Hi Carson,
I was where you are/were 3-4 years ago.The difference between then and now though is I now have a lot more tools and experience.
Nov 25,06- that's when i ran into problems, 11 months after begginining a yoga practice(jan,06- i had just moved into a new flat too above a a rowdy pub in a kind of deprived area of the city), hatha yoga mainly using bandhas and breath.
It's been a journey on how to recover from that premature kundalini awakening ever since.At least i did'nt know what it was then.Now having read Yogani's lessons it all made sense from that perspective.
There was no stopping me then wheni had worked out what i had discovered.(i.e the joy of yoga). I just had to take it all the way(yes probably an ego thing-we've all got one!!) and tried to progress way too quickly.I thought yoga could only do good,no harm. No idea about self-pacing, of courrse. Really i tried to do it in 11months,( just after quitting a methadone script was when i started- as chance(?) would have it) then the final month things intensified once the automatic yoga started kicking in and then 4 days ensued there followed a rebound. I read somewhere just last week someone caling it Kundalini returning back to the root.This is why one needs the stabilisation over the long-term for changes in your nervous system to be permamnent. Mine was left disoriented and with my histroy of drug addiction , i was probably the classic casualty with just the perfect conditions.. Hence the story drugs and the inappropriate yoga ( for that individual) leads/cn lead to psychosis.
Anyway it is good to see another with a similar background.Our experiences throughout life,the total sum of them,do tend to shape who we are as people definitely in the long run.And yes i think i too have dropped the label referred here as well a few years ago, like a snake's skin- all part of the "I construct dissolving , so we are told.
All the Best,anyways, on your chosen Path.....