Energetic & Kundalini Awakening 

Energetic awakening is simply an outrageous thing. 

It's a huge deal. Whether the process involves kundalini, or simply the embodied deconstruction process, it has a way of demanding to move into the forefront of our life. 

Because the process is so far off the map of "ordinary" in our culture, many people struggle to simply come to terms with what is happening within, and with the upheaval to their life.

Most people need all the support they can get as they navigate this ridiculously difficult and confusing thing.

Often traditional spirituality is unequipped or untrained to help guide people through this process and the different crises that can come up.

This page is dedicated to supporting those who are looking for support in the energetic unfoldment and Kundalini journeys. More articles are planned. 

Your Spiritual Ecosystem

Energetic and Kundalini awakening calls for much more than a single spiritual practice. It calls for more and more of our whole life. It wants more and more of our cooperation and participation in the unfoldment process.

That's why I'd like to encourage this new paradigm - your spiritual ecosystem... instead of simply "my spiritual practice."

This ecosystem is the bundle of practices, nourishing activism, and support people that make up our lives. we build it slowly, according to what's needed and supportive, and according to what Wisdom is calling forth in us. 

In a spiritual ecosystem, different elements work together in a collaborative way. 

• We might receive the same piece of wisdom from several different in several ways, finally helping it to hit home.

• Or we might be able to receive gentleness and kindness from one teacher, while feeling our spiritual warriorship and divine masculine grow in another space. 

• Some spaces will help great pain to move and resolve, while others may help us ground or feel supported by peers.

Together, our ecosystem is a whole, and contributes to our embodied wholeness. 

Our spiritual ecosystem helps us to cultivate a broader sense of wellness, safety, and self-empowerment. 

When we have many places to go and be supported, a shift occurs in the psyche: away from dependence and limitation, and towards a broader, unconditional experience of safety, support, and love. 

This also helps us out of the guru-dynamic and the projection of our own power. We begin to discover and relax into a more fundamental wellbeing. 

When it becomes incumbent upon us to find places to meet our needs, we learn how to listen to wisdom and go towards what is helpful. We can walk away from activities and groups, without drama, that no longer feel alive or super helpful... because we're in relationship with our larger spiritual ecosystem. Whereas with only one practice or one place of support, the psyche begins to project its okayness onto something conditional.

This larger responsibility of tending to our ecosystem (listening, discerning, taking aligned action), is also itself, a huge part of the transformation and unfoldment process. This is one way we say yes and cooperate with divine intelligence.

Here are some examples of what might make up a spiritual eco-system.

• Meditation (of many kinds)

• Awakening peer groups

• Spiritual dyads

• Formal spiritual teacher or mentor

• Spaceholders, support people, and coaches

• Time in nature,  or adventures outside of your routine

• Time-boxed protected rest periods

• Sangha

• Healers of all kinds (including herbalists, bodywork, shamans, and more)

• Sacred dance and authentic movement

• Enneagram work

• I Ching, astrology, and other divinatory systems

• Spiritual Inquiry

• Chanting and singing

• Writing, journaling, art-making

• Yoga

• Breathwork

• And many, many more!

Our spiritual ecosystem will shift as we walk on the path. Things will fall away, and new supports or activities will come into our life. And something at the center will remain unmoved and untouched. 

Letting our ecosystem shift based on what feels right and what's needed is a huge part of how we move forward. Sometimes we need to put ourselves out there and try some new containers, teachers, and communities. Othertimes we may feel to go more inward and deepen in our existing structures.

Learning to listen to what is being asked for, and what wants to come online, is a tremendously important skill on this path.

Essential Learnings in the Deconstruction/Kundalini Process

Coming Soon

The Importance of Containment

Learning about containment is essential on this path of energetic awakening. 

Containment is any time we say: this is a protected space. Meditation is happening now, for 30 minutes. Mindful walking is happening now, for 15 minutes. Retreat is happening now, for 7 days.

Containment involves protection, discipline, willingness, and conscious agreement.

Containment is a way we say yes, with more and more of ourselves, to the process of trusting, letting go, and opening to the divine.

Anytime there is containment there is agreement. We might agree to be in silence, to not move, or stay in the room. Maybe the agreement is to stay on the retreat grounds, to avoid using electronics, to consistently return to the present moment, or to do our absolute best in being with our experience.

Containment is a grace, and a tremendous relief for the parts of ourselves that need extra permission, extra support, extra safety and structure before they can relax, release, and finally trust. 

It's how we grow - how our divinity - our presence - expands to meet new difficulties, and places of struggle. 

Containment can happen with a teacher in 1:1 sessional settings, in group work with community, or individually as a part of a personal practice. 

Because containment isn't forever, its important we do our best to keep to lean into it during the time frame. Especially when its hard, if we do our best to stay in the practice, we can make tremendous strides. 

It may seem as though we  are only discovering a little bit more goodness, a little bit more God, a little bit more of our own fortitude and capacity. But each small step forward helps the psyche to discover some new aspect of possibility. It is an essential component of the path.

Please try playing with containment in many different ways. Organize containment so that it both challenges and stretches you, and leaves you plenty of options for mercy, grace, softening, and working with whatever difficulties arise in a compassionate way. The point of containment isn't to trap you or box you in, but to make space for what has been screaming for so long, to finally be seen and heard. When it gets difficult, softening and learning how to connect with support and resource is an essential skill. 

1:1 Awakening and Kundalini Support

Taylor's Kundalini journey began spontaneously and 'involuntarily', after years of study and practice in Buddhist traditions (both Vipassana and Zen).

He spent a incredibly difficult year relating to the unfolding energy as a mystery physical illness. Over $10,000 and a year later of no answers, he began to explore working with the pain and symptoms therapeutically, and eventually exploring a possible spiritual answer. 

His Zen teacher at the time, and other Buddhist peers didn't understand or have a framework for what was unfolding, and Taylor sought teaching, mentorship, and deepening in many new places. From shamanic healers and mentors to non-dual teachers, he explored dozens and dozens of avenues of support, teaching, healing and integration.

He deepened in many modalities, but especially in movement practices during this time. The overall teaching: how to meet the process with fierce strength, willing compassion, and wild acceptance. 

He worked with teachers regularly intimately, Craig Holliday and Chesaray 1:1 and in group for many many years. 

As the process began to stabilize, the energy to integrate, and the opening of something greater dawning with more clarity, he naturally began to hold space for others 1:1 and in a variety of group spaces. 

This is a big part of his 1:1 work, and a joy and honor to help others to find their way both in the storm and in opening to this fundamental essence that demands (with great love) to be known.