Rise and Shine is a way of doing yoga in bed upon waking, and the yogic routines that follow. While you are asleep you are under the care of three energies: magnetic, electric and pranic (life force). These energies are best adjusted to the wake stage before you get up.
1. After first receiving a signal to get up after enjoying a deep sleep, lay on your back, greet your Creator and go through the Morning Prayer, blessing each divine function of your being.
2. Keeping the eyes closed, stretch your hands above your head to channel the magnetic energy. Then cup your hands and draw them down toward your eyes. Open your eyes to gaze into your cupped hands. With light coming through the cracks between your fingers, slowly raise the hands up 12 to 20 inches as you read the lines in your palms. This process will protect the optic nerve from any undue pressure from morning's first light. Keeping your focus, slowly bring the hands back over the eyes. Repeat this process until the light no longer bothers them.
3. Gently rub the eyes outwardly to the corners of your brows, stroking your face downwards from the cheeks past the chin. Men stroke down to the tip their beard.
4. Women can relieve tension that naturally accumulates in the ovaries by briskly pounding the ovaries with the palms of their hands for a minute or two.
5. Women can nurture themselves to be very healthy and energetic by massaging their breasts. This is the only point where the nerve point of the life nerve, of the ida and pingala, passes very near. Men achieve this effect by kicking the buttocks in shoulder stand.
6. Roll your hands and feet at the wrists and ankles for three and a half minutes. Stretch your toes, one by one, back and forth for one and a half minutes.
7. Do a "feel good" Cat Stretch on each side of your body 4 to 5 times on each side. This diagonal stretch breaks the magnetic field of sleep and insures that you will never have hip or lower back problems.
8. Do Stretch Pose--the feet and head raised off the bed 6 inches, arms along your side stretching toward the toes, gazing at your toes to complete the circuit of energy. Repeat 3 times and then rise up into this position for 30 to 60 seconds with Breath of Fire. Inhale deeply and hold, tightening every muscle in your body. Stretch pose stimulates the navel before you put yourself into gear for the day.
9. Bring your knees to your chest and hold them with Long Deep Breathing or Breath of Fire. This pose releases pressure from excess air (apana) in the intestinal tract.
10. Now, laying flat on your back, arms along side, do 108 body bounces: Supported by the heels and shoulders lift and drop the buttocks at a fast pace inhaling up, exhaling down with a powerful breath, like Breath of Fire. It gives great vitality.
11. Sit up in bed with your hands on your knees and grind your abdomen and also your solar plexus around in circles 3-4 times in each direction to balance air and food. This motion also bores your energy into the earth's electromagnetic field, creating receptivity to the earth element and serves to ground you.
12. Straighten your arms up at sixty-degree angles from the bed with the fingertips on the pads of the hands and thumbs pointing up. Do Breath of Fire for 1 minute. Inhale deeply and bring your thumb tips together over your head following a natural arc of energy. When the thumb tips connect with ease it indicates that your electro magnetic field has been reset.
13. Do Sat Kriya 5 to 8 times: The arms are stretched up straight over your head hugging your ears, palms together. Powerfully pull in on the navel as you chant "Sat" (rhymes with "cut") and release as you chant "Nam" (rhymes with "Tom"). This stimulates the internal organs and chakras to start functioning. Just as you would never run a cold car--warm yourself up!
YOGI'S WASHROOM ROUTINE
1. Massage your feet a bit and then walk barefoot to the washroom, allowing the positive charge of electricity to go out of the body, out the feet. Open and close the water tap several times; the excess electrical charge is taken away from your body by metal that has a connection with the earth.
2. Sit on the toilet in Crow Pose, with the feet on the seat. This is the natural position for elimination. Clear your urine, stopping the flow up to six times. Do not let it go in one stream. This will help you avoid incontinence in your later years. The way Yogiji said it, "Your body asks for mercy, kindness and care. Drink water during the day. Urinate properly. You haven't developed those muscles. The yogis developed locks, like Mul Bhand to give them this control." To strengthen your immune system, collect the unpolluted middle third of your urine in a cup and swallow it before brushing your teeth. You can make the flavor palatable by drinking a glass of water before going to bed.
3. Brush your teeth with powdered Potassium Alum and salt in a 3:1 ratio. Then clean the tongue to gag 3 times so mucous does not go into the stomach. This is a must. Gag every morning after brushing the teeth.
4. Splash cold water directly into your eyes. Do this often, throughout the day. Along with gagging it will help prevent cataracts.
5. Deeply comb your scalp forwards and back, forwards and backwards 108 times, with the last motion being forwards. If one has long hair, it can be tied up on top of the head in a smooth knot over the solar center or soft spot. On men this is near the brow, on women the spot is located near the back of the top of the head. The "rishi knot" acts as an antenna for sun energy, channeling it down the spine to help awaken the Kundalini.
6. Drink a glass of cold water or cold, plain Yogi Tea as a tonic. It is very healthy. It goes through the system and takes all the dirty ions. You will feel clean inside.
7. Next, take a cold shower--an enlightening dose of Cold Water Therapy!
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