5 Yoga Poses to Ground Your Energy
Hi, everyone! Frances here from Four Noble Holistic Healing. Welcome back, and I'm so excited to be doing another yoga video today. So, today we are going to be focusing on five yoga poses to activate and ground through the root chakra.
The root chakra sits at the bottom of your spine, right at the base of your pelvis. This is the place that is responsible for feeling grounded, feeling like you're on the right path, and feeling like things are flowing in alignment. You're not feeling too airy-fairy; you have control over your life. The root chakra can get imbalanced for all kinds of reasons, either physical, like if you change homes or schools, or if you're going through life changes. Even just external energies, if things are changing a lot in your world or in your friends' lives, it can bring some unsettling energy into your root chakra. But don't worry, today, we are going to balance that out through these five poses.
Now, these poses are not flowing together like vinyasa or anything like that, and that was intentional. The reason for that is because I want you to be able to pick your favorite pose and quickly do it at any part of your day to invite grounding energy instantly. So, you don't have to change into yoga clothes or go somewhere for a special long flow. Instead, you just choose your favorite pose and practice to ground yourself.
The first one is super simple, and you probably already know it. It's Balasana, which is Child's Pose. Just go onto your knees, opening them really widely, and then have your toes in the back come to touch. Your arms are out and really active, and you're going to feel the palms of your hands grounding down into the earth. As your hands ground down, your forehead comes to the mat, and that grounds you down too. Then, at your root right back here, you imagine a white or red light. Maybe they're swirled together, or maybe it's one or the other, and it's rooting all the way down into the earth behind your spine. Hands come out actively, arms, forehead touches them, and this light comes all the way out and down into the earth behind. Stay here for as long as you like, but at least for three big, long breaths. Let's do three breaths together: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, and exhale. Good.
When you're in Balasana, you really want to feel the weight of your body on the earth while you're grounding down through those places and envisioning that light rooting down into the earth.
The next pose is Malasana, which is like our little froggy pose. So, you can start standing with feet apart, hands come to the center, and you just squat down. Your tailbone shoots a little bit behind you, and you keep your chest lifted as much as you can. Hands to the heart center, using your elbows to push your knees back. Again, envisioning this white and/or red light shooting down through the base of the spine, the bottom of the pelvis, and just feeling your feet and that root chakra grounding down into the earth. If you want a bonus, you can ground down while also imagining white light from the crown coming in from the top of your head and going all the way down your spine through your root chakra into the earth. Stay here for as long as it's comfortable, but at least for three breaths. Let's do that together: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, and exhale. Awesome.
The next one, we all know, is Downward Dog. Our item, move into Bhujangasana, Cobra Pose. Downward Dog, we put our hands on the mat, legs behind us. If you would like to bend your knees so you can really shoot that tailbone up, go ahead and invite a nice, generous bend in the knees. Remember, if you saw my "How to Do Downward Dog Safely" video, go ahead and watch that, or remember that we tuck, we rotate those muscles down and under, blades of the shoulders go down towards the spine, gaze is between the calf muscles, and we shoot that tailbone up to the sky, really, really high. If you can't, go ahead and stretch those legs, feeling your feet and your hands ground down into the earth. Tailbone shoots up to the heavens, and you imagine this white light coming in through your tailbone and then blanketing down your body, down your back, arms, hands, crown into the ground, and also down your legs and feet into the ground. Essentially, white light is coming up from Source Energy, from the universe, through your root chakra, and then grounding you down into the earth through your hands, feet, and the crown of your head. Breathing into that for at least three breaths: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, and exhale. Good.
The next we will flow into, so bring your right leg high, tuck it into the chest, step in between the hands, lower your back knee down, untuck the toes, rock back onto your back knee. This is Ardha Hanumanasana, our runner's stretch. So, you're going to really root down, this knee flexed, your front foot, and feel the space being created in your hamstring and low back. If you can't reach the floor, bring your hands to your hips, or you can use blocks underneath you right here. If you don't have blocks, feel free to use a cushion, a blanket, or even some books, whatever you have on hand. Breathe deeply into this pose, and what this does is open up space in the area that surrounds the root chakra so it can really be super active and shine brightly. Breathe into this again for three rounds of breath: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, and exhale. Good.
Rocking forward, tucking the back toes, right leg comes high, watching out for my plants, and switching legs. Left leg comes high, steps it through, same thing. Knee goes down, tuck, untuck the back toes, rock backward onto your right leg this time. Flex that front foot, keeping those hips square, shoulders facing parallel to the mat, and breathing into the hamstring and the low back, inviting space so that our root chakra can shine brightly and keep our energy grounded. At least three breaths, and throughout this practice or your poses, feel free to breathe with Ujjayi breath or breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth, whatever feels good. Gently coming out. Good. I'm going to walk up slowly, roll up, and the last pose is Garudasana, or Eagle Pose. You can do Eagle arms, Eagle legs, or both together.
Eagle arms go parallel, one arm goes under, hands cross and touch elbows, and hands reach up. Shoulders ground down away from the ears. Legs go cross, kind of like hanging out. Then you bend your back leg, and if this is enough, stay right here. If you'd like, you can tuck your toes behind that back Achilles tendon. So, this is the right side for me, my right leg is crossing over, so that means my right arm is going to go under. Really sitting down into my tailbone, feeling my weight, and that energy cord coming from the sky, from the universe, down through my hands and crown all the way down my spine, through my tailbone and my foot, into the earth. Practicing on the other side, so the point with this is to really make sure that you're perfectly unified between Source Energy, universe, and earth, grounding you down into earth energy where you live, however still keeping you connected to the universal energy that protects us, supports us, and holds us every day. Beautiful.
Alright, so those are our five poses to ground: Balasana, Malasana, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Ardha Hanumanasana, and Garudasana. So, please feel free to practice any of these poses. And if you would like a flow where these poses are all included, it's about a thirty-minute flow, please visit my website. I will link it in the description below, and this includes the Bliss Society. The Bliss Society is a place to connect with like-minded people, as well as receive tons of stuff from me on a monthly basis. And you do get a full yoga class; this one is rooted in grounding down. So, feel free to check it out. I would love to have you join our society and connect with like-minded people. Alright, we'll see you in the next video. Bye, beautiful!
Sending so much love and light your way.
With gratitude,
Frances
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