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

In the descriptions that follow, I’ll start by explaining the ideal pose and give modifications with
props, so that you can make the pose more accessible to your body and situate yourself in the most
advantageous starting position to derive the greatest benefits.
The Meridian–Organ Pairs: Anatomy, Related Chakras, and
Emotions
As you develop friendships with the individual poses, you’ll enter them knowing their meridian and
organ associations, and on some occasions you may choose to follow a sequence of poses designed to
alleviate certain issues in the domain of a specific meridian–organ pair. The most important part of
becoming familiar with the emotional energies of the organs is that you’ll be able to link them in your
mind to those of the chakras, balancing them and consciously transforming your own energy, raising
its vibration from the shadow to the light, literally converting it into usable prana for your health and
your life.
Let’s get better acquainted with our chakras and how they specifically relate to the organs and
their corresponding meridian pairs for our yin practice:
Root (muladhara): Kidney, urinary bladder, and small-intestine meridians (relating to elimination)
Sacral (svadishthana): Kidney, urinary bladder, and small-intestine meridians (relating to sexual and
reproductive function)
Solar Plexus (manipura): Stomach, spleen, liver, and gallbladder meridians (relating to digestion)
Heart (anahata): Heart and pericardium meridians
Throat (visshudha): Lung and large-intestine meridians (relating to respiration and energy and
physical elimination)
Third Eye (ajna): Governing Vessel and urinary bladder meridians
Crown (sahasara): Connected to the Conception Vessel and all meridians
Note that in each of the upcoming descriptions for your meridians, there are two bilateral
branches of each (whether a single-entity organ like the liver or a double entity like your kidneys) that
mirror one another running along the right and left sides of the body.
Lung (Yin), Large Intestine (Yang)
Chakra: Throat (visshudha)
In balance: Happiness, courage
Shadow emotions: Sadness, grief
The lung meridian starts in the center of the body and travels down into the large intestine before
making an upward turn, running directly through the diaphragm and into the lungs, across the front of