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

As you exhale, start to thump down the outsides of your legs, using the pinky sides of your fists,
going all the way down to your ankles with the same momentum you’ve built over the course of
the past several minutes of love thumping—now reaching a crescendo.
2. Inhale again and start thumping on your inner ankles, this time turning your palms toward your
inner legs before striking the flat part of your fingers between your knuckles against your legs.
Travel up the inner line of the legs, coming all the way back up to the upper inner thigh and groin
area.
3. Then, as you exhale, once again travel down the path on the outsides of your legs, waking up the
leg channels as you go. Take another final pass up the insides of your legs while inhaling.
4. Immediately go down the outsides of the legs again, stopping and staying down at the bottom and
exaggerating the rounding of your spine. This positions you perfectly to embark on the final
sections of your legs that need to be thumped with love: your hamstrings and calves.
5. With your neck completely relaxed, head hanging heavy, and using slightly more force and impact
with your fists than previously, start to thump on your hamstring muscles on the backs of your
legs, alternating with your right and left fists.
6. When you are hammering at the hamstrings, I recommend that you use your fists with your palms
facing the hamstrings, fingers snugly curled in against the palms and with the thumbs resting to the
side of the index fingers, not across them. That creates a flatter surface to thump with.
7. After thumping on your hamstrings for several rounds of breath, without pausing move down to
your calves and begin thumping them using the thumb sides of your fists. Your head should still
be heavy, your neck relaxed, and your breathing conscious, fluid, and deep as you do so.
8. While still working on your calves, turn out your toes slightly and, switching to the pinky side of
the fists, begin to pound into your inner calves, going up and down the lower legs. I recommend
that while you are thumping, pounding, and hammering the legs, you take Horse Breaths
whenever the spirit moves you and you feel you need a good release, a way to deal with all the
surprising sensation you are experiencing as you travel up and down your legs, waking jing as
you go.
9. Continue hammering for a few rounds of breath, and then rise up to an erect stance with your
arms down by your sides for a breath.
10. Then, as the final step in this sequence, starting at the top of your legs, brush down all sides of
your legs with both hands vigorously, as if you are brushing lint off a pair of black velvet pants.
What you’re actually doing is brushing off the residue of stagnant chi that you’ve just liberated
from your leg channels.
11. Finally, hold your arms away from your body and give your hands a good shake. Do a final postthumping
Horse Breath as a reward for all the hard work and good loving you gave your legs and
lower-body meridians in the last four exercises.
Blossoming Open
Blossoming Open mobilizes and lubricates the spine, expands the chest, and stretches the muscles of
the neck and shoulders. In the process, it makes you feel tall, proud, confident, empowered, and sexy.
It’s one of the most powerful ways I know to invite joy and happiness into your heart.