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

Abdominal Pumping
Corpse Pose (Savasana)
Before You Begin
The Kundalini Seat
For our kundalini practices (as well as our meditations in Chapter 10), you will learn a simple crosslegged
variation called the Easy Pose and something called the Zazen Seat. There better be something
“easy” in kundalini, because the practice itself is one of the most challenging and rewarding you will
ever experience!
If for some reason you don’t find either of the poses easy or accessible, you can always place
blocks or bolsters directly underneath your knees to prop them up and relieve any undue tension or
discomfort you may have been feeling without them. If neither of the seats is viable at all and doesn’t
suit you when you first begin the practice, you are welcome to sit in a chair.
Take note that although the positions may not be accessible to you when you first begin, after you
dedicate yourself to practicing Awaken and Play for some time, it is highly probable that all the
exercises in the kundalini practice will eventually become sequences you can do, and perhaps even
one day without props. Keep in mind, as with all the practices, that they are your practices and, as
such, intended to partner with you, facilitating your journey. They are not meant to discourage or
intimidate you. Do whatever you need to do to modify them as your body indicates.
Easy Pose
1. Sitting tall, come into a good old-fashioned, conventional crossed-legged seat, as though you
were sitting in front of a campfire.
2. With your spine tall and relaxed, bring your feet underneath your knees, laying them on the outer
edge, pinky side, of each foot, allowing your knees to fall out to the sides, with the hips
comfortably positioned higher than the knees.
3. You can experiment to see which leg feels best stacked in front, and once you have found your
best, most comfortable position, maintain it for a while and then you can and should alternate
which leg is in front to balance the body.
4. You may find that you need a block or a cushion underneath you, so that you can sit more
comfortably, because you want your hips to be higher than your knees and for the body to feel as
comfortable and as easy as possible, as you don’t want to be distracted by your seat even before
you enter into the practice itself.
Zazen Seat