The Serpent Power: Being the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana and Paduka-Pancaka

Woodroffe s The Serpent Power The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga, is a source for many modern Western adaptations of Kundalini yoga practice. It is a philosophically sophisticated commentary on, and translation of, the Satcakra-nirupana ( Description of and Investigation into the Six Bodily Centres ) of Purnananda (dated c. AD 1550) and the Paduka-pancaka ( Five-fold Footstool of the Guru ). The term Serpent Power refers to the Kundalini, an energy said to be released within an individual by meditation techniques.