Sitting Posture Meditative Exercise For Optimal Energy Flow

This is a meditative exercise designed to help improve posture for optimal energy flow. Whether you are practicing yoga, meditation or a light worker or a student studying for exams, this posture exercise will help you create better energy flow in the body by taking you out of a C-curved shape and into a more dynamic S-curve. Our body holds stress in our tissues and fascia and this posture exercise is designed to make you aware of where you hold on to stress, and by changing your posture, you will begin to release that stress and tension. Not only will you change your posture, you will also change your attitude!

Transcript

Welcome.

Take a moment and find yourself a nice sturdy chair to sit in.

We're going to sit in a posture for optimal energy flow.

So as you take your seat,

Move around a bit and just notice how you feel.

Notice how you sit in the chair.

What is your default pattern?

And if you're sitting towards the back of the chair,

Notice your spine.

Which shape is your spine?

Is it a C shape?

Tucking in the tail,

Dropping the chin,

Rounding the back.

And just notice how that makes you feel with your back rounded,

Your tail tucked,

Your chin dropped,

Your shoulders forward.

It's almost like you're protecting the heart.

And when you breathe,

You can notice that your breath is more constricted because the posture you're holding in the C shape is more constricted.

Now let's take a moment to move a little bit.

So go ahead and slide towards the front edge of your chair.

Begin to tip the pelvis slightly forward,

Lift the chin,

And tip the ears slightly back.

I'm going to offer you an adjustment with your feet.

Instead of placing your feet flat on the floor,

Lift your heels so that just the paws of the feet are on the floor.

And you can even slide your feet back so that perhaps your heels are lightly touching the legs of the chair.

And now just notice what is holding me and how do I hold myself?

Close your eyes and settle into that.

And with your eyes closed,

You can get a sense of how you actually hold yourself.

How are you held?

What is on your mind?

What is in your heart?

And notice how these things affect your posture.

As we begin to explore the physical and change the physical to affect the emotional,

The psyche,

The heart,

The mind,

Experience the initial movements of kindness and appreciation.

Feel how when the pelvis tips slightly forward and the ears slightly back that the heart automatically wants to open and get big.

So take a moment to really feel and understand how you hold yourself in a posture.

Are you in a posture of closing down,

Hunkering down and getting comfy in sadness and sickness,

Rounding the back,

Tired and lethargic?

Or can you open the body in a way that you feel ready that you allow the heart to widen and the energy to flow optimally.

Take this moment to understand how you hold yourself in a posture.

And in that moment,

You become more actively conscious of your responses.

And now move your arms more forward,

Perhaps touching your finger pads to your knees,

Arms are out in the front plane and the elbows widen.

So bend your elbows slightly and widen them to make space under the armpits and ribs to locate the core of your heart.

You move through all the dense feelings at the surface and cut through all of that and the core values start to surface and awaken and you see them and you appreciate all the stuff that is pushing from the outside onto you.

And it gives you a feeling of sweet resistance.

So you can go to the center of the heart and know that you can expand outward with the breath and you know where you're expanding out to to that resistance.

So take a breath here and really breathe into the back sides,

Front of the ribs,

Feeling the sides of the ribs broaden and the back of the ribs broaden.

And that inhalation allows the base of the ribs on the front and back to lift as they rise up.

Feel how the collarbones and shoulder blades slide toward the head of the arm bone to the front of your shoulders.

And there's a broadening across the back of the ribs and the front and you keep the space in the ribs as you breathe at the diaphragm.

Feel the opening of the lower part of your rib cage and you notice a gentle rise and fall of the torso.

But you're able to keep spaciousness through the ribs and you breathe in there into the bottom ribs and notice what happens to my psyche when I go big.

Does it make me feel more secure?

And in your security,

A feeling of safety so that the belly can now release more forward just like a mini bow and the groins hollow back towards the back legs of your chair.

And even before fully engaging the belly,

You just feel what it's like to be in the shape where you are open more in the front belly,

The place of personal power,

Where you find courage and you feel the breath at your diaphragm,

The lower part of your ribs,

So that every inhale your organs in your belly are massaged and the top of the diaphragm,

The dome of the diaphragm,

Pushes up against the rib cage and lifts it.

So every breath with a full access of the diaphragm is a core strengthening and it's signaling the nervous system and the brain that you are in a safe place,

A place of readiness.

Now go below the waistband from the navel to the pubic bone and to the lower belly and move this part of the belly back with your pubic bone.

Feel how the groins hollow.

You may even feel the pads of the feet pressure gently into the floor and the knees will want to lift,

Pressing up into your finger pads.

Lift the hips a little bit and as the pubic bone tips down and back,

The pelvic floor opens wide,

Your sitting bones expand and you will feel even more of your weight shift towards the thigh bones and off your sitting bones.

