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The Sacral Chakra is where awareness evolves into pure human consciousness. It is the subconscious mind’s seat, storing all of our life events and impressions from the beginning of our existence in the womb. Our karmas are stored in the Root Chakra, but they are triggered in the Sacral Chakra.
In kundalini yoga there are various yogic practices held to incite the energy in Muladhara: asanas (such as Garudasana, Shashankasana, Balasana and Siddhasana); nosetip gazing, or Nasikagra Drishti; specific pranayamas; and most importantly the practice of Mula Bandha, involving the contraction of the perineum, which awakens kundalini, and is ...
Kundalini yoga (kuṇḍalinī-yoga) is a spiritual practice in the yogic and tantric traditions of Hinduism, centered on awakening the kundalini energy.This energy, often symbolized as a serpent coiled at the root chakra at the base of the spine, is guided upward through the chakras until it reaches the crown chakra at the top of the head.
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Detail of manuscript painting of a yogi in meditation, showing kundalini serpent coiled in belly around sushumna nadi below chakras and the muladhara chakra with its presiding deity Ganesha above it. According to William F. Williams, kuṇḍalinī is a type of religious experience within the Hindu tradition, within which it is held to be a ...
Vajroli mudra (Sanskrit: वज्रोली मुद्रा vajrolī mudrā), the Vajroli Seal, is a practice in Hatha yoga which requires the yogi to preserve his semen, either by learning not to release it, or if released by drawing it up through his urethra from the vagina of "a woman devoted to the practice of yoga".
Lexically, chakra is the Indic reflex of an ancestral Indo-European form *kʷékʷlos, whence also "wheel" and "cycle" (Ancient Greek: κύκλος, romanized: kýklos). [10] [3] [4] It has both literal [11] and metaphorical uses, as in the "wheel of time" or "wheel of dharma", such as in Rigveda hymn verse 1.164.11, [12] [13] pervasive in the earliest Vedic texts.
The yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar claimed in his 1966 book Light on Yoga that Mulabandhasana helps to control excessive sexual desire. [1] Mula Bandha, which can be practised also in other asanas, is one of the three principal bandhas, along with Jalandhara Bandha and Uddiyana Bandha (which precede it).