Mine has been opening the crown for the last 2 years. My ears ring daily on and off and the head pressure is immense. However bliss at times makes it worth it. Extreme heat at times too, especially in the chest region. Been moving upward from my heart since 2012. It has blasted away most of my previous personality along with most desires, addictions, and goals. Heaven comes at a cost! That cost is you.

I feel so blessed to have found this channel. ❤🙏

My kundalini awakening happened in 1989, it was dramatic and it changed my life forever. Thankfully, I am a lucid dreamer, so I have always received guidance in dreams, as well as from earth angels who show up and speak to what I have been questioning. Thank you for sharing.💜

I so understand not having anyone to talk to about my experience! I love you brother☀️🙏

Hi Forrest, I can’t thank you enough for your channel and for this video specifically right now. I’ve watched many of your videos for a couple years now and I’ve been practicing meditation for some time; I also do extensive energy work so I am working with my energy daily. Tonight I experienced pretty much a mirror of what you’re describing in this video. I was meditating this evening, practicing HRV breathing of course, and I was pleasantly surprised (although the sensation was quite jolting) to find myself spinning uncontrollably (so I felt). At first it felt like the entire room spinning around me, and then it progressed to feeling like my body was spinning as well, almost like the room was spinning into my spinning body; it almost reminded me of the motion of the torus field. Because it was slightly nauseating and at first dizzying, if I had not seen this video maybe a year or two ago first, I would have immediately opened my eyes out of fear that I was “losing my body” because that seemed like a natural impulse. But I remembered your experience in the ashram and I simply surrendered into it. WOW. Profoundly intense and I am so grateful - although I’ve never met or spoken to you personally, I consider you such a special teacher to me and I felt like your words were guiding me through the experience. I just had to find this video again. I’ve had many experiences but not quite like this. The key was letting go and trusting. Thank you Forrest, from my heart! 🫶🏽

I am comforted by your work(if you see this) I basically taught myself from books and experimentation since i was 13 and had all kinds of traumatic experiences which your content has given understanding of

You are correct; there is almost no one to talk to about experiences I’ve had. It’s very hard at times. Some people think I’m just going through some mental issues.

This is why we have a guru- one who has been there to guide us on our journey.

I am sooo grateful for your channel. It is giving me so much confirmation that I couldn’t find anywhere for years actually! And it is actually starting to explain so many events I went through from childhood as well, for myself. I have always known it’s not a disease and it pains me that after finally reaching out about my experiences last year, at a psychiatrist, that I was given a diagnosis on the scizo- affective-spectrum. I know for myself it is not a disease because some of the experiences were clairvoyance for instance, that were undeniable for myself. And several other things like seeing colors from around the age of 12.. and just subtle voices and sensations throughout my life. All things I could still function with. But then I went into full blown psychosis 4 years ago. .. I have always known modern medicine would label it something it is not. And it stopped me for years from getting help even-though I’ve been desperate for it at times. Because really no one around me understands. Luckily I do have few openminded people around to whom I can vent some of it. But most I keep to myself because it can be so wild. I would not ever want to go through that (not being able to discern one dimension from another) again although I am also deeply grateful having gone through it.. But even during that time I was just praying for a medicine-man/ woman. A Buddhist teacher, someone of the older traditions that actually understands these phenomena. It was so so lonesome EVEN though the spirit world was helping me move through. They even “warned” me it was going to happen years prior. They told me “you need to prepare to let go of every concept you have about life”. But once it really hit, quite literally, all my frame of reference was gone.. sorry if I’m repeating some stuff from my last comment. It’s just that I feel a little overwhelmed. I just LOVE you for making this channel. I am calming down soo much compared to before. “They” are telling me to just lead as simple a life as possible for now with as little impulses as possible.. And it is a prayer answered to find a person in the flesh, EVEN if I see you on a screen haha, that tells me it is ok. You have done a HEAP for me by making these videos. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I’m glad you started this channel because this whole spiritual awakening was forced upon me. And it’s nice to see experienced people describing what they went through. Now I can compare the things that I’m going through with someone else’s experiences. I don’t know if that made sense but thank u for these videos.

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences so openly! So very helpful!

I love this community you have created and are sharing with. It means so much. Your personal experience is very inspiring. Thank you so much.

I am very grateful to hear your experiences and explanations, particularly this one. Your connections of meditative experience and human physiology are more helpful than you can know. Thank you so very much!!!

wow.. How did these knots get so wound up in the first place? THANK you for creating a safe space for dialog!!

