Waking Energy 7 Timeless Practices Designed to Reboot Your Body and Unleash Your Potential
it, you release the energy of bliss and transcendence, which makes you glow with a radiance far beyond what even great sex can achieve. The Chakra System 1. Root Chakra (muladhara): Location: Base of the spine in the tailbone area Emotional resonance: Security, safety, and grounding Color: Red 2. Sacral Chakra (svadhishthana): Location: Lower abdomen, about two inches below the navel and two inches in Emotional resonance: Creativity, joy, and enthusiasm Color: Orange 3. Solar Plexus Chakra (manipura): Location: Upper abdomen in the stomach area Emotional resonance: Personal power, expansiveness, and seeds of spirituality Color: Yellow 4. Heart Chakra (anahata): Location: Center of chest just above the heart Emotional resonance: Devotion, passion, and unconditional love for the self and others Color: Green 5. Throat Chakra (vishuddha): Location: Throat Emotional resonance: Independence, fluid thought, and clear, empowered communication Color: Blue 6. Third-Eye Chakra (ajna): Location: Forehead between the eyes Emotional resonance: Intuitive visioning and cosmic consciousness Color: Purple 7. Crown Chakra (sahasrara): Location: The very top of the head Emotional resonance: Pure crystalline consciousness, release of the body self, and connection to the divine Color: White When you unleash your own kundalini shakti, there is nothing more empowering or fulfilling; you shine in an even bigger way, because you have made it happen for yourself. When you nurture your own life force, you come to intimately understand that your sexual energy is sacred, and you start to guard it like the precious jewel, the all-powerful secret, that it is, meant to be shared with only those who deserve it. This instills a new kind of self-love, respect, and appreciation for your own body, your self, and your soul. This realization alone wakes prodigious stores of energy inside and gives birth to much, much more. Activating and unleashing kundalini shakti awakens your most primal, powerful, original sexual energy and your creative life-force energy. They are one and the same. You liberate your natural
talents. You tap into your innate primal wisdom, your power to know, to act, to greet life with grace, resilience, confidence, and courage. Shakti means you are your own port in the storm, and you know how to drop down into deep calm, rest, and rejuvenation. Shakti is the discernment of what to keep and what to discard. It’s the physical power to transform stagnation into vibrancy, to expel toxins and negativity from your body and your mind, and the mental and emotional wherewithal to let go of what no longer serves you. Shakti is the power to breathe deeply, to fully enjoy and appreciate the bounty of nature, to digest the nutrients your body needs, and integrate the experiences you live. Shakti is gratitude. Shakti is life. Simply by moving through the kriyas that follow, we activate and balance our chakra and endocrine systems, raising our creative, sexual vibration and energy from the lower three chakras to the higher centers of refinement in our being, our upper three energy centers and our “higher mind,” where earth meets with heaven and we manufacture the most potent elixir we know. The beauty of the practice here is in its innate simplicity. You only need to become acquainted with your chakras and the qualities and the parts of the mind, body, and spirit they correspond to in order to wake even more energy inside you to become the seasoned mystic of your own domain, charm kundalini upward, ever upward, where your own sexual energy becomes your fuel for life, your greatest tool for empowerment, and your own luminous energy. the unleash and transform practice TIME OF DAY: Morning QUALITY: Yang SUBTLE ENERGY: Opens and activates the chakra system. BENEFITS: Mobilizes kundalini shakti, the primal life force, to heal and balance endocrine system and organ function; fosters selfempowerment and healthy, balanced sexuality. PROPS: Yoga mat, yoga blocks The Practice: Charming the Snake: Seated Practice Sufist Grind Heart Opener Child’s Pose for the Crown Radiance Stretch Goddess Rolls Reaching Across Space and Time Active Cat Superhero Wings of Victory Taking Flight Kundalini Rising: Standing Practice Archer Calling Destiny Home Shaking the Soul Tree
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talents. You tap in<strong>to</strong> your innate primal wisdom, your power <strong>to</strong> know, <strong>to</strong> act, <strong>to</strong> greet life with grace,<br />
resilience, confidence, <strong>and</strong> courage. Shakti means you are your own port in the s<strong>to</strong>rm, <strong>and</strong> you know<br />
how <strong>to</strong> drop down in<strong>to</strong> deep calm, rest, <strong>and</strong> rejuvenation. Shakti is the discernment of what <strong>to</strong> keep<br />
<strong>and</strong> what <strong>to</strong> discard. It’s the physical power <strong>to</strong> transform stagnation in<strong>to</strong> vibrancy, <strong>to</strong> expel <strong>to</strong>xins <strong>and</strong><br />
negativity from your body <strong>and</strong> your mind, <strong>and</strong> the mental <strong>and</strong> emotional wherewithal <strong>to</strong> let go of what<br />
no longer serves you. Shakti is the power <strong>to</strong> breathe deeply, <strong>to</strong> fully enjoy <strong>and</strong> appreciate the bounty<br />
of nature, <strong>to</strong> digest the nutrients your body needs, <strong>and</strong> integrate the experiences you live. Shakti is<br />
gratitude. Shakti is life.<br />
Simply by moving through the kriyas that follow, we activate <strong>and</strong> balance our chakra <strong>and</strong><br />
endocrine systems, raising our creative, sexual vibration <strong>and</strong> energy from the lower three chakras <strong>to</strong><br />
the higher centers of refinement in our being, our upper three energy centers <strong>and</strong> our “higher mind,”<br />
where earth meets with heaven <strong>and</strong> we manufacture the most potent elixir we know. The beauty of the<br />
practice here is in its innate simplicity. You only need <strong>to</strong> become acquainted with your chakras <strong>and</strong><br />
the qualities <strong>and</strong> the parts of the mind, body, <strong>and</strong> spirit they correspond <strong>to</strong> in order <strong>to</strong> wake even more<br />
energy inside you <strong>to</strong> become the seasoned mystic of your own domain, charm kundalini upward, ever<br />
upward, where your own sexual energy becomes your fuel for life, your greatest <strong>to</strong>ol for<br />
empowerment, <strong>and</strong> your own luminous energy.<br />
the unleash <strong>and</strong> transform practice<br />
TIME OF DAY: Morning<br />
QUALITY: Yang<br />
SUBTLE ENERGY: Opens <strong>and</strong> activates the chakra system.<br />
BENEFITS: Mobilizes kundalini shakti, the primal life force, <strong>to</strong> heal <strong>and</strong> balance endocrine system <strong>and</strong> organ function; fosters selfempowerment<br />
<strong>and</strong> healthy, balanced sexuality.<br />
PROPS: Yoga mat, yoga blocks<br />
The Practice:<br />
Charming the Snake:<br />
Seated Practice<br />
Sufist Grind<br />
Heart Opener<br />
Child’s Pose for the Crown<br />
Radiance Stretch<br />
Goddess Rolls<br />
Reaching Across Space <strong>and</strong> Time<br />
Active Cat<br />
Superhero<br />
Wings of Vic<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
Taking Flight<br />
Kundalini Rising: St<strong>and</strong>ing Practice<br />
Archer<br />
Calling Destiny Home<br />
Shaking the Soul Tree
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