I am working on an interdisciplinary research at the intersection between clinical psychology and yoga practice as a cultural phenomenon in the Western world.
What I want is to eliminate the confusion and potential for mental suffering from the practice of yoga in the West.
The theme of my research is the experience of the awakening of kundalini in groups of yoga practitioners. The research is qualitative and follows three directions:
a) to prove the existence of the phenomenon for the western clinical psychologist, in order to have a correct understanding.
b) an emphasis on social vulnerability that might occur during the phenomenon (including vulnerability to abuse)
c) A psychodynamic understanding of how yoga practitioners signify this experience.
I am still building a questionnaire and an interview guide and I am trying to integrate the most important dimensions of the psyche (defined in psychology therms) involved in kundalini experience.
