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

PRACTICE ONE: Awaken and Play: Qigong
As day breaks, you’ll begin with the yin-yang balance of qigong, Awaken and Play. Like a child again,
you’ll start to explore yourself and the world around you. After starting with Opening the Energy
Gates, where you’ll learn how to skillfully orchestrate the interplay between your body’s own energy
and the bounty of nature, the vast “energy fields” of heaven and earth you can use to calm and ground
your energies and create balance inside, you’ll move on to a sensual, playful, energy dance called
Love Thyself, a self-massage in which you visit every single inch of your beautiful body. You’ll move
more slowly and have the opportunity to truly understand what it means to “discover the chi” (qigong
means “energy mastery” or “direct the energy”) and then how to move it through the stages of chi
cultivation.
PRACTICE TWO: Unleash and Transform: Kundalini Yoga
Moving into late morning, you’ll continue along the path with the driving yang pulse of the kundaliniinspired
Unleash and Transform, where you will meet your inner commitment and fire. As you stoke
it, pushing past the limits of the mind, you’ll strengthen the lungs and the diaphragm, toning your entire
body, and making your spine more flexible, simultaneously stimulating and balancing your chakra and
endocrine systems.
PRACTICE THREE: Your Own Fountain of Youth: The Tibetan Rites
Then, rising to high noon with Your Own Fountain of Youth, the Tibetan Rites, you will spin with the
earth herself, learning to tune your chakra system in another percussive, fiery, yang modality as it
balances and harmonizes the chakra and vestibular system, increasing your overall dynamic strength,
flexibility, and spatial power.
PRACTICE FOUR: Empower and Flow: Pilates
In the early afternoon, you’ll progress to Empower and Flow, the Pilates practice, with its graceful,
flowing yang pulse. It will help you to defy gravity and strengthen your “powerhouse”—the muscles
of your trunk—with special emphasis on your abdominals and back, dramatically enhancing your
overall muscular strength and stamina, flexibility, coordination and balance, and ease of movement as
it activates your lymphatic system. You’ll find your true core power as you “meet yourself on the
mat.”