The word kundalini generally refers to that dimension of energy, which is yet to realize its potential. There is a huge volume of energy within you which is yet to find its potential. It is just there waiting, because what you call as a human being is still in the making.”

HISTORY OF KUNDALINI

It is said that the first references of kundalini can be found in the Upanishads, between 500 BC and 1000 BC, long before the descriptions of physical asanas which can be found in Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The concept of kundalini energy extends across Vedic, tantric and Hindu systems and is often referred to as kundalini shakti, meaning divine, limitless power. In Hinduism, kundalini is believed to be a goddess, whose power lies dormant, coiled at the base of the spine at the muladhara chakra, translated as the root chakra in English. Kundalini is also a principal focus in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, a sanskrit text written in the 15th century, as the goal of all yoga practice.

"Just as a door is opened with a key, the yogi opens the door to liberation with kundalini." (Chapter 3, Verse 105)

With the development of modern-day yoga, the concept of kundalini remained a central theme in many schools of yoga, inspiring Yogi Bhajan - a Sikh missionary to coin, trademark, and popularize “Kundalini Yoga” as a particular style of yoga in 1968.

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