Energy Flowing
in the Realm of Body Intelligence
1: Meditate on your body’s seven chakras or other energy centers, visualizing them as open and flowing with light, color, or sound.
1: Meditate on your body’s seven chakras or other energy centers, visualizing them as open and flowing with light, color, or sound.Books 📚 – there are so many breath work books – send us your favorites!
- Chakra Healing – by Margarita Alcranta: a beginner’s guide to self-healing techniques that balance the chakras.
- Eastern Body, Western Mind – Audiobook by Anodea Judith: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self. Bridging East and West. The chakra system, originating from ancient Indian traditions, provides a comprehensive framework for understanding human energy, consciousness, and development.
- Wheels of Life – by Anodea Judith: classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 300,000 copies, completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, and a new section on raising children with healthy chakras.
Videos 🎦
- Chakra Balance Guided Meditation on YouTube: 15-minute quality guided meditation.
- Chakras – 7 Minute Tune-Up on YouTube: This is an easy to follow, quality chakra meditation using your breath and your voice with the simple sounds associated with each chakra. Gets energy moving.
- 10-Minute Chakra Meditation (Daily Recharge): instructive and ideal for quickly opening, cleansing and recharging your chakras daily. Really good daily meditation.
Podcasts 🎧
- Somatic Healing Meditations Podcast: Every episode contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.
- My Seven Chakras with AJ Podcast: Aditya (AJ) helps his listeners discover how to calm their mind, relax their nervous system and experience deep states of bliss.
Websites 🌐
- 7ChakraColors.com: a pictorial and accessible guide to the chakra system. Check it out.
2: Listen to calming music, binaural beats, or mantra/chanting to harmonize your energy and allow it to flow naturally.
Podcasts or Playlists with Binaural Beats 🎶 – start here & see where it leads…
- Binaural Beats Podcast – Meditation for Sleep: hours and hours of calming binaural music
- Binaural Beats Focus – Playlist on Spotify: Enhance your concentration by traveling through different brainwave calming musical frequencies.
- GoodVibes Binaural Beats Channel on YouTube: This collection of audio tracks utilizes the science of binaural beats to guide your brain through various states of consciousness, each tailored to help achieve specific mental and emotional benefits.
- Mantra Yoga Bliss Playlist on Spotify: over 20 hours of quality mantra music to sing and chant with. Give it a try, see what happens!
3: Consider practices like acupressure, massage, acupuncture or acutonics to encourage energy movement and release stagnation.
Books 📚
- Acutonics: There’s No Place Like Ohm, Sound Healing, Oriental Medicine, and the Cosmic Mysteries – by Donna Carey & Marjorie De Muynck: new material focuses on sound layering techniques that integrate the use of high, middle, and low frequency tuning forks in the therapeutic environment.
- Song of the Spine – by Dr. June Leslie Weider: each bone of the spine has its own tone and frequency, and that applying specific vibrational frequencies directly to the vertebrae generates a sympathetic response that activates the embedded harmonics that help maintain healthy functioning.
- The Healing Power of Acupressure & Acupuncture – by Matthew Bauer: delves deeply into the traditions and remarkable benefits of acupressure and acupuncture, explains the many benefits of both, describes techniques for self-treatment, and illustrates how Chinese healing can augment modern Western medicine.
Podcasts 🎧
- Notes from Your Acupuncturist Podcast: Conversations on acupuncture, complementary medicine, holistic health, wellness and self-care.
- Acupuncture and Above Podcast: a melting pot where acupuncture, functional medicine, biomedicine, herbology and nutrition are well integrated.
Courses 📝
- Acupressure and Meridian Massage Techniques: course on Udemy.com – Apply easy techniques to relieve pain and tension. Learn powerful acupressure points to reduce stress and anxiety. Reduce muscle stiffness using meridians on the arms and legs…
4: Practice breath work such as pranayama, alternate-nostril breathing, or Wim Hof Method to energize and self-regulate your body’s systems.
Books 📚
- Wim Hof Method Books: Choose your book here from the various Wim Hof classics on the intersection of cold temperature and breath practice.
- Essential Pranayama – by Jerry Givens: one of the best classic pranayama books out there. If you follow these practices, utterly life-changing.
- The Little Book of Yoga Breathing – by Scott Shaw: Pranayama made easy. Classic and easy to follow book of pranayama breath meditation practices.
- Breath Practice Cards – by Rebecca Moore: We LOVE this deck of cards. Easy to practice techniques and self-guided meditations, including diaphragmatic breathing / belly breathing.
Podcasts 🎧
- Huberman Lab Health Podcast: this link will take you to the Huberman Lab episodes that deal with breathwork, NSDR (non-sleep deep rest), and meditation. These are really good!
- The Wim Hof Podcast: Each episode is an exploration into life, breaking the ice and going into the depths, where no one has gone before!
- The Breathwork Club: new breath techniques in every episode – easy, guided.
- Breath, Body, Soul Podcast: Guided Breathwork and meditation practices
- Mindfulness Meditation Podcast: 2x per week fun new short guided meditations with calming music.
- Pranayama Myths & Misconceptions – Research Roundup: Podcast Episode from Yoga Medicine
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Let’s Talk Yoga Pranayama Series on YouTube: A great series of breath-specific episodes, aimed at yoga teachers, but anyone can access this great info.
Videos on Alertate Nostril Breathing 🎦
- Alternate Nostril Breathing / Nadhi Shodhana: beginner video, easy peezy!
- Find Balance with Alternate Nostril Breathing: nice yogic instruction on this breath.
Courses 📝
- Become a BreathWave Instructor: become a guide in this school of conscious breathing.
- Become a Teacher of Soma Breathwork: SOMA Breath combines transformational training with business support so you are not left guessing after certification