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

1. Standing tall, inhale and join your hands in Tiger Claws Unite position in front of your chest.
2. Exhale, invert your wrists, and then extend your arms straight in front of you, palms facing away
from you. Round your spine backward into a deep C shape in opposition. Bend your knees
deeply, keeping them in line with your toes, while firmly rooting your heels into the ground.
3. Open your hands with your fingers spread wide out in front of you for a brief second and then
transition, as you inhale, coming into an arching position with knees bent, and your head up,
shoulders drawn down and back.
4. Place the heels of the hands into the spot where your torso and your legs meet with your elbows
bent out wide to your sides, wrists flexed back, and fingers spread wide.
5. Without stopping, continue the motion of your deep knee bend, sliding your hands all the way
down the length of your legs as you exhale and round your upper torso down toward the ground at
the same time, letting your head hang down. Lightly clasp your ankles (or as close as you can get
to them) with your hands.
6. Release the hold on your ankles and extend your hands down to the ground (or as close as you
can get). Turn your hands so that their backs are touching. Spread your fingers wide and let your
head dangle. As you inhale, skim the floor in front of you with your fingertips as a starting point
for the next movement, which will be lifting your arms skyward. You will be inhaling as long as
it takes you to rise to standing.
7. Beginning to inhale, extend your arms straight along the floor in front of you and start to rise up
by straightening the legs and reaching your arms farther out in front of you, while lifting them up
higher and higher in a continuous arc. Keeping your head down, allow your gaze to follow your
fingertips until they reach eye level. At that point, continue lifting your arms in an arc up
overhead in a kind of slow explosion, where you are opening your upper back and chest and
coming into a moderate back bend with your uppermost torso. As you bend backward, open your
heart center to receive chi from heaven. Imagine and feel the warming rays of the sun on your
face and filling your heart with new, life-giving energy.
8. Slowly return to standing upright and lower your arms to your sides. As your arms are circling
down, with the palms still facing down, at the last moment, turn your palms to face forward by
your sides to begin again.
9. Repeat the above steps seven times.
Wing-Tip Flex
The Wing-Tip Flex should make you feel as though you are on a rooftop in the movie House of Flying
Daggers, about to vanquish your first enemy. It releases held tension from digital technology overuse
and repetitive actions by opening the meridians in the arms, wrists, and fingers.
1. Begin with your feet parallel and your legs together with your toes spread wide, with your arms
by your side. The crown of your head should reach toward the sky.
2. Assume Sword Finger Position.
3. Now straighten your arms out in front of you at chest height, shoulder-width apart, with your