Envision: Water Solutions

Namaste. Welcome to practice. This practice will be our envision practice for water solutions. This relates to cancer, to scorpio, and to pisces. Water signs tend to be very creative, emotional, and tend to go with the flow.

This practice will help us to feel reset, determined, and specific so that we can use some of that potent creative energy in a productive way. So we'll be doing some kundalini yoga, and you'll need two blocks, one blanket for this practice. You can start off in a comfortable seat, whether it's sitting cross legged on a block, on a blanket, However, you're the most comfortable, and we're gonna start off with what we call the Adi mantra or the first mantra in kundalini. It chants We'll do it three times. I call on infinite creative consciousness.

So my water signs, this one's a perfect mantra for Can rub the palms together, taking hands to chest, Anjali Mudra, And we'll chat together. Guru. And take a full breath in and a full breath out. Good. And then for our first exercise, arms come out nice and strong, shoulder height. You'll just simply cross the right arm on top of the left, open the arms back out, and then do the opposite crossing the left arm on top of the right arm.

Poms are facing downward for this one, and we'll do this for three minutes. Get yourself set up. And, of course, as always, if it gets to be too much, you stop, you lower the arms, and perhaps come back in and join us again, or stay with long smooth breathing. But here we go. Three minutes. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Now you can stay with the breathing for this.

Or if you prefer working with mantra, this would be satnam, satnam, satnam, satnam, sat nam. Satnam. Satnam. So for my kundalini folks, you know that Satnam is often used in kundalini exercises, and Satnam translates into truth I am that. Truth, I am that. So we'll stay with this. Keep your breath going or keep your mantra going.

And remember, kundalini yoga is designed to be provocative. So if those emotions are coming up, if you're one of those watery signs or perhaps it's just scorpio season or pisces season, and you're feeling a little bit more emotional than usual totally natural. But let's take those emotions and channel them into useful action. And that's one of the things that Kundalini is so helpful for. Right? It's taking action. It's kriya yoga.

And create a means action. So stay with it. Stay with it. You're doing great. See if you can keep it going. And if you need to slow the pace down, you'll slow the pace down.

If you'd like to make it a bit faster, then you'll make it a bit faster, but find your rhythm here and then stay with it. And that's that determination. That's that specificity commitment. All of those qualities that we're looking to bring in not to eliminate what we already have, but to keep it useful. Stay with it.

Stay with it. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Bills, bills, bills, fields, wheels, wheels, wheels, wheels, wheels, wheels, And then for our last twenty seconds, if you can speed it up, speed it up. If you need to stay at the pace you're at, you'll stay at the pace you're at, but we'll call this maybe ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one. And then turn your fobs upward on your thighs and just feel You might already be feeling a little bit of tingling in the fingers, the arms, the shoulders across the chest. Oftentimes, not always, but oftentimes the kundalini practices are not subtle and very effective.

Take a full breath in. Open your mouth if you need to. Good. And then if you need to give your legs a little shake out, you'll give your legs a little shake out. You can recross in the opposite direction, and we'll take our next exercise. This is another one where we're gonna be utilizing fists. Right? So this one simply, we roll the fists, roll the fist, roll the fist, roll the fists, and as you're doing this, breath stays long and smooth for this one. Again, if you'd like to close your eyes, you're welcome to close the eyes.

Internal gaze in this one would go upward towards the third eye center in the middle of the skull. We'll be doing two minutes with this one. So deep breath in. Deep breathe out. And begin.

And you might notice as you do this that organically the breath starts to get bigger and fuller, almost coming from a deeper place, low down in the belly. Working its way upward. See if you can stay with it. Stay with it. Stay with it. Strong through the fists.

Tight through the fingers. Keep it going, keep it going stirring up that energy, stirring up that Prana shakti. And last ten, nine, eight, seven, maybe speed it up six, five, four, three, two, and one, and release. Let your fingers open. Turn your palms upward on your thighs, maybe a play of the pawns there harnessing the power so that the wave doesn't feel too overwhelming the wave of emotions, the waves of creativity.

Good. I hope you're feeling very buzzy for our next exercise. We will be standing up so you can come off your blanket block if you're sitting on that. Place those off to the side. And then you're gonna grab two blocks for this one and take them up to their highest height about shoulder width apart and come up to stand. So I'm gonna offer two different variations for this one. We're going to be coming into a warrior three with a slight bend in your right leg.

We'll start with right leg down, left leg up. And just like we do in hatha yoga, just a warrior three here, So you can do arms back. Or if you feel like you might need more support for this one, you'll take your hands on your blocks about shoulder width apart. Really work on leveling off the pelvis as best you can strong through that back leg, supporting leg, right leg for this first time, right leg can be slight right knee can be slightly bent here. Alright? Just so it's not quite so much on the knee joint. Yeah? And we'll be doing two minutes per side. And that's a long time to be holding a warrior three. So if you find that during the in the middle of it, you feel like you need to put your hands on blocks and get a little bit more support, then by all means you're welcome to do that. Alright?

So let's get started with this. It's long, smooth breathing. No breath of fire for this one. But feel your feet. Give yourself a moment to tadasana.

