Waking Energy 7 Timeless Practices Designed to Reboot Your Body and Unleash Your Potential

1. In the Easy Pose, as you inhale your breath to three-quarters full, sweep your arms up overhead
and link your thumbs together, with your other fingers pointing straight up to the sky. Retain the
breath, and as you do, squeeze the perineum, then draw the abdominal muscles in toward the
spine and finally, drop the chin down toward the chest.
2. Deeply sense into the energy of your root, reaching down deep into the earth below, and your
arms reaching up to connect to heaven energy. As you hold your breath, become even more
attuned to the powerful oppositional energies vibrating inside you, as well as the circulation of
prana throughout your body, delivering nourishment to every cell.
3. Retain your breath as long as you comfortably can, and then as you start to exhale, release the
three locks, starting with the throat, lifting the chin and leveling the gaze, release the belly and the
root. Imagine that the air has suddenly become thick honey, as you press your arms down around
you, slowly, with control, bringing your hands into gyan mudra where you will return to your
natural breath and meditate for a few minutes.
Kundalini Hand Positions
Jupiter Hand (gyan mudra): Touch the tip of the index finger to the tip of the thumb, leaving the
remaining three fingers straight but relaxed, and rest the wrist on the knees.
Root Mudra: Interlace your fingers and press the thumb tips firmly together.
Prayer Position (anjali mudra): Press your palms together, fingers pointing upward, in front of your
chest.
Open-Heart Mudra: Press your pinky fingers and thumbs and heels of the hands against one another
and open the other fingers like the thousand-petal lotus.
The Practice
Charming the Snake: Seated Practice
Sufist Grind
The Sufist Grind awakens the first and second chakras, lubricates the spine, nourishes and recharges
the kidneys and adrenals, stimulates digestive “fire,” necessary for good appetite and metabolic
function, and massages and detoxifies internal organs. This exercise is so named because, thinking of
your upper body as the pestle and your lower pelvis as the bowl, or mortar, you are “grinding” away
at illusion. I prefer to call it a circle, because it feels smoother and silkier to me, like a snake’s skin.
As we are embarking on our warriors-of-love path in this practice, I would like to set the tone with
the word “circle”; you are circling around your own globe, your own inner world, and starting the
journey here in this new practice of kundalini.