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The concept of the coiled, snakelike kuṇḍalinī, who awakens and rises upwards during yoga, is intrinsically connected with yoga in the modern and premodern periods. The awakening and forceful rising upwards of kuṇḍalinī, by which she breaks through the energetic vortices (cakras) and locks (granthis), is definitional of haṭhayoga: the yoga of force.