In Shambhavi Mudra, Mark Griffin presents a deeply interiorized approach to meditation centered on the activation and stabilization of awareness within the central channel, or sushumna. Rather than treating Shambhavi Mudra as a physical gesture of the eyes or a surface-level yogic technique, he frames it as a comprehensive state of consciousness in which awareness saturates the full vertical axis of the human form—from the base of the spine through the crown and into the expansive field of sahasrara.

The teaching emphasizes stillness, receptivity, and the relinquishment of mechanical effort. Within this quiet interiorization, the spontaneous movement of Shakti becomes perceptible as a subtle current of bliss rising and descending through the central channel. This dynamic integrates the physical body, subtle energetic body, and causal mind while simultaneously opening perception to the supracausal dimension of pure consciousness. The natural vibration of SoHam and the coordinated activity of prana and apana are understood as expressions of a unified continuum of awareness moving through the vertical structure of being.

A distinctive experiential feature of Shambhavi Mudra is the paradoxical coexistence of grounding and expansion. Practitioners often report a gravitational descent into the body and earth even as awareness opens into vast fields of luminosity and emptiness. Griffin associates this condition with the Siddha lineage of Bhagawan Nityananda and Bhagawan Muktananda, where sustained immersion in an awakened sushumna gradually refines perception and stabilizes consciousness across the four bodies.

As attention withdraws from sensory engagement, subtle centers along the central axis begin to illuminate, accompanied by sensations of pressure, bliss, and heightened clarity. Continuity with the subtle mantra SoHam functions as a stabilizing factor, supporting the integration of intensified energetic states and preventing fragmentation of attention.

Ultimately, Shambhavi Mudra is presented as an effortless alignment with Shiva-consciousness. In this condition, the practitioner relinquishes the impulse to control experience and instead becomes a conduit for the reciprocal movements of descending grace and ascending Kundalini. The culmination of practice is the recognition of awareness as boundless space and luminous presence beyond conceptual identity. Within the broader body of Mark Griffin’s teachings, this Intensive offers a precise experiential orientation to the dynamics of Kundalini awakening, meditative stillness, and the progressive realization of the Self.