Are these really all the techniques for awakening kundalini by effort?
Of course life couldn’t possible be this simple. There are a wide variety of techniques that serve to awaken kundalini through either uniting prana and apana or uniting rajas and retas. Most of these bear some similarity to those described above. There are a few radically different methods. Some of these are extremely forceful. Some yogins, take literally the meaning of rajas and retas and seek a literal uniting of these constituents. Others take the slumber of the kundalini very literally and attempt to very forcefully wake her up by dropping on the floor while seated in the lotus position. At the other extreme, in many other approaches no attempt whatsoever is made to awaken the kundalini directly. In these practices all of the effort is placed on purifying the nerve channels through physical, mental and breathing exercises. In the practice of Kriya yoga as taught by Baba-ji and Lahiri Mahasaya the kundalini is “magnetized.” Apparently in this practice energy is circulated around t
