Kundalini.Tantra.by.Satyananda.Saraswati

Sit in siddhasana, siddha yoni asana or padmasana. Close your eyes and practise
khechari mudra. Visualize a lotus flower with a long thin stem extending downward. The
roots of the lotus are white or transparent green. They spread out from mooladhara
chakra. The thin green lotus stem is in your spinal passage. The lotus flower is at
sahasrara, and it is closed like a bud. At the bottom of the bud are a few light green
immature petals. The main petals of the flower are pink with fine red veins. Try to see
this lotus clearly. You visualize it in chidakasha, but you feel it in your body. Exhale and
take your awareness to the root of the lotus at mooladhara. Inhale with ujjayi pranayama
and allow your awareness to rise slowly through the center of the lotus stem, within the
spinal passage. At the end of inhalation, you will reach the closed bud at the top of the
stem. Your ascent will be like that of a caterpillar, climbing up inside the thin stem. Hold
your awareness at sahasrara with the breath retained inside. You are inside the lotus, but
you can also see it from outside. It will begin to open very slowly. As the bud opens out
into a beautiful lotus flower, you will see the yellow pollen-tipped stamens in its
center. Then it will slowly close again, to open again almost immediately. After the lotus
has ceased to open and close, and it remains sealed, then slowly descend through the stem
to mooladhara, drifting down on the wave of your ujjayi exhalation.Remain at
mooladhara for a few seconds, visualizing the roots spreading out in all directions. Then
once again, ascend the stem with ujjayi inhalation. Ascend and descend 11 times and
then end this kriya.
No. 13: Amrit pan (the quaffing of nectar)