Tibetan Yoga for Health & Well-Being by Alejandro Chaoul

Author:Alejandro Chaoul
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2018-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

SET 2: HEAD PURIFICATION

Body part: Head

Chakra: Throat and crown

Breath-energy: Upward moving

Element: Earth

For the three movements of the Head Purification, begin by focusing on your throat chakra and connecting with the upward-moving breath-energy. At the end of each movement, exhale and release obstacles through your crown chakra while maintaining a sense of grounding and embodiment at your throat chakra, which connects to the support of the earth element.

For the movements in this set, start in the cross-legged seated position, with your hands forming vajra fists by placing your thumbs at the base of your ring fingers and making a fist. Then press slightly at your inguinal crease (where the leg begins below the torso). Extend your arms to lengthen and straighten your torso and then slightly relax your shoulders.

Each movement begins with inhaling through both nostrils and welcoming and guiding your breath by visualizing it following your side channels. As your breath-energy enters your central channel at the junction, guide it up your central channel and hold it at your throat chakra. In that hold, the throat stays soft and relaxed (without a bandha or lock), and you can feel the ascending quality of your upward-moving breath-energy, supported by the movement of your head.

At the conclusion of each of these head-purification movements, focus on the subtle exhalation released upward through your crown chakra, releasing its air along with your energetic and emotionally charged obstacles. Feel the support of the earth element at your throat chakra as you remain grounded, guiding your subtle breath down your central channel to the junction of the three channels and up the side channels, and then releasing your physical breath through your nostrils.

After doing all three of the head-purification movements one time, come back to the cross-legged position or five-point posture. Notice how you feel in your throat and crown chakras and rest your mind in that sense of openness and stability in your meditative, or A, state of mind.

Principal Movement #4: Bending the Neck (Ke kyok)

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