Dear Knutson your way of explanation is great and compact........I appreciate

I relate to this. Thank you, yours is a noble endeavour 🙏

Thankyou and please continue to share your experiences ...it is very inspiring and is very good to know that there is someone out there who is ready to listen and give advice....thankyou

FK ji. Your sharings are excellent. We are indeed fortunate to have you with us, a gem who is always willing n prompt in helping, guiding spiritual aspirants, which are very helpful n encouraging to the Sadhakas. Pl keep up the Great Work. I feel the The Great Gurus are Blessing u n guiding us

That's very kind of you and thank you for sharing your experience which is really supportive.

Jan. '23. Thank you. Amazing. Have had same experiences of "room and bed spinning", since I was young. Even lately, I had to reach out and grab either side of bed, from spinning. Had no idea what this was, other than an epileptic fit, and seizures that I was diagnosed w/ in 2014, under Obama Care. Spinning, like Dorothy, in Wizard of Oz. Thank you.

Helpful info! Thanks, Forrest.

going back to check out some of your older stuff i’ve missed…. you’re an amazing guru, love your perspectives, and i’ve taken my meditations to a different level from your insight and teachings. thanks 🙏🏼

May the Force be with you!

Hi Forrest, I am from Brazil. Your chanel is helping me a lot! Very Thankful!

Namaste sir. Wonderful kundalini experience. Get to learn more about it. Thank you so much for your kind reply. God bless. Much love

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Forrest! This video is so relevant for me. It’s assuring to hear that others are having experiences I’m having. You have such a wealth of knowledge that I’m really enjoying.

Thank you soo much , right when I watched this video about a year ago...I didnt get it...now I do.

Btw you are a fantastic teacher and I would love to meditate with you!

If you are not ready it becomes difficult to stay in body... always good to have someone around who understand atleast first-time...

Thanks for sharing such wonderful knowledge, very few people on earth can experience it

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Thanks Forrest, for the fresh, honest lion's roar.

@Forrest Knutson! You are doing a great service by educating the people in this not-so-well understood spiritual practice. I wanted to find out if you have any specific video released that provides recommendations of specific foods to eat or not to eat by the people on their path to kundalini awakening. There are not many videos available on the net except some recommending eating Sattvic food and avoid Tamsa foods.

Blessed to have you.

Hey Forrest, A few years ago I had an experience of oneness, love and bliss that was preceeded by what felt like a line of buttons being pressed form bottom to top along my back. What was very significant about the experience was the COMPLETE silence (no thoughts) that accompanied the experience of oneness and bliss. This experience dissipated after 5-10 minutes and the more it left the more the thoughts came back. Nobody I talked to could explain it, but I suspect it was a kundalini related phenomenon. What do you think? Thank you for your videos, I really appreciate them.

I really appreciate this video. Helped me understand that spinning. Thank you.

I have had this experience, in a meditation retreat last New Year's night he finally woke up, after a couple of years of feeling signs, and particularly it is an energy that invites me to live IN LOVE WITH EXISTENCE, I feel at the spiral taking me and literally immobilizing me with an energy similar to a high tension tower in the spine, in the moments where I feel tempted to react impulsively or selfishly, the energy intensifies and I must stop, observe myself and choose to act from love ... and there the energy "calms down" It is a new experience but I appreciate it, I feel that I am guided by this energy, by life. It is like a wave of consciousness.

For me, it's the spine which starts to spin in a wave-like motion without me willing any motion into it. It's a very soothing feeling which usually culminates with a feeling of explosion of joy on the upper part of the skull

I have stayed in few ashram and I realized some how the elder and senior there don't really give me much answers and they just ignore me. Most of the time I felt like, no one to really share my meditation experience. I am glad u talk about this and least I know its not just my imagination

Thank you for doing what you are doing!

Hi Forrest and thank you for your great teachings, especially on Khechari, which I just started to stretch and train to attain one day!

Mine was during a 2 hours meditation session, the eyes started pulsating at an incredible speed, I maintained my calm and kept observing and then there was an explosion of white light. I couldn’t move my body for some moments, it was like being detached from it and my life after that never been the same. I stopped being atheist, became vegetarian , reduced my alcohol intake...the ears now ring everyday and I had plenty of mind blowing visions, from the basic orbs of light , to the spiritual eye when I meditate or do breath work to still images from the past to cartons to high definition tv to math slides to alien spaceships and alien cities, out of body experiences and the spookier ones when focusing on the ear ringing in the evening in which one feels teleported and seems to be possessed by not friendly entities , or flying out of the body and being cared with such love by such a beautiful loving light to mind blowing cartoons series with sounds....it’s a process that will challenge all your conceptions about life and actually make you lose your fear of death or at least reduce it greatly....because the universe seems a lot more complex that one thinks...there is more to life than meets the eye. Thx a lot for your videos Forrest, it’s filled with beautiful advice and it’s very helpful to someone like me that thought he was going crazy....fortunately people like you , google and some kundalini books helped a lot to understand this experience that was very hard at the beginning, changed my life and some of my habits and inclusive my personality, I’m calmer now , more loving and more patient and it’s still ongoing...what a thing...

