Sushumna Nadi, the Kundalini River

Whenever we talk about Tantra, we talk not only about techniques and body practices of direct intervention, such as Tantric massage, or even about the philosophy that addresses daily practices that are in direct contact with our actions, feelings and thoughts.

We also speak of getting in touch with an energy that is not as dense as the physical body and its vital organs, and not as subtle as the energy body, or more at the soul and spirit level.

When we talk about Tantra we also talk about the flow of vital energy, healthy free orgone energy through the body and into the body in the beneficial impulse of life. Freud's theories of neurosis underpinned Reich's research into the discovery of orgone energy.

Reich, considered the black sheep of psychoanalysis, believed that trauma and blockages impeded the free flow of vital energy in the body, developing diseases and physical and mental imbalances. He also stated that orgone energy is in constant motion (like nature itself and its cycles) and that it even acts and influences the formation of time.

For Reich, a positive orgone state is present in expansive, happy, solar, humid, and warm situations, while negative orgone appears in its turn in rigid, contracted, dark, dry, and cold situations.

The word Nadi comes from the root Nãd, which means river, stream or stream, and which are the channels through which your life force circulates in the subtle body. In the realm of density, in the physical body, they can be compared to the circulatory system. We have in the body two blood circulatory systems, the arterial and the venous, which in comparison to the subtle energy body of the Nadis are Ida Nadi and Pingala Nadi.

These two systems of Nadis as well as the circulatory system have their distinct functions. While Ida Nadi carries the Yin force, of feminine energy, composed of the elements of water and earth, it is lunar, maternal, internal and rests giving form to the being, Pingala Nadi is its opposite complementary pole of Yang, masculine force, composed of the fire elements. and air, it is solar, paternal, external, based on action and doing.

While Pingala sows the earth, Ida hopes to blossom. Life happens in this pulse at all times, either in a subtle way or in a material way. And just as in the field of physicality both circulatory systems maintain the balance of a single physical body, this is also reflected in the field of the subtle.

This dual principle is within and without us, but united by a fundamental complement that just as in the dense field, both circulatory systems are united by the physical body, in the subtle field of vital flow energy it is manifested by Sushumna Nadi.

Sushumna Nadi is the main energy channel in the body and runs from the base of the spine to the top of the head. Not by chance, our physical anatomy is arranged in this duality with two arms, two legs, two ears, two eyes. But if you look closely, we have centered along the spine the genital, the navel and the mouth, which are key channels for Sushumna Nadi.

This channel is responsible for charging and elevating the Kundalini energy, our primal and vital evolutionary force, through Tantra, meditation and even Yoga practices. It is through this channel that the subtle vital energy of the body flows through the primary channel of the chakras, activating our superior internal alignment, away from the imbalances proposed by current life and its great challenges.

When our Yin and Yang, Ida and Pingula, masculine and feminine energy poles are in balance and balanced, Sushumna Nadi opens and the vital energy, the Kundalini force flows freely, making our life eternal flow and rupture.

Moving towards the natural movement process is the purpose of Tantra and life force. Just as a blocked vein or artery causes damage to the physical body, blocked energy channels and vital flow can damage the different levels of bodies that make up our existence, equally causing damage to the physical body in its form of existing and remaining in the middle and in the environment. space in which it operates.

Tantra teaches you to be a river, and to be a river is to be fluid, to take life wherever you go, to have your own form and your own intent.