How Kundalini Yoga works with Addiction
At The Anzelmo Wellness Center we have carefully selected various therapies as part of our detox plan and recovery program. These therapies help you on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level, in order to make your transition into a sober lifestyle as easy as possible after your Ibogaine treatment. When a recovering addict opens up new body and mind pathways of thought, emotion and being, new vibrations are created, thus disrupting and decreasing previous addiction memory pathways.
As you remove your old habit — addiction — we want to replace it with new habits: positive and supportive techniques that you will take with you when you leave and start rebuilding your life. Kundalini yoga is one of the classes we offer at the Ibogaine Institute. Our Kundalini instructor, Lily, talks about how Kundalini works:
“We do traditional Kundalini yoga here at the institute, as it was taught by Yogi Bhajan, the spiritual teacher who originally introduced Kundalini Yoga to the United States.”
According to the James McCrae and his blog, Shit Your Ego Says,, “Kundalini is an ancient Sanskrit word that literally means “coiled snake.” In early Eastern religion (long before Buddhism and Hinduism) it was believed that each individual possessed a divine energy at the base of the spine. This energy was thought to be the sacred energy of creation. This energy is something we are born with, but we must make an effort to “uncoil the snake,” thereby putting us in direct contact with the divine. Kundalini Yoga is the practice of awakening our Higher Self and turning potential energy into kinetic energy.”
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You go very deep within your soul
“In Kundalini, we’re always in a meditation process. You go very deep within your soul. You start with a mantra for protection, then we do a small warm up, and then we do the kriya. In Kundalini Yoga a kriya is a series of postures, breath, and sound that affect the body, mind, and spirit simultaneously. It’s a position that is connected to the breath in a certain way. The breath is connected to the brain and the heart and the lungs, so what we are doing is rewiring the brain. You are sending messages to your brain, teaching it to be different through breath, through pranayama breathing.”
“Through Kundalini, you can reprogram your DMT levels. Kundalini works with the DMT that the body naturally produces. You can reach the same places you get to on ayahuasca through Kundalini. I always feel like I am raising my vibration through my own breath.”
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“Being able to put together the thoughts that they’ve had, why they’ve relapsed before. I think that’s what Ibogaine really shows you. Our errors in our life. It brings out of us what’s inside of us. It’s not showing us the path to go, it’s more showing us the mistakes that we’ve made.”
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“We’ve been talking about our pasts here, me and the other patients, clients, and I used to get physical responses, just even talking about drugs. I would get rapid heartbeat, get a little nauseous, feel like I had to go to the bathroom or something, and now I just don’t. It just doesn’t even appeal to me. I’ve spent too much time doing that. I don’t want to stab myself with needles anymore. Making myself bleed everyday. I forgive myself, the past is the past. But in the future, this is a beautiful vessel, it’s an amazing microcosm. I have to take care of it.”
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“I felt like I was reborn. I felt like a new person. I felt that my way I expressed it to people was that I was born, I was reborn at my age. Totally clear head, totally brand new. Just totally…it’s insane what it does. It’s really, it’s a miracle when you do the treatment and you come out of it. You know, the first thing I think is miracle.”
Healing from Within
With Kundalini, we are working on the very cells of the body. We are getting them to vibrate on a higher level. With the breathwork, we get the oxygen levels where they are supposed to be. We are cleansing the body, we are healing the body, the mind, and the soul. Kundalini goes beyond where you would go with regular yoga. It will take you out the space and connect you with the divine, with the source.”
“When Yogi Bhajan, the spiritual teacher who first brought Kundalini to the United States in 1968, the first people he worked with were heroin addicts, and he healed them. That’s how he became famous. Once you can go to that place of peace, you’ve rewired the brain and your body produces its own DMT, and you are able to heal yourself. You are healed because it rewires your brain, so you get to the point where you don’t need anything else to make you feel better. You have the Kundalini glow.”
“We all have energy in our root chakra. Our creative energy. When you want to take it up through the third eye so you can create something, you elevate your energy, your love. That’s the process of creation. You take the energy up the spine. Your spine is your lifeline. As long as you have a healthy spine you are young. If you have a stiff spine and you are old. The main focus of kundalini is breath and the health of the spine, breath and the muscles of the body.”
“So many of the patients here never heard of Kundalini before they came here and they leave loving it. It’s not for everyone, but if you are ready to go inside, it’s for you. Most rehabs just do yoga classes. But here, they want to make sure people have a tool for when they get home. It solves your problems because it works from within. It works with your soul. So if you are okay, everything else is going to be okay. It’s a magical practice.”
Kundalini yoga is a vital step in a 10-part program at The Anzelmo Wellness Center. We have found that this ancient Hindu practice will not only increase vitality but is directly able to re-direct cravings into emotional balance.
How Does Ibogaine Work?
The addiction model of disease describes the condition as chronic due to long-term changes to the reward centers of the brain. When a person takes ibogaine, the drug is converted into a compound called noribogaine, which targets the areas of the brain affected by drug-seeking and addictive behaviors. Noribogaine “rewires” these areas, allowing the brain to restructure itself to a state similar to before addiction was triggered.
