12-08-2014, 02:31 PM
I have studied Kriya Yoga through books and online material. It is basically the art of moving Prana or Vital Energy through the base of spine to the top of the head and back again through several different techniques. I haven't seen any teachers that have the same system as one another. The most famous teacher of Kriya Yoga was Yogananda who founded the Self realization Fellowship who received it through a linage going back to an immortal saint called Babaji.
However the problem with this after looking into the SRF there seems to have been an issue with different people going off in different directions or the splitting the linage as Yogananda said the teaching was the linage rather than a person, although many seem to claim this linage. Even the Babaji has different claims, a lot of people say he came in the 1980s and so on but it gets rather muddy rather quickly.
My gut feeling tells me that there isn't any true linage at least openly that teaches Kriya or Kundalini Yoga directly but simply through different eastern teachers and the offshoots of there Ashrams/Teachings. It does seem to be a decent system but i would recommend finding a good teacher in Yoga first because of the issue that raising kundalini can have. However truth be told i would say any True Yoga is Kriya Yoga and or Kundalini Yoga. The system of teachings gets a little lost in the west with people confusion Hatha Yoga as Yoga which is really just asanas or body postures, the true system of Yoga is always more or less universally the same from what i have studied. The raising of Shakti to meet Shiva through the chakras.
Hope that helps you out.
However the problem with this after looking into the SRF there seems to have been an issue with different people going off in different directions or the splitting the linage as Yogananda said the teaching was the linage rather than a person, although many seem to claim this linage. Even the Babaji has different claims, a lot of people say he came in the 1980s and so on but it gets rather muddy rather quickly.
My gut feeling tells me that there isn't any true linage at least openly that teaches Kriya or Kundalini Yoga directly but simply through different eastern teachers and the offshoots of there Ashrams/Teachings. It does seem to be a decent system but i would recommend finding a good teacher in Yoga first because of the issue that raising kundalini can have. However truth be told i would say any True Yoga is Kriya Yoga and or Kundalini Yoga. The system of teachings gets a little lost in the west with people confusion Hatha Yoga as Yoga which is really just asanas or body postures, the true system of Yoga is always more or less universally the same from what i have studied. The raising of Shakti to meet Shiva through the chakras.
Hope that helps you out.