Tibetan Grounding Practice To Shift Your Energy

This short 4-minute practice is a simple yet energizing mindful movement exercise that helps you reconnect with your body and return to the present moment. It’s inspired by Qi Gong and is especially helpful when you're feeling disconnected or low on energy. You'll be guided through a gentle bouncing movement that brings you back into your body. The practice can be modified to suit your needs. It helps shake off mental fog and invites a sense of aliveness back into your system. Use this practice whenever you need to shift stagnant energy and feel more awake in your body.

Music: Calm Energy Meditation 888hz peaceful by Universe_Bella

Transcript

This is a short Qigong practice that's called dropping post.

It's really nice to do when you feel you need to reconnect with a little bit of energy,

Come back into the present moment and into the body.

Can begin by coming to stand,

Letting the feet come about shoulder distance apart,

Letting the arms relax by the sides of the body,

The shoulders release down away from the ears,

Finding a gentle,

Very slight softening in the knees and imagining that the tailbone grows a little heavier as if it was gently drawing down towards the earth.

Taking a couple of nice deep breaths here,

Just allowing yourself to settle into the body.

To start the practice,

We lift the heels up off the ground,

However high is comfortable for you and then allow the heels to come back down to the earth.

So first of all,

Starting off slowly,

Lifting the heels and then allowing them to lower back to the earth.

As you're moving slowly,

You can inhale to let the heels raise up and exhale as the heels are drawn back to the earth by gravity.

And now if you would like to,

You can allow this practice to speed up a little bit.

So lifting and lowering the heels a little faster so that you're making this movement of a dropping post.

If it's helpful for you,

You can always hold on to a table or a chair for a little bit of support with the balance.

And if coming up and down on the heels feels like too much for you,

You can also just let them just bounce on the knees,

Keeping the feet on the floor and going up and down.

So just choosing whatever variation,

Whatever support works for you.

And you can continue to do this for the duration of this short piece of music that I'm now going to play for you.

And as the music has stopped,

Just allowing your body to come back to the earth.

Back to the position we began in with the knees soft and tailbone long and simply observing any sensations that you notice in the body.

Perhaps there's some tingling,

Heat or warmth.

Staying with your awareness in the body for the last few moments.

And then taking a nice deep breath into the belly.

Exhaling completely out the mouth,

Nice and slowly.

And then returning to your day when you feel ready.