Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation instructor working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth non secular follow and vitality therapeutic.
Learn on to find Leila’s 5 poses for enchanting vitality…
Urdhva Hastāsana & Uttanāsana
I usually sequence these two poses collectively to assist college students transfer away from their considering thoughts and towards a extra meditative state.
Transfer between standing along with your arms over your head, to a ahead fold, and again up once more, at any tempo, and in any method that you just select. Preserve shifting between the 2 poses.
If you end up folded ahead, intend to attach with the vitality of the Earth.
If you end up standing along with your arms over your head, intend to attach with the sky.
Pulse between the 2 and observe your sense of connection to Earth and sky.
*For people who discover ahead folding tough or who tend to have low again bother, you may follow the ahead fold by bringing your forearms onto your thighs, with bent knees, thereby resting your higher physique’s weight in your legs, decreasing traction on the low again. You may as well make the gesture of reaching as much as the sky, and gesturing in the direction of the ground, seated in a chair, if standing in your ft is inaccessible.
Tarāsana
This pose is an unsung hero, in my view. I sequence it in my courses between extra advanced and bodily demanding pose varieties to cue my college students to interact flows of vitality with extra intention and fewer bodily effort and pressure.
My steerage on this pose is:
To have the sense of extending from the very centre of your physique and your being, into each peripheral level (crown of head, tail, ft & fingers, fringe of your pores and skin throughout), with out doing and bodily effort to create that impact.
Maintain this pose and observe the radiant vitality that strikes from the within out. Should you occur to note that vitality strikes again in as properly, then you may observe the heart beat between the in-going and out-going vitality.
*This may be practiced with the help of a wall behind you, or seated in a chair with legs and arms unfold as extensive as you may simply take them.
Bhumi Sparśa Mudra
I like the energetics of this mudra. I don’t wish to say an excessive amount of about it, as I feel it’s greatest to simply expertise it for your self and see how it’s for you. I’ll say this: I’m very inquisitive about serving to folks to expertise the elemental ‘rightness’ or ‘okayness’ of their existence, no matter what’s going on of their lives. I discover this one useful for that, amongst different issues.
Mudra is extra delicate than āsana for many individuals, so I supply just a little steerage right here that will help you sink into the subtlety.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, take your left hand to your coronary heart, and your proper fingertips to both the ground or to the seat of the chair.
To sink into the expertise of the mudra, observe the sense of figuring out what you understand (with none thought based mostly reflection on what you understand, simply the sense of figuring out issues, which in fact you do, as a type of presence in your life). Discover what occurs, if something, as you make the bodily gesture of calmly touching the Earth, with a lightweight consideration on the sense of figuring out what you understand.
Respiratory alongside your Centre
Wanting again on my early days of follow, I’m so grateful to have had lecturers encourage me to find and improve consideration on my bodily centre as a method of accessing the extra delicate dimensions of my bodyworld. It’s nonetheless so highly effective and I usually embrace practices for articulating the centre in my courses.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, organise your physique in such a method that the centre of your head is straight above the centre of your pelvis, to the perfect of your potential, and with as little effort as you may handle. (In different phrases, don’t make use of rigidity to take care of this place – simply purpose for it and let go.)
Breathe from the crown of your head, tracing your consciousness alongside the centre of your physique, all the way in which right down to the centre of your pelvis. Observe the subsequent section of breath again up by way of the centre from pelvis to crown. There is no such thing as a want to increase your breath or attempt to make it longer than it naturally is. You possibly can be happy to take deep breaths in case you like however it isn’t mandatory.
Chances are you’ll discover that it takes a little bit of follow to synch your breath up with the motion of your consideration alongside the centre of your physique. You might also discover locations alongside the centre the place it’s tougher to have consciousness. As you have interaction this follow, hold meaning to easy your consideration into each a part of your vertical core, and to have the breath and your consideration transfer easily and in live performance to the perfect of your potential.
Do that for so long as you want. 5 to 10 minutes could also be good for people who’re newer to this, and also you may strive it after training āsana, earlier than savāsana. If you’re doing this for greater than a few minutes, I like to recommend a much less deep breath sample.
When you cease, observe the sense that you’ve got of your centre.
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