Isometrically push the thighs out and start lifting the gluteus muscles so it feels like your sacrum is being lifted from below and is being held by this sweet cradle,

Just the way you would hold an infant at the sacrum and the skull.

Allow your skull to pressure back slightly and feel that warm caress,

That warm embrace,

One hand on the sacrum,

One hand on the head,

Cradling the baby.

The sacrum is a sensitive area of the body.

There's lots of energy to be released here.

So maybe you feel a little tingle and the unknown makes your body want to react.

So you notice that the body has changed and you re-expand if it has.

Tell yourself this is safe.

This posture might feel unfamiliar.

That doesn't mean it's dangerous or wrong.

Now with the lower belly moving back,

With the pelvic floor,

Push the fingertips down into your thighs and keep your shoulders broad and your ribcage full and start lifting the belly from above the waist up so that the navel and the bottom of the sternum are lifting away from your hips.

And it lifts the ribcage and the ribcage rises and broadens.

And you should still be able to move and breathe through the diaphragm.

So the belly isn't pulled back where it gets short.

Allow the ears to tip back and the chin to lift slightly.

As your ribcage continues to lift,

It's going to make the shoulders buoyant.

They will buoy up so you can now lift the skull from underneath the jaw and the base of the skull up and away from the torso without feeling a strain in the sides of the neck.

Allow your head to tip back just enough so you feel your skull balancing at the top end of your spine.

Find that place of balance,

Pressuring the head slightly back as though you're resting your head in the headrest of your car.

Make the crown of the head feel open and to do that open your palate.

Lift the cheekbones and make them broaden so that the sinuses begin to open.

The eyes,

The back of the eyes,

Will start to get larger and you will feel more light flooding into your senses.

See if you can make the earlobes heavy and the top of the ears perk upward so that the eardrum,

The ear canal,

Opens and vibrates more.

And all of your senses merge into your third eye at the frontal lobes of the brain and the frontal lobes of the brain begin to open and you may feel a release of hormones down into the body.

The fabric of your skin tingles and the crown of the head opens and you can feel a pulling up sensation and a backward pressure.

And if you were to follow the crown of your head and your pelvic floor,

They would be pulling away and back and eventually towards each other where they complete a circuit,

A circle,

In line with the core of your heart behind you.

And you can feel between the pelvic floor and the crown of the head,

The circumferential rings that stay balanced and even in tone.

And perhaps you can notice a sense of ease in your seat,

An ease in your emotion and your mind,

A change from where you were to where you are now.

And that kindness and appreciation opens the doors towards delight.

Float your fingertips out in front of you,

Out in front of your chest,

And encircle your arms until the very tips of your finger pads touch,

Touching almost the nails to each other.

Let the elbows float up and out in front of you and the fingertips push towards each other.

The heels of your hand narrow so that underneath the thumb joint,

The mound of Venus,

But the top of the hand,

The skin side is softer and the ridge top at the knuckle start to broaden and the heel of the hand starts to gently press towards each other,

Reaching the hands more forward so that the circle inside your arm gets bigger as an offering from your heart.

We make offerings outreaching into service.

When we reach out through our heart,

The rib cage behind us holds more so we feel grounded from the inside and we can connect to others this way.

And with your eyes closed,

Just feeling this new posture,

Pressuring the baby fingers down onto an imaginary desk as you lift up even more,

Feeling this expansion from the rib cage,

From the back of the ribs,

The back of the heart,

Encircling the entire rib cage to the front of the heart as you lift and open more.

And now from the back of the heart,

Make the second ring of the arms till your fingertips are touching in front of you.

And then the third heart or the third ring from thumb to fingertips and feel each of these three rings,

Rib cage,

Arms,

Hands,

Open and wide,

Expanding,

Yet touching with such sensitivity.

And now going to the center of the heart and feeling the roundness from the front of the heart to the back of the heart.

And now the roundness from the back of the pelvis,

Front and back again.

And from the back of the head,

Circling under the chin,

Up over the face and around the back of the head again.

So three rings forward on the horizontal plane and three rings up and down on the vertical plane,

Moving and floating away from each other.

Stay here for just one more breath,

Breathing in deeply.

And now as you exhale,

Just bring your fingertips down to your thighs once again,

Holding this open posture.

And when you're ready,

Blink your eyes open.

You are now sitting in a posture for optimal energy flow.

Practice this posture often and just notice the difference.

Perhaps you're a light worker,

An oracle reader,

Or perhaps you're a student studying for an exam.

Wherever you are and whatever you do,

Remember to sit in a posture for optimal energy flow.

Thank you for joining me.

Namaste.

Reviews

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