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This book would not have been possible without the generous support of Donna Eden, David Feinstein, and their school, Innersource. Their passion for teaching, sharing, and healing is unbounded, equaled only by their generosity. What they have given the world is an unprecedented path of healing, and with their blessings I am honored to adapt and promote their work through the lens of yoga. The Five Elements Body Ailments table, the Five Elements Mind Ailments table, and the Five Elements Self-Inventory have been adapted from the Innersource curriculum, with their generous permission. Energy Medicine Yoga is backed by thousands of Innersource-trained Energy Medicine practitioners all over the world. If you are dealing with something beyond the scope of self-practice, please contact one of them at Innersource.net. If you are interested in becoming a certified Innersource practitioner or EMYoga teacher, please see the resource section at the back of the book. For You, for healing Contents Prescriptions for Your Health Be the Mountain; Be the Skier PART 1 Mind: Understanding Energy 1 Energy and Mind-Body Health 2 Working with Your Energy 3 The Five Elements TABLE 1 Five Elements Body Ailments TABLE 2 Five Elements Mind Ailments PART 2 Body: The Energy Medicine Yoga Practices 4 Foundation Practices and the Essential Energy Medicine Yoga Practice 5 Water 6 Wood 7 Fire 8 Earth 9 Metal PART 3 Spirit: Energy Medicine Yoga Off the Mat 10 Ayurveda and Diet 11 The Power and Magic of EMYoga: True Transformation Acknowledgments Notes Resources Index About the Author Also by Lauren Walker About Sounds True Copyright Praise for The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription Prescriptions for Your Health Learn This Most Important Practice and Break In Your Journal Start to Change: Start Small Access Healing Earth Energy Ground with Spoons Shift Energy with the Fingers and Toes Learn Energy Testing Learn Self-Testing Learn Tapping Learn Temporal Tapping Use the Elements to Balance the Elements Use the Five Elements Sounds to Help Release Emotion For Instant Stress Relief, Calm Triple Warmer Learn to Do Nasya Self-Abhyanga the EMYoga Way Try Eating the Ayurvedic Way For Breast Health Lower Your Cancer Risks Practice Gratitude Tap in Joy Be the Mountain; Be the Skier B y my third winter downhill skiing, I was really learning how to drop in. In yoga, “dropping in” means to let go of the chattering mind and let yourself be taken over by the immediacy and intimacy of your practice. In skiing it means to go over the edge, down into the bowl, down into the gravity of your chosen run with complete abandon and trust. The two are nearly identical. I was finally learning to trust my body, to trust my gear, to trust my instincts. The snow is different every day: fresh, deep, sticky, graupelly, chicken-heady, icy, powder—the list to describe the consistency of the snow goes on and on. Then there’s the ambient weather. Is it actively snowing? Sleeting? Raining? Graupelling? Sunny? Cloudy? Foggy? We go down the same mountain, over all its flanks, day after day, hour after hour. The repetition builds confidence and strength. But there is also pure joy. The body goes into a joy response that many people liken to orgasm—simply by sliding down a hill covered in snow. Energy Medicine Yoga—the marriage of Energy Medicine with a tantra- based yoga practice—has the same possibility and the same parallel. We come to our yoga mat day after day, hour after hour. Our energy, like the snow, is also changeable; every day it’s different. But we do the same moves again and again. There isn’t anywhere to get to. There’s no prize at the end for the most downward dogs. It is simply the moment that is sublime. It is like coming home to a feeling of goodness in our own bodies. This is the important part: We need to feel good in our lives and in our bodies just as we are right now. We need to know how to self-soothe and how to heal. So many of us go for the outside stimuli of drugs, alcohol, shopping, sugar, or sex when we’re uncomfortable, bored, or tired. If we’re sick, we go for outside cures: pills, surgery, radiation. But we must learn how to simply and effectively take care of ourselves from the inside to be healthy and happy. In my first book, Energy Medicine Yoga, I used the metaphor of grooming the ski slopes on the mountain as being equivalent to grooming the energies that run the body. We usually think of grooming in terms of our teeth, hair, makeup,
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