Can I use kundalini yoga simply to improve my health?
Yoga exercises which were
traditionally used to purify the body in preparation for awakening the kundalini
can also be used simply to improve the health. To practice techniques aimed at
actively awakening kundalini with the goal of simply improving your health seems
to be a misuse of these powerful techniques.
There are those that teach
kundalini yoga principally emphasizing its benefits on health without much
discussion of the spiritual benefits. This is how hatha yoga has been taught in
the west for some time. The affect of this approach depends on the attitude of
the student. There is certainly nothing wrong with trying to improve your health
but there is a tension between awakening an energy that will ultimately burn up
the ego and trying to shape that energy to simply fulfill an ego-oriented
motive.
