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YEM: YOGA AS ENERGY MEDICINE

YEM: YOGA AS ENERGY MEDICINE

TURN YOUR PERSPECTIVE
Upside Down

This simple and safe exercise will deepen your
awareness of this amazing wave-like energy that
exists throughout your
body/being, in particular,
as it travels up and down
your legs.
EXERCISE
1. Find a quiet and relaxed
environment
where you can lie on
the floor on a towel or
yoga mat.
2. After doing Savasana,
The Breathing Wave
and Discovering The
Wave,
bring
your
breath
awareness
from the crown of
your head through
your body and down
into your toes. Feel
your
whole
body
breathing.

Image credit: Walter Lai

W

e spend most of our lives on our feet. Even when we are sitting at a desk, our feet usually touch the floor, brushing up against a surface. The value in inversions in yoga offers
practitioners the opportunity to literally turn their perspective upside down. They can see
life from a different point of view. Other the the biological advantages such as increased
blood flow and circulation, inversions offer us a way to consider the ways in which we may
be making assumptions so that we may open to this moment with greater freshness.
In last month’s issue, we looked more deeply at the presence of a wave-like energy that
exists in the spine and flows through all of life. The awareness of this energy is at the core of
my work in YEM: Yoga as Energy Medicine. By understanding it, your yoga poses, and ultimately your life, will effortlessly flower from deep within.
If you have not already, before you proceed with the following exercise, please prepare
by going back to do Savasana and then The Breathing Wave and Discovering The Wave
to cultivate awareness of life-force energy through your body/being. This will greatly assist in
you reaping the full benefits of the safe and gentle exercise we are about to do together.

3. While lying on your
back, interlock your
fingers and turn your
palms up towards the
sky. Press your heels up
towards the sky, feet
flat, legs straight.
4. As you inhale, point
your toes. Sense the

energy move down
your spine.
5. As you exhale, press
out your heels. Sense
the
energy
move
along your arms towards your palms,
and along your legs,
out your feet. Imagine
the feet are like water
spouts, as the energy
expands there.
6. Allow your spine to rest
neutral along the floor,
as your hips release
towards the ground.
Pressing your heels
up towards the sky,
you still aim to sense
the release through
your hips towards the
ground. There is always two way moving energy throughout
your body/being.

letting go of your grip
a bit. Exhale, knees
rest into the belly as it
goes back, hugging
your knees into the
chest. Feel your spine
long. Easy through the
jaw and chin, long
and open through the
pelvis.
9. Eventually, bring your
breathing back to
what feels more normal for you and release your legs. Take a
few more long breaths
and roll over onto your
right side, before you
press yourself up into
sitting.

7. Repeat. Toes point,
inhale. Heels press, exhale for as long as you
like. Feel your whole
body breathing.
8. When you have had
enough, bend your
knees into your chest
and hug them. Inhale, feel your belly
rise, knees rise slightly,

Parvati Devi is the editor-in-chief of Parvati Magazine. In addition
to being an internationally acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter,
producer and performer, she is a yoga teacher and holistic educator.
Having studied yoga and meditation since 1987, Parvati developed
her own yoga teaching style called YEMTM Yoga as Energy
Medicine. Her music brings forward a conscious energy into the pop
mainstream. Her book “Confessions of a Former Yoga Junkie” is a road
map to a revolutionary life makeover for sincere spiritual seekers.
For more information on Parvati, please visit www.parvati.tv.