How do you know when it is time to awaken Kundalini?

Hey starsign i found soem symptoms for kundalini rising for you on teh net.Hope it helps.Best things is to trust your instinct about your body changes.

The following are common manifestations of the risen Kundalini:

   * Muscle twitches, cramps or spasms.
     
   * Energy rushes or immense electricity circulating the body
     
   * Itching, vibrating, prickling, tingling, stinging or crawling sensations
     
   * Intense heat or cold
     
   * Involuntary bodily movements (occur more often during meditation, rest or sleep): jerking, tremors, shaking; feeling an inner force pushing one into postures or moving one's body in unusual ways.  (May be misdiagnosed as epilepsy, restless legs syndrome (RLS), or PLMD.)
     
   * Alterations in eating and sleeping patterns
     
   * Episodes of extreme hyperactivity or, conversely, overwhelming fatigue (some CFS victims are experiencing Kundalini awakening)
     
   * Intensified or diminished sexual desires
     
   * Headaches, pressures within the skull
     
   * Racing heartbeat, pains in the chest
     
   * Digestive system problems
     
   * Numbness or pain in the limbs (particularly the left foot and leg)
     
   * Pains and blockages anywhere; often in the back and neck (Many cases of FMS are Kundalini-related.)
     
   * Emotional outbursts; rapid mood shifts; seemingly unprovoked or excessive episodes of grief, fear, rage, depression
     
   * Spontaneous vocalizations (including laughing and weeping) -- are as unintentional and uncontrollable as hiccoughs
     
   * Hearing an inner sound or sounds, classically described as a flute, drum, waterfall, birds singing, bees buzzing but which may also sound like roaring, whooshing, or thunderous noises or like ringing in the ears.
     
   * Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating
     
   * Altered states of consciousness: heightened awareness; spontaneous trance states; mystical experiences (if the individual's prior belief system is too threatened by these, they can lead to bouts of psychosis or self-grandiosity)
     
   * Heat, strange activity, and/or blissful sensations in the head, particularly in the crown area.
     
   * Ecstasy, bliss and intervals of tremendous joy, love, peace and compassion
     
   * Psychic experiences: extrasensory perception; out-of-body experiences; pastlife memories; astral travel; direct awareness of auras and chakras; contact with spirit guides through inner voices, dreams or visions; healing powers
     
   * Increased creativity: new interests in self-expression and spiritual communication through music, art, poetry, etc.
     
   * Intensified understanding and sensitivity: insight into one's own essence; deeper understanding of spiritual truths; exquisite awareness of one's environment (including "vibes" from others)
       

   * Enlightenment experiences: direct Knowing of a more expansive reality; transcendent awareness

Thanks for the info Dhav.  I have had some of those happen already, but not sure if they are related to Kundalini.  I will PM you.

Here is a very good website about yogic practices for kundalini:
http://www.aypsite.org/
It's the best I know. The person (Yogani) who's created the website knows what he's talking about. He presents his knowledge in a simple, down to earth, safe and practical way.

My yoga teacher says that there are actually various kinds of kundalini. Based on my experience I tend to agree with him. I would rather say that there are different techniques to wake up and raise up the energy, and these can lead to different kind of goals. There is female kundalini, male kundalini (Snake), middle pillar, front energy (staff yoga) and raising energy in 144 channels (whole body) at once. I have more or less practical experience with all of these. And based on this experience I've come to a conclusion that everything else but the Snake (male kundalini) are something that eventually wakes up if a person is seeking a complete divine enlightenment.
In that case it doesn't matter which technique you begin with they all lead to a same goal. Only thing that should be understood though is that it's wise to begin from gentle stimulation of energy (especially if you're a beginner). For example front energy or female kundalini are good beginning techiques. Ayp website teaches an efficient method of female kundalini awakening. The front energy meditation goes like this: Feel a thin bar of matter that starts in your genital area and runs up the front of your body to the area between your slightly raised eyebrows (life chakra). Each time you feel this thin matter bar in its entirety from sex to life, you will activate all three front chakras and all the other chakras in the body. (grounding tip: feel the bottoms of your feet and/or perineum/tailbone region. Doing this activates the energy in your whole body so please be gentle)

PS. If you allow God's loving presence to live and grow within you, everything will wake up. This is my core meditation along with giving loving hugs to Jesus in Heaven and allowing Holy Spirit flow into me and become one with God's presence within me.

TuomasT,
            Thanks for posting the website.  There is lots of information on the website looks interesting.  Thanks for you post.