Tibetan Power Wave - Xanda Monteiro

"Without mastering breathing, nothing can be mastered." P. D. Ouspensky

Children's workshops will include memory games, learning how to breathe and Tibetan Yoga.

STEP ONE - PERFECT THE MOVEMENT

Before you begin the cycle, take two conscious breaths. When exhaling, very powerfully expel the air from your lungs. Imagine that you are ejecting the tensions of the body and mind in the form of black air.

When you sport this exercise with breathing your individual motions become more conscious.

When you are starting, do three prostrations on the first day. It is essential that your body learns to move properly. Built it up slow, one a day to fifteen.
Fifteen prostration's are perfectly adequate until the movement has turned into second nature. Then you can start being mentally involved.

Each prostration includes inhaling twice and exhaling twice. Gently inhale as you stand and touch the top of your head, mouth and heart with your folded hands. While doing this, imagine that the radiant energy of the cosmos is floating into your body. Slowly exhale while gliding down to the floor. While you move your arms in the shape of an arc to your hips, and stand up, inhale once again. Finally when you are standing, exhale once again.

Stand straight as a candle and place the palm of your hands together in front of your chest. This is the starting position in which you first collect yourself.

Now lift your hands up to the top of your head. In a flowing motion bring them back down over your throat to your chest. The top of the head, throat and chest are chakra points. Pause briefly at each of them.

Place your hands on your practice cloth pieces. Now you can smoothly glide forwards. Do not remain in this position. Move your arms, stretched out an in a wide circular arc, back to your hips.

Then get up immediately, first on your knees, then squatting, and then stand up in a completely erect position.

Return to the starting position by placing your hands together in front of your chest.

Be sure that your feet are always on the same spot. Be sure that your stomach does not touch the floor too soon. It should only rest on it when your hands are almost stretched out all the way. Don't caution your fall by getting on your knees. This cuts the power of this exercise in half.

Try to feel your body to be a wave during the exercise, as soft, flowing movement.

STEP TWO - OPEN YOUR HEART

When you are comfortable with the movement and the breading and the physical side turns into second nature you can start building your prostration's to forty. Do then in rows of ten. If you become tired during the exercise, rest while you are standing.

When you have adjusted to forty prostrations you will achieve a good physical and mental effect.

You should also get to know an interesting effect of the prostration's. They cleanse the energy channels in the body. The impulses of the autonomous nervous system begin to flow evenly so that the energy can regenerate throughout the entire organism. The essence of all Yoga's has one more unbelievable effect. Your will strengthen your body.

You shouldn't make a pause in the motion between the prostrations. Let them merge with each other in a soft flow. You shouldn't take cold shower after you do your prostrations. If you cool down to quickly inside, the prostrations won't develop their full power in your body.

This intensive practice strengthens your body and cleanses the spirit more than any other method. Do the prostrations conscientiously. If not is better to forget them completely.
The forty prostrations should take 15 minutes.

UNDERSTAND WITH YOUR HEART

'I open myself up for all the beauty of this Earth'.

Imagine the eyes, ears, mouth and nose no longer limit themselves as organs for the purpose of seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling. They become tools to photograph feelings and let them sink into the middle of the heart. You begin to experience the art of deep sensitivity.

Always go from the inside to the outside. First understand the process of the prostration. Then you can penetrate more deeply into the mental. Spiritual and emotional aspects of it.