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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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On the scale of challenge, the Chil
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meridian, which run up the inside o
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pot” almost immediately. It’s e
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the sole of your right foot facing
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oll onto the outside of your right
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move, and then work up to a more vi
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higher so that it forms a half V on
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Let go of your life. Breathe and su
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order to do that, we had to become
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help them recapture the spirit of y
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Befriend Your Enemies After gratitu
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Love’s Smiles and Sounds In the W
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willingly want to move on to greene
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Although you can do this practice a
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8. Once you’ve completed three ex
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6. Anchoring yourself by using your
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moment. Each time you exhale, push
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foot more firmly into the ground an
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9. Harness the joy you’ve just cu
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10 moving into stillness: meditatio
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It’s only at night, when we ventu
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QUALITY: Yin SUBTLE ENERGY: Activat
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finished, bathe in its healing curr
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your highest good. 9. Now repeat th
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through. 8. Inhale as you think of
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The labyrinth is the map of life’
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practice menu: seven ways in seven
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Acknowledgments Waking Energy has l
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Qigong Standing Meditation Opening
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Shake It Up to Wake It Up
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Swimming in the Sea of Chi
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Upper Torso Rounds
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Eyebrow Press Jaw Massage
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Tiger-Claws Thymus Tap
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Arm Clap and Brush
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Making Nice
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Wing-Tip Flex Hip Love
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Blossoming Open
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- Page 259 and 260: Calling Destiny Home
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- Page 263 and 264: The Tibetan Rites Spinning
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- Page 271 and 272: Pilates Hundred Rollup
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