Editing Kundalini (section)

==== Hatha yoga ====

[[File:Late Kundalini Model of Hatha Yoga.svg|thumb|upright=2|Late Kundalini model of Hatha Yoga, as described in the ''[[Hatha Yoga Pradipika]]''. This model contradicts the earlier [[Bindu (symbol)|Bindu]] model in the same text.<ref name="Mallinson2">{{cite book | last1=Mallinson | first1=James |author1-link=James Mallinson (author) |last2=Singleton |first2=Mark |author2-link=Mark Singleton (yoga teacher) | title=[[Roots of Yoga]] | publisher=Penguin Books | year=2017 | isbn=978-0-241-25304-5 | oclc=928480104 |pages=32, 180–181}}</ref>]]

According to the ''[[Gorakṣaśataka]]'', or "Hundred Verses of Goraksa", [[hatha yoga]] practices such as the mudras [[mula bandha]], uddiyana bandha, and [[Jalandhara Bandha|jalandhara bandha]],  and the [[pranayama]] practice of [[kumbhaka]] can awaken Kundalini.<ref name="White2">{{cite book |last1=White |first1=David Gordon |author-link=David Gordon White |title=Yoga in Practice |date=2012 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=978-0-691-14085-8 |pages=2, 268–270}}</ref> Another hatha yoga text, the ''[[Khecarīvidyā]]'', states that [[khechari mudra]] enables one to raise Kundalini and access the stores of [[amrita]] in the head, which subsequently flood the body.<ref name="Mallinson3">{{cite book |last1=Mallinson |first1=James |author-link=James Mallinson (author) |title=The Khecarividya of Adinatha: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of an Early Text of Hathayoga |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-39115-3 |page=29}}</ref>