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

Shaking the Soul Tree
Shaking the Soul Tree resets the entire nervous system and strengthens the arms, shoulders, and
abdominals. It washes your psyche and system clean of sadness and heartache and replaces them with
clear vision, deep insight, wisdom, and prodigious inner strength and calm. This kriya will give you
nerves of steel, so that you can rise to any occasion.
This is another exercise where you might want to abandon ship about thirty seconds in. Do not
quit! The rewards are limitless. Not only are you strengthening your will, commitment, and
determination, but you are burning through old, heavy, hardwired emotional programming as well as
newly acquired stresses and upsets. This exercise has the power to help heal broken hearts and
devastating disappointments. Keep going, and when you are finished, I assure you, you will feel a
thousand pounds lighter in body, mind, and spirit.
1. Standing tall with feet slightly wider than hip-width apart, bring your arms up above your head to
form a narrow V shape.
2. Keeping the arms strong and straight, but the wrists and hands soft, with the palms facing one
another, start to flap the hands vigorously in the air in a back-and-forth motion, so that they look
like the highest branches of a tree being whipped around by ferocious storm winds.
3. Rather than performing the Breath of Fire here, you will do Long Deep Breathing and concentrate
on shaking the arms to keep the hands in constant, deliberate motion.
4. Keep shaking your soul tree for three minutes or even longer if you are so inclined, and when you
have completed your time, bring your hands into Prayer Position overhead and draw the hands
down in front of your heart center and then in front of the midline of the body. Open your hands,
drop them down by your sides, and then reach them around back.
5. Interlace your fingers, trying to keep the palms pressing together if you can, and as you pull the
hands down and back toward your heels and the floor, open your heart to the sky and breathe
deeply, feeling the stretch of your chest, shoulders, and arms, all the muscles you have just
worked so intensely for the past several minutes.
6. After a few breaths, release your arms down by your sides and turn your palms to face front,
which will naturally open your chest and encourage optimal posture. Stand relaxed and tall,
basking in your own energy and radiance.
Abdominal Pumping
Abdominal Pumping activates the abdominal center and the Solar Plexus Chakra (manipura) to
receive powerful life force, stimulating the thousands of nerve plexuses and nadis that emanate from
this center. It prepares your entire breathing apparatus for the work ahead, enhances lung capacity,
loosens and relaxes the diaphragm, flushes the internal organs, infusing them with highly oxygenated
blood and moving stagnant blood and toxins out, boosts overall circulation, and stimulates and
strengthens digestion.