Thanks 🙏 I’ve experienced the spiralling throughout my life yet I used to, I think, stop it and so I used to faint regularly. 🙏💕🙏

The feeling of the room spinning is something I got a lot as a child. Sometimes it spun and snapped back then spun and snapped back again. I once had an OBE and for a month after until it faded I felt this stuff a lot and started to feel like like I was almost taking off out of my body again. I fought it along with the waking sleep paralysis but it is my biggest regret that I never gave in to it. I didn't know what it was and wished I had a book on OBE's at the time but you have irrational concerns that something might get into your body while you're out. I never had one again but try occassionally and fail.

I have out of body experiences every now and then. I have devised a technique for entering into the borderland sleep state. It's called squishing your eyebrows and meditating or holding that squished eyebrows posture and going to sleep. Mannnnn it works wonders.... I think it has something to do with pressure in the third eye.

jay GURU , brother kriyaban!

When I was about 21 or 22 I was practicing aikido and part of the class was a centering and expansion meditation on the hara. After a while, I noticed that sensations kept wanting to rise to the heart and throat. I couldnt seem to keep my energy down there. After an intensive weekend I went home and found myself with a kind of prayer going on in my head (but I wasn't really conventionally that religious). It was a frustrated longing to know what life was all about. It was very intense and out of frustration I called out angrily to the Universe. At that point, some kind of energy ripped up through my body, my heart, through my throat and out of the crown of my head. I was totally freaked and felt I was leaving my body and I was being called towards the stars. I thought I was dying and sat centering on my hara to stay alive! For months later I had a frickin feeling that a cool lazer type light was shining out of my crown. Man, was that strange! I have always felt I was reborn after that event......

Wow thank you so much, understand ways better now :D

I have had a few of these dreams. Most recently I had a dream like this 2 nights ago. I have been scared since my awakening and other experiences, so I feel like I have these kundalini dreams b/c they are "safer." I dreamt that my third chakra was spinning, and then I was spun around and pushed to the wall. Then I was surrounded by monks in red and yellow robes. They were blowing in my ear or whispering in my ear. It was intense!!!

Dear sole, i have experience of kundalini in 2014 but at that time till now I don't have any guru who is present in body n guide me, i found beej mantras of chakras n chant them continues for 17 days, from 4 th day all experiences started drastic changes r there in my body , there r some shower of lights on body ,n also i m blissed with power of healing ,but on 18th day i experienced dangerous force my each n every cell force me upwords n there lot of fear so that I stop on that movement my sadhana n search for guru. Recently i got an adress of KRIYA Yoga Center located near Allahabad, Guruji Yogi Satyam is there who teaches n gives diksha ( initiation ) so i m going there for kriya. Also your videos are very valuable for me Thank You.

You have a peaceful countenance.

I envy you I'm a beginner with too may question still

Newcomer here, just found your channel, incredibly excited to learn mindfulness/meditation techniques from a knowledgeable person like yourself. You seem genuine. On a note in regards to your spiritual"brother" at your retreat(?) , seems like maybe a jealous individual not wanting to share any information/knowledge on the subject? Anyhow, thanks for enlightening folks interested in the topic like myself...

Thank you for sharing this. I have had the same frustration with being able to discuss my experiences or find related videos with tips

your channel is very very useful

"Smiley all the time" I can't understand why the brother in the ashram would somehow dislike that. All the great masters always emphasised to always be like a child. Yogananda said: "All the great masters of India that I have known were childlike. They displayed all the qualities of sincerity, frankness, non-attachment, universality, forgiveness, truthfulness, calmness, sweetness, laughter, and freedom from worry of a child - minus the latter’s ignorance". It's very good to be smiley all the time :-)

Your channel is a goldmine! Thank you Forrest! I had a question, I experience all this when im singing, do u recommend ways to sustain the feeling?

Very helpful

A master or one whos had Samadhi will know what u are speaking of..Your spinal Vortex moves it spreads n makes u feel u are spinning..the 3rd know opens Only in AUM ascention..u hear it u are enraptured by it it dissolves u..u hear d voice of god saying Vedanta at the heart knot..n LIGHT n u are ONE ... Narayana ..u are Narayana..then i was 5 days immersed totally in Lightrons !!So luminous so soft so Holy..!!

