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

hold-back, give-it-all-you’ve-got kind of thumping, because you are now working on denser
tissues in the hindquarters, which appreciate a firmer, more intentional pressure with impact.
3. Be mindful and sensitive to your body, but think of this, as Mantak Chia used to say, as “beating
yourself up in a good way, with love.” We tend to beat ourselves up by berating ourselves with
negative internal diatribes. This is the opposite. This kind of tough love is the best, as ultimately
it can even relieve back pain. Find the perfect pressure for your own body. Don’t hold back or
rear away (no pun intended) from intensity when it comes to your glutes.
4. Continue thumping on your buttocks for five rounds of breath. During the last few breath cycles,
straighten your spine so that you are erect. This will change the way the thumping feels on your
hindquarters: the flesh, now much softer and less extended, will move under your hands in a
different way and respond to your touch slightly differently too. See which you prefer, as both are
very beneficial.
Hip Love
The bones of the pelvis become more vulnerable as we age. Hip Love sends them a powerful energy
signal to stay strong, as it liberates chronic holding patterns in the muscles surrounding the hip joints.
It disperses stagnation in the liver and gallbladder meridians that run through the hips and relieves
stress and frustration.
1. Standing tall, tilt your pelvis slightly forward and underneath you. Make fists with your hands and
position your fists so that you can thump their pinky sides against your body.
2. In a pounding action that’s similar to tenderizing meat with a mallet, with bent elbows, you will
use your forearms and fists to strike firmly on the fleshy indentation at the side of your hip
directly adjacent to your hip bone. Following the first several thumps you make to the sides of
your hips, circle your forearms slightly forward and back to thump, establishing a smooth rhythm.
Make these elliptical circles a total of nine times.
3. After nine smooth circles, skip the circling back motion and simply pound, firmly but gently, into
the same spot at a more accelerated pace. Be sure to continue to breathe deeply and smoothly
throughout. Infusing the areas you are working with fresh oxygen can help you move stagnant chi
out of your body and mind, so take generous Horse Breaths as needed.
Up and Down the Jing Channels
Up and Down the Jing Channels opens, activates, and harmonizes the leg channels that house the
kidney and urinary bladder, liver and gallbladder, and stomach and spleen meridians, stimulating the
jing (sexual essence, which is an essential longevity elixir) in the legs to rise.
1. Without pause, directly following the Hip Love exercise, inhale deeply and smoothly,
consciously drawing energy up into your Sea of Chi from your Bubbling Spring Points and Root.