Week 3 & Week 4

Warm Ups

Free Movement - 6 to 15 Minutes:
Sway, move, shake, dance, tremble; Start slow, moving in a way that feels good. Notice where your body feels stiff and see if you can loosen it. As soon as you find yourself stuck in a pattern of movement, change it. Eventually build to move vigorously working up a sweat. Go wild, shake and feel free. Use the de-armoring breath to help release tightness, stagnation or numbness

1. Ego Eradicator - 3 Minutes:
Sit in Easy Pose. Bring the arms out to the sides, and raise them until they form a V shape. The fingers are pressing against the mounds of the palms with the thumbs pointing up. Begin Breath of Fire* for 3 minutes.

To End: Inhale and hold the breath. Quickly begin to make fists of the hands, first with the thumbs inside the fists, then outside. Alternate rapidly as you hold the breath for 15 seconds. Then, with the hands in the original position, slowly bring the thumbs together overhead. Time your movement so that the thumbs meet when you can no longer hold the breath. Slow lower the arms in an arc around you as you exhale deeply.

Rest for I minute, breathing slowly.

2. Punches- 3 Repetitions:
Still sitting in Easy Pose, make hands into fists and bring them to the sides of the body at chest level with the elbows pressed back, Extend your chest out. Take 5 deep breaths, then inhale deeply and hold the breath. With the breath held, begin punching the arms alternately. Get mad!
When you cannot hold the breath any longer, exhale. Inhale and repeat the powerful punching motion with the held breath. Exhale. Inhale and repeat I more time, for a total of 3 times.

Then sit, eyes closed, and breathe as slowly as you can for 2 minutes.

3. Breath & Affirmation - 3 Minutes:
Sit in Easy Pose. Keep the spine straight. Look at the center of your chin through your closed eyes, or look at the tip of your nose through partially closed eyes. Inhale deeply and hold, suspending the breath while you mentally slowly recite: "| am bountiful, I am blissful, I am beautiful." Exhale all the breath out, then suspend the breath out as you mentally say "excel, excel, fearless.”

Then rest and relax for 3 minutes