Last week while shopping in Whole Foods, I finally decided to buy the Kundalini yoga DVD I have been looking at for quite a while. I was introduced to Kundalini yoga a few years back by a friend who worked at the spa I was managing at the time. I went to some classes with her and found myself loving this type of yoga.

It had everything I was looking for: stretching, strengthening, cardiovascular, meditation and spirituality. It was challenging for my body and mind and I felt great after each class. The problem was it was $10 per class. $40 per month would only give me 4 classes; where as $40 per month at a gym would give me access to much more. So, the gym won out. (Which didn’t last too long if you recall from a previous post.)

So, I had been looking at this DVD to at least do some of this yoga that I loved.

I popped it in a couple of days ago to do my first Kundalini ‘class’ at home. It started out a little weird. I had to get used to doing this in my living room. Plus, there is a certain energy when you are in a room with other people all there with a similar focus. But as I settled into the routine, my energy began to flow and I became focused on the movements. It felt really great to be moving like this again.

The energy beginning to flow through my body was wonderful. My spine was popping and cracking, loosening up and realigning itself through the various movements. Then I reached a point where I was so mentally and physically involved, it happened. I had a powerful surge of emotion and began to cry.

You see, Kundalini yoga can be very powerful work. It’s about bringing up resistance and moving through it in your mind and body. It’s about releasing stuck energy to get Kundalini energy moving up your spine from your root chakra (or base of your spine). I don’t know what exactly it was about, but something needed to get out, so it did.

I wasn’t sobbing, but did have a tear or two run down my cheek. It quickly passed. And in the next exercise, my eyes again welled up with tears as another wave of emotion rushed through my body. I then began to smile and laugh a bit at the wonderful feeling of my body working through this energy block and letting it go. I felt fantastic.

Plus it was a great physical workout for me. It has been a while since I have pushed my body that hard. I was out of breath, sweating, and could feel muscles burning from exertion. I was exhausted afterword, but my mind was clear and I felt great.

I’m looking forward to my next experience with this amazing practice.