Day 2 - The Awakening Within

Stepping into flow & the sacred energy rising.

I was moving through the day still riding the high from the night before. I felt more grounded, more confident, and more present. And good thing, because Day 2 threw us straight into back to back Spinal Flow Sessions.

Thrown into the Deep End.

This was a full dive into Spinal Flow, the theory and embodiment. We rotated roles as practitioner, client, and observer throughout the day. We learned how to track the different styles of flow expressed in the body (perception, breath and movement) and how to feel subtle changes in the spine gateways between sessions. Watching the body come alive, whether with soft undulations or more expressive waves, I was in awe of what I witnessed. Though this is a relatively new module it feels like ancient knowledge has been reawakened. 

Energy in Motion: Practitioner and Client Perspectives.

As practitioners, we were taught to let our fingers be guided, to find the right access points along the spine or cranium. It was as if our finger tips became little magnets, drawn exactly to where they were needed on the clients body. I was mesmerised by what I saw in others, and what I felt in myself.

The most important lesson? That healing doesn’t come from outside. This is your own Life Force Energy working and moving through your body. You don’t need to believe in anything external, you only need to trust and let the body lead.

Your Own Energy, Your Own Healing.

Even as a client, I was fully prepared that “maybe it won’t work on me.” But it seems impossible for this not to work, because it is not coming from outside of you. It is already within you, and once it’s activated, the body responds. Our body is ancient technology. 

For me, receiving Spinal Flow, the sensation was like being back on land after a long day at sea. But the motions came from within me and my spine was buzzing with energy. It did not happen during the sessions I received on the first day. But for the second session on th second day, I could feel the swaying sensation begin.

The day was intense. We each received and provided over four Spinal Flow sessions, and by the evening I felt both deeply nourished and utterly exhausted. I went back to my room, needing to decompress, snacked on tortilla chips with hummus, and watched comfort TV. I needed to ground and be human for a moment. 

But the Universe, again, had other plans.

The Rise of the Inner Fire.

As I lay on the bed, I felt that same familiar wave of energy, I was back in the energetic sea. At first, I didn’t think much of it, it had been mentioned that you can feel the energy activate once you've started going to sessions. And I often feel energies activating in and around me. At first I just kept watching my tv show waiting for it to pass. But it didn't subside, it felt like the spinal wave from earlier but in fact, it intensified.

Confounded, I put my laptop to the side, and just observed this sensation. I noticed a tingle at the very base of my spine. I had felt this sensation a few times before over the last few months, like little buzzing bees. It was spreading upward along the sacrum, a slow-moving current, pulsing and expanding. It built gradually until the energy in my root and sacral chakras surged. All while the Spinal Wave sensation intensified 

I was curious and fascinated. I could feel the energy of each heavy serpentine ripple moving through me, so palpable it made me sit up and I could feel myself sway in motion with the energy. And that’s when it happened.

The Kundalini Awakens.

A rising liquid heat, hot, so hot it felt cold. Like quicksilver, it began rising inside the base of my spine. Slowly, steadily, it climbed. My breath caught by surprise. It’s happening, I thought. It was my Kundalini rising.

For a few months, I had been receiving signs and feeling the tingles. In my typical way, I had made an agreement with the Universe, Bring this when I’m ready and bring only what I can hold. Show me what needs to be cleared first. And step by step, I had done just that. Now, in this moment, it arrived. I hadn’t expected it that night, but I wasn’t unprepared. 

I could feel the liquid heat slowly climbing, and it reached just short of my solar, before it paused. It was exactly as others describe, spiral waves from deep within pulsating in, though, and around my body like serpents. It was transcendent, ecstatic and all-consuming. And then, after what felt like hours, eventually it began to settle, slowly dissolving back into a pulsing, tingling field. The intensity faded. And eventually I gently brought myself back from this deep meditative state.

I opened my eyes, lightheaded and buzzing.“What was that…?” I whispered out to the Universe. I glanced at my phone to get a grasp of time again, and I noticed over an hour had passed since the Kundalini started rising and I got absorbed.

Living in the Afterglow.

The sensations didn’t leave me after that night. The spinal wave, my life force energy, it stayed active, the swells of the energetic sea in constant motion. Two days later, I felt the Kundalini stirring and rising again, softly awakening and moving before settling down once more, not yet reaching my solar. 

And while I know the start of my kundalini rising had long been moving toward me. And I had been doing the inner-work to get here. I also feel that receiving Spinal Flow was part of the reason it arrived in the way it did. The energetic clearing, the nervous system regulation, the activation of the spinal wave, it all helped to clear the path. 

The connection between the Spinal Flow modality and Kundalini rising has been discussed, but has never been formally recognised as a catalyst. I have heard of others experiencing their kundalini rising after receiving Spinal Flow treatments. But there are also many many people who receive Spinal Flow regularly, even over years, and never awaken to the kundalini rising within. I believe it just simply is not part of their journey, it does not have to be, and it should absolutely never be forced.

But from my own experience, what I do know, deep in my body, is that this week was divinely timed. A sacred process had begun and it was never meant to stay dormant.
There was no doubt in my mind or body anymore, this Immersion was my catalyst.
And there was no turning back.