It just so happens that one of the
quickest and simplest sets of meditative movements and one of the
easiest to integrate as your own, is also one of the most powerful. The
Five Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation take about twenty minutes or so
depending on how long you meditate, the longer the better of course.
There are many ways to do the Five
Tibetans and the movements will benefit you in multiple ways also. As
with all meditative movements, part of the reason people are adverse to
beginning it – part of the reason we allow our ego to convince us we do
not need to do such practices – is because we see that they take time.
But remember meditative movements make time, they give you more energy
and more efficiency.
The Five Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation
were not designed as beginner yoga, nor are they, but the fact they only
take twenty minutes or so makes them totally accessible to our busied
mind and active lifestyle that prevents us beginner yogis from
beginning. I have described some finer points of each in the following.
5 Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation
There are 5 movements done 21 times and 1
movement done, most frequently, 3 times, equating to 108 breath
coordinated movements. Each of the Tibetans are followed by taking two
breaths so as to balance out the energy just moved. The Sixth Tibetan is
only performed after you are capable of doing 21 breath coordinated
movements of the Five Tibetans and doesn’t have to be included
otherwise. One can begin doing any number of each Rite that you feel
comfortable with, but try to do an equal number of each.
The first Tibetan is simply
spinning clockwise with the arms active to the sides. The first Rite is
done clockwise in unison with the sun for the chakras are said to spin
clockwise. When held up such activates and opens up the arms, shoulders
and neck. Try going excruciatingly slow. The Five Rites strengthen and
activate the abdominal area and neck. These areas are considered the
most problematic and clogged in terms of energetic and chakra
understandings too. The Rites open up the chakras.
Then take two breaths like Superman,
that which devoted practice can turn you into. Hands are at your hips.
Take a deep breath through your nose and exhale through your mouth with
lips shaped in an O like Superman blowing out cold air.
The trick to the second Tibetan
is to lift up and set down the legs and neck in unison. Each Tibetan is
done in unison with the breath and as with all meditative movement, the
inhale is tension/activation and exhale is relaxation/release. So each
movement begins with inhale and returns with exhale. The easiest way to
count is to count 1 on the inhale and 1 on the exhale, counting each
twice so you are less likely to lose track.
A trick with the third Tibetan
is to think about using your hands as support and about bringing bring
your back so that it returns to being perpendicular or just slightly
past perpendicular, a degree or two forward. Go slow.
The trick to the fourth Tibetan is to initiate the movement with your neck opening the throat chakra.
As you progress you will eventually be able to do the fifth Tibetan
with opened joints and ligaments doing Hindi pushups where your face
glides along just above the floor and then rises up, like a cobra, on
the return/release.
Remember to breathe twice like Superman in between each Rite.
The 6th Tibetan
The trick with the sixth Tibetan
is to not do it unless you can do 21 of each of the first Five. I find
three of the sixth Tibetan is optimal and no more than five is advised.
For more specifics on the Five Tibetan Rites check out 108 Steps to Be in The Zone
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- 108: The Key to Metaphysical Intuition
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About the author:
Writer Ethan Indigo Smith was born on a
farm in Maine and lived in Manhattan for a number of years before
migrating west to Mendocino, California. The events of September 11,
2001 inspired him to write his first book, The Complete Patriot’s Guide to Oligarchical Collectivism. He has since written The Matrix of Four, The Philosophy of the Duality of Polarity on the subject of the development of individual consciousness, before expanding into the fiction realm with the controversial The Terraist Letters,
a work which humorously contrasts the very serious issues of global
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