Welcome,
everyone. Thank you for bringing your energy today. I can really feel
it in the air, warm and thick. Feel that? It’s almost electric. Yes, I
definitely feel it.
We’re going
to start in a cross-legged position. And let’s reach up through the neck as we
push our sit bones into the floor. Feel yourself growing as you extend the
crown of your head and your pelvic floor in opposing directions.
Now just
breathe. Good air comes in; dead air is released. Think about isolating your
toxins and expelling them from your body. In . . . and out. Let those cells go.
They are negative and heavy; they cause depression and anxiety. In . . . and
out.
You feel
lighter already, don’t you? What you’re experiencing is the negative pull of
gravity, harnessed and refocused. There are studies that show that people who
stretch live a full decade longer. It’s really that simple, that easy. If you
just do this every day, your whole body will rejuvenate. Yes, hold that right
there, and silently dedicate today’s practice to the wonder that is biology.
Now reach
your arms to the ceiling, up as high as they’ll go. Feel that stretch all the
way down your sides—through to your pancreas and into your liver. These organs
do so much for us, purifying the body of negative energy and reorienting your
chakras toward the sun. Send them a message of thanks: Thank you, liver. Thank
you, pancreas.
We now know
that gratitude is the antidote to disease and that people who do this stretch
in particular are able to open up their rib cages just enough to release bad
energy and the illness it can cause. Breathe. Great. You’re all doing so great.
Push yourself only as far as feels right for your body, as we’re all entirely
genetically different. Your body’s unique needs are encoded in your DNA, which
is always growing and changing in the bloodstream, the body’s
communication system. Feel your blood getting stronger, growing warmer and more
buoyant, washing the plaque away from your heart. Keep breathing.
When we
point our hearts’ centers toward the floor like this, our spines begin to align
with the curvature of the earth. The analytical brain then sinks naturally into
the emotional, visceral gut. The gut is where the body grows love, which
neutralizes negative ions to balance your mood swings.
Now deepen
into that stretch, take a big inhale, and share an om with me. All together
now: Ooooommm. Feel those vibrations? Notice anything extra-special
about them? Your om actually vibrates at the exact same frequency as the wind.
The natural world already lives inside you.
Then take your
vinyasa, synching your movements to your breath and your breath to your
lymphatic system. Feel your heartbeat moving through each vertebra. If you can
replace just half of the clogged tension you encounter with acceptance, studies
show you’ll be twice as happy. Chant “I deserve twice this happiness” twenty
times to be twice happier again.
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