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

with your head and your back resting comfortably into the floor.
3. Once you choose your preferred position, establish a focused gaze on a point in front of you,
begin the Breath of Fire, and continue for up to three minutes. If you can, once you establish a
healthy rhythm in your breathing, layer Sat Nam into your breathing, inhaling Sat and exhaling
Nam.
4. After you complete your three minutes, rise up carefully, sitting on the heels (or coming into Easy
Pose), inhale, and retain the breath, squeezing your perineum in the Root Lock as you bring your
hands into Root Mudra. Right away you will feel on some indescribable, subtle level a clear
connection between the awareness of your perineum and sexual organs and the exact energy that
your hands in this special configuration are rendering. Like the resonance of a bell, I promise you
will feel the vibratory, relational connection of your Root and your actual hands. Root Mudra
makes you feel a deep and instant connection to the earth.
5. Release the hands onto the knees, palms face down, and meditate on your beautiful liver for a
minute, letting go of anger and ushering in love and empathy for yourself.
Goddess Rolls
Goddess Rolls is an instant energizer! If you have time to do only one exercise in the morning to feel
awake and alive, this is the one to do. It activates the area below your navel center that houses your
life force, massages the spine, the kidneys, and adrenals, and opens the hips, turning stored tensions
into creative inspiration and balancing the first and second chakras.
1. Sitting tall, bend your knees wide out to the side in a butterfly shape and draw your feet in,
approximately six inches away from your groin, holding onto your lower shins at the ankles, and
bring the soles of the feet to touch (the fronts of the feet will separate slightly as you move).
2. Round the spine forward over your legs and feet, and as you inhale, like a child on the
playground, rock all the way back onto your spine, just up to the top of the shoulder blades and
before you come up onto the neck; as you exhale, rock forward with some jolly momentum and
allow your head to naturally fall as close to your feet as possible.
3. Inhale as you rock back and exhale as you round forward, pressing your elbows into the inner
line of the legs to gently push the backs of the knees down into the floor in the butterfly position,
progressively stretching the groin muscles open more and more each time you rock and roll.
4. Eventually, you will become so open, free, and flexible that your head will touch in between the
soles of your feet, coming to nestle there for a second or two as your body rounds forward.
5. Repeat twenty-one times. After your last repetition, come into Easy Pose and bring your hands
into gyan mudra with your eyes turned up to gaze at your third eye, and meditate for a few
breaths.
Reaching Across Space and Time
Nothing builds your courage, will, and determination like Reaching Across Space and Time. When