Harness Your Healing Energy with Yoga
Are you ready to amplify the benefits of your hatha yoga practice? Lauren Walker, certified yoga teacher and energy medicine practitioner, shares practices that help you to access your underlying healing potential.
Lauren Walker is the author of Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice and The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription. Both books won the Nautilus Silver award for best Mind/Body publication. She’s been teaching yoga and meditation since 1997 and created Energy Medicine Yoga while teaching at Norwich University. She teaches EMYoga across the US and internationally and has been featured many times in Yoga Journal, MantraMagazine, Yoga Digest, and published a feature article about her yoga work in The New York Times. Her latest book is The Energy to Heal is available for pre-order.
For more of her work, see EnergyMedicineYoga.net
YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: One of the topics discussed today was on the importance of using the pranamaya kosha energy system to enhance the medicine that is intrinsic in our own bodies. I was also particularly interested in the discussion of how energy forms habits ... the way we breath, our thought patterns. The 2 analogies that struck a cord were: 1) Similar to a traffic jam stopping the flow of traffic - the area where energy backs up is where the pain resides, and 2) that by changing the configuration of a riverbank, the water flow is redirected. These analogies brought clarity to the process of moving energy systems that aren't beneficial to energy patterns that are beneficial. Lauren was able to share 2 simple techniques she uses at the start of her yoga practice to wake up the energy and come to a calm centered, organized place to begin.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Lauren about her book Energy Medicine Yoga: Amplify the Healing Power of Your Yoga Practice. We had an interesting conversation about the energy architecture that underlies the physical body which has such a profound impact on our health. She gave a great analogy about how grooming the ski slopes at night is similar to what we need to do with our body’s energy every day. Discussing the principles that govern energy flows in the body, such as “Energy wants to move and needs space to move”, and “Energy forms habits”, were useful for me to understand energy in a new way. . I appreciated that she shared a few of the practices with our listeners that are part of the “Wake Up” energy medicine yoga practice, including the 4 Thumps and the Cross Crawl.