Parvati Magazine October 2014- Equilibrium | Page 11

YOGA ASANA
1. Lie on your back, feet
one foot apart and
arms alongside the
body, palms facing
the ceiling.
2. Breathe in and out
through your nose a
few times, allowing
yourself to settle and
feel supported by the
ground.
3. Allow your mind to settle, noticing any passing thoughts without
getting involved in
them, as though you
were watching clouds
pass through the sky.
4. Scan
your
whole
body from head to
toe. Where do you
hold tension or feel
relaxed?
5. Allow your breath to
deepen as you continue to relax, open,
unwind.
6. Now breathe in and
draw energy through
the crown of your
head as though you
had a whale spout at
the top of your head.
Then sense that the
breath moves down

your spine, as though
it were a tube.
7. Breathe out. Allow
that life force to move
back up your spine
and out your crown.
8. Breathe in and out
this way for some
time. Draw in life force
and exhale ease and
peace.
9. Then
breathe
in
through the crown,
down the spine and
down to the toes, then
exhale up the legs,
spine and out the
head. Do this for some
time.
10. On your next inhale,
draw that life force
through your crown
and through your
spine, then let it radiate into every cell of
your being.
11. Rather than collapsing
on the exhale, let the
exhale feel spacious,
feeling rooted, vital
and expansive.

your whole being were
effortlessly breathing,
every cell alive.
13. When you feel you
have had enough,
breathe the way you
feel is normal. Then roll
over onto your right
in fetal position, using
your right arm to support your head. Take a
few breaths here.
14. Then slowly roll up into
sitting position, using your left hand as
support.
15. Breathe in through
the crown down the
spine. Exhale back up
the spine and out the
crown of your head.
Feel rooted, vital and
expansive with each
breath.
16. Slowly stand up, as
though you were growing up from the ground
around a whole new
axis of being.

12. Continue breathing in
and out in this manner
for some time without
any force, as though

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