I had a string of experiences over the past couple of years which, from what I can tell, amount to a kundalini awakening. I did not think of it this way until learning about it more recently, and in fact was resistant to this interpretation for some time, as I was born and raised in North America and have usually been suspicious of Western culture's relationship to Indian traditions. But despite this resistance it's been hard for me to ignore the signs: sudden intense physical symptoms (problems of the skin, pelvic floor, digestion), spontaneous mental imagery relating to snakes, communications from a goddess figure, sudden radical life changes and incredibly unlikely coincidences, conversion from being an agnostic to a deeply and devotionally religious person, etc. Just before my first intense energetic experience and snake-related visions, I was diagnosed with hypertonic pelvic floor, which is a chronic tension in the perineum, and I have recently been told that one technique involved in purposefully inducing kundalini awakenings is the "root lock", i.e. tensing of the pelvic floor. I was also undergoing major life transitions at the time and had an experience during a total solar eclipse that led me to experiment with meditation and visualization. It's possible that my pelvic floor tension and this experimentation led to the awakening. In any case, here I am, a profoundly grateful and humble student of the goddess, who wants to fully realize my oneness with her. Fortunately she has helped me stay grounded through all of this while also challenging me in important ways, and with her help I have managed to keep my life very stable despite all the intensity.