Thank you so much 🙏❤️🙏 you describe my questions very good - but I wonder Joe do you feel for example toung knots🧐 Much love from Sweden 🇸🇪🌍🪴💃🏻🎶

Thanks 🙏

Your experience is real, but don't fix with the experiences as with will lag you behind, because ppl may keep looking for it.

In 2011 after visualization / slow breathing I had a powerful orgasmic explosion in my head, I remember it felt like lightning bolts shooting from the top of my head downward along with the orgasmic waves. For about 4 days after that happened, a buzzing / electric noise woke me up at night and I seen vivid tiny complex geometric shapes moving in sync behind closed eyes. I got the feeling that I seen a part of the world I wasn't supposed to see lol, like behind the scenes code of reality.. That's why I'm researching kundalini yoga. Anyway in 2016 a spinning sensation in front of my chest woke me up, it was like an invisible spinning magnetic pull.

Woww looking back i did have an experience where i was curled up in a ball on my trampoline and i thought i was asleep but i knew i wasn’t and my physical eyes were closed but i could see myself spinning all over the trampoline in the same curled up position i was in and i just kept spinning going all over the trampoline like a pin ball. Then when i ‘woke up’ i was in the same place i laid down. What do you think this experience was because i’m not so sure. After this i have tried kundalini awakening meditations and have felt symptoms of such.

I have very intense kundalini awaking from top to bottom energy was flowing and for couple days I was seeing everything like one.Question how to get back that kundalini energy back since I have lost her after couple days Thx

One time, when I was a teen, I was walking down the sidewalk of a busy and loud road. I was kind of deep into my own thoughts, and even though the traffic was loud, it was just background noise to my thoughts. My thoughts were light-hearted and not particularly important. Cars were whizzing by, horns were beeping, and also, someone was spinning their tires. All of a sudden, I heard a very loud crash and felt a burning sensation on the back of my calves, and without intention, I started high-stepping, football style, forward. The person that was spinning their tires, was not doing it intentionally, but because a fire hydrant was draining and she probably had bald tires, as she was turning onto the main road that I was walking on, she lost traction with the road and drove onto the sidewalk, extremely close to me. As far as I know, the car never touched me. I can understand my running, even if it wasn't a conscious decision to do so, because of the noise of the car hitting the curb, but what I don't understand is what caused me to feel a burning sensation on the back of my calves? I believe, ultimately, God saved me, but the intriguing thing is the process that was used. The reason why I bring it up after watching this video is maybe I was in some type of meditative mindset which left me open to the burning calves signal? Maybe it was an intense signal radiated from the woman who was driving the car and was trying to avoid hitting me? Sorry if this is off topic, I just think things like that are fascinating. A few other things in that realm have happened to me, too. Take care, and thank you for your work!

When you meditate, do you see snakes around you? I keep seeing that. Often dream about them and think of them.

I am doing meditation but need someone like you who can guide me step by step to go deep into that field and explore more, hope you will help me. thanks

Thank you Forrest for sharing this experience,can you pls.explain the connection between pineal gland & kundlini awaking.

Hey forest It was around 5am lying in bed my body was super relaxed, my heals felt heavy and it felt like an overwhelming amount of energy that went flying from my heals to head surging up for about 7 seconds. But it overwhelmed my body what happened sir?

Pulsating tailbone and spinning body got me here.

Hey Forrest! I've just found out your channel and you are helping me a lot. Thank you very much! Also, I have something intriguing to share. I'm a beginner meditator and every time I meditate effectively I can feel by body spinning. It has become something so normal to my practice that when I don't feel myself spinning I feel like my meditation didn't succeed at all. Maybe I'm having my kundalini activation?

Once I felt like the third eye was flickering like it was trying to open it's eyelid...Off course I was practicing my sambhavi.....What does that mean...I asked around my brothers who practice priya..But they are yet to reach that state...It's too blissful there

what people don't understand is considered a dream or madness. Scientists or rationalists are experts in this field. What if it was enough to induce a physical or mental rotational effect to awaken the kundalini? I am thinking in particular of the dance of the whirling dervishes.

I am there for you forest you can tell me your experiences

Virtual kriya. . .very curious creature! Evidently the day of synthetic 'awareness' has arrived. . .replete with synthetic, repetitive, neuro-looping virtual background music. . .Ah, for the genuine thing. . .

