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

and thus help reinvigorate them, and since they are connected to kidney energy, you literally
infuse your kidneys with new energy.
4. When you feel complete, take a few well-deserved Horse Breaths. Holding your arms away from
your body shake your hands to fully discharge the stagnant chi.
Ear Love
Did you know that if you have trouble waking up in the morning, the best thing to do to bring your
senses to life and help them greet the day is to tug and pull on your ears? All your organs have
corresponding meridian points in your ears, so massaging and pulling on them stimulates the organs
and sends positive energy signals, helping to bring them balance and harmony. The ears contain 120
points that correspond to other places in the body.
Caution: This is an area to massage with delicacy, even though you are using a firm and
intentional touch, so move with care as you take a tour of your ears.
1. Rub your hands vigorously to charge them. Then cup your ears with your palms, firmly covering
them, as if you don’t want to hear what someone is saying.
2. Press your hands in against your ears firmly, holding for a breath. Then, as you exhale, release
your hands, quickly moving them a few inches away from your head, with the palms facing your
head. Bring your hands back to press on your ears and repeat this action twice more.
3. Now take your index fingers and thumbs and slide them behind the shell of your ears, as you
bring the other three fingers (middle, ring, and pinky) in front of the ear and start to rub up and
down quite firmly at a moderate pace as you breathe in and out. Rub up and down here ten times
in total.
4. Anchor your index fingers in the central basin of your ears. Take hold of the thickest parts of your
ears between your index fingers and thumbs and then use your thumbs to gently manipulate, twist,
and pull your outer ears away from their centers. Start at the top crest of the ears and work your
way down to your earlobes. Be creative as you do a full exploration of your ear—doing only
what feels good. Breathe deeply and naturally.
5. After completing your massage, hold your arms away from your body and shake your hands. Also
do a Horse Breath to release anything you’ve heard that now belongs in the past, to create space
for new and beautiful, mellifluous sounds, speech, and music.
Wind-Palace Massage
The Wind-Palace Massage releases tension in the head, neck, and shoulders, key areas that can get
very tight after bending our heads to read text messages and sitting in front of our computers.
1. Bring your fingertips to the occipital ridge at the base of your skull, where there are two distinct
bony prominences. This is a place where many of your muscular attachments insert, so it can hold