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Mulabandha:

Muladhara Chakra and Brahma GranthiThe root (mula) lock moves the earth energy up through the muladhara chakra system connecting above it to the water chakra (swadhistana), while also serving as the valve connecting sky energy or spirit below it to the center of the earth. Mula bandha keeps the energy flowing between the body and the earth in a non-dual direction (neither only up, nor exclusively down), while it is the sushumna which connects the earth energy of embodied existence (at the muladhara) with the unborn formless realm of sky (at the crown of the head). The muladhara chakra is the most important chakra in hatha, kundalini, and tantric yoga as well as the most mysterious. It is where our dormant potential and animal power resides and it is from here the kundalini becomes activated and enters into the central channel (sushumna) activating the super-conscious network. This is not some archaic myth or fantasy, and should not be ignored nor demeaned, but rather its knowledge is essential to success in hatha yoga. Mulabandha is designed to keep this energy flowing in this region.Here it is noteworthy that in yogic literature, the goddess kundalini is pictured as lying dormant in the muladhara chakra in the form of a serpent coiled three and a half times around a lingam. The symbol for this chakra is a downward facing triangle normally, but when the chakra is activated (by an activated kundalini) the triangle reverses upward pointing!