Welcome to the Kundalini Guide
Designed to help you understand the life-changing dynamics of Kundalini Awakening, and to introduce you to the research and teachings of Dr. Bonnie Greenwell, a non-dual teacher and transpersonal psychologist that dedicated her life’s work to mentoring people in this spiritual awakening, or spiritual emergence, process.
Kundalini may activate for many reasons, either through practices or spontaneously, and the process has many variables depending on the intentions, lifestyle, general health, and spiritual orientation of those who experience it. These heightened vibrations and energies commonly move through the body when someone has reached a certain point of readiness in spiritual or energy practices, and seem to function as a clearing process as the identity shifts into a new perspective.
Kundalini energy may also awaken in response to an injury, a traumatic or highly emotional event, in response to deep devotion, or to an encounter with another person who can transmit intensified energy. Please open the essays on this site to read about the impact of this awakening, understand the historic yogic perspective of this experience, and gain general guidance on living with kundalini.
New Book Release
Being Awake is a collection of essays written by Bonnie Greenwell, Phd. to support and inspire the process of spiritual awakening. The collection pulls together thirty years of teachings and reflections on spiritual awakening. This is her fourth book and a final collection of the most important messages she wishes to convey.
Audio Course
Kundalini and the Inner Journey to Being Awake
Your practical guide to navigating the gifts and difficulties of kundalini awakening, based on Dr. Bonnie Greenwell's 30 years of research including interviews with over 3000 individuals in the midst of awakening, classical Indian kundalini science, and Bonnie's experience as a spiritual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti.
Dr. Bonnie Greenwell, Creator of the Kundalini Guide
Bonnie Greenwell became a therapist and scholar in this field following her own awakening during graduate school. She trained in many energy practices and spiritual traditions as well as spiritually oriented psychotherapy. In 2004 she received dharma transmission from the progressive non-dual teacher Adyashanti. She is known for her scholarly research into kundalini awakening, and as the author of the comprehensive book "Energies of Transformation: A Guide to the Kundalini Process", based on her doctoral research in 1990.
She has published four guidebooks based on nearly 30 years of assessing over 3000 people in the kundalini or spiritual awakening processes. These guides are available for purchase here.
During her career she offered programs for therapists and others in the U.S. and Europe, was a founder and organizer of The Kundalini Research Network, was the director of the counseling center at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and wrote book chapters and essays related to spiritual awakening.