Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation instructor working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth non secular follow and power therapeutic.
Learn on to find Leila’s 5 poses for enchanting power…
Urdhva Hastāsana & Uttanāsana
I usually sequence these two poses collectively to assist college students transfer away from their considering thoughts and towards a extra meditative state.
Transfer between standing together with your arms over your head, to a ahead fold, and again up once more, at any tempo, and in any means that you just select. Maintain transferring between the 2 poses.
When you find yourself folded ahead, intend to attach with the power of the Earth.
When you find yourself standing together with your arms over your head, intend to attach with the sky.
Pulse between the 2 and observe your sense of connection to Earth and sky.
*For people who discover ahead folding difficult or who tend to have low again hassle, you may follow the ahead fold by bringing your forearms onto your thighs, with bent knees, thereby resting your higher physique’s weight in your legs, lowering traction on the low again. You can too make the gesture of reaching as much as the sky, and gesturing in the direction of the ground, seated in a chair, if standing in your ft is inaccessible.
Tarāsana
This pose is an unsung hero, for my part. I sequence it in my courses between extra advanced and bodily demanding pose varieties to cue my college students to interact flows of power with extra intention and fewer bodily effort and pressure.
My steering on this pose is:
To have the sense of extending from the very centre of your physique and your being, into each peripheral level (crown of head, tail, ft & fingers, fringe of your pores and skin throughout), with out doing and bodily effort to create that impact.
Maintain this pose and observe the radiant power that strikes from the within out. In case you occur to note that power strikes again in as nicely, then you may observe the heartbeat between the in-going and out-going power.
*This may be practiced with the assist of a wall behind you, or seated in a chair with legs and arms unfold as huge as you may simply take them.
Bhumi Sparśa Mudra
I like the energetics of this mudra. I don’t wish to say an excessive amount of about it, as I feel it’s greatest to only expertise it for your self and see how it’s for you. I’ll say this: I’m very concerned about serving to individuals to expertise the elemental ‘rightness’ or ‘okayness’ of their existence, no matter what’s going on of their lives. I discover this one useful for that, amongst different issues.
Mudra is extra delicate than āsana for many individuals, so I supply a little bit steering right here that can assist you sink into the subtlety.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, take your left hand to your coronary heart, and your proper fingertips to both the ground or to the seat of the chair.
To sink into the expertise of the mudra, observe the sense of realizing what (with none thought based mostly reflection on what , simply the sense of realizing issues, which after all you do, as a form of presence in your life). Discover what occurs, if something, as you make the bodily gesture of evenly touching the Earth, with a light-weight consideration on the sense of realizing what .
Respiratory alongside your Centre
Trying again on my early days of follow, I’m so grateful to have had academics encourage me to find and enhance consideration on my bodily centre as a means of accessing the extra delicate dimensions of my bodyworld. It’s nonetheless so highly effective and I usually embody practices for articulating the centre in my courses.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, organise your physique in such a means that the centre of your head is instantly above the centre of your pelvis, to one of the best of your skill, and with as little effort as you may handle. (In different phrases, don’t make use of rigidity to take care of this place – simply intention for it and let go.)
Breathe from the crown of your head, tracing your consciousness alongside the centre of your physique, all the best way right down to the centre of your pelvis. Comply with the subsequent section of breath again up by way of the centre from pelvis to crown. There is no such thing as a want to increase your breath or attempt to make it longer than it naturally is. You possibly can be at liberty to take deep breaths if you happen to like however it isn’t essential.
You could discover that it takes a little bit of follow to synch your breath up with the motion of your consideration alongside the centre of your physique. You may additionally discover locations alongside the centre the place it’s tougher to have consciousness. As you have interaction this follow, hold meaning to clean your consideration into each a part of your vertical core, and to have the breath and your consideration transfer easily and in live performance to one of the best of your skill.
Do that for so long as you would like. 5 to 10 minutes could also be good for people who’re newer to this, and also you would possibly attempt it after training āsana, earlier than savāsana. If you’re doing this for greater than a few minutes, I like to recommend a much less deep breath sample.
When you cease, observe the sense that you’ve of your centre.
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