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

colors that glow inside you as well as each of the emotional resonances associated with the chakras,
creating a kind of internal rainbow of harmony that radiates out into the world, acting as an auric
shield of strength, protection, and blessings.
1. Find a comfortable seat, letting your “sit bones” sink deeply into your meditation cushion. Then
lift and lengthen the spine, gently deepening your abdominals in and back, to provide a strong
central support for your torso. Relax your arms down by your sides, bringing your palms to rest
on top of your knees, and close your eyes.
2. Feel your strong legs release completely into the floor, which is rising up to meet them. They are
completely balanced and at ease, meeting in perfect harmony and effortlessness.
3. Bring your hands together in front of your heart, uniting head and heart, and call in your spirit.
Think of what you wish to manifest in this moment, not just here in your practice, but in your life.
Breathe into your intention. Inhale and exhale for several rounds until you intuitively know that
you have come to own your intention, and then to seal it, bow your head to your heart.
4. Inhale deeply, and send your intention out into the universe, acknowledging your place and your
power as a part of the world and all things, by chanting “A-U-M, Ommmmm.” Once you’ve
finished the sound, bathe in its healing current and let the vibration of the sound reverberate
inside your every cell, infusing your cells with the enlivening frequency of the earth’s power
itself.
5. Bring your hands into gyan mudra, and with eyes closed start to connect to your breath and
where it lives inside your body. Wake your inner senses with anapanasati. Take a tour of your
body, starting with the crown and working your way down to your feet, and then returning up the
back of your body to the crown. Seek out the areas of greatest sensation and send your breath into
them. Inhale new life into your every cell, and as you exhale let go of what you no longer need.
6. Summon images of your seven chakras: muladhara, your Root Chakra, a brilliant ruby;
svadhishthana, your Sacral Chakra, a bright orange; manipura, your Solar Plexus Chakra,
sunshine yellow; anahata, your Heart Chakra, a deep emerald; vishuddha, your Throat Chakra, a
rich turquoise; ajna, your Third-Eye Chakra, a deep indigo purple; and sahasrara, your Crown
Chakra, a pure, crystalline white. See them all spinning inside you, and with your breath start to
breathe into all seven, letting them know you are now present and want to speak with them.
7. Start with the first chakra. As you inhale, send your breath down into your Root Chakra and see it
take on the color of your root, a brilliant, rich ruby red. At the same time, feel the higher
emotional resonance of the Root Chakra merging with its inherent color. For the root, feel
security, safety, and grounding. Feel your own strength and rootedness as you direct your breath
into the epicenter of the chakra. As you exhale, watch your breath misting like the sea spray when
an ocean wave crashes against rocks on the shore, gently expelling stagnant prana out of the
chakra. As the prana exits out of the back of your spine and flows down into the earth, it resets
the chakra’s harmonious, natural way of being, leaving it spinning like a windmill in the wind.
8. As you inhale again, see the ruby red energy of your Root Chakra rising. Consciously draw it up
your spine through the sushumna nadi, your central channel, like a red ribbon of cleansing energy
traveling through all seven chakras until it reaches the crown and explodes with your exhalation
—your very own fireworks display, releasing shimmering red light down and around your body.
It becomes an aura of protective energy that falls and flows in streams like mini-waterfalls all
around your body, until it is absorbed into the earth, taking with it anything that no longer serves