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

PRACTICE FIVE: Go Deep, Open, and Energize: Yin Yoga
In the late afternoon, to bring your energies back down to earth, you’ll Go Deep, Open, and Energize,
with the yin yoga practice. You’ll travel deep inside your inner landscape, recapturing youthful joint
mobility and ease, as you soothe your mind, balance your meridian system, and experience the fruit of
your labors—a slow-burning energized calm.
PRACTICE SIX: The Power of Love: Inner Smile and Cosmic Healing
Sounds
As the day starts to quiet, moving toward dusk, you’ll learn the true power of love. The inner alchemy
practice Inner Smile and Cosmic Healing Sounds will help you to go deeper still into yin chi with the
Power of Love practices, literally bringing a smile to your face as you are waking your energy,
knowing how profound your quiet, yin energy-cultivation efforts are. (How could you not smile when
you know your own smile is balancing and harmonizing the life of your organs and giving you more
energy?)
PRACTICE SEVEN: Moving into Stillness: Meditation
Finally, as night falls, you’ll move into the deepest expression of yin, Moving into Stillness, the
meditation practice. Experiencing the fullest expansion and quiet like a night-blooming jasmine, the
lotus itself, you’ll learn the art of training the “monkey mind” (which jumps about, chatters, and
refuses to stay focused) to cultivate mindful introspection and detachment from outside distractions.
Breath by breath, as you create your own tranquility and peace of mind, inner contentment rises to
bring a sweet glow on your face and a softness to your skin, an outward radiance of your highest
nature revealed in perfect stillness and quiet before you begin again the following morning.
The practices also follow a corresponding emotional journey of seven ways:
Yes Leads the Way: It all begins with a decision to say yes to yourself and to the adventure ahead.
Everything we do in life starts with a decision, an agreement we make with ourselves to perform
an action. The Waking Energy Way starts the same way—with a commitment to be to open,
present, engaged, and willing. When you make a decision to do something good for yourself, that
in and of itself is empowering and life-enhancing. It wakes your energy. It makes everything else
possible. So your journey here begins with “yes.”
The Way of Nature: When you say yes to yourself, you are in fact also saying yes to nature, since you
are one with her. When you open yourself to nature, you automatically connect with her flow and
attune yourself to her rhythms, which match and strengthen your own.