Kundalini Meditation
Kundalini Meditation is a dynamic meditation practice designed to help you release blocked energy, connect with your body, and enter a state of deep stillness and presence. Unlike silent seated meditation, which can feel inaccessible for those carrying stress or tension, Kundalini Meditation is structured in four stages that guide you from movement and shaking into calm and rest.
Developed and popularised by Osho, Kundalini Meditation is often called the "sister" practice to the more famous Dynamic Meditation. However, Kundalini is generally gentler and can be especially supportive at the end of the day to shake off accumulated tension, process emotions, and ground yourself.
How Does Kundalini Meditation Work?
Kundalini Meditation is typically done in four distinct stages, each lasting around 15 minutes for a total of one hour. However, you can adapt the length to suit your needs. Here is a breakdown of the classic format:
Stage 1: Shaking (15 minutes)
Standing with feet hip-width apart, you let the body shake naturally. This shaking is not forced or performed, but allowed. You might begin with a gentle bounce through your knees and let the shaking spread up through your hips, spine, shoulders and head. The idea is to loosen deeply held tension, activate energy flow, and begin releasing stored emotional residue.
Stage 2: Dancing (15 minutes)
Next, you move freely. This is expressive, unstructured dancing. You let the body move however it wants. There's no choreography or goal other than expression and liberation. This stage continues the emotional and energetic clearing, allowing feelings and energy to move through in a safe, contained way.
Stage 3: Stillness (15 minutes)
After the shaking and dancing, you sit, with your spine straight, in silence. Your body has released tension and energy, so you can now simply witness. This stage is about settling, observing, and resting in awareness. Allow the music to massage your brain. The transition from movement to stillness can feel deeply calming and meditative.
Stage 4: Rest (15 minutes)
Lying down on your back, with your arms and legs completely relaxed.. This is a time to integrate, ground, and receive the benefits of the practice. This is still part of the meditation, try not to fall asleep. Many people find this last stage deeply nourishing, akin to savasana at the end of a yoga class.
What is it Believed to Do?
Kundalini Meditation is rooted in the understanding that the body stores emotions, memories, and trauma in subtle ways. By physically shaking and moving, you can release these blockages, allowing energy (sometimes conceptualised as Kundalini energy) to move freely up the spine and throughout the body.
It is believed to:
Release pent-up stress and tension
Clear blocked emotional energy
Help process unexpressed feelings in a safe way
Cultivate a felt sense of embodiment
Support emotional regulation and self-awareness
Lead to a calm, grounded, and alert state of meditation
Awaken dormant energy and creativity
For many, Kundalini Meditation feels cathartic, liberating, and incredibly balancing. Unlike purely seated practices, it meets us in our often busy, overstimulated, and tense modern bodies, giving a structured way to unwind before arriving at stillness.
How to Practise
You can practise Kundalini Meditation at home or in a group. Ideally, you have space to stand and move freely without worrying about how you look. Many people use specific music tracks designed for the four stages, with clear transitions and supportive rhythms.
Here are the Spotify Tracks to use for this meditation:
Stage 4: Silence. Set a timer to sound a gong/soft alarm after 15 minutes.
If you would like guidance on how to incorporate Kundalini Meditation into your self-care or spiritual practice, please feel free to reach out. I offer one-to-one or couple sessions to help you learn, refine, and deepen your meditation and work with Kundalini and Tantric energy.
This practice can be a beautiful way to meet yourself where you are, move what needs to move, and rest into who you truly are.
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