In my 12 years of working with the sounds of the chakras I was given,  in my own private practice, I have had less than a dozen out of hundreds of clients, come to me with a resulting kundalini rising experience. I had my first personal experience, in 2002, while fasting in preparation for pilgrimage but had no guidance in how to recognize it and how to take care of myself before, during, and most importantly afterwards. Even though I could not forget the kundalini rising experience,  I found myself, in 2002, lacking the tools to help those seeking guidance in its wake.

 The students that approached me in the following years who had experienced  profound and  intense energy movement, that I believe to be from the rising kundalini energies, were as frightened as I had been by the powerful and overwhelming energy: resulting in physical, emotional, and mental anguish or euphoria. Their fears triggered many questions. Did vocalizing these seven chakra sounds contribute to the activation of the kundalini or was it the breathwork  incorporated in the sounding  the actual catalyst or both?

  I complied a list of factors to consider including stress, environment, diet, and  alternative health practices [i.e. yoga, tai chi, qi gong, reiki, exercise, etc.].What I discovered was everyone had a different set of factors with the common denominator being vocalizing the seven sounds that I was given.  I believe that it was the sounds which contributed to clearing the sushuma channel for the kundlini to rise. Since most of my students were not doing intentional kundalini breath and chakra sounds as a daily practice, they all had run into blocks that trapped the awakened energies stimulated by the sounds.

I set out to find a way to help anyone may experience kundalini rising as a result of  sounding the chakras. Studying Reiki Tummo with a Master Awakener from Java gave me the tools to help clients  ground themselves vibrationally here and in long-distance healing sessions as well. I learned how breath and Reiki Tummo  helped my clients  move kundalini energy through without damaging side effects.

This past year, I suffered a personal loss and found myself unprepared emotionally and mentally for a transition I felt I couldn't handle. It conjured up old fears. I also was not expressing my anger, dissappointment and grief openly, in a false belief that keeping a stiff upper lip was the best attitude to take. By resisting my natural energetic flow, all these unsettling emotions and mental fears built up inside me and began to manifest as physical symptoms: headaches, swollen joints, insomnia, cold feet and hot, itchiness along my mid-line. I  found my mind chatter disturbing and confused. I tried exercise and breathwork but my energy was so up and down which made me feel depressed. But the most debilitating symptom of the accumulating energy was the headaches.

It all came to a dramatic climax this fall equinox. Every year I have a party to celebrate this seasonal change. It was a beautiful gathering of friends sharing food and music around an open fire, under the stars. Despite the festivities, I was drinking only spring water. I marveled at how clear and vibrant the firelight seemed, how especially piney-sweet the air smelled and felt more uplifted and present than I had in months. With no aches or pains distracting me, I melted into the glorious music of that night.

  Sometime after midnight, with the last of the revelers gone, I sat alone by the fire. This is when the evening's natural high  began to transform. I became agitated and achey, especially my head. Chalking it up to over-stimulation and the late hour, I took 2 pain relievers and went to bed. Around 3am, I woke with a terrible throbbing on the left side of my face. With tears rolling from my eyes from the immense pressure, I took 2 more ibuprophin and sat up with a cold compress on my face and neck which helped me to relax.  However, I could not sleep. Waves of intense energy coursed up and down my body; feverish chills soon followed.  By dawn I was worried and exhausted, my throat hoarse and my neck sore and stiff.

  I called my mom, a retired nurse and told her my symptoms. Thinking I had a viral infection, she advised me to see a doctor if the stiff neck didnt get better in 24 hours. That day was a bit surreal due to my delicate state of no sleep and on and off migraine. I drank only fresh ginger root in hot lemon water since I was too nauseous to eat. By 2pm I decided to eat a light meal hoping that that would help the headache and nausea. Things seemed to improve slightly only to  worsen an hour later. During the improved portion of that day, I took a short walk to a lotus-filled pond on my property. Sitting at the waters edge, I did some slow, deep breath work. An inner voice surfaced an asked me," How would you live your life, if you knew you had only 2 weeks left to live?" Gazing at the surrounding beauty of the lotus lilies at waters edge, fallen red leaves drifting on its surface and the towering pines and oaks on the mountain in front of me, I whispered,  "I would spend it right here in nature." 

Eventually my headache drove me to return to the house for another ice pack which calmed the throbbing down. I stretched out in a recliner on the deck and watched blue sky moving into sunset. This time, I had a vision of traveling into a bright light and saw many people I had known that had passed which included my best friend and a beloved feline companion. My recently deceased maternal grandmother was also there beckoning me toward this bright light and I found myself in a field filled with sofas and chairs and everyone I knew millling about talking or interacting with each other.  My bestfriend came up to me with Bianca, my cat and told me that everything was going to be alright.  I  recognized this place from past dreams and tears began to course down my cheeks as I experienced forgiveness for all my past transgressions and felt an immense all encompassing love that had no conditions. As long as I followed my destiny and fullfilled the promise I had made with my self, the universe would take care of me. I had nothing to worry about or fear. And with that said or known, I woke up and felt the worry I had had about my personal life gone.

That evening, I felt like the migraine was finally gone. I began to relax and felt optimistic for my health. I went to bed around 10 and slept till 3am when I woke up with my head again feeling like it was about to burst! Tears poured down my cheeks from the pressure. I went to the phone thinking I may have to call an ambulence for this was too much to bear. I went into the bathroom and got another wet cloth wrapped in  ice  and sat hoping it would subside a little before I called for help. That is when I felt a fiery heat rising in my belly! This wasnt from anything I ate. It must have lit a lightbulb over my head because I finally realized I was having a Kundalini rising experience.  That thought alone moved me into a more hopeful place.   I remembered that alternate nostril breathing is one way to help facilitate kundalini rising and bring the body into a receptive place for the energies course. I sounded the chakras where I felt the most resistance in my body, all the time breathing from one nostril to the next, steadying and readying myself for what may come.

I had experienced kundalini rising only one other time in my life. I was unprepared, had no one who could guide me during or after and had suffered seizures for 3 years following teh experience. This time I knew that the breathwork would be one of my saving tools. As I did my alternate nostril breathing, I felt the heat rising from my belly into my solar plexus, through the middle of my chest and into my throat and face. My eyes and ears seemed to vibrate with sound and colours. I watched all the explosive, firework-like display on the innner vision screen behind my eyes. Beautiful and psychedelic, it helped to distract me while I continued to breathe and relax into the rising stream of fire.

At some point, the energy moved through the skull crown area of my 7th chakra. My hair felt as if it were standing on end, my brain sizzling, all sound turned into white noise and humming as if a thousand bees had entered the room.Then all sound stopped as the kundalini rose out of my 7th chakra and I felt my spirit rising with it-up and out---in the immense silence my inner vision went blue---no more sound and no more moving colours--I floated unconditionally in this blue field of nothingness and dissolved.

The next thing I remember, was my face  hitting the mattress and I woke up.

  I had no physical symptoms, no pain, no fear, and I crawled under the covers and fell asleep till 10am. I wrote most of this that morning, because of the blessings I felt I received and knew needed to be shared at this time.

If you have read this, I only hope it may serve you.

Alternate nostril breathing and sounding the seven sounds I was given have proven to be effective and healing in the kundalini process for me.

Linda Go

Sept 2011