What is Kundalini Yoga? Kundalini yoga was brought to modern Western civilization in 1969, when Yogi Bhajan created 3HO – The Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization. His vision was to bring this form of yoga to the general public, so they could partake of its many benefits.

This type of yoga focuses strengths on physical discipline through meditation, spiriting a bridge of communication between body and mind. It focuses mainly on the spine and how chakras can be drawn up through the body from the spine, awakening the life force and potential, or kundalini, that is inside everyone for greater meditative understanding. This type of yoga is practiced through a variety of poses, breath control, concentration and hushed words.

Practioners of this type of yoga believe that the prana, or energy, comes alive through asanas, or poses coupled with specific breathing patterns. The energy is often metaphorically described as a snake that lies coiled and dormant at the base of the spine, and is usually depicted as being female. Once the snake starts to uncoil, she travels through the spine, lengthening herself and awakening the seven chakras, or centers of force and energy, ending in the seventh chakra, which is not physical in nature, but mentally reaching a higher understanding of life.