Why label this kundaini awakening? Unless it rises you have not awakened. Yes Kundalini experiences can differ when the internal breath pings the bottom chakra it can at that point differ in the experience of how it rises which are six basic ways with one greater deemed para kundaln not common. Samadhi has three stages and is experience when it truly rises, each stage requires being able to remain in samadhi longer and is a practice into it self. You ... Had an experience not a knudalini awakening and if you ever do you won't teach how to over a phone or internet.

Spinning sensation is the Kundalini in the root chakra. At this point it is still coiled and still asleep. But it did stir or arouse. It is not really a Kundalini experience, especially not a Kundalini rising experience.

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Why is the spiritual eye I see green rather than gold?

Thank You. Enjoying all your videos. they have been helpful. Is it easier to awaken Kundalini or open Third eye. Please can you give methods on doing so?

Which Ashram did you learn in?

Thank you Forrest for sharing your experiece. I would like to share mine if you don't mind about my own spiritual journey or more like a psychic experience. Ever since i can remember, i would have visions of things that will happen in the next 2-3 seconds. I always wondered how and why it happens. It reminds me of a Nicholas Cage movie titled NEXT. In this movie Nicholas would see things that will happen in the next 5 minutes. I also experienced SLOW MO effect thats when everything in my field of vision would move in slow motion just like when you push the slow mo button while watching a movie. This so far has only happened twice in my life. It happened while i was practicing martial arts and second was when i was in a emergency situation. I tried to replicate this feat or at least try to reverse engineer it . But i guest it was more a spontanious thing that got triggered. Thanks

I have felt the first knot and now I want to experience the second one. How long does it take between the first and the second?

May you give us your teachings in spanish, please?

Which ashram did you go to?

Extremely Informative - I stumbled upon your videos yesterday and they are so awesome!!! I had a query - how many levels are in kriya yoga? I hear diff figs all the time.thanks

are you still active. i have many experiences with no explanations as to why i feel the things i do during meditation

What does it mean when I’m meditating and all of a sudden I start to see this beautiful purplish smoke or liquid ?

Hi Forrest! I just found your channel and LOVE your vibe 💓. One question please - three years ago in a meditative space, I had what I can only describe as a LIGHTNING BOLT enter my head. I could see all of my atoms move around in my brain and rearrange while LIT UP, and with this very loud and deep WHIRRRRR sound happening. This went on for a while and then there were five bright EXPLOSIONS of light inside of me. It is so hard to explain in words, but it changed me immediately, as I KNEW and still KNOW there is a Greater Presence connecting ALL things. Have you ever heard of this kind of experience, and would you describe this as a different kind of Kundalini? Or something else?? Thank You 🙏🏻 I have been searching for answers 💓

Hi Forrest, I appreciate your videos and your genuine nature. In meditation, I see what looks like the iris of an eye. As I relax deeper into meditation the pupil of the iris turns a violet color. At some point, I often feel a like a "swoosh" sensation as if I'm moving to the stars. This violet pupil is a portal and I start to see blinking eyes. I've seen this many times. On one occasion, I felt as though I had moved through the portal. I was face to face with the most beautiful being. It's skin was light violet in color and it literally had three eyes. It seemed benevolent enough. I was just startled and lost the connection. Any ideas? My higher self? Thank you again for your videos - Namaste

I've felt that spinning experience. It has been mild for me. Honestly, the monastics can be ridiculous. I once asked a brother what "bliss" was. He said it was what one would feel after having a baby! Honestly he said that. Then I realized he didn't have a clue. For me having babies was a frightening experience. Yes, you love them but it's still terrifying physically, mentally, emotionally. Then another time I spoke to a nun. I asked about the spontaneous "kriyas" I was having. Spontaneous uddhiyana bandhas. She looked at me like I had two heads. They know nothing!

Did you ask your guru? Who is your guru?

I would like to know if there are any blockages in meditation. For eg anhedonia occurring and is there a solution to it? Thanks for sharing such informative videos.

How is this spinning different from vertigo?

Hello Forrest - what an amazing experience! I have been reading a lot about Kundalini and sublimation, especially relating to the Golden Flower Meditation method. What are your thoughts on sublimation and Kundalini awakening in the case of householders? thanks as always!

Did you also see snakes in your dreams, wonderful channel thank you

Sir, i am not yet initiated by a guru but i do meditate. now i feel sometimes when i concentrate to meditate. i feel the oscillation in my mind...it feels like i am feeling the earthquake but its not there for anybody else. Am i feeling something spiritual or is it my mind only? Please sir, its something i cannot explain to anybody...

I have a question, what happens when a Guru shares their Samadhi??