Enjoy this nourishing Five Element Yoga® flow includes breathing, mudras and easy yoga! Learn how to shine your radiant light through your body and energy channels. For all levels. 5-10 minutes (can be practiced longer by repeating sequences).
1. Dirgha Pranayama
Begin by resting your hands on your belly and heart, breathing Dirgha Three Part Breath. Expand breath through belly, ribs, collarbones, exaggerating your breath to fully inflate. Take five breaths.
2. Kapota Mudra
INHALE: Draw your fingertips together. Feel the altar of your heart.
3. Tejas Mudra
EXHALE: Open your fingers up to Tejas Light Mudra. Allow your heart light to radiate out into your being and out into the world.
(Repeat both mudras two to three more repetitions with breath.)
4. Seated Heart Expansion
Kneel on the floor or sit on a chair. INHALE: Expand your heart and chest by bending your elbow and turning the palms upward.
5. Uplift Your Light
EXHALE: Send your light upward as you rise up to radiate outward.
(Repeat 4 & 5 three times or more)
6. Sun Breath Table Twists
Place your hands in front of you on the floor and step your knees back into Table Pose. INHALE: Lift your Right arm up to the sun. EXHALE: Sweep your hand back down to the floor. INHALE: Lift Left EXHALE: Release down again.
(Repeat Right & Left lifts three or more times)
7. Energizing Crab Lifts
INHALE: Lean back on your hands and place your feet hip distance apart in front of you. Lift your hips off the floor an inch.
8. HA! Breath
EXHALE: Lift your hips upward and shout ‘HA!’ (like a karate kick sound).
(Repeat three times or more)
9. Rest and Reflect
Place your hands on belly and heart once again. Go inward and notice your breath and radiant light energy. Continue with your day beaming light everywhere you go!
Five Element Yoga® is a vibrant and colorful flowing practice created by Jennifer Reis. This potent practice realigns you with the rhythms of nature as you explore your inner five elements drawing from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, yoga and yoga therapy.
An all-levels yoga practice, Five Element Yoga® invites you to revitalize body with yoga postures, flow with yogic breathing, tune into your energy with mudras, detoxify with self-massage, deeply rest and rejuvenate in Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra, and integrate your discoveries with creative expression and reflection. More Info
Join Jennifer for Five Element Yoga® Daily Classes and Workshops and Five Element Yoga® Teacher Training.
Recommended practice on CD or MP3 download: Five Element Yoga®: All Levels Guided Yoga Practice and Deep Relaxation: Divine Sleep® Yoga Nidra
