I am familiar with all the classic signs of Kundalini activation and i have experienced some at various points in my life. Over the summer i was practicing quite a bit of Kundalini yoga and felt fantastic. Somehow i fell off the wagon and haven't been doing any yoga at all for the past 2 months or so. Meanwhile, i have had an annoying pressure/pain in my lower back that requires me to crack it several times a day for relief. This has been going on for at least a year and i haven't seen a professional for chiropractic, rolfing or massage, though i have been thinking that maybe i should. All along i've wondered if the problem with my back is purely physical or energetic in nature. I have not had an injury, there is really no good reason for me to have this chronic lower back pressure, so i've wondered if i had a blockage there. Cracking it by twisting and rotating my hips helps temporarily but has not released the pressure completely.

Today i was on the playground with my daughter at school and i was standing next to the monkey bars. Recalling somebody's suggestion that i try gravity inversion boots or some other way of hanging to elongate the spine, i decided to try hanging from the bars to stretch out and release my spine. At first, my muscles were tense and guarding the spine but i exhaled slowly and let my spine become long with the weight of my legs. It felt amazing, and then i felt a couple of cracks and a subtle pop--it wasn't anything violent or extreme, just a pop. And before i knew it, i felt as if the whole rail of bars was shaking. I didn't realize at first that it was my body, i just turned around expecting to see someone climbing up behind me, shaking the bars, but nobody was there. I turned around, let go, tried to stand, and found that my entire body was convulsing--that is the only word i can think of to describe it--but it was a slow sort of twitching, not a violent convulsion like an epileptic. It was WAVY. My legs like rubber bands, all my limbs quivering, my chest, even my upper lip was twitching. I was still able to stand during this, but wondered if it would worsen to the point of collapsing. Once i realized what was happening, i became very scared. I thought i had done something serious to my spine and might need to call an ambulance. But it subsided just enough for me to begin walking slowly over to the other parent who was on the playground with us. I explained to her what had just happened, but as i was telling her, i realized that my back felt 100% better than it has for the past year. By the time i finished describing my experience, everything was back to normal and i felt as if i had released a massive blockage from my spine.

The area now feels clean and fresh. I no longer feel the urge to twist and pop my back, though it had become such a habit that i find myself starting to do it and then i stop myself because i want to just wait and see how it feels if i don't mess with it anymore. I really don't know what happened to me today. Depending on who i talked to about it, i would probably get totally different explanations. I thought i would post this here and ask for some input. I've had full-body trembling experiences before--they happened shortly after i began practicing KY in the 90's. But this was different. It felt more like a full-body orgasm and not in the ecstatic "feel good" way i always thought that would be, but more in terms of the spasms of orgasm rippling through every inch of my body. After it was over, i felt exactly the way i feel after a sexual orgasm.

So does anyone think this had to do with the Kundalini? Can you describe a similar experience?

I have been trying to get at that annoying pressure in my spine for over a year, with no real success. I don't know if this will last or if it will return to the way it was, but today i moved something that needed to be moved. I am curious to discover how this affects the rest of my life, my yoga practice, my psychic abilities or any other area of my life.