Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation trainer 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 approach that you simply select. Preserve transferring between the 2 poses.
When you find yourself folded ahead, intend to attach with the vitality of the Earth.
When you find yourself 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 difficult or who tend to have low again hassle, you possibly can 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. It’s also possible to make the gesture of reaching as much as the sky, and gesturing in direction of the ground, seated in a chair, if standing in your toes is inaccessible.
Tarāsana
This pose is an unsung hero, for my part. I sequence it in my lessons between extra advanced and bodily demanding pose varieties to cue my college students to have interaction 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, toes & arms, 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. When you occur to note that vitality strikes again in as properly, then you possibly can 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 large as you possibly can simply take them.
Bhumi Sparśa Mudra
I really like the energetics of this mudra. I don’t wish to say an excessive amount of about it, as I believe it’s greatest to simply expertise it for your self and see how it’s for you. I’ll say this: I’m very excited about serving to individuals 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 realizing what (with none thought based mostly reflection on what , simply the sense of realizing issues, which after all you do, as a form of presence in your life). Discover what occurs, if something, as you make the bodily gesture of evenly touching the Earth, with a lightweight consideration on the sense of realizing what .
Respiratory alongside your Centre
Trying again on my early days of follow, I’m so grateful to have had academics encourage me to find and enhance consideration on my bodily centre as a approach 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 lessons.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, organise your physique in such a approach that the centre of your head is instantly above the centre of your pelvis, to the most effective of your potential, and with as little effort as you possibly can handle. (In different phrases, don’t make use of rigidity to keep up this place – simply goal for it and let go.)
Breathe from the crown of your head, tracing your consciousness alongside the centre of your physique, all the best way right down to the centre of your pelvis. Comply with the subsequent section of breath again up by means of the centre from pelvis to crown. There isn’t any want to increase your breath or attempt to make it longer than it naturally is. You possibly can be happy to take deep breaths for those who like however it isn’t crucial.
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 may additionally discover locations alongside the centre the place it’s harder to have consciousness. As you have interaction this follow, maintain desiring 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 most effective 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 would possibly 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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