Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation trainer 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 typically sequence these two poses collectively to assist college students transfer away from their pondering 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 manner that you simply select. Hold shifting between the 2 poses.
When you’re folded ahead, intend to attach with the power of the Earth.
When you’re 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 generally 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, decreasing traction on the low again. You too can make the gesture of reaching as much as the sky, and gesturing in direction of the ground, seated in a chair, if standing in your ft is inaccessible.
Tarāsana
This pose is an unsung hero, in my view. I sequence it in my lessons between extra complicated and bodily demanding pose kinds 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. If you happen to occur to note that power strikes again in as properly, then you may observe the heartbeat between the in-going and out-going power.
*This may be practiced with the help 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 need to say an excessive amount of about it, as I believe it’s greatest to simply expertise it for your self and see how it’s for you. I’ll say this: I’m very eager about serving to individuals to expertise the basic ‘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 refined than āsana for many individuals, so I supply a bit of 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 figuring out what you recognize (with none thought based mostly reflection on what you recognize, simply the sense of figuring out issues, which in fact you do, as a sort of presence in your life). Discover what occurs, if something, as you make the bodily gesture of flippantly touching the Earth, with a lightweight consideration on the sense of figuring out what you recognize.
Respiration alongside your Centre
Trying again on my early days of follow, I’m so grateful to have had lecturers encourage me to find and enhance consideration on my bodily centre as a manner of accessing the extra refined dimensions of my bodyworld. It’s nonetheless so highly effective and I typically embrace practices for articulating the centre in my lessons.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, organise your physique in such a manner that the centre of your head is straight above the centre of your pelvis, to the perfect of your capability, 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 all the way down to the centre of your pelvis. Observe the subsequent section of breath again up by means 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 may be at liberty to take deep breaths in case you like however it isn’t mandatory.
Chances are you’ll 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 might also discover locations alongside the centre the place it’s harder to have consciousness. As you have interaction this follow, hold aspiring 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 the perfect of your capability.
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 practising āsana, earlier than savāsana. In case you are 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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