According to ancient Eastern traditions, the Kundalini energy is a latent female, motherly and soothing spiritual energy believed to lie coiled at the base of the spine, in the triangular sacrum bone, within every human being. From the Sanskrit word Kundalini, meaning ‘the coiled snake’, once awakened, the kundalini rises up along the spine, inside the spinal cord and passes through all the energy centers, or chakras, in our subtle body before opening the last center ‘Sahasrara’ on top of our heads.
The great Indian saint, Jnaneshwar, who lived in the 12th century Maharashtra region of India, described this sacred power as follows: ‘So lies the Kundalini, very small and coiled three and a half times, like a female serpent with her head turned downwards. She is like a ring of lightning’.
