Meditations, Pranayama, Tibetan Rite Practice
Body Meditation:
Calm the mind and body together. Starting with your breath and attention to your body. Where the mind goes, energy flows. Find a comfortable seat, feet on the floor, click the link and close your eyes. Listen and follow. Audio recording.
Pranayama 1: Bhastrika
Sharing from my own ‘sadhana’/ daily practice to ground and center myself. A pranayama taught by Dr. Lad to open up the 3 main chakras of the body - Root, Solar Plexus and Throat, activating and aligning us for the day ahead. Takes 10mins in this 1st video with detailed explanations but you’ll get the hang of it and be able to do it in 4 mins in your own practice.
Pranayama 2: Anulom Vilom/ Nadi Shodana
To open up both channels of the body that increase clarity, clear mindedness and soothing calm. This is powerful after Pranayama 1 that grounds you. This video is 9mins long. Once you’ve gone through both videos, you can set 10 mins a day for both Pranayamas.
Bridging Heaven & Earth through ourselves - Meditation by Steve Curtin D.O.
THE TIBETAN RITES - To renew your body body powerfully
I’ve been wanting to share with you the 5 Tibetan Rites. I practiced it when I had no will-power, or ability to do my go-to Bikram, was alone and found it hard to continue past 10 minutes into the practice.
I want to share it with you because I’ve seen how it really activates all our energy centers which improves the efficiency and vitality of the physical body, it’s organs, the whole endocrine system and your digestive fire. 27 days of this – and you will feel the difference in your vitality, strength and sharpness. This was/is called the Fountain of Youth.
I stand by it and believe in it. I hope you get to experience it.
Set aside just 10-15 minutes a day. Do it in the morning. 5 movements with repetition. Build up in repetitions as you continue each day. Try it at least for the first 5 days and then see it for yourself. Anyone can do it. You don’t have to be a yogi to reap it’s benefits.
Key Things to do for your wellbeing and building your health:
Work on Grounding and Calmness - a calm nervous system STRENGTHENS the immune system. Feeling fearful of uncertainty or being uncomfortable with ‘not doing’, does not help. Treat this as a time of wonderment - to be able to just sit with no pressure or responsibility except for yourself and your family. Do small things that you find pleasure in.
Pranayama to start the day- Pranayama 1 & 2 for starting the day. Pranayama 2 to ground before sleeping at night if you have difficulty sleeping.
Keep your digestive fire strong. Your immune system’s health depends on your digestive system. Keep it healthy by being conscious of the food you eat, in reasonable amounts. Hot/ Warm water as much as possible ( Think of your stomach as a stewing pot that needs to digest all the food it receives) Ensure elimination is good and complete. Ginger & Tumeric, other digestive spices - Coriander, Cardamom, Cumin are good. Exercise to move the body and create it’s own heat.
Sleep well.