Question:
I have practiced yoga for 4 years, somewhat daily, and attend a 1 1/2hour class three times weekly, and have enjoyed good results. However, inthe same time, my skin ailment, excema, seemed to increase in intensity,duration, and size.

Now, it's been said that the excema symptoms will increase with age,and aging is the only thing that has stayed constant with my yogapractice.

This leads me to several questions . . .

Has my body become more sensitive to foods and environment with myyoga practice?

Has my body, based on years of smoking and drinking and eating mostlywrong foods, "fed up" and is now rebelling or is this a part of purificationprocess, where toxins are passing out of my body?

Can it be some sort of Kundalini Awakening?

Answer: Toxins and the like are gross physical things. Kundalini is not.Kundalini is the Healer. Before She rises in me She beats a path upwardin limited manifestations of Her power. Cures all problems/roadblocks toHer upward ascent. She does this on average about 25 minutes inpreparation for a final ascent in one large wave. Although we hear ofhow people raise Kundalini and She causes problems, basically you areprotected from Her in several ways. It is like if you had to pull remove3 locks to a gun cabinate to get to the guns. Not going to be anaccident most likely.

Unless you do pranayama and have been for a long time to purify yournadis it is unlikely you are going to poking Her with any sticks. Inaddition there are 3 grandhis that are blocks to Her ascent (hold ustrapped in maya) and special techniques that call for greatconcentration and skill for Her to arise. Kundalini is the body heatresidual. From raising Kundalini metabolism increases but other thingsare so much more dramatic that this little side effect for the most partgoes unnoticed.

Also, there is another association of the idea of 'raising Kundalini'.Worldly people only have their awareness caught in the first 3 chakrasand sometimes in the heart chakra (concern for another) From nadipurification and sadhana and body purification and concentration,awareness very slowly ascends making its natural resting place/gives ita new home. So for example when we are ages 1-6 the whole thing 'Iremember mommy!' Security of the vast array of information from thesenses frightens young children and they seek things that do not changefor security. This is the muladhara chakra - memory/earth/form/structureand the differentiation of forms and structures is reality. 6-12 'WHYmommy Why??!' Reason becomes the god at this age. The SvadhistanaChakra - water. Reason runs over memory. Our awareness dwells primarilyin the 2'nd chakra. At ages 1-18 the bull headed teenager tells us 'I amnot doing that. You can't make me. I am moving out.' The teenagerdiscovers will or personal power and goes crashing through the worldlike a bull in a China shop.