The Ten Bodies
Because your physical system is elaborately unique and specialized, yoga has to be aware of your body’s complex and differentiated systems. Developed from more than five thousand years of physioenergetic experimentation, yoga in all of its forms is powerful yet refined practices that awaken, activate, heal, and amplify your total body.
But part of what Kundalini yoga offers is its sophistication
In Kundalini yoga, however, we’re not just focused on the physical body. in Kundalini Yoga we become aware of and exercise our whole ten-body system. In reality, your physical body is only one-tenth of your total embodied experience.
In a lot of spiritual systems, you’ll see the breakdown of embodiment into three planes of experience (mind-body- spirit).
Still others break it down into five or seven planes of total sensitivity. The sophisticated yogis of this lineage identified ten bodies of experience. Cleanliness, functionality, and utilization on all ten levels creates the most vitalized feeling of living and the most creative, intelligent navigation of the life landscape.
Your ten bodies include:
1. SOUL BODY: The indivisible vibration that is you beyond time and space.
2. NEGATIVE MIND: That which sees possible pitfalls and potholes in the road ahead—protective.
3. POSITIVE MIND: That which sees all the opportunities available to you in any given moment—supportive.
4. NEUTRAL MIND: That which synthesizes all data from the negative and positive minds and gives a directive of action or inaction based on the needs of the soul—your true you.
5. PHYSICAL BODY: That which we know as the physiological, biological beingness.
6. ARCLINE : The baseline auric structure that holds incarnational patterns and blessings. It runs from earlobe to earlobe in both men and women. A second arcline extends from nipple to nipple in women only.
7. AURA: The combined energetic field of your chakras, which are wheels of energy generated by dense crosshairs of nerve fibers and biochemicals, and which have actual location in the physical body.
8. PRANIC BODY: That which holds your life force in the physical form. It is regulated by the breath.
9. SUBTLE BODY: Also known as the ghost’s body. When your physical body perishes, the subtle body and the soul body join together and travel to the next stage of being—whatever that is. The subtle body is attenuated, deeply artistic, and profound.
10. RADIANT BODY: The body that glorifies you, allows you to project into the world, and attracts success and also dispels negativity and darkness wherever you go.
When all ten bodies are running high, connecting to each other, and operating under your conscious control and relationship, this gives you
an eleventh body—the embodiment—the integration into unison
—unified by the harmonics and vibrations of Sound itself.
The 11th Body is powerfully effective, and worth its own journal entry. However, in brief, there is a saying, “As above, so below.”
When you have the 11th body the saying could become, “As with me, so above."