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Criss-Cross.
Lie on your back and lift your legs to 12 inches. Begin criss-crossing
your legs left over right, then right over left. Spread the legs wide.
After 5 minutes, inhale and apply Mulbandh. Rest for 2 ½ minutes.
Then repeat the cycle. Keep the legs straight throughout.
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Push-Pull.
Lift both legs 2 feet off the ground. Begin a bicycling motion, keeping
the legs parallel to the ground. Continue for 5 minutes. Rest for 2 ½
minutes. Then repeat the cycle.
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Easy Pose.
Lift the arms straight above the head. The fingers are interlocked over
the back of the hands, with the palms facing the sky. Do Breath of Fire
for 5 minutes.
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Easy Pose.
Clasp opposite shoulders with the thumbs forward. The arms are crossed
behind the head. Do Breath of Fire for 5 minutes. Then inhale, exhale,
inhale, hold and circulate the energy. Exhale and apply Mulbandh,
inhale and exhale. Apply Mulbandh three times.
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Corpse Pose.
Relax completely. Separate the mental body from the physical and move it
around for about 5 minutes. Then bring it back.
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Chant any divine mantra.
Comments:
This is a Kriya that is good when you want to work very hard. Saturday, the
day of Saturn, the Task Master, is an excellent day to practice it. The
Kriya moves the Kundalini energy from the lower three charkas in Exercises 1
and 2 through the Heart Center in Exercise 3 and through the Throat Chakra
to the Higher Centers in Exercise 4. Mental projection and meditation are
automatic afterwards.
The hardest part of the series is the
beginning. If you attempt the full time of the exercises on your first
trial you may have a sore stomach and weak legs unless you are in excellent
shape. Do what you can and do it gracefully, breathing consciously
throughout. The sexual and digestive energies require a little work to
balance.
As you do Exercise 3 feel all the worries
of the day drop away. Feel like you are rising above the clouds and that
your entire body is filled with the light energy of breath. In Exercise 4,
feel that light energy lift to your head and project your mind into an
expansive peacefulness. The hard work brings deep relaxation and the
experience that you have the latent power to cleanse and vitalize yourself
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