And then as you're ready, you can bend the left knee in towards the chest, give it a little squeeze, and then bending both knees start to kick the left leg back. Slight bend in the right knee. You're in your zero three and your breath begins. Two minutes inhaling and exhaling. And inhale, and exhale.

Find a steady place for your gaze to land. The blocks are there if you need them. Right knee can stay slightly bent. Full the bottom ribs in. Feel the length.

Reaching from the left heel all the way through the crown of the head. Open across the chest. Shoulder blades coming together on the back body. And if you wobble, you wobble. If you fall, you fall, you'll get back into it.

And it might be a little bit of hands on blocks and then hands off blocks. And you've got your last twenty seconds. You're almost there. Ten, nine, eight, seven, 65432. And one step your left foot to meet your right foot and stand up.

This one really lights up that supporting leg. Let yourself be and breathe for a moment. And then we'll try the other side stepping into the left foot, bring the right knee up. Give it a little squeeze. And then you'll start to kick back through the right leg, reach forward through the chest, forward through the chin, and we begin breathing in.

Breathing out. Inhale. Exale. Keep the breath smooth. The gaze steady.

I'm sure you can be wobbling. Because balance is dynamic. We know this. It's not stagnant. And that's where that water element is so useful.

We know how to go with the flow. We know that stuckness is not our nature. And we've got the tools of the practice to help to stay on course. Breathing in. Breathing out.

Full inhales. Full exhales. Know that at any time you can put hands down, and bringing them back up if you need. And last ten, nine, Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one. Right foot comes down.

Stand up. Breathe. And this might be one that you come back to over and over and over again. Just doing your best each time. And so our last exercise will be lying on our backs that might feel really good just about now.

So you can take your blocks off your mat and move them out of your way. So they're not directly to the sides of your mat, and take a blanket and you'll place that towards the top of your space with the smooth end towards the back of your space. And come to lie down on your back. Head and neck can rest on the blanket, shoulders can be off the blanket here. Take your arms out in a big tee.

Palms can turn upward to start and give yourself a moment in constructive rest. So feet go a little wider, knees knock in on each other, press the backs of your arms into the ground below you, feel that opening across the chest. Take a full breath in. Take a full breath out. And then turn the palms downward towards the ground and kick your legs up towards the ceiling.

Now knees can stay bent here if that feels better on your hamstrings and your lower back or legs can be straight. We're going to be dropping the legs from side to side. We'll do this for two minutes, and this really gets some energy going around that third chakra that chakra that is associated with stamina and determination and clear sightedness. So take a full breath in. And on the breath out, drop the feet over towards your left hand, letting them hover off the ground and then lift them back up and take them over towards the right hand. Lift back up.

Two minutes of this. Stay with it. Drop it over towards the left hand. Lifting back up over towards the right hand. Lifting back up. And if at any time and keep going, but if at any time you start to feel this in your lower back or your hamstrings are speaking to you a little too loudly, feel free to bend your knees.

It's an incredibly potent exercise whether the legs are long or are the knees are bent. Stay with it. And my pace is not very fast here. So feel free to stay with the piece that I'm at, or if you need to go a bit more slowly, or you're feeling the need to go a bit more quickly, you can do that. But this is an incredibly good exercise for digestion to get some strength in the core and the obliques. Even in the backs of the shoulders. Right? The arms are active here.

And to the right, back up to center. Keep it going. You can even utilize the breath to help you out here a strong exhalation to lift the legs back up towards the ceiling. And you're almost there. And drop to the left.

Lift back up, and over to the right, and back up. And this is our last twenty seconds, see if you can stay with it. Over to the left. And over to the right. And last time, over to the left, and over to the right. And the pendulum goes right back up towards the ceiling, feet, come down to the ground.

Give yourself just like a breath to lengthen the legs. Play the arms. And then as you're ready, little wiggle through the fingers and through the toes. Couple of bigger breaths. And then you've got some options here. Right? If you're enjoying being on your back, stay on your back.

If you'd prefer to do your visualization sitting up, you'll step your feet down to the ground, rolling towards your right side, press into your hands, make your way up to sit. And then you're back in your comfortable seat, whether you sit on a blanket or a block, or for those of you that prefer to stay down, you're on your back. Let your hands rest on your thighs. Eyes can close here. And in your mind's eye, see the water.

Contained. By the banks around it. Whole. And in this moment, calm. Yes.

Capable of great potential for movement. Yes. Deep below the surface. There is life, an action, and worlds not revealed above the surface. But from what we're seeing in this moment, see the water as the surface of lake.

Dynamically still. Just the softest ripples. Surrounded contained in this moment. Under a clear of blue sky. No hint of rain.

Nothing in this moment that would create overflow. Nothing in this moment. Could possibly be destructive. Deep, soulful water, held by the boundary of land. Surface.

Bright with the reflection of the sun. Reflecting. Flaccid blue sky. Hold that vision. Just a moment more.

And then, and such an appropriate fashion. We'll close at the Kundalini mantra of Satnam. Truth. I am that. Breathing in.

Nam thank you so much for sharing your practice. Namaste.