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

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turned down an invitation to appear at Rancho La Puerta, convinced I couldn’t survive it. Lo and behold, at a friend’s recommendation, I found myself on another silent meditation retreat, just weeks afterward, at a location not more than two hours from Tecate, at the sister site to Rancho La Puerta. Walking out the front door of my casita at sunrise, I found myself the object of a cruel cosmic joke. As I was staring out at the very same mountain range and inhaling the very same intoxicating scents as in Tecate, my mother suddenly appeared before me. Rising to my throat at rocket speed, grief wrapped me in its stranglehold, choking me. I was awash in molten hot tears—anguished. Sinking to my knees and sobbing uncontrollably, I looked up at the sky beseechingly and shouted at the top of my lungs, “I can’t possibly endure this!” Later that same day, the universe (or I should say, Mom) arranged an opportunity for me to finally complete my first walking meditation, my labyrinth. She was with me, smiling every step of the way, and I could hear her voice. “See, just look how exquisite! Look at that magnificent rock there, and that gorgeous, delicate little fern growing out of it. Oh my God, the spirals! And oh wow—look at you, my angel, out of all the spirals here you are the most beautiful one.” Now We May Begin There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. —LOUIS L’AMOUR This may appear to be the end of our journey together, but that’s just an illusion. This is actually the beginning. It may feel as though we’re saying good-bye, but really this is just, “See you soon.” And the most exciting part? It’s the start of your solo flight. I encourage you, a baby bird being pushed out of its mama’s nest to test its wings, to use nature as your guide and take flight, relishing this sacred meeting of yourself. Trust the wisdom of your body. Listen to the voice of your soul. Now that you truly know yourself in the new way, trust is really all you need. Everything else will fall into place around you like tiny magnetized metal flecks flying toward a magnet. Believe that what you seek is seeking you. That radiant, gorgeous, loving font of boundless energy? That timeless, joyful child? That sparkling, effervescent essence? That bright light?
practice menu: seven ways in seven days Making It Your Own Monday (Yang) Awaken and Play: Love Thyself Unleash and Transform Your Own Fountain of Youth Empower and Flow Tuesday (Yin) Awaken and Play: Opening the Energy Gates Go Deep, Open, and Energize The Power of Love Moving into Stillness Wednesday (Yang) Unleash and Transform Empower and Flow Thursday (Yin) Awaken and Play: Full Practice Go Deep, Open, and Energize The Power of Love Friday (Yang)
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Dedication For my mother, Jane, who
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About the Publisher
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away any last trace of the pain. In
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true essence, to beauty, love, stre
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you. If you’re tired and depleted
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part one
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caffeine), I was wired—like a roc
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helped, something inside me said th
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inside your own sacred vessel. And
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alancing our emotions and cultivati
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energy” is anything but subtle, o
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interpretations of our inner energy
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and tumbling down the side of a hil
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Through this sacred union of opposi
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literally moving into and through t
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inside your associated neural pathw
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conservation results in the best re
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including respiratory illnesses and
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can do this, know that you’ve arr
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When you draw back the bow, you pre
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worthy accomplice, manifesting a qu
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term adverse effects), and we have
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PRACTICE ONE: Awaken and Play: Qigo
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The Way of the World Unseen: By bec
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it about their history and benefits
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We meet ourselves over and over aga
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4 awaken and play: qigong In 1999,
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preservation of our energy to be ab
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Waking the Roots Eyebrow Press Jaw
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of Life. The Root: The Root is loca
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feels like an expanding, somewhat d
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Waking Energy Stance The significan
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Standing Meditation The Standing Me
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1. Bring your hands up to heart hei
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and your body. Once your arms reach
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Although you may not be able to twi
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you do, send your breath into your
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and thus help reinvigorate them, an
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Note: When you are clapping up and
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exhale, think, “I am letting go o
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hold-back, give-it-all-you’ve-got
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1. Standing tall, inhale and join y
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them down, and start to consciously
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stop. Be true to your own power and
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ising up inside me. Kundalini is wh
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talents. You tap into your innate p
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1. Sitting tall, draw your right fo
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game is the same. Root Lock The fir
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constrict the throat area, clamping
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1. Sit in Easy Pose or Zazen Seat,
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3. Lift your head and your upper ba
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you stretch your arms away from you
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The Superhero powerfully strengthen
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exercise), sweep your arms overhead
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your eyes and just absorb the benef
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1. Stand tall with feet slightly wi
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6 your own fountain of youth: the t
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He laughed, flashing a perfect smil
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Years passed, and Bradford reappear
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throughout the body, helping it rid
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doing. This may mean only one of ea
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The second rite connects you more d
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your hips up to a position perfectl
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7 empower and flow: pilates Now it
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about them. Later that same day, I
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through me just as they were given
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1. Lying on your back, stretch your
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3. Inhale and squeeze the buttocks
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dragging your body forward in space
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eaching forward slightly above shou
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working collaboratively with your p
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was suffering. The show had to go o
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eing stuck anywhere I didn’t want
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locked for some reason, prana is pr
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Wherever chi is obstructed, stagnat
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In the descriptions that follow, I
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Chakra: Solar Plexus (manipura) In
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some days, you’ll come into the p
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your position, but in a way that is
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in that moment. You’ll consciousl
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Page 219 and 220: Qigong Standing Meditation Opening
Page 221: Shake It Up to Wake It Up
Page 224: Swimming in the Sea of Chi
Page 229: Upper Torso Rounds
Page 233 and 234: Eyebrow Press Jaw Massage
Page 235 and 236: Tiger-Claws Thymus Tap
Page 237 and 238: Arm Clap and Brush
Page 239: Making Nice
Page 242: Wing-Tip Flex Hip Love
Page 246: Blossoming Open
Page 251 and 252: Kundalini Yoga Sufist Grind
Page 254 and 255: Child’s Pose for the Crown Radian
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Page 259 and 260: Calling Destiny Home
Page 261 and 262: Shaking the Soul Tree
Page 263 and 264: The Tibetan Rites Spinning
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Camel
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Up Dog, Down Dog
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Pilates Hundred Rollup
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Single-Leg Pull Spine Stretch Forwa
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Saw
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Classic Teaser
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Seal
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Child’s Pose Butterfly
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Dragon
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Sleeping Swan
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Eye of the Needle
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Sphinx and Seal
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Inner Smile and Cosmic Healing Soun
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Cosmic Healing Sound for the Kidney
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Cosmic Healing Sound for the Heart
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Cosmic Healing Sound for the Triple
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Blossoming Lotus
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Also by Jennifer Kries Jennifer Kri
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Copyright Photography by Chloe Cres
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