Usually we thing that meditation is sitting down in stillness only, but you can also come to a meditative state with movement practices. The fourth stage is without music and is an integration phase where you rest and relax. In this last stage you lie down on the floor like with eyes closed and the body in stillness. Practice being your own witness without getting too involved in your sensations, thoughts or emotions. Your eyes will be closed and you are simply listening and observing – listening to the music and observing whatever is present on the outside and the inside. From movement you come back to stillness.

In this stage you have the choice to either stand or sit down. You can keep your eyes open or closed during this stage. It is your own journey of feeling the body, the energy and celebrating it with a dance. You don’t have to worry what other people may think. Let yourself be inspired by the music and allow self-expression through movement. The second stage is to dance just the way you like to move. It trains you to be more in your body and less up in your head. Shaking for an extended time can really feel exhilarating as soon as you allow the shaking to happen naturally and feel energy moving within your body. In Osho’s words anything that has become frozen or hard can be fluid again. When we learn again to shake, this can free up stuck energy and feel like a big relief! You let your body shake and become loose again. We as humans tend to hold on to stress and this can cause physical, energetic or emotional blocks. Have you ever seen ducks fighting on a lake? They fight and quack loudly, but after a while they swim in opposite directions, shake their feathers and move on. Why is shaking so beneficial? Animals shake their bodies as a natural response to release any stress from their bodies. In this first stage you stand and shake your body for 15 minutes. The four stages of the Kundalini Meditation The stages are shaking, dancing, standing or sitting in stillness and relaxing. The Kundalini meditation is a 60 minutes practice with four different stages of 15 minutes each, accompanied by music which was originally composed for this meditation.

He developed a series of meditations that involve music and movement, especially for the modern world in which we live where many people have difficulties to sit still and reach the depths of meditation. The Kundalini Meditation is a dynamic form of meditation created by the famous Indian spiritual master Osho.

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