How old is Kundalini Yoga?
If you’re talking about Kundalini Yoga promoted by Yogi Bhajan and his followers, it emerged during the 1960s when Yogi Bhajan became a self-styled yogi and came to American to teach what he called Kundalini Yoga to hippies. This form of yoga is a mix of Bihar School and Tibetan physical yoga and Sikh mysticism, including mantrayana. There are other forms of yoga and yoga cults around that also tack the word Kundalini in the name of the group and involve practices or initiations to “raise Kundalini. ” Kundalini yoga otherwise refers to a range of esoteric practices (including empowerment initiations) in Tantric Hindu and Buddhism to cause a transformation of consciousness. Kundalini (“She Who Is Coiled) is described as a latent vital energy in living things that must be integrated into consciousness for a person to be fully efficient, conscious, and “enlightened.” Kundalini phenomenon happens to be somewhat similar to that of “Holy Spirit” phenomenon and what medieval and ancient weste
