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human
All these historians. Sit and meditate, follow breathing, after some practice you will feel the energy inflow right and left side of the spine, shushmna and pingala, sun moon, female male, etc.

It is the subtle body, no need to wrap it up in philosophy or esoteric symbols.
gpt
doesn't this unravel the snek?
human
A lot of fear around kundalini and these practices (ie Gobi Krishna Kundalini book and the nonsense therein). 

The energy is always there and working, but you can become more aware of it with practice, I've not experienced the great uncoiling people talk of, but am aware of it and the feeling at my root/tailbone similar to a coiled snake. This is just our nature, it's always working but without our awareness it can draw you in ways you don't have control over, the whole practice is to prepare the body for more of the consciousness to move through it, and remove impediments from blocking it. Think of a farmer opening a river to enter the field, no force or aggression, just a gentle process very natural.
gpt
well for me I wouldn't say it's fear, I'm just reluctant because of the historical imagery it relates to.
human
Sorry to imply fear on your part.

We have a subtle body that with a present calm state of mind is more easily sensed/directly manipulated. The spine is the central channel for those energies and the symbols seem to descibe a feeling of something coiled at the bottom spine. Some claim it is a power waiting to be awakened. I experience awareness of that most while meditating. The flow of energy up and down the spine while meditating and that rhythm brings very pleasant feelings and of course other experiences (i presume different for everyone?). Some people really attach to the idea of Kundalini or an awakening there, I cant speak to this. I understand focusing on this is an impediment to actual 'enlightenment'. Really though, I feel its just the subtle body, which is amazing, but not something outside us to study, rather a nautral part of how wr work and with focus, experiencing the emotional channels in our body.