This is why I say i-Lock instead of root lock. ‘Root’ can get misinterpreted by people, whereas lowercase ‘i’ has no concrete associations attached to it.

That said, it is helpful to engage your pelvic floor muscles while first learning to practice this technique. After that you can subtly let them go with a belly breath (while simultaneously maintaining your focus of upward energy.)

Interestingly, if you squeeze your ‘i-Lock’ correctly, energy will rocket up your spine, blow past your brain stem, and explode in an incredible flurry of orgasmic colors and sensations in the center of your brain. This is also known as an “implosive orgasm” or “Kundalini”.

It’s a wild and beautiful experience that is well-worth seeking.

And hence the lowercase i in ‘i-Lock’. The tiny dot hovering above the body of the i symbolically represents your pineal gland — the important, pea-sized endocrine gland in the middle of your skull that gets bombarded with this “Kundalini” energy and induces the “flurry of orgasmic colors and sensations”.

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Uddiyana Bandha (c-Lock)

Imagine you have a garden hose directly connected to an abundant reservoir, meaning water is flowing through it effortlessly and incessantly. Woohoo!

Now what happens when you step on that garden hose? Well — though it’s technically still connected to its source — water will trickle instead of cascade. Oh no!

This is a great metaphor for what can happen in your body.

A tube that is bent or restricted in any way will have less substance moving through it, or will require a lot more pressure to get things flowing properly. If you have fully dilated pipes, on the other hand, you won’t need almost any pump system for free-flow to occur; it will happen without any extra help.

Ideally, your spinal cord exists like this — as a kink-free cord from bottom to top. That means zero blockages from your pineal gland, pituitary gland and medulla oblongata all the way down to your pelvic floor, anus and gonads.

Realistically, due to the physical and emotional traumas you’ve incurred in this and prior lifetimes, it’s probably not very kink-free. Instead the more likely scenario is that it’s currently a knotted mess of tangled wires and laggy connections.

This is where ‘c-Lock’ comes in handy. It is phenomenal for improving your posture — aka straightening out your spine — so that energy can circulate more easily.

The technique is simple: just level your pelvis by drawing your belly button backwards, lengthen your spine, and slightly drop your chin. Altogether, this motion will create a c-shaped energy curve in your torso.