x-post from The Indigo - natural high through yoga?

topic posted Fri, December 14, 2007 - 2:41 AM by  Katrien
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Last night in my yoga class we were doing some hip openers and suddenly it felt like a heatwave flashed through my body. For hours afterwards I felt high, fluffy as a bunny and was smiling all the time. It was as if my body consisted of clouds, everything felt fluffy and nice.
Have any of you experienced this before? What causes this?
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Katrien
Belgium
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  • I would have to agree that you had an energy shift of some sort. What kind of yoga do you practice? You were working on opening the hips, which is the root chakra and the sacral chakra. Kundalini (snake, dragon) energy can be released when you open these chakras, and this can activate and align the other chakras. If you unblocked something, you may have reached a "higher vibration", which could create an euphoric sensation. Don't be surprised if you find yourself processing physically and mentally for a while. I hope this info is helpful for you!
    • I used to do vinyasa flow, but recently started weekly Hatha yoga classes. It was during the hatha yoga class that I experienced that 'high'. I have been thinking about it and my body feels different since that 'release'. I have had lower back problems since I was hospitalised earlier this year. I had a lumbal punction and all my lower back muscles cramped when they did the punction. It now feels as if those muscles finally got released and my energy can flow freely again. My body and mind really feel free.
      • I remember from my Yoga classes: Ha (Sun) Tha (Moon) Yoga ("yoking" or union).....

        Sounds like you dissolved a blockage, which allowed the Sun energy and Moon energy in your body to come together. The rising of Kundalini may have been signaled....allowing a new rush of energy which had been trapped....to flow INTO the flow.....
        www.crystalinks.com/kundalini.html

        Some healers (including Susun Weed) connect the "hot flashes" of women in Menopause with the rising of the Kundalini.

        My own understanding of Kundalini meshes with the Toltec idea of "losing of the human form." The human form, in this case, is a construct of all the things were taught that we were "supposed to be" by our culture. We become free to be our true selves.
        • Yay for you!!!! That does sound like quite a breakthrough. I've been a student of Kundalini Yoga for about as long as I've been dancing. In those 15 years I've experienced a few breakthroughs myself. Most have come when doing Hip Openers, but once, during a Heart centered Kriya I experienced the most beautiful Heart opening ever! I wept and felt elated at the same time, it was a very moving experience. I've had similar things happen when I do Headstands but most of the time, when I am really working it's like Im floating above myself. It's amazing!! Keep doing what you're doing!!

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