ‘coiled up’ in Sanskrit. It is said that the energy at the back of the spine takes the form of a coiled snake and, by awakening the snake and sending it moving up the spine to the brain, a sublime state of ecstasy and awareness can be achieved.