Symptoms List
The spontaneous symptoms of kundalini awakening can be roughly arranged
into the various practices of yoga. Yoga practice or Sadhana, is essentially the
speeding up of the flow of consciousness.
KriYa YoGa
Muscle twitching, cramps or spasms, shaking, trembling, limpness, rigid-
contraction, facial contortions. Itching, vibrating, pricking, tingling, effervescent
bubbles of bliss. Tingling/throbbing in left foot and leg is one of the main signs that
kundalini is active. Hot or cold changes in body temperature. Shooting currents
of energy or heat. Zigzag or double helix of energy up the spine. Prana flow in the
central nervous system. Pulsating sensation in the sacrum. Involuntary laughing or
crying, deep sighs. Abdomen may flatten toward the spine. Contraction of visceral
organs. The anus contracts and is drawn up (bandhas). Bad digestion; purging or
constipation. False pregnancy feeling as energy pools in the belly. Chin may press
down against the neck (neck lock posture). Eyeballs roll upwards or rotate. Eyelids
may not open despite effort to open them. Left eyelid flickers, then towards the end
of the awakening the right eye may flicker. Tongue rises to the roof of the mouth
or stretches back. Repetitive popping sensation in the sinus above the palette. Body
may twist in all directions. Body may bend forward or back, or roll around on the
floor. Spontaneous yoga asanas and mudrus. Breathing constriction, heaviness or
contraction of diaphragm. Unusual breathing patterns, tendency to belly breathe,
emphatic out-breath. Racing heart, expansion pains in heart. Feeling of levitation
or intensified gravity, radical grounding and associated lethargy, chronic fatigue.
Body sense might expand to feel huge or small. Strange aches and head pressures,
headaches. Clenching jaw. Yawning, excessive sleep. Inability to sleep during
hyperactivation and high blood pressure; Hyperactivity, need to constantly walk or
exercise. Dry throat, great thirst. Feeling headlessness, mindless, giddy, heaviness
of head like one is wearing a helmet. Build up of pressure at the head, neck, throat,
spine, thorax and eyes. Paralysis during Samadhi or hypnogogic states. Numbness
and pain in limbs, especially the left foot and leg. Numbness on the left scalp and
down into left face, with drooping of the left eyelid. Years of pain in the throat
(thyroid) or in the left foot or shin prior to the awakening. Loss of strength in the
arms during rapture and heart expansions. Heat, sweat. Psychokinetic interference
with electrical equipment, ability to spontaneously draw a bolt of lightning from
a light bulb, or to autoelectrocute oneself with ones own energy while asleep.
Spontaneously turning on electrical equipment, dim or blow out street lamps,
cause pigeons to crash into car windscreen.
laYa YoGa
Inner visions and lights, flames, geometric shapes. Visions of deities, or saints.
Dream-scenes. Inner sounds, celestial music, bird sounds, animal sounds. Rhythmic
clicks/pops inside the neck moving up into head. Occasional popping in the joints
of the skull bones. Buzzing or humming in the ears. Inner voices. Spontaneous