kundalinin.

1897 Open Court XI. 256 The pithecanthropic mummery, colloquially called monkey-business, connected with closing one nostril and breathing through the other and then of closing both till the compressed columnar air-current is imagined to bump against the triangular fundament of Kundalini.

1915 C. R. Jain Key of Knowl. ix. 666 Withdrawing his senses, mind, and intellect from the outside, he turns the full concentrated current of will on itself, sets the ahankara ablaze with the fire of Kundalini (the serpent force, or Will).

1927 V. G. Rele Mysterious Kundalini 39 Normally, this kundalini is in Yoga-nidra or sleeping the sleep of trance.

1962 A. Huxley Island v. 52 She would secretly retire to do breathing exercises, practice concentration and raise Kundalini.

1988 Yoga & Health Apr. 23/3 Asanas are practised..to stimulate the nervous system which can in turn tone up all the body organs and raise kundalini.

1994 G. Nicholson Everything & More xiv. 112 She tried yoga, but she soon realized she was looking for something far more concrete and earthbound than any kundalini.

1960 J. Hewitt Teach Yourself Yoga 16 The mysterious Kundalini Yoga..sets out to awaken what is symbolically described as Kundalini, ‘the coiled serpent’ said to sleep at the base of the spine.

1977 Time Out 17 June 76/3 (advt.) Kundalini Yoga is a highly evolved science of revitalising the physical body, developing the powers of the mind and awakening the highest spiritual consciousness that man can realise.