The spontaneously arising symptoms of kundalini awakening, also called Kriyas, vary according to the karmic predisposition of the initiate and their unique path of Yoga that the Kundalini chooses to operate from. Generally shakti blends different Yogic modes of approach during the period of the process as its moving from one aspect to the other.

HATHA 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. Chin may press down against the neck (neck lock posture). Eyeballs roll upwards or rotate. Tongue rises to the roof of the mouth or stretches back. Repetitive popping sensation in the sinus above the palette.

Purging or constipation. Bad digestion, Diarrhea.

Eyelids may not open despite effort to open them. Left eyelid flickers, then towards the end of the awakening the right eye may flicker.

Body may twist in all directions. Body may bend forward or back, or roll around on the floor. Spontaneous asanas and mudras.

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; 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, 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. Psychokinetic interference with electrical equipment.

Smell of roses or peaches eminating from the skin.

LAYA YOGA
Inner visions and lights, flames, geometric shapes. Visions of deities, or saints.
Inner sounds, celestial music, bird sounds, animal sounds. Buzzing or humming in the ears. Inner voices.
Spontaneous mantras. Speaking in tongues or foreign languages.
Smell of perfume arises.
Transcendental vision, everything illuminated scintillating, vibrating. Dreams and visions in transcendental vision.

BHAKTI YOGA
Love with no object arises.

Devotion. Sublime gratitude. Uncommon compassion and understanding.
Tolerance and patience for “What Is.”

Enormous faith accompanies the bliss.

Transcendence of reactive patterns, social conditioning and egoic habits.

Intense sexual arousal without provocation. Intensified sexual and sensoral pleasure. Feeling of gaseous bubbles arising from reproductive organs. Spontaneous sexual ecstasy with no stimulation.

Feeling of radiating ambrosial bliss, an aura of nectar. Strange activity and bliss in different areas of the head at different times. Sensations of blissful honey moving through brain, spine and connecting heart to other parts of the body. Traveling bliss, or pervasive bliss, rapture.

Increased ESP, precognitive dreams, telepathy. Bio-location of loved one through heart’s navigation.

Alchemical preparation for future unknown events, ie: translocal transtime development. Linear time transcended. Feeling of entire life reaching a nexus point in time.

Heightened senses. Hyper-sensitive. Field of self widens, peripheral awareness increases. Exquisite awareness of one’s environment and others. Ability to affect energetic states and promote heart expansion in others via sympathetic resonance.

JNANA YOGA
Deep questions and answers arise. Spontaneous mystic poetry that writes itself. Important insights, eurekas. Scientific and creative solutions.

Increased creativity and expression. Intensified understanding. Finer focus on “the most important thing.” Compulsive need to write.