Editing Kundalini yoga (section)

===Hatha yoga===
{{further|Hatha Yoga Pradipika|Yoga-Kundalini Upanishad}}

The ''[[Yoga-Kundalini Upanishad]]'' is a [[syncretism|syncretistic]] yoga text related to the schools of [[Hatha yoga|Hatha]] and [[Mantra]] yoga.<ref>[[Gerald James Larson|Larson, Gerald James]] (2008). ''The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies: Yoga: India's philosophy of meditation''. Motilal Banarsidass. {{ISBN|978-81-208-3349-4}}, p. 476, 615-617</ref>

Other Sanskrit texts treat ''kundalini'' as a technical term in tantric yoga, such as the ''Ṣaṭ-cakra-nirūpana'' and the ''Pādukā-pañcaka''. These were translated in 1919 by [[John Woodroffe]] as ''The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga''. He identifies the process of involution and its techniques in these texts as a particular form of Tantrik ''Laya Yoga''.<ref>Woodroffe, John. "The Serpent Power". Illustrations, Tables, Highlights and Images by Veeraswamy Krishnara. p. 11. Accessed 25 October 2015. http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/Serpent%20Power%20Complete.pdf "when dealing with the practice of Yoga, the rule is that things dissolve into that from which they originate, and the Yoga process here described is such dissolution (Laya)"</ref>

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The ''Yoga-Kundalini Upanishad'' consists of three short chapters; it begins by stating that Chitta (consciousness) is controlled by Prana, and it is controlled by moderate food, postures and ''Shakti-Chala'' (I.1-2). Verses I.3-6 explain the concepts of moderate food and concept, and verse I.7 introduces ''Kundalini'' as the name of the ''Shakti'' under discussion:
:I.7. The Sakti (mentioned above) is only Kundalini. A wise man should take it up from its place (Viz., the navel, upwards) to the middle of the eyebrows. This is called Sakti-Chala. 
:I.8. In practising it, two things are necessary, Sarasvati-Chalana and the restraint of Prana (breath). Then through practice, Kundalini (which is spiral) becomes straightened.<ref>trans. K. Narayanasvami Aiyar [http://www.astrojyoti.com/yogakundaliniupanishad.htm Astrojyoti.com], based on a translation first published in 1891 in ''The Theosophist'', Volume 12.</ref>