This practice connects you to Hara energy and the center of your core consciousness.
It reconnects you to your innate endless wellspring of chi,
Life force energy,
By igniting pranayama in the lower belly.
You can use this practice to ground yourself,
Nurture self-confidence,
And reconnect to your innate self.
Find a comfortable seat and let your gaze become soft.
Place your hands on your low belly and center your attention to your Hara point approximately two to three finger widths below your navel and back towards the spine.
Envision this point as having a root,
A nucleus,
As well as a flower that shines outward.
First,
Inhale into the low belly so that you feel it suction back,
Almost like drinking fluid from a straw or working a pump.
You're suctioning earth chi from Hara at the navel to feed into the Hara pool.
When you exhale,
Use your breath to widen Hara's circumference,
Exhaling into the Hara pool so that it expands,
Feeding all the surrounding rivers.
On the inhale,
You'll feel your diaphragm drop as your lungs fill.
This grows the circulation of chi at Hara.
Then exhale and expand the sphere of Hara at the low belly.
Allow Hara to radiate outward in all directions like a glowing orb of light.
Again,
Inhale,
Draw into the chi belly as the low belly draws back towards your sacrum.
Then exhale to expand Hara's sphere outward once more.
Explore this for a few rounds of breath before taking this to a more subtle body practice.
For that,
We will now reverse the direction of our breath and energy.
Keep your hands on your low belly and instead let the belly expand with the inhale.
So no longer drawing back,
But now opening outward.
But the pinpoint nucleus of Hara's center,
The very root,
Will draw back towards the spine.
So inhale,
Your stomach goes soft into your hands,
But you draw back from behind the navel so chi can spread at Hara's base.
You might think of a lighthouse or a flashlight where the light is brighter at the origin,
But it expands outward to illuminate.
And this way now for several rounds,
Finding how spacious and nourishing Hara really is.
