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Breathing Theme 22 - Your Center Line |
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The
Twenty-second Breathing Theme is an excellent way
to experience the center line of your body. It can ripple through to an emotional
sense of centeredness as well. It's excellent for helping you develop better balance.
It uses what you learned doing The Fountain and applies it specifically
to the center of your body.
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you begin, go back to Green Level and re-familiarize yourself with The
Fountain and the ways it can be used. | | To
work with the Twenty-second Breathing Theme, start your routines with these
exercises: | - 1.
Begin your routine with warm up exercises to get your breathing going.
- 2.
Be sure to do the Abdominal Lifts. When you do them, pay close attention to your
belly button as it moves up and down the center of your body.
- 3.
Now, from a standing position, do the Centering Exercise, visualizing it as part
of The Fountain. Imagine that your hands are a pump. Imagine that the root
of your body, the join between your legs, is the bottom part of The Fountain.
- a. As you breathe
in your hands begin moving upward, pumping water up through the center tube that
is your body.
- b.
As you breathe out, the pump is returning to its starting point as the water sinks
back down into your body, down through the center of your body, until it reaches
a point just under and behind your navel.
Do
this 5 - 10 times, or as much as you like. |
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the rest of the poses in your routine: | - o
Go into the pose and hold it.
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As you breathe in, imagine water is coming up the center of your body.
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As you breathe out, the water is sinking back down the center line inside your
body, pooling a little below and behind your belly button, at your Center Point.
| Tip
The more you keep your weight even between
your feet, or hands, or knees, etc, the more you will experience the feeling of
your center. | | |
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