The Tibetan Book of Yoga by Geshe Michael Roach

Author:Geshe Michael Roach [Roach, Geshe Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-55231-0
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Published: 2003-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Take a breath out and then inhale and sit up straight.

Diamond Wheel, arch

Out-breath: Keeping your fingers interlocked behind your back, pull your hands backward until the heart raises up and you arch back gently. Tilt your head back slightly and gaze to the sky, holding the pose for five cycles of exhale/inhale. As always, concentrate the bend at the heart, not the lower back or neck.

Exhale and release the pose.

How the Exercise Works on You

Jey Tsong Khapa, Teacher of the First

The two poses in this exercise have Dalai Lama a two-step physical effect. The front bend over our legs is one of the best ways to open up the knot in the inner channels within the lower back. Again, this knot is ultimately the reason why so many of us have trouble with our lower back in the first place. In a tiny form, the knot is present in the body even during the first few moments of life, just after the sperm of the father combines with the egg of the mother.

Thoughts at a subconscious level, connected to inner winds, are already jamming up then at the knot. The bones of our inner back gradually form around the knot, already one of the weakest and most vulnerable points in our body's framework. This exercise helps open the knot, which we need to do if we want to open the corresponding knot at our hearts.

This is because there is an affinity between the tie-up points in our body—much like the interconnection of the five levels themselves. Just as breathing more calmly triggers a better flow in our inner winds, a loosening of one of the major knots in the body triggers a loosening in the other knots. Working at the lower back does half the work at the heart.

The real work at the heart comes with clasping our hands behind our back. This automatically opens the chest; again, try to push your shoulder blades together in back, to enhance the effect. As you turn to the side, consciously try to turn not only your neck and lower back, but also the area of the spine behind your heart.

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