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

ising up inside me. Kundalini is what carried me through, changing my brain chemistry just minutes
after I started the practice, so that I could return to myself. I broke through the shock and trauma to the
heartbreak and sadness inside, so that I could finally cry and release my body from the enervating
fight-or-flight response in overdrive. The kundalini practice helped me find the resilience that my
anxiety claimed I lacked. With every breath, I knew on the deepest core level that I had inherited
some of my mother’s indomitable spirit and ability to be a survivor and that I was going to be okay.
When I went to visit my mother in hospice, I felt vulnerable, exposed in a way that made me feel
enraged, but I didn’t have the strength to express it. The doctors shared too much about how her body
was deteriorating, being consumed by the myeloma, how one by one each of her functions was being
overwhelmed. This magnificent light, my very own mother, was being swallowed up by the invaders
in her body as the precious seconds ticked by.
To be completely present for her I had to call upon a new strength to strong-arm the hysterical
tears and primal screams that wanted to erupt from me. I watched my mother, my soul mate, let her
own tears flow after years of never wanting to cry. It was all I could do to contain myself. I had to let
her know that it was all okay—it was okay that she had decided it was time, okay that she was finally
crying. We would have had to say good-bye sooner or later, and although that day was here long
before any of us could bear, we would all be okay. We loved her more than life itself. It was the
hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life.
Aside from the stuff I am made of and what I have grown in the garden of my soul from every
twist and turn and fall of the heart I have weathered, it was in large part the Unleash and Transform
practice I did every day leading up to July 13—the last day that our eyes would ever meet—that gave
me the courage I needed to be able to say good-bye to her and help her on her way when she finally
flew away to start her next journey as pure spirit, waking energy in the beyond.
Snake Charming: Kundalini Rising
Now you should be starting to get a glimpse of the fact that all roads lead to Rome. In Unleash and
Transform, we enter a new domain where our three elixir fields, our energy storage centers from
qigong, become seven chakras, our meridians become nadis (energy pathways in the yogic tradition),
and the three portals that seal the energy in your energy storage centers (your elixir fields) become the
yogic equivalent, your three bandhas, or energy locks.
Here you will learn two empowering and energizing sequences, Charming the Snake and
Kundalini Rising, that will distribute life-giving prana (energy) to every part of your body, almost
instantly changing your mood and perhaps even lifting you to a place of natural euphoria.
Let me invite you now to your first dance with kundalini shakti, the energy of pure conscious
awakening, the primordial divine feminine. Join me as we stoke the fire inside, coaxing the “coiled
snake” to rise up out of her lair. Kundalini shakti is our sacred, sexual energy and one of our most
precious endowments as human beings, holding the power to transform our lives. When you awaken