Leila Sadeghee is a yoga and meditation instructor working throughout the fields of priestessing, motion, yoga asana, depth non secular observe 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 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 method that you simply select. Preserve shifting between the 2 poses.
If you find yourself folded ahead, intend to attach with the power of the Earth.
If 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 folk who discover ahead folding tough or who generally tend to have low again hassle, you’ll be able to observe 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 may as well 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 toes 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 have interaction flows of power with extra intention and fewer bodily effort and pressure.
My steerage 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, toes & arms, 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 effectively, then you’ll be able to 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 vast as you’ll be able to simply take them.
Bhumi Sparśa Mudra
I really like the energetics of this mudra. I don’t wish to say an excessive amount of about it, as I feel it’s finest to only expertise it for your self and see how it’s for you. I’ll say this: I’m very focused on 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 provide a bit steerage 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 understanding what you already know (with none thought primarily based reflection on what you already know, simply the sense of understanding issues, which after all 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 light-weight consideration on the sense of understanding what you already know.
Respiration alongside your Centre
Trying again on my early days of observe, I’m so grateful to have had academics encourage me to find and improve consideration on my bodily centre as a method of accessing the extra delicate dimensions of my bodyworld. It’s nonetheless so highly effective and I typically embody practices for articulating the centre in my lessons.
Seated both on the ground or in a chair, organise your physique in such a method that the centre of your head is immediately above the centre of your pelvis, to the most effective of your potential, and with as little effort as you’ll be able to 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 via the centre from pelvis to crown. There isn’t a want to increase your breath or attempt to make it longer than it naturally is. You may be happy to take deep breaths in the event you like however it isn’t essential.
You could discover that it takes a little bit of observe 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 observe, hold desiring 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 most effective of your potential.
Do that for so long as you want. 5 to 10 minutes could also be good for people who’re newer to this, and also you may attempt it after working towards 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 got of your centre.
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