Daily Practice

Inner Vitality and Stamina

This is a fifteen-minute charge to the well of your stamina. You move the prana through the lower triangle, pump the navel point, and seal the whole circuit with three breaths of held fire, so the body learns to run on its own reserve instead of borrowing. Done daily it sharpens the will and steadies the nerve. A short set, but it makes a different creature of you.

Pose 1

Balance on your toes and fingertips, knees straight but not locked. Swing your hips rapidly from side to side, like an animal swishing its tail.

Pose 2

Minutes.

Pose 3

Sit in easy pose and lean back to sixty degrees. Fold your arms across your chest and lock the elbows, hands at diaphragm level. Keep the neck straight and the chin pulled in, and roll your shoulders forward in a circle.

Pose 4

Minutes.

Pose 5

Lie down in baby pose. Bring both hands to the small of your back and interlock the fingers, then raise your arms up into yoga mudra. Hold for 3 Minutes.

Time: 3 Minutes

Pose 6

Cross your legs in lotus pose and lean back onto your elbows. Hold for 3 Minutes.

Time: 3 Minutes

Pose 7

Stretch your legs out in front of you and take hold of your toes. Bring your head down to your knees and rise back up, moving rapidly, 11 times only. Breathe normally; do not do breath of fire.

Breath: breath of fire

Pose 8

Sit in easy pose, hands in prayer pose at the center of your chest. Fix your eyes on the tip of your nose. Keep the chin in, the chest out, the neck straight. Pump your navel point and see 30 trillion points of light within you and around you. Hold for 3 Minutes.

Time: 3 Minutes

Pose 9

To finish: inhale deeply, hold the breath, and tighten every muscle in your body. Hold the breath for 10 seconds, then release it out of the mouth explosively, like cannon fire. Repeat this 2 more times.

Time: 10 seconds