Tripura Sundari Shodashi kundalini shakti yoga mahavidya Wild Yogi
Kundalini in the concept of Dharma, identifies a kind of primal energy or shakti reported to be located at the base of the backbone. Different spiritual traditions teach ways of awakening kundalini for the purpose of reaching religious enlightenment and a range of supernormal forces. Copy writer Joseph Campbell describes the idea of Kundalini as the shape of a coiled woman serpent a serpent goddess not of gross but of delicate substance which is to be regarded as surviving in a torpid, slumbering state in a refined center, the first of the seven, close to the foot of the spine the purpose of the yoga exercises then being to rouse this serpent, lift up her head, and bring her up a understated nerve or route of the backbone to the so called thousand petaled lotus Sahasrara at the crown of the top. She, rising from the cheapest to the highest lotus centre, will go through and wake the five between, and with each waking the mindset and personality of the practitioner will be completely and