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Samana Vayu Energy Flow | 10 Minutes Practice

My Yoga Essence · 10:08

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Assimilation and absorption (Samana Vayu)
  • Digestion of food, thoughts, emotions, and experiences
  • Transforming negativity into learning experiences
  • Focus on the navel center for processing and moving energy

Ideal for

  • Individuals seeking to improve digestion and assimilation
  • Those looking for emotional processing support
  • Practitioners interested in subtle body energy work
  • Anyone desiring a gentle and mindful core-focused practice

Lesson

Instructions

This SAMANA VAYU ENERGY FLOW practice is all about assimilation and absorption of all that we ingest into the body and the capacity to digest. A healthy samana vayu is our ability to digest, assimilate and process food, thoughts, emotions and experience. Turning any negativity or difficult experience and transform into learning experience and not letting it weigh us down. This practice focus on the navel center which allows us to process and move things through.

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Video was recorded in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii.

Steps

  • Diaphragmatic breathing into the navel center
  • Dynamic hip circles (standing)
  • Arm movements mimicking 'wings' to expand energy
  • Seated 'ball of chi' manipulation and rotation
  • Seated spinal circles and twists
  • Wide-legged seated forward folds with energy guidance

Benefits

  • Improved digestive capacity (physical and energetic)
  • Enhanced emotional processing and resilience
  • Increased body awareness and connection to core
  • Cultivation of inner fire and vital energy
  • Gentle spinal mobility and relaxation

Transcript

[Music] this Samana Vayu energy flow practice is all about assimilation and absorption of all that we ingest into a body and a capacity to digest a healthy Samana Vayu is ability to digest assimilate and process food thoughts and experience turning any negativity or difficult experience and transform into learning experience and not letting it weight us down this practice focuses on the navel Center which allows us to move things through take a moment to find a stand placing your hands over your navel Center it start to breathe into the center of your belly we'll be feeling the expansion in the front of the belly and then into the side of the belly beside the waist and into the back the belly the back of the body I'm filling into the cylinder of the body the imagining a small ball fire of light surrounding this whole circumference of your body take another breath there and we'll start a circle around the hips there we can keep your hands onto your belly and start to draw a little circle from the center outward in Shearwater direction feeling the movement other hips the pelvis trying to keep the crown of the head lifting up towards the sky that's a movement comes from the center of the body start to spiral it outward making soccor to become bigger to as big as it fills up the space and started spiraling it back into the center to get smaller and smaller and then slowly reverse a circle starting it small and filling up the space you can as you spiral that Circle outward giving the crowd the head lifting up towards the sky still showing all the space you can and start to spiraling inward to make the circle but it becomes smaller and smaller until you find just Center of stillness then we're going to flip up wings like bird with our arms slowly reach your arms out keep the fingers relaxed and bring it back in and then expanding it out as you inhale bring it back into exhale and allow the wings just spread a little bigger and bigger each time with breath and as the wings comes in I just seem that fingers are the lives but it's not really nourishes that little ball that you're holding between your palms you know expand your chest left as well you exhale bring it in and gather that bull sheep wow the wings flap a little wide and big and expanded outward up towards a shoulder height so you can either one there and start to hold that bull of cheer between your palms expanding out slightly as you inhale and then condensing and compressing as you exhale start to rotate the ball Chi and expanded outward pulsing three times and then rotating on the other angle and again pausing it three times feeling the cheer between the hands between the palms there and then start to rotate so from the round this ball of Chi notice the energy moving from the hips they're pinning this ball or fired its light its Chi and then bring it back to the center we're gonna circle a rolling wheel of these energy ball through the center of the body reaching it all the way up and forward and out in front here we fill this ball she moving from the center the belly up and out in front feel free to bear the knees up as you gather that she back in and then from here we're gonna come down on tell seat riding a boat pose but keeping your toes your feet down gather that ball Chi in front you're gonna reach it out to the side and bring it back in and for another two more and then we're gonna go to the other side so it keeps circling that bull of Chi and then coming back to Center we're gonna open out to the left again and then to the right to the left alternating notice that gentle rolling of the spine reaching forward leaning back doing that bull of cheese through the palms that you've cultivated and then from here we're going to spread our legs out wide we're gonna guide energy down through one leg through the left leg so releasing your left hand beside the leg reach your right inhale gather Chi and the exhale move it down the leg follow the breath leaning back with that right elbow reaching forward as you fire that energy down this left leg continue to feel that breath the movement the Chi that's moving keeping everything as relaxed and soft as possible the movement when it comes from the center of the belly and then we're going to move to the outside right on down the leg left palm reach it forward pulling it back reaching forward toward something really guy that energy down is rightly enjoy the move man on this side feeling that gentle twist in his spine through the belly and then from here we're going to bring our feet together knees open our hands around your ankles of shin and start to spiral around the spine from the center the belly it was really smooth circle feeling the ribcage moving rotating the spine making as relaxed as possible and then slowly start to circle the other direction you can make the circus noise you like where's because you like to the movement and really initiate from the center and then crossing a legs finding comfortable seat centering to finish right on circle out and up down the center line of the body as you exhale left arm right let me feel that grounding and connecting back into your Center take another one right on reaches out and up we exhale down center left on hands over your navel Center connecting to that ball fire right in the center into your Samana value motivating energy from the inside out namaste

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
10 minutes
Equipment
yoga mat
Target areas
Navel center (core)HipsSpineAbdominal organsEnergetic body
Energy
balancing

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