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

in that moment. You’ll consciously continue to open your heart, your body, and your mind so that the
best of your transformational efforts may occur.
To energize, you’ll now breathe balancing emotions into your meridians, tissues, and organs. On
this step, you’ll harmonize your energy by replacing out-of-balance emotions with purely positive
emotions and mind states, bringing more light into the body. Energizing is a kind of cathartic, etheric
cellular reprogramming process in which you literally change the internal dialogue that has been
running in your head and contributing to held tension in your body. This is when you take your power
back once again.
You’ll purposefully breathe the in-balance emotions associated with the meridian pair your pose
is targeting, including compassion, peace, and love through your meridian channels and into your
every cell as you continue to melt and release. Each time you exhale, you’ll let go of anger, stress, and
tension, and everything else you no longer need, in a process comparable to clearing clutter from your
shelves. The key difference is that new prana will begin to circulate throughout your body at this
point, and you can harness it intentionally to reprogram your cells for optimal wellness. Just continue
to consciously breathe the higher vibration of balanced emotions into your meridians, organs, and
chakras.
With each breath, as you replace the old with the new, the shadow with the light, you’ll have
created greater balance in your body and mind, and you’ll experience the harmony of waking energy!
In this last segment of the pose, you’ll want to tune into your subtle body and feel the sensations of the
fresh prana flowing. Even if you don’t feel anything special the first time you practice, after a few
sessions, you will.
Step 7: Rise and Return
When you’re ready, you’ll perform your final step, rise and return. After a good minute or more spent
energizing your body, you’ll exit the pose very carefully, with as little muscular effort as possible.
Before you do, however, take a moment to observe the changes that have occurred in your body while
you held the pose. Simply tune in to how you are feeling now compared to how you felt when you first
started.
Of course, what you perceive may be subtle or significant. Moving in and out of a pose is just as
important as surrendering in one. Every transition needs to be done with extreme presence and care,
so move slowly and listen to your body. Treat yourself like a newborn baby, an emerging being who
needs love, attention, and tenderness. Slowly disengage from the pose, moving as if you were asleep,
keeping your eyes closed and making sure that that your head is the last thing to rise—always exerting
minimal muscular effort. Unless otherwise indicated in my instructions, once you’ve risen out of a
pose, you’ll come into the Child’s Pose, returning “home” where you can rest and consciously gather
all the prana you awakened in the pose, harnessing and directing this energy into your kidneys and
adrenal glands to replenish and restore them.
Rise and return is the step where you have the option, if you feel the need to bring life back into
your limbs before moving into the Child’s Pose, to do a little self-massage. You may use the fistthumping
technique from the Door-of-Life Love Tap exercise in Chapter 4.
After rising from any pose, slowly and gently extend your legs in front of you. To move prana