Osho’s Kundalini Meditation is a one-hour, four-stage method that moves from cathartic movement into profound stillness. The first three stages unfold with specially composed music created under Osho’s direct guidance; the final stage is in silence, ending with a gong. True to Osho’s approach, the key is effortless allowance: “Allow the shaking; don’t do it.” When the body is permitted to move on its own, energy rises naturally from the feet upward, tension melts, and the inner witness awakens.
Often practiced in the late afternoon to release the day’s accumulated stress, this meditation begins with shaking, blossoms into free dancing, and settles into quiet witnessing before coming to rest in complete silence while lying down. It is a journey from doing to being—letting go of control, letting the body express, and finally sinking into stillness where the meditator can simply watch, without interference, until the concluding gong.
Phase Instructions
First Stage: Shaking
15 minutes. Stand silently and be loose. Allow a natural trembling to arise, feeling energy moving up from your feet. Do not manufacture the movement—let it happen by itself. If shaking begins, gently support it, but don’t will it or force it. Let go everywhere and become the shaking. Eyes may be open or closed.
Second Stage: Dancing
15 minutes. Dance any way you feel. Let the whole body move as it wishes, without choreography or restraint. Follow the energy rather than directing it.
Third Stage: Witnessing in Stillness
15 minutes. Close your eyes and be still, either sitting or standing. Simply witness whatever is happening inside and out—sensations, breath, feelings, sounds—without interference or judgment.
Fourth Stage: Silence Lying Down
15 minutes. Keep your eyes closed, lie down, and be completely still. Rest in silence, remaining unmoving and aware until the gong signals the end.
Core Benefits
- Effortless allowance of natural movement
- Release of accumulated stress
- Transition from doing to being
- Awakening of the inner witness
- Experience of profound stillness
What Osho Said About This Technique
SECOND STAGE Now we have to enter the second stage. Continue deep breathing, and let go of the body. Leave the body to do what it wishes to do. Let go of it. Let it take whatever asanas or postures it wants to take; let it form whatever mudras or gestures it likes. Leave it free to move and shake and whirl as it likes. If it wants to weep let it. Let go of the body completely. Continue deep breathing and let go of the body. Let the body fall down if it wants to fall down. And let it rise again if it wants to rise. And if it wants to dance allow it wholly. Let go of the body absolutely. Let it do whatever it wants to do. Leave it free. Don't impede it even in the least. Cooperate with the body. If it spins, let it.Read the full discourse →
What is dynamic meditation?
In the second step so many things are possible -- something different will happen to each individual. One person will begin to dance, another person will begin to cry. One will become naked, another will begin to jump and yet another will begin to laugh. Anything is possible. Move from within, move totally, and then you can proceed to the third stage. The third stage is reached as a result of an inherent sequence. In the first stage, the body electricity, or you can call it Kundalini, is awakened. It begins to revolve and move. Only then can the body be in a total letgo, not before. Only when the inner movement has begun are outer movements possible. When the catharsis of the second stage is brought to a peak, to a climax, the third ten-minute stage begins. Begin to repeat vigorously the Sufi mantra: Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! The energy…Read the full discourse →
Osho, I want to be rich, I want a high position, and I want a beautiful woman too. What should I do?
A man once placed an advertisement—meant for people like you: “Send two rupees and learn the formula to become a millionaire overnight.” Now who wouldn’t want to become a millionaire for two rupees! Almost a hundred thousand people sent their money. A week later, everyone who had sent the two rupees received the reply: “Do exactly what I did.” He had indeed become a millionaire overnight! One lakh people sent two rupees each—two lakhs landed in his lap. This is how you’re being duped—through gambling, matka. And it’s not only people who run these scams; governments do it too. Governments that claim to be Gandhian run lotteries! A lottery is gambling—a cheat dressed up nicely. But the greedy get hooked: “Just one rupee for a chance at lakhs. If it comes once, that’s enough…!” But what will you do after getting lakhs? There’s a famous story by Tolstoy: A tailor…Read the full discourse →
Osho, in kundalini sadhana there is talk of the ascent and the descent of kundalini—arohan and then avarohan. So this descent—does it mean sinking back into the kund, or is it something else?
In truth, sinking into the kund is neither descending nor ascending. In sinking into the kund, both these notions disappear. It is not going up or coming down; it is dissolving, ending. When a drop falls into the ocean, it neither descends nor ascends. Yes, when a drop dries in the sun’s rays, it ascends toward the sky; and when, cooled in the cloud, it falls to the earth, it descends. But when it reaches the ocean there is no ascending or descending—there is sinking, dissolving, dying. So this talk of going up and coming down—of descent—is meant in quite a different sense. It means that the energy we raise from the kund sometimes has to be sent back to the kund. We do raise this energy, and many times we have to return it as well. There can be many reasons. The chief reason is that often more energy…Read the full discourse →
A friend has asked: Osho, monks, renunciates, yogis have attained meditation by sitting in caves for years. And you say that meditation is possible even in forty minutes. Is meditation really that simple?
After the three stages, the last ten minutes are only waiting. We can do nothing more. A man can only leave himself open for the divine. Can we drag “Him” in? How? Can we grasp “Him” in our fist? At most we can send an invitation and wait. The sun rises outside the door; we can leave our door open and say, “Come in”—we cannot bring the sun in. If the door is open, the sun comes. Note a strange fact. We cannot bring the sun in—but we can keep it out. Close the door. Not only that; we carry a small pair of doors in our pocket—our eyelids. The door may be open, but if we close our eyes, what can the sun do? Close these tiny shutters and the sun is helpless. Negativity we have in abundance. Negatively, we can block the divine; positively, we cannot compel it.…Read the full discourse →
Common Questions
It is often practiced in the late afternoon to release the day's accumulated stress.
The first stage involves shaking, allowing the body to release tension and energy to rise from the feet upward.
The final stage is in complete silence, where the meditator lies down and simply watches until the concluding gong.
The key is effortless allowance—'Allow the shaking; don’t do it', letting the body express naturally.
The first three stages unfold with specially composed music under Osho’s guidance, and the final stage is silent.