Reclaiming Your Energy

Early on, Elena asks you to relax your face, neck and shoulders, rest your hands on your lap, and feel yourself melting into you, becoming one with your breath and your surroundings. She frames melting as the doorway to the energy that follows, so there is nothing to force. Soften, keep breathing, and let the effort go.

In this practice, the kidneys and the glands on top of them stand for life force energy. You bring the earth's energy up into the area just below your waist and picture a small spinning vortex on each side. Later you place both hands on your lower back, so you can feel warmth and tingling there as you recharge.

Before any energy is drawn in, white light showers down from above your head and moves through your whole body. It clears stress, fears and conversations that have sat heavily on your mind or heart for days, weeks or months. You are told not to judge what comes up, just to stay open and aware.

You are asked to imagine being surrounded by thousands, even millions, of people listening at the same moment. You extend your arms, because arms are an extension of the heart, and connect to each of them while inhaling and feeling love. The idea is that as you refresh yourself, you also send energy back to the planet, and everyone gives to each other.

After the energy rises through your heart, throat and crown, you picture it beaming from you like a fountain of life, light and radiance. You can make it as big as you want: the size of your room, your building, your city, or the whole planet. As it expands, it flows back into the earth, and you rest in gratitude for the planet, for yourself and for everyone listening.

Near the end, Elena says you can tune in at any moment through intention, attention and awareness. That means pausing, bringing to mind the roots, the spinning energy in your lower back and the flowing light. She also invites you to hug yourself and carry the feeling of the others who practised with you.