Standing Energy Vitality Practice

Join Sarah for this 5 minute energy vitality practice. This is done standing so no props are needed. We will flow through a short Qi Gong inspired flow to ground our energy and recentre. This can be a great way to start the day or even a practice to come back to when you need some calm.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to your energy vitality practice. I'm Sarah. So we'll start by finding our feet right underneath our hips. Feel all the pads of your toes, The balls of your feet, Your heels equally. Distributing weight. Then you're just gonna gently bend. And bounce into your knees. Feel the weight going down down down down down let's take a nice deep inhale And exhale. Now feel your pelvis relaxing. All the muscles gently relaxing. Feel the energy grounding. If you like you can make a deep low sound. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH And then start to bring the breath back through the nose. Inhale through the nose. And exhale. Then we're going to start with gentle twists. You let your arms swing. They can either sway to wherever they might. Land on your body or if you like you can bring one arm up to your shoulder and the other arm to your lower back or your kidneys. So again, I'm keeping my knees bent here. So I'm protecting my knees and letting my body twist from the hips and the waist as well. My ankles are soft. I'm letting my head rotate with this movement. Good. A few more. Nice deep breath. All right, Then we're going to do a pat yourself on the back. So we'll bring the arms up to our upper back and then bend forward and bring them to the low back of the kidneys. And down And down. Again my knees are just bent throughout this whole practice. Just a gentle. . . Pat on your back. Nice. And I let my head and neck follow this movement. And if you have any. Injuries or any. Tension just modify as you need the best for your body Now the next movement we're going to do I call the speed skater, Which is really fun. I grew up in Canada. So we let both arms swing to one side. I bend further into my opposite knee and I look behind me where my arms are going. They come up in the middle. The front. Go side, Middle. Side middle Then just let this be easy and loose. A nice swing nice relaxing swing Thank you. Okay one or two more to balance out your side Let me do some shoulder circles. So I actually keep my elbow and my wrist bent and floppy here. So I'm just isolating the shoulder. I'm starting with my. . . One arm with one direction. Now we'll go the other direction. My knees are slightly bent here, So I'm keeping my. . . Pelvis relax. My ankles relaxed. Torso relax face relaxed. Good it will do the other arm so again the elbow and wrist is relaxed. Doing some nice shoulder circles in one direction. Take a nice deep breath in through your nose, Out through your nose. Okay, Go the other direction with that elbow. Hmm. Good. And this next one I absolutely adore. So we're going to put our palms together. We're going to slide the palms across our whole body. Um and back so you're going to add a little twist again your knees are bent your hips are bent And I'm sliding. The palm across my whole arm and chest. So I want you to feel your own touch and your head can follow the arm that goes straight. My knees are bent, My hips are relaxed. Gentle twist. Nice breath here. Then after we go to our right side. We're going to bring that energy forward and go HA! Throw it forward with a big high. So now that's twist to your left. Let's do two more. Ha! Good, Now gather the energy up. Bring it down through the center. Good then gather the energy up through the center and go out this way Inhale up and exhale. It's like you're creating a big energy protective sphere around you. Nice. Then we're going to gather one more time. And this time we can bring our hands to prayer palms at heart center. Your smile to your face. Namaste. Thank you for the practice.