Kundalini Rising

~ how to wire yourself to hold more life ~

Rewiring Your House

Rooted in yogic tradition, Kundalini is one perspective on the undeniable animating energy that makes your body responsive, erotic, emotional, creative, and alive.

Kundalini work uniquely and explicitly deals with where energy lives in your body, spine, and nervous system—not metaphorical, symbolic, or woo-woo energy.

A latent, primal, and divine energy, Kundalini resides at the base of your spine, typically visualized as a coiled serpent. When activated, Kundalini rises through the central energy channel of your body, up your spine, spreading outward, igniting transformation, expanding awareness, and triggering profound spiritual awakening.

Put another way, Kundalini is raw, energetic voltage: the fiery charge behind sexual arousal, creative drive, emotional intensity, instinct, and spiritual insight.

To integrate Kundalini is to upgrade your nervous system’s capacity for holding, circulating, and stabilizing higher and higher levels of charge without collapsing.

Easier said than done however, for Kundalini is often blocked and locked away:

Through subtly held bodily tension (like that unconscious tightness in your jaw), shame and repression of desires, fear, trauma, emotional suppression, and bracing.

Which results in this energy leaking out via anxiety, compulsive behaviour, sexual dysregulation, burnout, emotional volatility, addiction to intensity and/or numbness.

And yet… unblocking, circulating, and stabilizing Kundalini has nothing to do with becoming enlightened, taking psychedelics, meditating all day, or being ‘chosen.’

The ‘work’ lies in unblocking so this energy can flow, circulating so your capacity to hold this energy expands, and stabilizing so this energy doesn’t spike erratically.

The serpent can only rise when the path is clear.

Imagine a house wired for less voltage than you ask it to carry.

The lights flicker, circuits trip, breakers blow, and fires can start.

The intention behind Kundalini work is to rewire your house. Slowly but surely, in small doses that push your capacity, then resting, allowing the expansion to settle.

The goal being a house where charge flows smoothly and cleanly, without short-circuiting, and can flare to life or ground down as circumstances demand.

In daily life, this looks like the ability to stay present during intensity, move through sensation instead of clenching against it, allowing emotions to exist peacefully, self-soothing, auto-regulating, and releasing charge without dissociation.

This is legitimate power.

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Unblocking, Circulating, Stabilizing

Kundalini work is what’s enabled me to handle high dose psychedelic experiences without collapsing; rave for hours on end without feeling overstimulated; no longer have adrenaline spikes when driving with spirit; circulate sexual energy instead of discharging; and create consistently—whether through writing, singing, or mixing.

I share these as real world contexts where I’ve noticed a tangible difference in how I show up, feel, and process the experience as a result of integrating Kundalini.

Your contexts should and will be different.

As such, a core tenet of integrating Kundalini lies in not following a rigid system, but listening closely to your body and mind for clues to follow and threads to tug on.

To provide perspective and ideas, I’ve grouped my practices into three key categories:

1) Unblocking: body scanning, yoga, breathwork, journalling and practicing radical self-honesty around my emotions, then honouring and integrating them.

2) Circulating: singing, dancing, extended self-pleasure without release, spirited backroad drives, and working with psychedelics.

3) Stabilizing: strength training, nature immersion, rhythm (referring to song and dance as well as keeping regular routines and habits), and deep rest. Also, baths.

Important to understand is that I don’t engage in any of these practices because I’m following someone else’s method or because X or Y person does this or that.

All are deeply linked to my own innate preferences and interests.

Yours should be too.

So while there may be overlap, what unblocks, stabilizes, and circulates Kundalini for you could and should look somewhat, or very, different. This is good. This is the goal.

For example, meditation is a common (and effective) unblocking practice that I very, very rarely do because I don’t feel much affinity for it... and because I tap into elements of mediation elsewhere: breathwork brings attention to my breath, singing tips me into a flow state, nature immersion removes me from the world’s distractions.

Your path doesn’t need to look like anyone else’s in order to be true.

Discovering your practices comes down to turning inward and listening closely to yourself, in body and mind. If nothing comes up at first, journalling is usually a strong starting point. The prompt I like to use is, “What’s alive for me right now?”

In response, sometimes I’ll fill the page, sometimes just a sentence or two. The length or specifics matter far less than being honest with yourself about what bubbles up.

Whatever comes to mind upon receiving that question, no matter how seemingly silly or strange or random or insignificant, is the kind of thread you’re looking for.

Trust what comes up, even if you don’t understand it (yet).

Then tug.

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Wired for More

Activating and integrating Kundalini isn’t for everyone.

You will have to explore the deepest, shadowiest, strangest parts of yourself.

You’ll have to let go of ideas, beliefs, and values that no longer serve you…

Or were never truly yours in the first place.

This path is intense, has no set timeframe, and will force you to confront the most confusing, challenging, uncomfortable parts of yourself. This is good. This is the goal.

This is wonderful, incredible work… if you’re curious and want to explore.

You can only experience as much life as your system can receive.

If you don’t have the capacity or ability to hold the charge generated by an experience, partner, income, job, responsibility, or whatever you’d like in your life…

You might get bites, licks, and tastes of what you seek, but nothing will last.

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You weren’t made to grasp at flickers.

You were made to dance in the fire.

Wire yourself accordingly.

With love from the fog,

~ Alexander, Flamebearer of Emberbrook

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