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

1. Sitting tall, draw your right foot in toward your groin and line the heel up with the midline of the
body, laying your foot onto the pinky side, bringing it snug in as close as possible toward your
Root. Lay the knee down to the side of your body, so that it opens out, falling naturally down to
the floor.
2. Then draw the left foot in and repeat exactly what you did with your right foot, tucking it in, pinky
side down to the floor, in front of the right foot, so that they are like fire logs stacked in front of
one another, and again, lay the left knee down and out onto the floor.
3. As with the campfire seat, you may need a block or a cushion underneath you so that you can sit
more comfortably and have your hips higher than your knees.
Kundalini Breathing
Breath of Fire
We will use the Breath of Fire for nearly every exercise in our kundalini practice. It awakens the
body and enlivens the mind, clearing the sinuses and pathways to the lungs, warming the body, and
creating a feeling of pure exhilaration and inner strength.
The Breath of Fire is one of the most powerful methods of breath control that we possess. It helps
to release fear and relieve anxiety, appeases depression, and is a formidable opponent in helping to
vanquish addiction. It reduces stress and alleviates pain. The very act of pumping the diaphragm and
the abdominal center, as we know from qigong, keeps your Sea of Chi energy center awake and alive.
Now with this added component of the breath charging it, your life force becomes even more
powerful.
Because the pumping action has a direct effect on the navel center, where thousands of nerves
meet and feelings register first, it cleanses negativity and balances the emotions. It regulates,
harmonizes, and strengthens the nervous system and massages the internal organs, improving digestion
and elimination. It increases lung capacity and enhances circulation, flushing impurities and deposits
from the lungs, from the mucous lining and blood vessels themselves, cleansing the blood and aiding
in detoxification. When practiced regularly, the Breath of Fire can actually produce such a relaxed,
but conscious state in the mind that it mimics something called a global alpha rhythm in the brain,
which usually occurs during quiet moments, while you’re daydreaming or meditating.
And like your very own heartbeat, the Breath of Fire synchronizes your entire system to one
rhythm, promoting greater internal harmony and health, generating a deeply beneficial internal heat
that activates, opens, and balances the smooth flow of prana through the nadis, thereby dramatically
increasing your energy.
Rapidly breathe a series of short, terse inhalations and vigorous, forceful exhalations, one breath
quickly following the next, with a nanosecond of retention after each exhalation.
The most important thing to remember with the Breath of Fire is that you want to get into a
hypnotic rhythm in which you let the breath “breathe you.” And as challenging as it is at first, the
Breath of Fire becomes another prime opportunity to practice effortless effort. When the physical
component of the work starts to overwhelm your inner resolve and your lower mind tries to wrestle